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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
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 Posted - 22 Sep 2007 : 04:20:13
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Originally posted by aravine
i like avariels, but they are a type of elf aren't they?
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Lady Kazandra
Senior Scribe
Australia
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Posted - 22 Sep 2007 : 09:37:28
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It may be expected... but the undead are usually what "do it" for me in terms of a favorite race in the "Forgotten Realms." But that may be because of my earlier associations with the "Ravenloft" setting. It's the TSR setting I started with, and its heavy-use of undead-related monstrous creatures were the elements of the Domains of Dread that I immediately found most appealing.
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36875 Posts |
Posted - 22 Sep 2007 : 14:32:39
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Originally posted by Lady Kazandra
It may be expected... but the undead are usually what "do it" for me in terms of a favorite race in the "Forgotten Realms." But that may be because of my earlier associations with the "Ravenloft" setting. It's the TSR setting I started with, and its heavy-use of undead-related monstrous creatures were the elements of the Domains of Dread that I immediately found most appealing.
I like undead as baddies, and maybe as the odd NPC... But one thing I've always disliked about D&D in general is that every other day, some new kind of undead monster is created -- often with a silly or otherwise highly unlikely method of creation. "Headknockers are created when a mage slips on a banana peel and knocks himself unconscious on an enchanted anvil, while drinking a longevity potion." Yes, I made that up, but there are undead critters out there that are created by having something unlikely happen while doing something else unlikely, and then a third unlikely thing factors in... 
The new dragon type of the week is just as bad. Yeah, I know, it's Dungeons and Dragons... But do we really need more types of dragons than species of insects, and more types of undead than that? |
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Fillow
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Brynweir
Senior Scribe
USA
436 Posts |
Posted - 25 Sep 2007 : 02:53:40
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| I like the half-elf because, like me, they have to work hard to fit in. |
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King Oscar
Acolyte
USA
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Posted - 26 Sep 2007 : 23:17:47
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The Extra feat and skill point makes Human a very good race if you're out to be all that you can be.
Dwarves are perhaps a little better then Elves. 1: The Con bonus for HP scales as you level, while the Dex bonus just remains as it is. 2: Most instant death spells are fort saves, not reflex saves. 3: Magic is clearly one of thee best, if not the best way to put an end to your foes. So an Elf's bonus against enchantment is greatly trumped by a dwarf's bonus against ALL magic.
Kobolds are my favorite race. They know theri weaknesses, and if you read up on their tactics you'll see that they make what little they have into something much bigger. |
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Hawkins
Great Reader
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Posted - 12 Oct 2007 : 20:43:40
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Originally posted by King Oscar
The Extra feat and skill point makes Human a very good race if you're out to be all that you can be.
Dwarves are perhaps a little better then Elves. 1: The Con bonus for HP scales as you level, while the Dex bonus just remains as it is. 2: Most instant death spells are fort saves, not reflex saves. 3: Magic is clearly one of thee best, if not the best way to put an end to your foes. So an Elf's bonus against enchantment is greatly trumped by a dwarf's bonus against ALL magic.
Kobolds are my favorite race. They know theri weaknesses, and if you read up on their tactics you'll see that they make what little they have into something much bigger.
You can also get an extra feat as a strongheart Halfling.
Anyways, I really like Tieflings, and I blame it on BGII. Dwarves and Halfings are also really high on my favorite races to play. |
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IronHammer
Acolyte
USA
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Posted - 13 Oct 2007 : 02:48:07
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| Dwarves with Elves a close second. Ive always been able to relate better to dwarves as a player character and it usually makes for a better role playing exp. I do like playing non humanoid races like Minotaurs and centaurs as well. Ive played just about everything at one time or another though. |
I remember playing Dwarves and Elves as a character class... |
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GRYPHON
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USA
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Posted - 02 Dec 2007 : 19:05:46
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Elestar
Acolyte
Hungary
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Posted - 23 Dec 2007 : 21:47:44
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Elf.
Allthough goodness is spiced with some chaos, longevity and the Art forms the elven way for the greater balance of things on Toril. (And I think this is similar in other stellar/planar/cosmical systems...)
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Shilo99
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Posted - 24 Dec 2007 : 13:41:30
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My vote is for elves.
The history, the (fallen) majesty, the millenial sadness.
The established lore (FR & other D&D & literary sources) allows you to ground them, and round them out.
And they have lots of enemies...everyone hates an elf!
Half-elves are great too (my favourite before they were nerfed/'greyed out' in 3e/3.5e & made perhaps the weakest race & somewhat marginalised in 3e source books...retribution for their favoured status in earlier editions?). They are great as FR actually has whole cultures of (or dominated by) half-elves. They have reached critical mass where they can support sustainable populations of half-elves (having children with other half-elves) in Aglarond, Deepingdale, Dambrath etc. So much better than the 'racial/social outcast'/'child of two worlds, belonging to none' sterotype. |
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Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
Great Reader
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Posted - 24 Dec 2007 : 13:57:03
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I'm quite fond of half-elves myself. |
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slay_4_pay
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Posted - 29 Dec 2007 : 09:51:28
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Originally posted by Jorkens
Human would be the boring answer obviously. Now, I have a suspicion that there is some mix of Gnome and Firbolg in there somewhere, but I have not found the answer to how that happened yet.
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Aravine
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608 Posts |
Posted - 02 Jan 2008 : 15:44:47
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Originally posted by slay_4_pay
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Originally posted by Jorkens
Human would be the boring answer obviously. Now, I have a suspicion that there is some mix of Gnome and Firbolg in there somewhere, but I have not found the answer to how that happened yet.
Very Carefully.
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except when you kill them by making movies out of them. (Beowulf) |
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Aravine
Senior Scribe
USA
608 Posts |
Posted - 02 Jan 2008 : 17:59:35
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| Is undead really a race? there are kind of two types of undead.(broadly) Intelligent and unintelligent. now unless I'm mistaken, intelligent undead is a template rather than a race. like vampires and vampire spawns have the racial attributes that they had in life(don't they?) therefore they would be categorized under their race with a subdiscripter of undead. |
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I Am Not A Bear
Acolyte
Canada
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Posted - 04 Jan 2008 : 14:39:35
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| Half-elves and elves for sure. Distant third? The stubby dwarves. |
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Zarithar
Acolyte
USA
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Posted - 04 Jan 2008 : 16:20:35
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| I like humans followed by half-orcs and orcs. |
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Aravine
Senior Scribe
USA
608 Posts |
Posted - 04 Jan 2008 : 16:50:00
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| well, humans definately are more versitile, but IMO they are a little boring. After all, I "play" one all the time. |
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Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
Great Reader
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Posted - 04 Jan 2008 : 17:18:03
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| I don't think humans are boring. Sure, I'm a human in real life, but I still don't get to live in Faerun, or be a wizard, priest, thief, or any other type of fantasy adventurer. |
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Aravine
Senior Scribe
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Posted - 04 Jan 2008 : 17:46:50
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| again, IMO humans were fun for a time, but as I expanded my racial repitior, I realized that there a lot more interesting, and frankly more fun races to play. It is easy to play a human. they can be anything you want them to be. but is it not more intriqing to play something that is unusual? like a drow paladin, for example. or a Dwarven ranger. it is easy to fit into the majority. it gives a character greater depth, IMO, to play something that is not part of the majority. it is also more fun to RP different races, to try to adapt your character to the races inclination, for instance if I made a CG Drow,oh ranger, I would play that he sometimes wrestles with the innate evil inside of him. morality would not be black and white. the reason I do not like playing humans is I find there is very little challenge in RPing them, after all, they adapt very easily and you could easily justify having your own personality in him (or her) |
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Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 04 Jan 2008 : 23:38:50
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Originally posted by Aravine
again, IMO humans were fun for a time, but as I expanded my racial repitior, I realized that there a lot more interesting, and frankly more fun races to play. It is easy to play a human. they can be anything you want them to be. but is it not more intriqing to play something that is unusual?
It's not more intriguing all of the time.
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...like a drow paladin, for example. or a Dwarven ranger. it is easy to fit into the majority. it gives a character greater depth, IMO, to play something that is not part of the majority.
You can do that with any race, including humans. A "bizarre" character can lack character depth if the most interesting thing about them has to do with their race. |
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Aravine
Senior Scribe
USA
608 Posts |
Posted - 09 Jan 2008 : 17:28:50
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quote:
Originally posted by Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
quote:
Originally posted by Aravine
again, IMO humans were fun for a time, but as I expanded my racial repitior, I realized that there a lot more interesting, and frankly more fun races to play. It is easy to play a human. they can be anything you want them to be. but is it not more intriqing to play something that is unusual?
It's not more intriguing all of the time.
no, but as a general rule for me it is. Nothing can be intriquing all the time
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You can do that with any race, including humans. A "bizarre" character can lack character depth if the most interesting thing about them has to do with their race.
I'm not talking about bizarre. bizarre is one thing. what I'm talking about is unique. to defy the world around you. it doesn't just have to do with your race. the culture live in can define a "intriquing" character. the human race isn't biased one way or the other. "the best and worst can be found among them." in that sense, you can't be outside of the norm of that race. In the end, what makes a character "interesting" depends really on who is playing the character. If you have a dynamic enough player, he can make the most simple character "intriquing" So really, you could make a very interesting Human Character, but IMO it is a lot more fun to play something "different" |
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Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
Great Reader
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Posted - 10 Jan 2008 : 00:51:24
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Originally posted by Aravine
no, but as a general rule for me it is. Nothing can be intriquing all the time
Understood. Different people have different tastes.
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I'm not talking about bizarre. bizarre is one thing. what I'm talking about is unique. to defy the world around you. it doesn't just have to do with your race. the culture live in can define a "intriquing" character. the human race isn't biased one way or the other. "the best and worst can be found among them." in that sense, you can't be outside of the norm of that race.
I disagree, because a person can still stand out from the norm. It happens all the time in real life.
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In the end, what makes a character "interesting" depends really on who is playing the character. If you have a dynamic enough player, he can make the most simple character "intriquing"
I definitely agree there. |
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tenacious1
Acolyte
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Posted - 10 Jan 2008 : 03:39:50
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For the most part I'm anti-elf. *shrugs* call me a rebel, but too many people love to play them and it irks me.
I like Dwarves and Halflings followed by Humans then gnomes.
I'm also more of an old school purest so Tieflings and some of the new races don't do it for me. *shrugs* |
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Malkor the Mad
Acolyte
USA
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Posted - 10 Jan 2008 : 19:37:45
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Shades are my fav for reading about.
Humans for playing. Gotta love the human wiz that searches for magic so he wont die. |
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yargarth
Seeker
USA
58 Posts |
Posted - 11 Jan 2008 : 06:10:52
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Humans are cry babies
Elfs are snooty
Drow are jerks
Dwarfs are loud
orcs are orcs
half orcs are ....
undead lack something
so half-elves all the way... they get to party and live it up in the realms.
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Aravine
Senior Scribe
USA
608 Posts |
Posted - 11 Jan 2008 : 17:04:53
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Originally posted by yargarth
Drow are jerks
either that or have a million fanboys ready to grant godhood |
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Aravine
Senior Scribe
USA
608 Posts |
Posted - 11 Apr 2008 : 16:11:52
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Originally posted by yargarth
undead lack something
Like maybe a soul?
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so half-elves all the way... they get to party and live it up in the realms.
so what you're saying is that it's bad to be a crybaby, bad to be "snooty", but the best character is a half-crybaby, half-snooty guy that can "Party and live it up in the Realms" |
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GoCeraf
Learned Scribe
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Posted - 11 Apr 2008 : 16:39:47
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| I'm pretty fond of Mongrelfolk. |
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Rory
Seeker
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Posted - 12 Apr 2008 : 20:01:34
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| I prefer a coin flip when choosing a race. |
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Which race do you like?
