Oddest PC race youv'e ever played as?

I once played a Ghost who was more of a poltergeist attached to a campaign improtant relic that the rest of the party was transporting. It's actually pretty interesting to interact with the party and NPCs when your only tools are Telekinesis and posession. Conversation was usually difficult since one of the PCs has to give up their speaking rights for a while so I could take their vocal cords for a spin. . .

Fridrikon, consider that idea oficialy stolen .

I'd have to say my weirdest-race character was a gnoll masquerading as an arcanaloth. Although for about half an adventure a dwarf I was playing became a slug. I had a lot of fun roleplaying a slug.

Let's see...
my first character was a pretty classical elven wizard, until he was possessed by a demon possessing his intelligent sword. Got pretty cool from then on.

Then... oh yes. In Eberron, a kobold archivist from the university of Sharn. (What was the name again? The Graverobber institute, as it is also called.) He was an expert on aberrations and magical beasts and the party hired him to fight the cult of the dragon below.

Probably my favourite character was a half-celestial pixie. Yes, that's LA+8 (Actually 7 because the DM said because I get wings twice he would lower it by one). But it was a nearly epic campaign and fun to play. In game he was a knight of the court of stars and half eladrin.

I'm not actually playing the character, but I'm responsible in part for the idea. In the Planscape campaign I am now running on paper (We started today) one of my PCs is playing a British oficer from the American Revolution who walked out of his tent and into Sigil. It's beyond hysterical--especialy seeing as he got beaten half senseless picking a fight with a tiefling NPC in the first hour of the first session--"Devil!" The entire group now says "most peculiar" all the time too.

Shrieker mushroom.

And during one of those drunken gaming conversations that occur late at night, I almost got to be a swashbuckling spelljamming mindflayer pirate - he had a song and everything:

Oh....
Captain Squidbeard is my name,
piracy's my chosen game
Across three spheres I earned great fame,
so run in fear boy, run in shame!

Captain Squidbeard still waits eagerly for the call to action...

Frank the Halfling fighter/thief, level 12 second edition, I was the thorn in the side of all DM's, Franks charater sheet was literally burned because of all the inane and insane things he would do, that was many years ago and even the very mention of his name makes people cry who played in that campaign, I miss him dearly,

Weirdest race I've ever played is Aasimar.

The weirdest character I ever played was a human fighter that refused to kill anyone, and got very upset when other people did. He was pretty bad ass though with a sap and whip. I disarmed so many baddies.

Heh, cool, I know necromancy!

My brother was turned into a jackalwere "half-lich" (I'm still not exactlysure what that is...) with a dragon mount once. It actually wasn't that fun a campaign. The DM played an NPC with a 25 STR and initiative bonuses (this was 2nd edition). He killed everything before we even swung a sword or cast a spell.

On a not-so related topic I have the distinction of every single one of my characters dying. Each in a different way and each quite quickly. That's part of the reason I DM now.

Oh, yeah. How could I forget the time I played a half-ice elemental feytouched pirate? That was awesome.

I once played some sort of intelligent living statue, back in 1st Edition. First thing I did was take a shortcut by walking on the bottom of a lake.

Applesauce, Trias, don't forget the applesauce.

Dude... I totally want to use that guy as an Astral Pirate or something in my comic. I'm not sure when, exactly, but would you mind if I did?

I'm trying to think of what an illithid pirate would have in place of a parrot. A miniature intellect devourer crouched on its bony shoulder, maybe?

I'd have to say, you guys have me beat. I have played some oddball characters, but nothing so bizarre as a shrieker mushroom or a Xorn.

I had a player who began as a Pixie, then got transformed into a Wight, then picked up a cursed pair of gloves which made his hands detatch and run around on their own - so he attatched them to bracers with a retractable chord - which he could wind back in and eventually modified to allow him to pick pockets with his wandering hands ... thief fishing. Ultimately he misused a wish which allowed him to transform back and forth from a living pixie to his undead state ....

so I guess you'd call him a Sudo-Undead Pixie-Wight with Detatchable, Leashed semi-sentient hands.

But then, in his last adventure he became a devil ....