What is your favorite race?

my favorite race to use forever will be the usual elve, and maybe sometimes a githzerai.

I'll admit to a fondness for humans myself. Not just because I can play anything I want to play with one - but also because so many people underestimate them. It makes it so much easier to play the style character I play..

I'm rather fond of the tuladhara.

Humans: there's something alluring about the race that gets overlooked, and something empowering about following the path to power without fancy abilities. And there's something very sweet about an extra feat and getting free choice of favored class.

Near-humans: Near-humans (such as planetouched) are also very interesting, because they allow me to make a character who functions as if he were human, but is physically different in a way that can tie into his background and personality. I play planetouched as humans with a twist--literally: planetouched are humans. They just are a different kind of human than the base homo sapiens that we know and love.

Besides that, I've always been strangely drawn to bladelings because of their mystery and their strange origins and secrets, which even they may not understand fully. And who doesn't love razorstorm? I think I first fell in love with the spiky berks when I saw the illustration in the 2e Monstrous Compendium. No other bladeling illustration has come close, in my opinion. Not porcupine quills; big spikes erupting from their skin.

And the githyanki. They're so perfect as a race of evil killers who actually work. They've managed to make a successful, (nearly) stable society based on unabashed evil that they embrace: conquest, destruction, cruelty, pride, arrogance, vengeance, and, above all, hate. The possibilities of their beliefs fascinate me. The don't try to disguise their evil, and they fully understand it. But they choose and embrace the darkness, using it as a tool to further their goals, because everything to them is an enemy to crush or a weapon to wield.

Well, there's always that other culture that everyone likes, and is based on evil ways. But i'm way too sick of those white-haired cave elves to even mention their name

I used to prefer the L'Ilythiiri :twisted:

uhhh......i usally play as a goblin wich makes many people stay up at night pondering but my size gives me many advantages when hiding or sneaking and it's allways fun to see the look on royalties face when a goblin bard or barbarian(depending on my mood) is the cause of the destrution of most their guards. anyway, goblins are my favorite race and i will forever play as them.
p.s. i've got all the people i play with find a dark lust for my goblin bard like speggeti man and fidrikon. furt the goblin lord of the dance will forever be a big shot in the land of fidrikons dinning room!

whatever floats your boat swan :shock:

dude shiido, would it be so hard to only chose one....mabye two races?

what about kobolds

But if they're so tiny, and other races use them as toothpicks, then that means that the swords are like litte sewing pins. That would have to be, like, 1d2 damage at most.

dude.......a 1d2 toothpick......i could fight with that......do i need a weapon proficancy for that?

but can i still charge into battle with a toothpick?

yeah i definetly agree... it would be really weird to see a goblin charging into battle with a toothpick

My the trick for those annoying players
*crumbles away into dust*

Elves and tiefers were my faves for a long sodding time, I like them in all their hues, but since Incursion came out, I have to say githyanki have grown into a bit of an obsession for me. I always liked the nasty bloods, but seeing them in fleshed out has put them on the top of my list. I'm working on a vocabulary list and tir'su font for them, and looking for anything new about them on the net...

I personaly engoy the the occasional tiefling but my preference for outsider offspring would have to be a gensai or aasimir

I've always liked the githzerai. Ever since Dakkon...
Also like their obsession with freedom and how they are a darker race, though not evil.

That would be like writing a history for half-elves, teifilings or aasimar though.

Planetouched don't really form exclusive communities too often.

My favorite races are:
All of the Planetouched
Yugoloths
and of course I like the Drow

In the current Forgotten Realms game I'm in, I play an Aasimar Thief/Sorcerer. It's been cool. Using the racial bias towards Aasimar (nice, holy, upper planar people) and abusing it as much as possible (usually running the streets in the robes of a priest of Lathander as well when I go out "collecting goods").

Yugoloths are just so awesome it's not funny. They are easily my favorite fiendish race. The manipulative, deceptive, always looking out for themeselves thing really works for me.

Drow . . . well to some degree I got interested in the D&D by reading the Icewind Dale Trilogy

My vote is kobalds. They are the vietcong of the planes.

Heh heh I know. If only I had the money to throw at him to get him to do illos for Planescape again...

Sure, why not. I'm sure he can draw hot male tiefers' buns just as well as the ladies. I just wonder whether he would be willing to illustrate for planescape at all anymore. He probably thinks of it as a phase in his life that's finished.

Maybe Ken could politely ask him, on behalf of everyone here at Planewalker, whether he could do a simple piece to commemorate the game he did so much work for. I'd even be willing to pitch in some money for that, but it would be nice if he could do it for free.