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Games => Role-Playing Games => Topic started by: cyan10101 on November 09, 2005, 05:35:23 AM
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a stupid question for a stupid thread, but i wondered what everyone's favorite race in D&D is? to play or just in general. Also why is it your favorite?
Mine is probably dwarf to play, probably because i relate to them the most. maybe it is just my dwarvish nose and my love for gems and being in my room, that happens to be underground, and i seem to be shorter than all my friends. "watch yer beck"!!(all you WoW should know that phrase)
the nightwalkers look pretty cool as a non-player race. Also finger of death is just cool.
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oh, just re-reading my post, WoW in that instance stands for world of warcrafters. so i don't get any gripes about the grammar or anything.
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Just choosing from the races in the player's handbook, then it would be human. Orcs and half-orcs are cool, but they have crappy stats. I mostly like nature-based and muscle-based characters.
War trolls and glooms are awesome too. And giants and half-giants, and werewolf lord/Crinos, and dragons.
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well, how about you just say, all the big scary monsters in the monster manuals are cool!! hehe.
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you are saying these are cool? http://www.scottdaley.co.uk/images/gloom.gif
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That looks like a gay mushroom. I'm talking about this guy, from the Epic Level Handbook.
http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/EPIC_Gallery/Gallery5a/44167_C5_gloomman.jpg
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more like a metrosexual mushroom, hehe. i like your picture better. behirs are cool also. you think a behir could take a dragon?
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They could beat up a young dragon, but the dragon would probably just fly away before it got killed. An adult or older dragon would be ablet o kill it, so the behir would probably just run away if a dragon tried taking over its home.
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looking at the stats i guess a huge dragon would beat a behir.
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well, after that tangent. back to the original question. Favorites anyone?
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You know Cyan there is an edit button if your posts are with in a short period of time it would be appreciated if you'd just add points to your post instead of double posting. It's no fun to read a topic where someone just posts constantly in a row.
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Humans. THe extra feat and skill points are too tempting.
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I've always been partial to Half-Elves, but I haven't done much with 3 or 3.5
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Humans are fun, but I really like Dwarves.
Halflings can be fun...or fun to make fun of...well they can just be fun.
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i will try to figure that out spriggan.
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Humans. I always prefer playing generalists, and humans have that down pat.
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Half Elves. I'm a whore for being the underdog, and their half and half nature appeals to me. Plus, long lives are sexy.
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haven't really tried out half-elves. not enough pluses to take it in my opinion. but they are sexy.
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I try to pay less attention to the stats, personally. How well I hit stuff is really less important than how I roleplay hitting those things :P
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mmm, i see. well i still like the con bonus of dwarves. good for fighter and stuff.
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There is always that stat versus character conflict. I kind of bother me when a character's race is chosen just because it fits best with a particular class. It propetuates the racial stereotypes.
Racism among RPG players is so common place. Why can't they learn to love orcs and elves equally?
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I hate them equally. Does that count?
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I despise halflings and gnomes. :(
Though the ones in Eberron are acceptable.
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I'm currently playing a warforged. They're pretty dang cool.
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Shifters all the way. And gnomes are never acceptable.
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gnome with an enlarge person spell permanently on them. that would be weird and cool. Also a warforged would be cool. I forgot about them.
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gnome with an enlarge person spell permanently on them.
Been there. Done that.
I blame EUOL
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Shifters are cool, yes. Would be funny to play a soulknife shifter, you'd make the perfect assassin - no visible weapons needed.
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That's an interesting thought. I wish I knew the psionics rules better.
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speaking of psionics do any of you know anything about xeph? i got a mini of a xeph and i am not sure what they are or where they come from.
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speaking of psionics do any of you know anything about xeph? i got a mini of a xeph and i am not sure what they are or where they come from.
I can show you them, they are in the psionics handbook. They are in the SRD if you want to look up their stats.
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Tieflings, but I was a planescape Junky....
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what makes tieflings so much better than halflings? i hear they like to steal stuff a lot, basically cleptomaniacs.
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Well their stats basically stink, but they smell of brimstone and get cool stuff like horns or a tail. That is pretty cool I guess, but I'd rather be an aasimir, or mortif.
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umm, what are those?
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I'm with cyan on this one. i still dont have a monster manuel so i dont know what all of the monsters are.
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Planetouched are people who have an anscestor from one of the outer planes, like the Seven Heavens or the Abyss or Hades. Deathtouched are people who have a half-undead somewhere in their ancestors. Aasimar are planetouched humans who have a celestial in their ancestery, like maybe their great great grandpa was a solar or something like that. Tiefling would be the same thing, but like a balor instead of a solar. Mortif would be a deathtouched human with like a grandfather who was a vampire.
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interesting, i also like darth hick's icon and phrase.
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Here is a link to the monster manual picture of planetouched. The girl with black cloak is a tiefling, and the boy with green armor is aasimar.
http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/MM35_gallery/MM35_PG209.jpg
This link is to the SRD. It is all the basic DND rules that you can download for free.
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=d20/article/srd35
This is most all of the rules, but none of the background information (just stats/rules) for Player's Handbook, Dungeonmaster's Guide, Monster Manual, Psionic Handbook, Epic Level Handbook, and Deities & Demigods.
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whoa, the teifling does not look very pleasant.
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they look better than the miniatures i have back at home. i got 2 pewter ones.
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Really? well i found out why 42 couldn't email me
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Their stats dont stink, and they get a couple of spells a day free.
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I also prefer humans. I tend to play skill-based characters, so I like all the points I can get.
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I want to play a game that has a Monster Manuel. Better yet, that could be the name of my next character. Or Stet Canister's sidekick.
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A cohort who does all the stuff I don't want to bother with: Manuel Labor.
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I've always been partial to elves ... but I think that's because I like drawing them, really. I manage to get into entertaining scrapes with them - my last game, Lia ended up as an elvish vampire sorceress, and I thought that was pretty cool. :D
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Elves are pretty good as undead. Since they have no Con score, makes them quite a bit more powerful since they normally have a penalty on that. And if you did a wizard or sorcerer, then you also get d12 hit dice instead of d4 plus the free sword and bow proficiencies. Yeah that is pretty sweet, hmm. Too bad for the low BAB though.
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To play, probably Dwarves. They're just fun. Plus, in D&D 3.5 I enjoy trying to use my Dwarven Stability bonus in every possbile situation.
In general, I'm a huge fan of both undead and beholders. I've no idea why I love beholders so much, but it may stem from my chosen profession.
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I'm with Dr P on the beholders. Generally I love all the aberrations - especially the wierdo ones like the Aboleths. Probably cthulhuoid tendencies.
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I was looking through the monster manual the other day at all the kinds of monsters you could possibly play as. I was just going off the level adjustment as the indicator that you could play as one. Am i right in my guess? I bet you could probably play as anything but i think they use level adjustment to use as a guideline as to what you can and can't play. Anyway, lots of cool monsters.
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Certain types are not allowed because they are too wierd. You'll never find rules for playing oozes or zombies, for example. Not sure on aberrations -i've only got the 3.0 MM.
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Well there is a rule about PCs needing at least an Intelligence score of 3. That rules out your basic zombies and oozes. There is the intelligent juju zombie, which does have an LA, and the worm that walks which is an intelligent ooze that also has a listed LA. They also don't usually list monster LAs if it makes them epic, so you have LAs for the youngest dragons but not the older ones as they reach epic levels.