An Opinion

Humans only is best.

>>49078020

You have my sword.

Delicious pasta.

>>49078020
is this true? my group has been playing for 4 years (now partially through skype after i moved), im an elf wizard, and in our party we have, dwarf cleric, human rogue, human paladin, half elf rogue and catfolk druid.

>>49078020
Use the right image, you bastard!

>>49078020

When given the opportunity, playing one of the better monstrous races is just generally mechanically a better option than doing a core race with class levels. Anyone can be a ranger or a barbarian, getting Spell Resistance or landing a sweet +6 to an attribute is well worth trading away some class levels.

DnD can easily break if you get one of your stats to an absurdly high score, and the weirder play options are the best way to get there because you can put all of the more traditional buffs on top of your race bonus.

So not only does it entice players with the opportunity to play something a bit more exciting and unique, but it can very easily just be a matter of optimization as well.

>>49078080
>catfolk
Sounded good until here.

>>49078020
>Complain about mythology behind D&D races
>Every PC listed is literally based on folk lore.

3/10 got me to reply and is almost getting to the proper amount of stupid and blind favoritism to look legit.

Low score because you're clearly not applying yourself.

>>49078020
man this is some old pasta

>>49078020
Use the right pic!

Stale pasta, anyway.

How would one flavour Phyrexia for DnDfinder?

>>49078172
The old pastas were the best.

>>49078132
>>49078080
I dunno, regular druids can turn into cats anyway. How is this any worse?

>>49078020

>angelic choir singer of light, kitsune illusionist and foxfire pyromancer, dullahan gunslinger and spirit speaker, and graceful kirin doctor and swashbuckler working together to beat down the misguided fool trying to end the concept of nighttime and then make friends with the former villain over tea and cookies.

See I like this idea.... if it fits the setting.

But if I am rrunning a homebrew and you bring in some random catfolk shit, don't expect me to let you play.

>>49078020
>angelic choir singer of light, kitsune illusionist and foxfire pyromancer, dullahan gunslinger and spirit speaker, and graceful kirin doctor and swashbuckler working together to beat down the misguided fool trying to end the concept of nighttime and then make friends with the former villain over tea and cookies.
Sounds like a normal game of Changeling: the Lost to me.

>>49078020
>elves, dwarves, and halflings
>playing non-human characters
See faggot special snowflake millennials like you are what's ruining the whole world and we need to make this board great again!
Anything that isn't a human should only exist as a monster to battle.

>>49078020
Tasty pasta.

Haven't seen this one in a while.

>>49078020
>We need relatable heroes we can cheer for in high fantasy... Not spirits. Not fairies.
>elves
>Not spirits. Not fairies.

>>49078020

The problem is that youre using a blanket statement of deviantart and using persobal preference instead of actually attacking the real issue.

People seek novelty and any character can be played well no matter how off kilter the combination can be. The players themselves are what need to actually make the combination into a nuanced and interesting character. Its far to easy for bad roleplayers to use weird races to makeup for one dimentional characters just as its far too easy to shrug off the weird and assume its a special snowflake.

So long as they can fit the tone and play the character well it doesnt matter what they play. I love classic fantasy but a savage lizardfolk warrior can be just as much of an underdog as a human warrior, especially when facing things far out of the barbarians element.

Its extremely silly to think the race makes the character not the player itself.

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>>49078080
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>>49078477
how new are you

I know this is a pasta, but honestly, I'm tired of trying to cater for players only willing to play some kind of dragon spooge spawn. I get it, you own a dragon dildo, that doesn't mean i'll run a scaley campaign for you and your degenerate friends.

>>49078020
What's not relatable about fairies? They're basically six inch tall flying assholes.

Everyone knows someone that's like a fairy, it's that person that decides they hate someone for some insane female reason, sleeps with their boyfriend and then fucking tells them to their face.

Fairies fuck with people for fun and they do it because they know they can either get away with it or they think no one's going to fight back. Fairies are those assholes that you ask to keep an eye on something and then they sit there and watch it break.

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>>49078020
I prefer more standardised races, I don't mind the odd 1 or 2, but usually people do go OTT with them and make magical fox people or some bullshit and it comes across and cringey and deviant art self insert.

>>49078020
I know that this is pasta, but how the heck is an elf supposed to be easy to relate to?

>>49078780
Well if you're a recluse who lives in an ivory tower and considers himself superior to everyone else...

>>49078020
I know, obvious pasta, but people really do hold this opinion.

What if I want to play both? Why should I be limited to only a few archetypes? There's different fun to be had, and they're both enjoyable in their own way. For me it's around a 50/50 split; current characters are 2 humans, a dwarf, and a half-elf; but also an aasimar, a minotaur, a dragonborn, and a kobold.

>>49078020
I almost fell for the pasta

Already had a rebuttal typed up.

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>>49078477

This but unironically.

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>>49080081

Too bad humans don't exist anymore in real life. All that's left are apes and cyborgs.

>>49078648

Dragonborn PCs are cancer. Not cancer on the level of lesbian PCs, but still cancer.

>>49080138

N-nani!?

>>49080193
You heard me. Anyone who uses a computer is a cyborg, and therefore not human. Therefore, we should all kill ourselves for being inhuman.

>>49080210
You first.

>>49078020
Oh man, I remember the threads with ellipsis anon. It was like talking to a brick wall made of autism and grognardery.

>>49080219
Already done. See you in Hell.

>>49080244

I miss the old autists, the new ones are boring fedorafags and SJWs.

>>49078020
oh boy, it's this copypasta again

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OP, you're supposed to use this picture with your pasta.

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>>49080169
I'm curious; of all the beastman races I listed, why was it only dragonborn you objected to? Why does /tg/ in general seem triggered by this one race in particular?

besides, I play her as more of a yuan-ti than a dragon anywayand no, she's not a lesbian

>>49080379
And it has been successful. It won't stop happening.

>>49080857
Now see, that's okay because she's an ugly-ass cunt. You're alright.

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>>49078020
At least use the picture.

>>49078020
>implying phyrexian negator isn't best character

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>>49078132
Why anon?
Not all animal-folk must be evil furry fagottry

I have 3 races I play.
Human
Warforged, because fucking magical robots
Dragonborn, If I fucking HAVE to play something else

Everything else is nice for fluff / nice to fuck in lore.

>>49078020
It's furfags (closeted or otherwise), people who think "weird character = unique character, unique character = good character", and the occasional memenigger who found whatever character idea funny.

If it's a furfag, it's the obvious "lets get as close to the furry line as possible" thing. Even if it isn't terribly overt whining and bitching about playing their gnolls, they are inevitably drawn to playing something non-human if the option is allowed to them.

If it's the weird = better fucker, it's because human is normal, and elves/dwarves/halfings are "too human" (aka too normal) to consider playing either.

The best suggestion for dealing with a player who wants to play a nonhuman character is to ask to give a good description of who their character is, what got them to where they are, and how they expect NPCs to react to their character, and hope to god they have more than just the statblock.