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5e MM: Which monster would you most want for a PC Race?

Started by RPGPundit, December 08, 2014, 12:02:29 AM

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Beagle

#15
December 12, 2014, 05:34:08 PM
All of them. If it has opposable thumbs and is smart enough to cast spells, it is a potential character. Even if it is not used as a PC by default, having the option to include those creatures in a stranger or weirder setting might work.

Batman

#18
December 13, 2014, 02:24:56 AM
Centaur

Minotaur

Pixie

Vampire
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Novastar

#19
December 13, 2014, 02:52:25 AM
Centaur's would be cool, as long as "dungeon exploring" is more a side thing, than the thrust of the game (a horse trying to climb down stone steps... :eek:).

Dragonlance kind of sold me on the idea of Minotaur's as a player race...

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Terateuthis

#20
December 13, 2014, 09:23:00 AM
Bullywugs.

Because nothing says sword & sorcery, '60s New Wave, or Métal Hurlant like garishly colored, phosphorescent batrachians exuding hallucinogenic secretions from their skin.

Mr. Kent

#21
December 13, 2014, 10:05:52 AM
I'd enjoy playing pixies, minotaurs, or a goblin/hobgoblin type. I usually don't go for this, but maybe a raksha cat-person-thing, or a medusoid.
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TristramEvans

#22
December 13, 2014, 10:57:29 AM
Quote from: Necrozius;804105Modrons. I'm serious.

Also, while I can (and have) just hack the existing player races, it would still be cool to have official versions of some of the Greek races: Minotaur, Satyr, Harpy, Centaur etc...

Modrons would be awesome.

I also very much enjoyed played intelligent blobs in Star Frontiers, so one of the slime or ooze monsters would be fun as a PC.

TristramEvans

#23
December 13, 2014, 11:03:51 AM
Quote from: AxesnOrcs;804107Skeletons

Already a PC race, just come with bonus flesh armour.

RPGPundit

#24
December 17, 2014, 06:22:45 AM
Quote from: Saplatt;804247Centaurs.

I had Centaurs as an optional PC race in my "FtA!GN!" sourcebook for Forward to Adventure.  The general consensus was not good.
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#26
December 17, 2014, 09:21:15 AM
Mine's coming in today.  I've always liked hobgoblins.

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#27
December 17, 2014, 01:04:52 PM
Quote from: RPGPundit;804852I had Centaurs as an optional PC race in my "FtA!GN!" sourcebook for Forward to Adventure.  The general consensus was not good.

Judging from personal experience and the horrors of the internet, 3/5 of people who want to play a centaur have something fetishistic about the situation lurking in the back of their mind, even if it never directly comes up in play. As a result I try very hard to pretend that race doesn't exist.

As for me, I've always found the eyeless grimlocks kind of fascinating. I feel that playing with modifications to the basic senses is one of the easiest ways to get an "alien" frame of mind going. If they were more slick than grotesque, like the myrddraal from Wheel of Time, I might go for one given the opportunity.

James Gillen

#28
December 18, 2014, 07:53:06 PM
Quote from: RPGPundit;804852I had Centaurs as an optional PC race in my "FtA!GN!" sourcebook for Forward to Adventure.  The general consensus was not good.

Especially if you had to march behind one.

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Larsdangly

#29
December 19, 2014, 10:27:44 AM
Either of the Gith races. They are cool in a way that reminds me of Michael Moorcock's multiverse stories.

More generally, I was reading the 5E MM for a half hour last night, and its monster selection and 'color' text is easily the best I've seen in a D&D MM. Possibly the best I've seen in a fantasy rpg monster book (the only other two contenders I think are similarly excellent are the WFRP2 monster book, and the L5R 3E shadowlands monsters book). Anyway, the team responsible for this did a truly excellent job.
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