Your personal Top 3 Favorite Races


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I will start with mine:
3) Halfling
2) Half-Orc
1) Gnome


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In no particular order-

Humans
Changelings
Goblins (if they're more "out there" than intended, sub in Ratfolk)


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1) Kitsune
2) Half-elf
3) Tiefling

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Warforged
Changeling
Dwarf

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1) Wayang - creepy is fun!
2) Suli - strong, charismatic, and dumb as a brick is fun as hell to play.
3) Gnome - I don't know why this isn't on all lists.


Halfling
Elf
Dwarf


Dwarf
Human
Half-orc

Liberty's Edge

1) Tiefling
2) Halfing
3) Oread


Human
Half orc
Dwarf


Grippli
Aasimar
Gnome

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1) Human
2) Dwarf
3)Half Orc


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I'm stuck at three?! Darn it!

Scarab Sages

Tengu. Anthropomorphic bird people with Asian flavor?? HELL YEAH.

Gnomes. I love the Fey aspect that Paizo brought to them, so that they aren't reskinned tinier dwarves.

Spoiler:
I once played a Gnome Sorcerer, Fey bloodline, specialized in Enchantment magics. I did my best to rhyme as he spoke, sometimes difficult to do on the fly, but I wrote down about 20 canned responses which I could fall back on. Hella fun!

Kobolds. I love Dragons, and these little lizard people want to be dragons so bad. Crafty, creepy little sneaky buggers, tons of fun. Also, dat art doe!

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Humans

Kender

Gnome Titans


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Humans
Humans
Humans


Hum...favorites as in most played would be:

(1) Human
(2) Half-Elf
(3) Sylph

Favorites as really like them but they aren't always campaign-appropriate would be:

(1) Catfolk
(2) Changeling
(3) Kobolds


nagaji, halfling, dwarf


1. Humans
2. Changlings
3. Ghorans

Scarab Sages

1. Elves
2. Wayang
3. Dhampir

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1. Gnolls
2. Kitsune
3. Furry tieflings

Honorable Mention: Ratfolk

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1) Half elf--I think the "not quite" aspect of half races would be a lot like having Aspergers or adhd, so can I relate to the difficulties it might be like to grow up a half elf. Yes, I get that the other "others" (tiefling, Aasimar, half orc etc) also have these difficulties but the half elf conversations on the old 3.5 boards (I hated the enforced social skills trope of 3.5 with a passion I now reserve for the unchained summoner for the same reason; pigeon holing) made have to think about what it would be like to to be a "half" and so they have a special place in my heart and is the race I find myself coming back to.

2) Human-- It's easy to let race fill in for characterization. With human, that temptation is less "there".

3) Changeling-- As a kid I always thought it was unfortunate I didn't live in an age where there were Indian tribes that kidnapped and adopted kids. This reminds me of that trope in reverse where the kid is a cuckoo. But the same choosing of where you belong is central to this race that many rl people faced is here, which I think is cool. I need this boon for pfs.

Honorable mentions--Aasimar, Tiefling, half orc.


Halfling
Dwarf
And one that surprised even me, Elf.

Alternatively, Android, Lashunta, and Ghoran.


Changeling
Dwarf
Half-Orc

I play an awful lot of humans, but that's for min-maxey reasons not because I'm actually all that fond of the human race (it's okay, just not my favorite.)

Scarab Sages

1. Half-elf
2. Elf
3. Kitsune
(honorable mention: tiefling)


Dwarves
Shifters
Humans


1.aasimar
2.teifling
3.human


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1. Lizardfolk
2. Nagaji
3. Kobald

I sense a pattern. Honorable mention: Minotaur

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1. Skinwalkers cause i love Werebeast and can look like any race i want.

2. Half-Orcs sooo cool and flexible.

3. Dwarfs just too sexy! ^^

HM: Strix cause Paizo didn't make them winged elves so they cool!


-Skinwalker
-Kitsune
-Elf


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Changeling
Samsaran
Aasimar

Sczarni

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Catfolk, for sure.
Gnolls, for second.
Tieflings, for the hilarity that is the character that never sleeps, as well as so many different and interesting quirks.


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Wait, how do you have a nonsleeping tiefling? I want one!

My top 3, tiefling, dwarf, human.


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Crayfish Hora wrote:

Catfolk, for sure.

Gnolls, for second.
Tieflings, for the hilarity that is the character that never sleeps, as well as so many different and interesting quirks.

Cats and dogs sleeping together - mass hysteria-!


1)Catfolk
2)Lashunta
3)*

I haven't decided on #3 but I will say for now most non-core races.

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Java Man wrote:
Wait, how do you have a nonsleeping tiefling? I want one!

It's a variant tiefling ability. #12

Silver Crusade

1. Kitsune. (there's s reason half of us have that on our lists)
2. Gnome.
3. Goblin.

Honourable Mentions: Kobold, Wayang, Dwarf.

There above are for purely fluff reasons. From a crunch perspective, Human all the way.


1: Human
2: Halfling
3: Dwarf

The other two are distant, though. I almost exclusively play humans. I like to think that theres only a certain number of key characteristics one can roleplay with any sense of focus. With humans operating as a sort of neutral default, I think its easier to convey concepts without worry about applying it through the lens and perspectives of a certain race.


Dwarf
Drow
Human/tiefling

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1) Gnome
2) Hobgoblin
3) Suli

I probably like creating Gnomes more than anything as I share a sense of familiarity to them from being short. :D


Halfling
Halfling
Halfling

Halfling's are the master race! They even have the best prestige classes and class archetypes!

Wait you mean I have to give 3 different ones? Fine...

Halflings
Humans (The human only feats are ridiculously good)
Goblins (+21 stealth at level 1? Crazy feats only fitting a goblin? Feral Gnasher? SOLD!)

Honorable mention for two others I would want to play but only for some very specific concepts, Kitsunes (a fighter which takes only the tail feats as non combat feats, or a fox vexer) and Kobolds (divine flavored DD)


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Android: Love science fantasy, some nice immunities, and nanite surge is nice.
Skinwalker: Shapeshifting is fun, lots of subraces give some nice flexibility, nice bestial flavor, cool racial feats.
Tiefling: Again, love the subraces which give lots of versatility, fun racial feats, and I love the sheer variety of evil outsiders that might influence the appearance of a tiefling, making them monstrous, exotic, or just slightly off.

Honorable mention goes to gathlain, ghoran, kitsune, lashunta, nagaji, tengu, and vishkanya.


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Half-orcs. Really, I like half-orcs enough to fill up an entire favorites list with that alone. But, playing along...
Aasimar
Tieflings

Honorable mention to half-elves and sylphs. And changelings sound cool and I want to play one sometime.

(Yeah, this is a thing of mine. I have a massive chip on my shoulder and like playing characters I identify with easily. :P Pretty much what Kerney said.)


Saethori wrote:

1) Kitsune

2) Half-elf
3) Tiefling

Woo! Same list.


Half orc
Gnome
Illithid


1) Dwarf
2) Grippli
3) Tiefling


Dwarf because Manly (even female Dwarves, especially female Dwarves).

Changeling because Anime.

Ghoran because Trees.


Drow
Drow
and Drow ;)


Klorox wrote:

Dwarf

Drow
Human/tiefling

Glad I'm not the only one who said Drow ;)

Dark Archive

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It changes with my mood, but this second it's;

1) Human (so versatile!)
2) Aquatic Elf (the most common race I played in 2nd edition AD&D)
3) Eberron's Changelings (I love shapechangers)

Other favorites include 0 HD versions of Gnolls and Lizardfolk, and other oddball races like the new Reptoids, or Eberron's Daelkyr Halfbloods, or Tengu.

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