just straight up orcs man

>>4616722
Space midgets? You mean squats right? Who would want to fuc

Hell, why not.

this dude

Rising Force Online was a shitty grinfest MMORPG.

The cool robots were the only good thing to come out of that.

>>4616788
I agree.

>>4616722
I know alot of people play Khorne armies, but I don't get the impression that they KNOW Khorne.

They think it's all about killing children, but the Blood God revels in rage, in the feeling of invincible wrath, in standing before your enemies and rending them in such a way that their mother would not recognize them.

Also most Elves.

Born as flatworms, they grow and link together to form a combined nervous system, growing specialized grasping hooks, mouth parts, or eyes as needed. When you get enough of them linked together they become intelligent, sentient, and in fact religious (to one of what are basically D&D's Great Old Ones). And evil.
They would like to be inside you. Now, they can either crawl down your throat and curl up inside you, aware of what you're doing at all times and ready to take control, a thick weight inside your flesh...

...or they can burrow in, devour your insides, and drive your corpse around like a car while serving as life support to the limbs.

Pic related.

surprise

The Elcor from Mass Effect

I wish I could be better friends with them

I can't find any goddamn kobold pics that aren't cutebolds, so have my second choice.

No good pictures of them, but the Tines from Fire Upon the Deep.

>>4616910
I was just gonna say Kobolds (as in 3.5 D&D Races Of The Dragon, none of this cutebold shit), but now I'm agreeing with you. Shit was so cash.

Cactacae off of China Mieville. A truly original fantasy race, for once.

I love the goddamn Dunmer. Doesn't matter that Bethsoft probably pussified them for consolefags (the shittastically ass-horrid way Bethsoft does NPCs didn't help), they and their society would always be badass.

They're xenophobic, have no qualms at all about killing and murdering rivals, approve of slavery and (up until recently) worshiped ambivalent space demons but they never crossed over into the usual laughably over the top Drow-style LOLOL EBIL XD idiofaggotry. And who the fuck cares if they're not 'elven' in the traditional 'immortal, hauntingly beautiful, ancient, hyperenlightened race of lesser gods" schtick, they still manage to retain a lot of the majesty and mystique even when they're doing undignified mundane shit like shoveling muck and living in shacks in a land filled with vicious mutated stuff like cliff racers.

Also, one step ahead from a hunter-gatherer society and taking the fight to mecha-building technodorfs and managing to terrify the fuck out of invading Viking-equivalents with your trademark brutality, that takes GAS GIANT BALLS.

Although yeah, they kinda lost some of their fiery gumption since all that ALMSIVI care bear faggotry.

I lurve my Lorwyn elves.

>>4617100
Yeah, if only cactaurs weren't in every Final Fantasy game.

>>4617100
"Truly original?"

>>4617373
>>4617379
Cactuarmind

Also CORGIS

Tortles, Savage Coast, DnD 3.5

>>4617100
I don't think anything from Mieville is really original, simply because it's clear that he's never met ideas from other people that he didn't like.

I love the Cephalids from MtG. Octopus people with an affinity for being sneaky, lying assholes.

The kobolds from Ragnarok Online. The difference from normal kobolds? They're anthromorphic wolf/dog midgets.

The goblins from Warcraft lore. Especially when they go tinkering.

But secretly I love all races.

I love the elves in Sundered Skies.

Here we have a race of elves who are half plant. But not faggy plants (well, there are those too), but fucking blood drinking vines that turn you into an insane mutant monster. They create sentient slave races who they treat like objects and kill on a whim, since they don't think of them as living beings. They are xenophobic to the point that they only allow outsiders into certain parts of their port city so they can still trade, and have armed guards everywhere. They broke the law that no nation may have a standing army by immediately forming a band of mercenaries who signed a permanent contract with the elven queen. Also, their god is a demon, though most of them don't know this, and they have armors that fuse with their bodies and shoot fucking spikes.

Great Old Ones.

I like these mother fuckers.
I love the Cephalids
I love the goddamn Dunmer
I lurve my Lorwyn elves.
I love all races.
Every single one!

BOOM DE YADA BOOM DE YADA BOOM DE YADA BOOM DE YADA

Because GRIM.

>>4617359
Dude, they're basically drow cross bred with fremen, how could they *not* be awesome?

Don't judge me.

cutebold.jpg

>>4617521
WE SHALL HAVE
CORPRUS POWER

>>4616833
oh yeah! damn I love lords of madness, that is one excellent fucking book. What was one of the random bits of fluff in there? That one of the few things beholders can taste is gnomes, so they relish finding gnomes and eating them?

>>4617521
>>4617359
Also fucking awesome artwork.

>>4616833
What is this, exactly?

>>4616722
And this?

These. Goddamned lizards with awesome Predator blades, shooting balls of light at leisure while dodging bullets and rockets like a motherfucker. Also, conquering planets and fucking humanity's shit up.

>>4617477
I LOVE ORCISH BRUTES
I LOVE ELVEN SWORDS
I LOVE KOBOLD TRAPS
I LOVE DWARVEN FORTS
I LOVE THE WHOLE WORLD
IT'S SUCH A CRAZY PLACE
BOOM DE YA DA
BOOM DE YA DA
BOOM DE YA DA
BOOM DE YA DA

>>4617646
I think they're called tsorachs, can't find my copy of Lords of Madness, but they're a new aberration from that book. Even nastier they can take sorcerer levels and if they "drive" say a wizard they can cast the wizards spells too. Play one, squirm your way into an arcane caster, get free spell slots!

Naga

Real life. Tardigrades.

>>4617646
Accretian warrior

>>4617430
FUCK YES SOMEONE ELSE KNOWS ABOUT TORTLES!

I'm in your Antarctica
Making Shoggoths

>>4617680
err... what?

>>4617430
This sounds really fucking cool.
Like TMNT or more slow and hard-hitting?

>>4617739
They turn out Clerics and Monks more than anything else.
So, actually both, exactly.

>>4617713
Well we're in your Australia
Takin' notes

>>4617739
Fluff-wise, they seem super super voodoo, but good people. No ritualistic sacrifice or anything, just lots of cool practices. Real spiritual, they love water, lotsa cool shit.
Dragon Magzine 315 if you're interested.

>>4617768
It's a good thing I know where to find that kind of stuff.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=6O636NGX Dragon Magazine #315

>>4617842
Broken link or required login?

>>4617768
Thank you.
/rs/ing right now.

>>4617842
Link isn't working.

Post another?

That's easy. Humans! They're so real!

>>4617858
Happy to promote my favorite race on /tg/!

>>4617896
Never mind, it's on /rs/.

I'm a fan of the Baubma, myself.

They're like parrot-people. I found them online somewhere.

I dunno, right now I have a bizarre love of Drow, Illithids and Naga/Lamia.

And when I say Drow I mean proper Drow.

>>4617954
Pitch your homebrew shit somewhere else.

>>4617651
>>4617651
FUCK YEAH SKAARJ

>>4617764
seeing as how the flying polyps fucked their shit up like the shoggoths did to the elder things. I'd say they took notes too well.

I'll go with Space McGuyvers

>>4617986

:(

Oteegee!

Protoss, bitches!

Illithid, just because they enslave other species to fight for them.

>>4617615
What is this thing? Looks suspiciously furfag-ish.

>>4618306
No you idiot don't mention that fucking thing!

>>4618058
its Utini you guttersnipe

>>4618306
A sergal.
Look it up on 1d4chan.

WARFORGED

Changelings and doppelgangers (the former if i have to start at level one, the DM is a cuntbag and won't let me play one, or some non-martial class). I just like how pliable and fun to play they can be in the right situations.

Other than that, humans. I don't tend to touch the other races as often (though I have my smatterings, like that half-dragon monk), if only because it's a bit out of my element.

>>4618207
"Oh god! My husband's home!"
"Oh good, it's time for lunch, then."

Proper illithid response.

>>4618398
/r/ warforge bard pic.

I thought I had it in my /tg/ folder.

>>4618540
Oh nvm.

Nerubian: It's refreshing to see a bug race that actually talks

Probably my favorite WC race.

Warcraft orcs.

Smart and shamanistic. Not BWAAARWHARGABLARRAAAAYYYYGGGEEEE.

And >>4619395.

Shivans.

Always Shivans.

>>4616722

TA is terribly OP for the purposes of an RPG

"i make ANYTHING with my green spray of nanobots..."

>>4619494
HIT YOUR BURNERS PILOTS, DIVE DIVE DIVE!

Gosh, I don't think I can just pick any one race to be my favorite.

However for the sake of this thread I'll throw the krogan up there.

They have an interesting history. They are brutal warriors but I get a "wisdom" vibe from some of them. I'd love to know more about how exactly they destroyed their civilization and how they run their worlds.

>>4619494

Dude. FUCK Shivans. Their Finest Hour.

Blood Elves, from Warcraft fluff. Not the in game faggot playable ones. The elves that are the last handful of a decimating attack on their homeland and use what ever power necessary to protect themselves and reclaim their culture.

Also most humans. Oddly enough considering the above, I really don't like them in Warcraft lore, though.

Tau from Warhammer 40K

For the greater good!

slivers

>>4619639
>how exactly they destroyed their civilization

With nukes. When the council races bumped into them during the Rachni wars, the Krogans were busy surviving a self-inflicted nuclear winter.

>>4619606
They're like TA in the fact that they are brain stems in robot bodies, not LOL ROCK TO PLASMA CANNONS

>>4619670
Yeah, thank you for the insight, dumbass.

I know they used nukes, but I'd like more details on how they got that far in the first place.

>>4619702
A touch of unnecessary hostility, yes?

The two Gith races from Planescape.

Not /tg/: Probably the little critters from "Meatball" that use humans as vessels for their death games. Hilarious ending.

>>4619733
Mmm, sorry, I forgot where I was.

Thank you for trying to answer my question, but perhaps I should have provided a little more detail.

I know that the krogan had a nuclear war, but I'd like to know more about their society before the war. After all, if they are such warlike brutes then how did they even conceive of much less split the atom? I mean we characterize them as being unnecessarily violent and point to their nuclear armaggedon as proof, but is that fair? We came pretty close after all. In fact an errant meteor strike or sunlight reflecting off of clouds could have started it off. Perhaps the same happened to them. Perhaps not. Perhaps a single madman started it all, dooming everyone else. I don't know. I just find them interesting. While they are fearsome warriors I also get the sense that they actually do respect law and honor. Wrex mentions a bit about what the krogan used to me, he implies that in the past they weren't just thugs.

In any case, this Tali is my apology for calling you a dumbass. Enjoy.

>>4620113
Replaying the game with INSANE BRIGHTNESS

I have yet to see Tali's face.

>>4616722
> animu space elves
I think they're hot

Anyone have this bigger?

>>4620136
She doesn't really have one. She has a texture-less placeholder so that you can see "something", but her actual face simply isn't in the game.

>>4620160
Oh yeah they're hot, but that doesn't mean they aren't retarted. Also unorigonal

>>4620113
The Krogan are depicted as being very, very good at war, it seems unlikely that their militaries would be sufficiently lax that it would be possible for a single individual to start a nuclear war.

>>4620228
but they're hot, that's all I care about

BTW does anyone actually play this game?

>>4620113
The Krogans are a satire of humanity with our more violent inclinations turned up to 11. As you said yourself, we came pretty close on several occasions to global thermonuclear war. The story of the Krogan extinction is a parallel to the humans situation in Mass Effect where the council races are once again feeling the pressure of a rapidly spreading, resource hungry species that's adept at war.

>>4620312
True. I find the renegade ending so much more interesting because it capitalizes on this. I want to see how it all turns out in the end. Either we're going to rule, or we are probably going to be on the brink of extinction under a turian's talon.

>>4620228

Seriously

>>4620282
Not since the servers shut

I've always enjoyed me some Elvaan and Mithra.

>>4620352
I thought that was just Europe and the US

The words... THE WORDS!

>>4620160
What's her name? I think I've seen about ten different ways to spell it.

>>4619639

Am I the only one who liked the fast-talking amphibians?

Don't get me wrong, Wrex was the party member that most interested me, but I loved the Salarian approach to... Pretty much everything they did. Although they're kind of dickish for not finding some half-cure for the genophage, at least.

>>4620435
Kirrahe and the rest of the STG were pretty cool, but no I don't really find them that interesting. By themselves at least. I'd love to see how a future Human - Salarian alliance plays out. The codex states they are our natural allies. Perhaps they feel constrained by the turians and asari. It is worth noting that a salarian diplomat in the Council chambers insists that joining with the humans a, "sound, strategic move". At the same time he speculates that the Council may be behind the attack on Eden Prime. The last part is pretty serious, when you think about it.

If we partnered with the salarians we could dominate everybody. We're perfect for each other because our methods of war are so similar with just enough difference between us to round everything off and leave no major weaknesses.

Elfs
I liek elfs

Bitches don't know bout my energy being.

>>4620463
Mmmmm, delicious French Elf.

>>4620435
But they just LOOK wimpy, and they remind me too much of greys. In fact, they probably were the greys, damn interstellar sex tourists.

What're Nerubians from?

>>4620632

WarCraft.

>>4620632

warcraft 3.

They live on Northrend, being dark and all, then the lich kill came and killed and raised most of them.

They are mostly spider-folk that attack with small anthropods with some Egypt-style beetles as heavy heros.

The beetles were added in the expansion.

>>4620632
http://www.wowwiki.com/Nerubian
>>4619395
Uunak-hissss tik-k-k-k-k!

>>4620530
They aren't sex tourists as they have no sex drive. However they probably were involved with humans in some way. The resemblance is uncanny...

>>4616722
Fuck yeah, Accretian Empire!

And yes, the grindanfestan for the official server blew balls.

Eladrin.

"Those belonging to the Lotus are exiles from their own people - a sect of wizards that were banished from their homeland for breaking clan law and pursuing the Forsaken Path. Their people are thin and pale. Bleached-white hair is universal. The length of a soldier's hair indicates his rank - the longer the better. Their armor is shiny and metallic, gold and silver in color, but flimsy and actually less effective than the Dragon clan's samurai armor or the Wolf clan's shale plates. Weapons are equally thin and flimsy, but often magically touched and able to strike multiple opponents at once.

The Lotus clan's society has built its foundations on an odd religion that revolves around a tree tended by three brothers. Each brother speaks for a different aspect of the tree - one brother the leaves, one the trunk, and one the blade that tends the tree's roots.

The clan has a problem. They are being consumed from within by their corrupting magics. The corruption attaches itself to human life, but can be temporarily contained in other vessels (such as the single-staffs of the Unclean). Even the master warlocks can only contain their corruption for so long.

If the Lotus clan had discovered the problem early enough, they could have returned to their people for help, but now it is too late.

The attacks of the Lotus clan's second-tier units are attempts to expel the corruption temporarily, maintaining just enough balance to keep the units alive until they can contain the corruption with stronger magics.

Physically weak but magically strong, alternately sycophantic and vengeful, the Lotus clan bows to the strong and rules the weak. Their ability to manipulate the superstitious Wolf clan has served them well. By raping the Wolf Clan's lands of all its best metals and minerals, the Lotus clan has become rich on the blood, sweat and tears of others."

FUCK YEAH FOR THE TREE!

Doppelgangers. Actually, more or less any shapeshifter.

>>4621549
Also, motherfucking Quarians. The idea of (possibly) cybernetic space gypsies is just amazing.

Humans, mostly, and if it's an all human game, I'll endeavour to make a Russian if at all possible. If not, a Norseman.

>>4621561
That's a small Accretian.

>>4621561
What's that Accretian doing with those meatbags, he going to strangle them with his bare hands for entertainment later or something?

>>4621692
Impregnate them.

>>4621723
why are they kidnapping all those girls? never seen this before

>>4621723
Accretians don't have any junk, they reproduce though coloning.

>>4621755
Like I said, impregnate them to make more Accretian clones in the doujin. Not actually canon, mind you.

And before you ask, the source is Fatal Pulse or something like Rising Pulse. Something like that, but it's more milking than actual robot rape.

>>4620160
If you're still around, here's your size increase.

Aside from the other races already posted (and since there's already a good bit of vidya in here) I kind of like the Turians from ME. Not sure why, exactly; maybe it's their appearance, maybe it's just a halo effect from Garrus and Nihlus. Whatever.

>>4621795
do they normally capture females in whatever series theyre from?

Trolls from Warcraft.
Gotta admit, I fucking love that Jaimacan voodoo good natured Bob Marley all the time but we'll fuck you up with a shank and voodoo idol.

>>4621804
It's not just you. Turians are cool, and look neat. Plus they have the whole disciplined Lawful Neutral vibe going on.

>>4621813
No. They kill everyone who isn't an Accretian on sight and without hesitation or mercy.

>>4617359
Me too! :>

>>4621804
Thanks

>>4621561

Sauce
http://desudesu0.com/?p=2212

GAR

>>4622832
Thank you

Race: devils and demons. Always.
Can't go wrong with hooves, horns, and teleporting.

I'm easy to please.

Halflings.

Hard to choose between Gnolls or Humans. If Gnolls didnt have racial HD in 3.5 I would play them every time.

>>4620435
<3 Salarians. I sadfaced that there weren't any playable ones.

>>4621561
>>4621723
>>4622832
Oh fuck... should have guessed.
No Fatal Pulse is fappable. So fucking depressing.
Every one is a bad ending.
BAD ENDING!! AAAAH

HUMANS, MOTHERFUCKER.

They wreck everyone's shit up. Also, the more determined they are, the more powerful they become.

>>4623180
Speaking of Gnolls, do they have stats for a playable race in 4e yet?

>>4623367
um YES. The back of the monster manual motherfucker.

and theres no reason why one cant use 4e races in 3.5, as long as everyone is using them.

>>4623411
Right, I've only skimmed through the PH, so I was curious. Also, no one else in my group would ever agree to anything 4e, so no taking the race from there.

Can't belive nobody has posted THIS yet.

ftw

>>4623349
The humans of Mass Effect are my favorite, but only if Renegade.

>>4623349
>>4623349

>the more determined they are, the more powerful they become

>>4623557
Get out of my head, Charles!

I'mma go with these guys too.

Not sure why. Just look at them. They're just so... so... rip and tear-y... Their entire body is just... BUILT to be lithe and swing swords and glaives into people... I mean... fuck yes that's awesome...

I mean, I don't find them sexy, if we're talking sexy I don't think anything can top the alien girls of Star Wars (Twi'lek, Zabrak, etc) but overall... just... fuck yes I want to see you guys in a massive army taking on all comers!

>>4623520
Yautja are awesome, but recent developments (AVP, AVP:R, the new books) have made them less awesome. Personally, I just go by the old comics and games and ignore the new stuff, because the old stuff seriously is better.

Sounds like some other race we know.

>>4623598
Sergals are made of four things.
Fur.
Speed.
Eyes.
OHSHITWHATTHEFUCK.
The last element is most obvious.

>>4623557
Is that Kamilhouse?

>>4623644
More like;
Eyes
Fur
Teeth
and AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!

Third Reich Aryans

Insert them into any story and you quadruple the awesomeness.

These motherfuckers.

>>4623685
Wait, I take that back.
The eyes only come up in the dark.
MOUTH
Fur
Speed
SHITMAHKIDNEYS

>>4623349

CREEEEEEEEED!

Completely unrelated, but does anyone here have the white-and-gray version of that big map that incorporates all of the D&D continents? I had it but lost it and I'm still trying to find it.

Great Old Ones. They're what we all really want to be.

>>4623711
>>4623598
NAZIS FIGHTING SERGALS

RAIN = ALUCARD

MAKE IT HAPPEN, /tg/!