Strange PC races

[Ilmryn]

With templates and awaken spells, almost any creature can be played as a race. What is the weirdest race you have ever played/seen someone play?

[Marriclay]

I once played in game like this. my character was your vanilla human malconvoker. the other two players were a half-vampire draconic raptoran and a lolth touched mineral warrior kobold.

[For Valor]

A Large Iron Heart Ironborn (Book of Iron Might) with the templates: Incarnate Construct (Savage Species), Arboreal and Cave (Advanced Bestiary), and Dragonborn (Races of the Dragon).

Large-sized with ridiculous bonuses to Constitution and Strength, and I think minor penalties to everything else.

And LA +0.

[Mongoose87]

I once played in game like this. my character was your vanilla human malconvoker. the other two players were a half-vampire draconic raptoran and a lolth touched mineral warrior kobold.

What were their characters like?

[Marriclay]

What were their characters like?

oh, you know. The raptoran was a necromantic experiment meant to turn him into an undead half-dragon but it didn't quite work. Angst angst angst.

The kobold, on the other hand, was played more like a tiny mobile fortress - with damage reduction, crazy AC, and everything like that, all he ever did was act like a tiny little wall for us. whenever roleplay popped up, the player would get all quiet and say something that made it sound like he thought he was roleplaying a dwarf

[Eurus]

With templates and awaken spells, almost any creature can be played as a race. What is the weirdest race you have ever played/seen someone play?

Awakened cat with the shadow template would have to be up there somewhere.

[Marriclay]

Awakened cat with the shadow template would have to be up there somewhere.

Shadowcat? Isn't that a superhero?

[arguskos]

Shadowcat is a Marvel Comics mutant superhero, yes. She's also a human being, not a cat.

My stranger characters include: a silentium binder//barbarian/fighter/ranger, an awakened small viper Archivist/Divine Oracle, and a dvati twin binder/warlock.

Most of my stuff is highly unorthodox, to say the least.

[balistafreak]

For strange but not overly templated, try the Dvati from Dragon Magazine/Compendium.

You play a literal pair of twins who share a single set of attributes. They're twice as squishy, sharing a single HD's worth of hitpoints between them, although fortunately they both receive the Constitution modifier. There is a rule-roadblock that completely destroys the option of spellcasting for them, involving both twins having to concentrate/able to be disrupted/something or the other that's too awful for me to even remember properly. Because they're so squishy, putting them into melee is usually a Bad Idea. If one of the twins dies, the other does within days, giving you a very small Raise Dead/Resurrection window. They also have +1 LA, but chances are if you were thinking of playing such a weird race you have LA buyoff or free LA anyways.

However, you do receive twice as many actions. Ranged combat through archery works well; they also make brilliant Dragonfire Adepts due to your thirst for high Constitution. They also have a couple of other random flavorful twin benefits to with their weaknesses.

I seem to have an obsession for DFAs these days.

EDIT: Wow, swordsage'd on the Dvati. Well, I described why they're so weird, so ha.

[Heliomance]

A Voidmind Werebear Incarnate Dustform Half Ethereal Dragon Goliath.

[Lycan 01]

A Half-Orc Bard who spoke in 3rd person but had 18 Charisma.

[Greenish]

Dragonborn Muckdweller DFA (complete with dragon tail feat). World's Smallest Dragon.

[nedz]

A Celestial Mule Sorceror, called Muffin naturally

[Mongoose87]

oh, you know. The raptoran was a necromantic experiment meant to turn him into an undead half-dragon but it didn't quite work. Angst angst angst.

The kobold, on the other hand, was played more like a tiny mobile fortress - with damage reduction, crazy AC, and everything like that, all he ever did was act like a tiny little wall for us. whenever roleplay popped up, the player would get all quiet and say something that made it sound like he thought he was roleplaying a dwarf

I make joke: You said "my character" then "the other players," implying that those were not their characters' races, but their own.

[Optimystik]

Agreed on Dvati, they are officially the weirdest base race in the game, imo.

[Marriclay]

I make joke: You said "my character" then "the other players," implying that those were not their characters' races, but their own.

oh...

I see...

woops

[Doc Roc]

Beguiler, I think. Shining South. Somewhere between an adorable Pug and the legendary lightning rat in appearance, they bring good stat mods and racial true-seeing to the table at +1 LA and a dissolving RHD. He was a factotum and pretended to be the Tainted Scholar's familiar. It was a wonderful, if short-lived, campaign.

[Cealocanth]

One of the players in my group got polymorphed into a chimp. They decided to stick with being a chimp. Sadly, the chimp was short lived...

[Greenish]

One of the players in my group got polymorphed into a chimp. They decided to stick with being a chimp. Sadly, the chimp was short lived...

Reminds me of the librarian.

[Prime32]

For strange but not overly templated, try the Dvati from Dragon Magazine/Compendium.

You play a literal pair of twins who share a single set of attributes. They're twice as squishy, sharing a single HD's worth of hitpoints between them, although fortunately they both receive the Constitution modifier. There is a rule-roadblock that completely destroys the option of spellcasting for them, involving both twins having to concentrate/able to be disrupted/something or the other that's too awful for me to even remember properly. Because they're so squishy, putting them into melee is usually a Bad Idea. If one of the twins dies, the other does within days, giving you a very small Raise Dead/Resurrection window. They also have +1 LA, but chances are if you were thinking of playing such a weird race you have LA buyoff or free LA anyways.

However, you do receive twice as many actions. Ranged combat through archery works well; they also make brilliant Dragonfire Adepts due to your thirst for high Constitution. They also have a couple of other random flavorful twin benefits to with their weaknesses.

I seem to have an obsession for DFAs these days.

EDIT: Wow, swordsage'd on the Dvati. Well, I described why they're so weird, so ha.

They're even more awesome as Fiends of Possession.

I'm currently playing a symbiotic Mimic//Wyrmling silver dragon with fiendish ancestry. Basically it can turn into just about anything (with a +51 Disguise mod at 7th level!) and has a butt-load of immunities. Specialised in grappling due to the mimic's adhesive ability.

[Il_Vec]

One of my friends will be DMing Eberron. I am between playing a Neraph Wizard or a Dragonborn Incarnate Construct Dustform Water Orc Warblade.

[CubeB]

I'm playing a Half Dragon Earth Kobold Warblade, which isn't too odd. He does have 26 STR though. He's a regular Kobold Hercules, that one.

My friend, however, built a Awakened Cat Wizard with a Human Familiar, but eventually decided for just a Dwarf.

[BobVosh]

Were-Dire-Vulture Hulking Hurler.

[AngelOmnipotent]

One of my current players got his hands on a 3rd party book called the Noble Wild. He's currently playing a raccoon Druid with an awakened-wolf-polymorphed-into-a-human animal companion. Whilst a talking raccoon is too freaky for the general population, the animal companion pretends to be the druid, mimicking gestures and words whenever the raccoon needs to cast any spells.

[Doc Roc]

One of my current players got his hands on a 3rd party book called the Noble Wild. He's currently playing a raccoon Druid with an awakened-wolf-polymorphed-into-a-human animal companion. Whilst a talking raccoon is too freaky for the general population, the animal companion pretends to be the druid, mimicking gestures and words whenever the raccoon needs to cast any spells.

So, in eberron, where you have philosophically inclined robots, draconic merchants, and hobgoblin warblades chilling in the same city-states as affable inquisitors, changeling factotums, and shifter druids, all trying to get invited to the gala thrown by the gnomish scribes....

A talking racoon sticks out?

[AngelOmnipotent]

So, in eberron, where you have robots, dragons, and hobgoblins chilling in the same city-states as inquisitors, changelings, and shifters, all trying to get invited to the gala thrown by the gnomish scribes....

A talking racoon sticks out?

Not the same game

[Doc Roc]

Not the same game

Honestly, I think eberron is the least bizarre setting in D&D, because it doesn't have outsiders coming in for tea while abominations try to get the custards to set in the kitchen. :)

I kinda feel like it'd be better to ask which races aren't wildly bizarre.

[Marriclay]

Honestly, I think eberron is the least bizarre setting in D&D, because it doesn't have outsiders coming in for tea while abominations try to get the custards to set in the kitchen. :)

I kinda feel like it'd be better to ask which races aren't wildly bizarre.

Human, Elf, Dwarf, Half-Elf, Half-Orc, Orc, and Halfling. That's actually about it

And no, I didn't forget about the Gnomes.

[Arbitrarity]

Y'know what would work REALLY well?

Dvati Totemist. YEAH.

Also, Dragonborn Mongrelfolk. 0 LA, -2 Dex, +6 CON -2 Int, -2 Cha, IIRC..

[Doc Roc]

Human, Elf, Dwarf, Half-Elf, Half-Orc, Orc, and Halfling. That's actually about it

And no, I didn't forget about the Gnomes.

I play a Tinker Gnome. You didn't leave anything out from my perspective.