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What's your favorite fantasy monster race? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by MisterNeon@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I love goblins and lizardmen. Goblins because deranged little dudes running around is always a blast. Lizardmen because alligator people with melee weapons are the way I wish dinosaurs evolved instead of being birds.

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[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

Dragons, dragonborns (though half-dragons are original and better than dragonborn but more poweful so they wasn't balanced as player race) and kobolds.
Khajiit and all other cat-people and cat-monsters everywhere (maybe except Kzinti)
Owlbears are great too.
Trolls come in dizzying array of variants (my favourite are the troll gods from Edding's books).
Tengu, especially the crow-tengu