What are your favorite C&C races?

slimykuotoan · Post by **slimykuotoan** » Sun Feb 01, 2015 9:11 pm

You may choose up to four.

slimykuotoan · Post by **slimykuotoan** » Sun Feb 01, 2015 9:20 pm

Human, Dwarf, Elf and Half-Orc pour moi.

slimykuotoan · Post by **slimykuotoan** » Sun Feb 01, 2015 10:49 pm

Poor gnomes...

serleran · Post by **serleran** » Mon Feb 02, 2015 12:51 pm

Gnome and various monstrous humanoids, especially goblins and kobolds. Even more so because they all hate each other.

Lord Dynel · Post by **Lord Dynel** » Mon Feb 02, 2015 1:07 pm

Human, dwarves, gnomes, and halflings for me. I like elves alright, but never to the point of fandom. For some reason, I never warmed up to the half-races, having only played one once ever, and not until a recent PF game (where I played a half-elf sorcerer).

Tadhg · Post by **Tadhg** » Mon Feb 02, 2015 11:44 pm

Gnome
Halfling
Elf
Dwarf

I rarely if ever play humans ~ can't stand 'em. Boring, egotistical, arrogant and stupid!

Lurker · Post by **Lurker** » Tue Feb 03, 2015 1:33 am

I love that Halflings are tied with elves, but there is NO way a stumpy bearded thing like a dwarf should be beating elves ... it just isn't right !

Rigon · Post by **Rigon** » Tue Feb 03, 2015 2:26 pm

I chose half-elves, elves, humans and half-orcs. I have a soft spot for the loner, misunderstood types. It resonates with me.

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alcyone · Post by **alcyone** » Tue Feb 03, 2015 7:11 pm

Gnomes are 2000% better with Of Gods and Monsters.

Lord Dynel · Post by **Lord Dynel** » Tue Feb 03, 2015 8:14 pm

Aergraith wrote:Gnomes are 2000% better with Of Gods and Monsters.

I'm trying to figure out if that's a good thing or a bad thing.

alcyone · Post by **alcyone** » Tue Feb 03, 2015 8:49 pm

I like Gnomes. I prefer the more classic burrowing or mountain gnome to the more recent tinkerer/engineer version, who seem to be an excuse to bring clockwork automatons and other technology into the game. I know, OD&D had robots. Still, if I see one more goggled and aproned gnome inventor riding a steam powered badger and wielding some sort of rube goldberg inspired scoped firearm, well... I guess I'll grump about it.

Lurker · Post by **Lurker** » Tue Feb 03, 2015 11:29 pm

Aergraith wrote:I like Gnomes. I prefer the more classic burrowing or mountain gnome to the more recent tinkerer/engineer version, who seem to be an excuse to bring clockwork automatons and other technology into the game. I know, OD&D had robots. Still, if I see one more goggled and aproned gnome inventor riding a steam powered badger and wielding some sort of rube goldberg inspired scoped firearm, well... I guess I'll grump about it.

I'm not a fan of gnomes, but I completely agree with you on that my friend!

tylermo · Post by **tylermo** » Wed Feb 04, 2015 8:15 am

No love for the garden gnome??

Lord Dynel · Post by **Lord Dynel** » Wed Feb 04, 2015 10:21 am

Aergraith wrote:I like Gnomes. I prefer the more classic burrowing or mountain gnome to the more recent tinkerer/engineer version, who seem to be an excuse to bring clockwork automatons and other technology into the game. I know, OD&D had robots. Still, if I see one more goggled and aproned gnome inventor riding a steam powered badger and wielding some sort of rube goldberg inspired scoped firearm, well... I guess I'll grump about it.

I think I agree with you there. Dragonlance introduced the notion of the tinker/engineer, if I'm remembering correctly, but I still think they held their identity well until they were further popularized as mechanical experts in WoW. The only thing I will say is that by attaching this aspect to gnomes, it gave them a bit more identity as a race. Whether I agree with or like it is another story. But I think it upped their popularity in recent years.

Rigon · Post by **Rigon** » Wed Feb 04, 2015 2:07 pm

Lord Dynel wrote:
Aergraith wrote:I like Gnomes. I prefer the more classic burrowing or mountain gnome to the more recent tinkerer/engineer version, who seem to be an excuse to bring clockwork automatons and other technology into the game. I know, OD&D had robots. Still, if I see one more goggled and aproned gnome inventor riding a steam powered badger and wielding some sort of rube goldberg inspired scoped firearm, well... I guess I'll grump about it.
I think I agree with you there. Dragonlance introduced the notion of the tinker/engineer, if I'm remembering correctly, but I still think they held their identity well until they were further popularized as mechanical experts in WoW. The only thing I will say is that by attaching this aspect to gnomes, it gave them a bit more identity as a race. Whether I agree with or like it is another story. But I think it upped their popularity in recent years.

I view gnomes as a cross between dwarves and elves. Especially gnomes from 3.x and above (including C&C), but I'm not sure why.

R-

Lord Dynel · Post by **Lord Dynel** » Wed Feb 04, 2015 2:32 pm

Rigon wrote: I view gnomes as a cross between dwarves and elves. Especially gnomes from 3.x and above (including C&C), but I'm not sure why.

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I think that 3.x was the point where they took a more pronounced direction away from being the cousins of dwarves to being fey-like creatures. If that paradigm existed before, I never really noticed it. So, yeah, I can see that, too.

Jyrdan Fairblade · Post by **Jyrdan Fairblade** » Wed Feb 04, 2015 3:42 pm

Between Gully Dwarves and Tinker Gnomes, I sometimes think Weis and Hickman had it out for dwarves and gnomes. Heck, even in the Deathgate Cycle, there was a race of debased dwarves.

The problem with gnomes was that over the years they had so many identities layered over each other. Forest fey, trickster illusionists, charming bards, steampunk tinkerers. It all became a muddle. I like gnomes, but you need to pick one of those and stick with it.

Lord Dynel wrote:
I think I agree with you there. Dragonlance introduced the notion of the tinker/engineer...

Ancalagon · Post by **Ancalagon** » Fri Feb 06, 2015 4:42 pm

Human.

slimykuotoan · Post by **slimykuotoan** » Sat Feb 07, 2015 4:56 pm

Hey Ancalagon, I'm curious as to where you got ur user name.

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