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[Ganb]

Tiger/Lion/Cheetah men are all great. Badger/Wolverine men with anger cranked up on their personality sheets seem to rage more.

Modded megabeasts are fun although they can be boring when everyone runs from/fights you, even if they agree to yield or join you on your adventures. I yield! *immediately swings pickaxe*

[TheFlame52]

Dwarven humans. Steel weaponry plus the size advantage of a human.

[Untrustedlife]

I modded in a race of "high elves" into my game so I could play as a proper ranger. That was fun.

[TheFlame52]

I modded in a race of "high elves" into my game so I could play as a proper ranger. That was fun.

As if you can't already? What makes high elves different?

[Random_Dragon]

Sometimes I go the boring route and play a human. Elves are interesting due to being smaller, starting with shitty gear, but being at peace with wildlife. Their lack of waterskins is a fucking annoyance when playing vanilla though. And then there's moose men. I seem to always wind up as a maul-wielding zombie hunter when I pick mooseman.

When modding though, I enjoy kobolds as a challenge, or I use reptile men that have been beefed up to human size for a more mundane adventure. Or I test out playable non-megabeast dragons, and hilarity ensues. Some of my most interesting adventures have been as a civilized dragon. Conquering multiple hamlets, rescuing goblin prisoners, almost dying from applying Kisat Dur's "dragonfall" technique too literally (rammed a goblin THROUGH a fortification, sending us both sailing off a tower)...

[Foxite]

Usually humans. My current adventurer is a fox man. He was planned in-game years before I started, by which I mean I genned worlds until I could start with fox men. I then checked where they started and, by all luck, you could start at a Dwarven settlement. This means that I could potentionally get fox people as visitors if I started a fortress close by. I was going to do that anyway, because fox people are smaller than all other civilized creatures, meaning that I can't get free armor from keeps. Also, it was a Dwarven settlement, so there was no free armor in the first place. So, aside from a little fortress mode fun, the reason I started my previous Fort is to create armor fit for fox people, retire it, start adventurer mode with a fox man, and get my free armor from there.

That phase is completed, by the way, and you can read about his exploits here.

[kewlslice]

I almost always play human, but I want to try something fresh. What are all the abilities the animal men have? I know bird men can fly and elephant men have tusks, but what else is there?

[Foxite]

I almost always play human, but I want to try something fresh. What are all the abilities the animal men have? I know bird men can fly and elephant men have tusks, but what else is there?

Fox people aren't that great, but like you said, bird people are pretty awesome and stuff. I heard that platypus people have a venomous kick. No idea how, I didn't try it, but I got word that they do. Then tiger/lion/cougar/etc. people have very strong scratch and bite attacks, badger/wolverine people get angry faster, which gives significant combat boosts.

[Random_Dragon]

I almost always play human, but I want to try something fresh. What are all the abilities the animal men have? I know bird men can fly and elephant men have tusks, but what else is there?

Brown recluse spider men have a Fun venomous bite, and both spidermen are apparently neutral to bogeymen due to the NOFEAR token (assuming you still bother with bogeymen-infested worlds).

Another person started a good thread for this question: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=160054.0

[mikekchar]

Spidermen also have 6 arms, which is exceptional for kisat dur ;-)

[Untrustedlife]

I modded in a race of "high elves" into my game so I could play as a proper ranger. That was fun.

As if you can't already? What makes high elves different?

I made it so that I could join a few different groups in these sites, guards for nobles, and each high elvan site has a ranger captain  and you can legiotimately be a RANGER.


they also have roads and tombs and stuff.

[Random_Dragon]

I made it so that I could join a few different groups in these sites, guards for nobles, and each high elvan site has a ranger captain  and you can legiotimately be a RANGER.

This I've also done. Literally all I did was make ranger captains site positions, gave them a squad, and made them in charge of justice. Bare minimum to allow elven adventurers a "locally important" option.

I recall also handing sheriffs a squad so dwarves could start as locally important in hillocks too.

[PauliusTheGnoll]

Well I prefer hyena (wo)man, size similar to humans, so easy to find the right armor.

[NorkasAradel]

Any sort of spider man, for maximum armage.

[StruckDown]

I usually play humans for the size advantage. I played Dwarf in the past but martial trances just made things melt and got boring.