If you had to choose one race out of the monster manual to become a player race what would it be and why?Ettercap. I think I would have fun coming up with crazy ways to use its web-spinning ability.Comment from discussion AMA with Chris Perkins (Today at 10:30 AM PST).
Seriously? Ettercaps?
These are one-dimensional mook monsters, who basically boil down to “spider people who breed spiders and use webs and traps like spiders to hunt and kill”.
Oh, and they’re also evil and bad, of course, because spiders are gross I guess? And to emphasize that evilness, they were written to be “Sylvan Despoilers” who “have no desire to live in harmony with nature”, and who even eat fairies, so you KNOW they gotta be bad, because faeries are good! (Except the bad faeries, but those ones are gross, kinda like spiders, so…)
All the other potential options in the Monster Manual to choose for potential PC races, and Chris picks one of the flattest, most boring examples with the least story potential, and does so based pretty much solely on the fact that they have a sort of interesting web mechanic?
That’s just bizarre to me.