Freakshit

In short: any race that seems designed to appeal to special snowflake abusing players and/or Furries.

Like Mary Sue, there's a lot of debate about what does and does not count as "freakshit", so getting people to agree on what does and doesn't qualify is skubalicious. It can and has been stretched over just about any new or non-standard D&D race that seems too edgy and/or too off the beaten track or non-traditional.

We list the following only out of a desire to document the common use of the term, not out of any approval of any particular usage of it, or the word in general:

• The most notable example is probably Shardmind, the race for which the word was coined. There have been "weird for weird's sake" races before and since, but none have inspired as many "who the fuck would want to play that?" reactions as the Shardmind. That it came about in a particularly controversial edition of the game did it no favors.
• Dragonborn get it often and thick, due to a combination of their being, unlike most such races, core player options, being "scalies" and therefore potentially tied to the "furry" phenomenon, and finally, also being introduced in and associated with said controversial edition.
• Tieflings, alongside dragonborn, are generally the "face" of the freakshit crowd on /tg/, since they are so often drawn by tumblr artists who delight in making them flamboyantly colored and cartoony looking, essentially taking on the role of the "sparkledog" design style that was associated with the furry crowd in the 90s. They may also be prominently associated with some annoying politics-based aesthetics, depending on who you ask.
• And of course, all the weird monsters in 3rd edition that had the option to be used as characters despite sometimes not even being humanoid and the terrible level adjustment rules that would make them underpowered compared to normal characters so nobody actually would use them rules as written, such as the Unbodied and the Ixitxachitl.