Monstrous PC Races?

[Havard]

Generally, if a race has an LA adjustment (including LA=0) I would prefer to see it included as a PC race option.

IIRC most of the races above have LA +1

However, for the templates, I would tend to exclude all of those that say "the creature's alignment changes to evil". I'm not sure I'd allow a Thrall of Coot...normally...

Agreed. Thouls would also be out IMC because of their semi-Undeadness.

OTOH, I would consider allowing other races not mentioned above such as Centaurs and possibly Pixies. In a BECMI campaign I might even include Treant PCs...

...although Dave Arneson did have that thing going on where he got players to be the monsters as well as the heroes.

Indeed. Although I doubt too many other Blackmoor campaigns follow that pattern.

-Havard