New RPG races
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Duck-Beaver-Something Poisonous People?velcthulhu said:
Breakdown of races:
Ape - Human
Rabbit - Elf
Fish - Deep One, Merfolk
Bird - Harpy, Angel
Facial Hair - Dwarf
Leg Hair - Hobbit
Bat - Demon
Wolf - Werewolf
Lion - Cowardly
Metal - Robot, Android
Dragon - Lizardman, Half-dragon
Plant - Treant, Dryad
Dinosaur - Caveman
Undead - Skeleman
Fungus - Toad, Goomba
Turtle - Teenage Mutant Ninja, Koopa
Spore - Penis Monster
Light - Archon
Dark - Shadow
Space - Alien
Ice - Yeti
Body Hair - Sasquatch
Full Head of Hair - Smoking Man
Water - Aqua Man
Electricity - A series of tubes
Grenade - Exploding Man
Goat - Satyr, Faun
Sheep - Exploding Faun
Sand - Thomas Haden Church
Snake - Naga
Bacteria - Amoeba
Virus - Strand of RNA with a protein shell, Deoxys
Legume - Rowan Atkinson
Playing Card - Queen of Hearts
Logic - Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes - Gregory House
Gregory House - Revelations: The Movie
Computer - HAL
Paper Towel - Wipey
Towel - Towelie
Fighter Plane - Starscream
Tape Measure - Lufkin
Rhinocerous - Rhinox
Stone - Pohatu
Coca Cola - Cloverfield
Earth - Gaia
Heart - Lame
Sky - Ouranos
Captain Planet - Ted Turner
Frog - Kermit
Pig - Orc, Ms. Piggy
Rat - Rat People, Goblin, Politician, Human
Bed Sheet - Dementor
Sparkles - Twilight Vampire
Tentacle - Cthulhu
I might have missed some.
(The above list is in no way complete, comprehensive, or even serious.)
Yes because then you would have to deal with Al Gore even more often than ususal.Jedoro said:
OT: I don't know, a race of flea-like beings. Really I don't know of any race that could work in an MMO that hasn't been made already.
Already being done. There is supposed to be a DBZ MMO on the way. Oh wait nevermind that actually, because now that I remember it is supposed to be set so far in the future from anything pertaining to the Dragonball franchise that the only beings that could be related to sayians are only about 1/156,000 sayian anyways, so it really wouldn't count.goatzilla8463 said:
Although you get Namekians somehow. And a race of whatever the hell Majin Buu is.
check out the races for guild wars 2: Charr (sort of huge catlike things), norn (gigantic people that turn into bears), sylvrarii (half human-half plant), asura (midgets with huge fucking ears) and human 
I had an idea while canoing through a ghost wood on a lake a while back
Half dead half alive. not zombies but ghostly. During the day they would be blurred by sunlight and seem hazy. During the night they glow and have a breeze following around them. The last of a race that was all but killed when their lands sunk. and just a taste of powers to add some mix
Phasing in/out
high magic useage
good damage resitance becasue they are ethearal
druid type?
Half dead half alive. not zombies but ghostly. During the day they would be blurred by sunlight and seem hazy. During the night they glow and have a breeze following around them. The last of a race that was all but killed when their lands sunk. and just a taste of powers to add some mix
Phasing in/out
high magic useage
good damage resitance becasue they are ethearal
druid type?
Leaf people that can assemble into a hive mind or cricket people who are awesome at the bard class as their legs can be played like violins. Maybe space people made of dark energy/tiny black holes or dark matter and depending on what stage of their life they're at the mini star inside them is a different type e.g when they die you go supernova and when you age you slowly become a red giant.
Pretty much every animal/human hybrid has been thought of already, used endlessly, and perverted by furry porn.
Let's see, stuff I've encountered in fiction...
Skroderiders, a breed of intelligent trees that have no short-term memory; they have to consult a memory bank in order to carry on a conversation. (A Fire on the Deep by Verner Vinge)
Tines, a dog-like race in which each pack is an individual, and individual pack members are thought of as body parts. (A Fire on the Deep by Verner Vinge)
All the hominid races of the Ringworld books by Larry Niven (which would make an awesome video game, I think), as well as some of his other races, the Kzinti, for example, tho they're sort of like nine foot tall cats with rat tails.
The thing about different races in a game, is that for the most part, people want to play something that's at least mostly human. Like elves, dwarves, werewolves, and furries, zombies, demons. What I'm more interrested in is how they balance the playable races and if they make sense.
Let's see, stuff I've encountered in fiction...
Skroderiders, a breed of intelligent trees that have no short-term memory; they have to consult a memory bank in order to carry on a conversation. (A Fire on the Deep by Verner Vinge)
Tines, a dog-like race in which each pack is an individual, and individual pack members are thought of as body parts. (A Fire on the Deep by Verner Vinge)
All the hominid races of the Ringworld books by Larry Niven (which would make an awesome video game, I think), as well as some of his other races, the Kzinti, for example, tho they're sort of like nine foot tall cats with rat tails.
The thing about different races in a game, is that for the most part, people want to play something that's at least mostly human. Like elves, dwarves, werewolves, and furries, zombies, demons. What I'm more interrested in is how they balance the playable races and if they make sense.