New RPG races
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Already been done with Orcs. In some versions of them anyway, they resemble pigs quite closely, and are even derogatively called "hogs" by other races in Kingdom under Fire.Ken_J said:
Some race of intelligent birds. Giant crow or eagle-like creatures would be cool. Alternatively, some kind of plant people who are nourished by photosynthesis.
EDIT: and thats not even taking into account the villains of Tombi.
Man-Bears are in Guild Wars. Can't remember the name... they're like Vikings who can tranform into half-bears. Bad ass.Ken_J said:
Decent Alien race, look to Warcraft. The Draenei.
For rock people, as someone said Gorons.
As for my own ideas, erm, hard...
Perhaps a kingdom of intelligent spiders... oh wait, warcraft has that too.
How about a race of humanoid foxes, who all sound scottish.
Insectoid race would be cool. Maybe like a giant praying mantis.
I have an idea! how about a RPG that lets you create your own race! With a much more powerful version of the Creature Creator! You would be able to set its base attributs and special abilities.
The storyline could be that you are the last of an ancient race, trying to discover what happened to the rest of your people.
I have an idea! how about a RPG that lets you create your own race! With a much more powerful version of the Creature Creator! You would be able to set its base attributs and special abilities.
The storyline could be that you are the last of an ancient race, trying to discover what happened to the rest of your people.
I run a race I created in my D&D games called the Griemorian, they are like living spells, its pretty neat, or so says my PCs.
The Hollow.
Invisible humanoid spirits that can bind themselves to hollow items. Doing that would shape the item into a humanoid form if it wasn't already
Walking armours, jumping teapots, those dead trees that attack you, etc.
The most powerful ones would even be able to shape mountains around them, of course there must be a tunnel-system/cave in the mountain to do that.
They cannot affect the world without a husk, mind you.
Pray that doesn't exist yet.
Invisible humanoid spirits that can bind themselves to hollow items. Doing that would shape the item into a humanoid form if it wasn't already
Walking armours, jumping teapots, those dead trees that attack you, etc.
The most powerful ones would even be able to shape mountains around them, of course there must be a tunnel-system/cave in the mountain to do that.
They cannot affect the world without a husk, mind you.
Pray that doesn't exist yet.
done in D&D (started playing a week ago, and went through a shit load of races)Curtmiester said:
also done in D&D, the warforged, they can bolt off their arms and put on swords and stuff, and they can't wear armour, but upgrade themselves with adamantine and such.Magyarman said:
I would love to be able to play as a disease, where you need to keep on infecting hosts, and the higher level you get the more hosts you can infect at the same time or a tougher host.
lvl 1 you can infect 2 normal hosts
lvl 2 you can infect 1 big host (bear, troll, minotaur)
lvl 3 you can infect 2 normal hosts
lvl 4 you can infect 1 huge host (dragon, giant)
and so on.
maybe a good idea for something?
I'm a sucker for steampunk, so I'd love for a half clockwork and half humanoid race of some type. A sort of 'what if technology had advanced this way instead of that'! I know it's been done in books and the like before, but I've never seen any sort of setting like that in a game. Closest I can think of is Arcanum, which rocked! Any game that lets you play as a drunken flamethrower wielding Dwarf with a pet robotic shotgun spider is pure AWESOME, and using him to pump holes into fancy pantsy elven wizardry folk is a total plus.
Hell, ya know what, screw originality just give me a 3D Arcanum!
Hell, ya know what, screw originality just give me a 3D Arcanum!
Yeah, it's sort of a shame that so many fantasy races have to stick to the upright, two arms, two legs, one head base unit, and just toy with the decorations really.
Give a gelatinous cube telekinesis and it could live, I'm sure, and I imagine it'd breed by splitting like ameoba.
Certainly from playing WOW a while I've seen almost all the races in game stem from 'man+animal=new race' and while not particularly imaginative in concept, I think they're done very well in game, especially blizzard's habit of affixing a real world racial idea to them.
I forget the name, but the new anthropomorphic walrus based race in the icy wastes of the Borean Tundra, are obviously based around Eskimo (can we still say that? I for the life of me can't see how it's offensive or how Inuit is better...but that's a whole new topic.)
The trolls are Jamaican, the Draenei, Russian, the Tauren are 'Native American' (Seems I'm fine with that but can't naturally take on board Inuit, I guess because it's just not used so much.),Dwarves have a touch of the Scottish about them, (If anyone should be mad its them, always stuck with the ginger alcoholic psychopath image!) and even the Consortium, I forget the race name, but they're beings of pure energy, but they wrap themselves in bandages 'mummy' style, so get to be humanoid in form too.
One that did break with convention are the Naruu, who are just geometrical patterns of light in the air, tho I always thought they looked made of brightly lit glass or crystal, but at least they're not a typical humanoid form.
Give a gelatinous cube telekinesis and it could live, I'm sure, and I imagine it'd breed by splitting like ameoba.
Certainly from playing WOW a while I've seen almost all the races in game stem from 'man+animal=new race' and while not particularly imaginative in concept, I think they're done very well in game, especially blizzard's habit of affixing a real world racial idea to them.
I forget the name, but the new anthropomorphic walrus based race in the icy wastes of the Borean Tundra, are obviously based around Eskimo (can we still say that? I for the life of me can't see how it's offensive or how Inuit is better...but that's a whole new topic.)
The trolls are Jamaican, the Draenei, Russian, the Tauren are 'Native American' (Seems I'm fine with that but can't naturally take on board Inuit, I guess because it's just not used so much.),Dwarves have a touch of the Scottish about them, (If anyone should be mad its them, always stuck with the ginger alcoholic psychopath image!) and even the Consortium, I forget the race name, but they're beings of pure energy, but they wrap themselves in bandages 'mummy' style, so get to be humanoid in form too.
One that did break with convention are the Naruu, who are just geometrical patterns of light in the air, tho I always thought they looked made of brightly lit glass or crystal, but at least they're not a typical humanoid form.