New RPG races

[r0qu3]

I once played an "analog"-rpg, based around being a toy in some childs room and for example escape that room.

I'm interested in playing a little dragon toy with "cyberwear" like a voice module or stuff like that.

Also if i remember correctly health is represented by the amount of dirt you sucked up, cause all dirty toys go to trashbin-hell. Luckily you could try to get into a washing machine and wash yourself.
But beware teddy-bears got hooked depending on how "aggressive" the washing agent is.

And that would be sad...

 

[DanielO]

The French!

Also, maybe try some intermediates? Half elf-human; halfelf -dwarf..etc..etc..

 

[Dobrev]

Ooh, manbear would be fun. Manbearpig, not so much, though.

What about Pig people? haven't seen them before.

They were in starwars (ep 4 or 5) and Duke Nukem.

 

[Death916]

Like many I'm tired of the same old Elf, Human, Orc, Dwarf set up of most open ended RPGs. So any Ideas on new ones?

Here are a few of mine

A Beast race that is Half man half Bear.
An Alien race that isn't reptilian, psyonic, and parasitic.
Rock People.

you mean half man half bear half pig

 

[SquirrelPants]

I've always enjoyed the Warforged in D&D/DDO. They're half trees half robots.

 

[Sasco Tetrarch]

I would say Elemental people (earth fire water air) it has been done before but it would be a different twist.

 

[Zoochi]

Undead Elf
Half orc half elf
1/3 orc 1/3 undead 1/3 elf

Basicaly anything with elf will be good.

 

[1ronJ4m]

Invulnerable sociopathic humans who can jack helicopters.
Damnit, ninja'd by rockstar.

 

[Lonely Swordsman]

Centaurs or any aquatic humanoids.

 

[Sweep117]

A race of necromantic raider people. They live in the mountains, and raid settlements, generally cannibalizing in victory of a successful pillaging. Then they stitch the corpses into foul creatures, and re-animate them to serve as puppets.

Actually. Don't use that. I'm already using that in my RP.

Anyways, what about a race of people who have shells like snails? They would be nomads who would be kinda like centaurs, except their lower torso would be embedded into a shell.
Ooh! And then you would have hermit ones who would raid other people's shells, and take them as their own!

..........I have to draw that..

EDIT: Another idea! How about a race of midget people, who are about the size of a football, but have extreme mastery over stone and earth, and create large exoskeletons out of it?
I dunno.. Just spit-balling ideas..

These are all pretty sweet. Especially the last one. I can't help but think of how they'd play in an RPG, though. That would make for a pretty sweet game.

 

[masher]

The Pandarians(forgive me if I misspelled that) from the Warcraft lore. They were - for lack of a better word - Panda-people. They used brewery to fight. Drunken brawlers, flaming beer breath, etc.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

I personally think the greatest idea would be the Gelatinous cube as a proper sentient race, rather than just a monster :-D
To be honest, there is very little that hasn't been done somewhere...

 

[Toty54]

I would like to se some people with wings on their backs. (featherd or batlike)

They have already done that in Lineage 2 with a race called Kamaels

 

[teh.arkhon]

Kappas. And whatever those japanese folklore things with giant transforming testicles are, them too.

But no, really. It's all been done before and it won't really change.

Sure, you get humans - you pretty much expect it. You might even find a few generic versions of it, asians of sorts, europeans of sorts, norse of sorts, africans of sorts and a few others.

You get elves (or drow) but they're pretty much the same thing. Even when they aren't called elves. Pretty races that "magically" consists of 99% female 1% undisclosed. They might not even be named elves, it's always the same.

Dwarves. Same thing. Either actual dwarves or another stocky, beardy race. Maybe a dwarf in reverse, a giant. Probably with hammers and everything. Yeah. Sometimes halflings or hobbits, which are pretty much like dwarves but with less emphasis on stone and hammers.

A generic beastman combination. Little to say here, could be your manbear, manpig, or whatever. Might go more in a beast direction and less in the man direction and end up as some kind of kobold.

A possible mechanic/elemental race or races. Pull an element out of your ass, make people with it's imagery around. Like those robot-men (whatever the official name is, forgot) from DDO. Or whatever. Sometimes alien, but still a biped and basically a human with slightly changed features (Remind me again, why does a bloody robot need a mouth? Or a rock elemental, a face?)

All those things share a humanoid shape. Non-humanoid races, I assume, would more likely be considered generic monsters and readers/gamers will have less of a connection with them, or whatever. But yeah, a giant colony-type organism would be cool.

There are kappa in Guildwars. mostly on shing jea in faction but there are some in kaineng city

 

[garjian]

My username is a race i made up...

the shortest way to describe them would be... large canine humans...
but i came up with them years ago... so by now they have a lot of other little things i came up with over time...
most of which made them a lot less like lycanthropes...
but i really cba to explain it

 

[Jirlond]

...Hows about a race of people (indeterminate physical appearance) who transform into the thing they fear most under moolight? I figure why the hell not...
Or how about guys who control their bone structure and mass?
EDIT: Second on the dragon-themed dudes-- that is, unless you've read that one Dragonlance...

Thats in a class - the druid/shaman have shapeshifting abilities

 

[Jedamethis]

Weighted Companion Cubes!
no idea what theyd do though......

Jackals are a pretty sweet idea too