New RPG races
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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.
Phillip K Dick? Dr Bloodmoney I think. That was one of the Inspirations for Fallout apparently.Gormourn said: