anyone have a chart that shows the racial modifiers for CS vs TD formulas for all races.. for example I know halflings get a +40 at the end of the roll subtracted against elemental magic, and a +20 against spiritual. I think giantmen get a -5 added to elemental magic and so on. I asked on another post about this, but didnt seem to get much reply. Anyone have the info? Thanks!

I was reading the posts about Half Elf + Elf up in the half-elf folder and it got me wondering. There are no in game mechanics for other mixes - other than human + some sort of elf - but any suggestions on what you'd create a person, say if they were, aeloti and human? or in my case, dark elven and sylvan? Would you pick one race over the other? A wingless aeloti (if that's possible) or a dark sylvan? Any thoughts and suggestions would be welcome.

> Aelotoi and human would be difficult to pull off because of the whole wing issue, but maybe you could get a feature alter to show something like just stubs of wings.

Aelotoi and anything would be somewhat tricky to play, since Aelotoi have only been on the planet for just-under-5-years. Any half-Aelotoi would need to be under 5 years old.

~Lusus

<<Aelotoi and anything would be somewhat tricky to play, since Aelotoi have only been on the planet for just-under-5-years. Any half-Aelotoi would need to be under 5 years old.

Not if they're a time traveller.




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For the sylvan/dark elf mix -

You could also pick half elf and go with half-sylvan as your culture choice,

Then you have access to the darker skins/eye colorings, just don't pick any obvious human features.

Of course, seeing it most people will still think half-sylvan/half-human...

but its still an option.

Too bad there isn't a mechanical way to choose the other half of your race... making it allow for only genetically possible choices... perhaps that's getting a little too specific though.


The voice of many... Or do I hear many voices?

A character who is of the 'half-elf' race has a mixture of elven (any) and human blood. If the Sylvan-Faendryl mix also has human, then it'd be fine to pick Half-Elf; if the Sylvan-Faendryl is purely of those two races, then it would not be appropriate to pick Half-Elf/(Half-Human) for the character race.

- Overlord EK

>Maybe EK is just a self-aware 4chan server.--Yarx

a tombstone.

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>Something crawls around in the back of your throat.

>It slithers up and down your throat, then crawls into your mouth and out your lips, revealing a miniature spectral aardvark that floats away.

I am working on a race page similar to DR's with cross-breeding page and other info. I've not gotten past the initial "ooh, doing this" stage, but I'll be working closely with our racial gurus. Hopefully, it'll clear up these grey areas and such ;)


--Xynwen--
"The stars go waltzing out in blue and red, And arbitrary blackness gallops in"

You should hear the music she plays when she's working on the document.


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Lotta synthesizers. :(

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>Unless test tube babies are in-genre, heh. (they're not, btw... heh) - Fehmeradan

What, you can forcegrow test tube babies now to age 18?

Actually, that reminds me of a book series I just read, but it was in outer space! Which is OOC! No wait, is it?

(MG stares off)

>>Actually, that reminds me of a book series I just read, but it was in outer space!

Didn't happen to be by Stephen Donaldson, did it?

-David

"At a moment like this, I can't help but wonder, 'What would Jimmy Buffet do?'"

>>>Actually, that reminds me of a book series I just read, but it was in outer space! - me

>Didn't happen to be by Stephen Donaldson, did it? - David

>>Yes sir, it did, The Gap Into Madness series. Although I'm missing the final book, ungh.--(MG)

Okay, this response is incredibly late because I have not been reading the boards much for the past month or so. Get the last book, MG. It is what makes that whole series worthwhile. I am a huge Donaldson fan, but even I did not think the beginning of the Gap series was great (honestly, I'm not even sure I'd say the first book was good). But the final book is excellent.

And yes, I know this post is not only late but belongs in another folder. I'm done now.

-David

"At a moment like this, I can't help but wonder, 'What would Jimmy Buffet do?'"

<<Grendeg, did you enjoy your turkey day a bit too much? :D

Where do I come into this? Although now that you ask, it turned out pretty well. A nice Thanksgiving dinner, albeit somewhat later that we intended, followed by watching a couple episodes of the "John Adams" HBO miniseries. I have to say it was much better than I thought it would be -- but then again, it's based on a David McCullough book, and that was good enough for me to be hopeful.

-Grendeg

I know there are probably a lot of people who just want their unique features done, and they are already sort of in a specific area, so my suggestion is this, a merchant who works on say Halfling feet, or Dwarven beards, or ears for Elves, Dark Elves, Sylvans, Erithians and Half Elves, who have or can have pointed ears of various types for their special quirk.

Could we have this, please, with praise and appreciation in large doses?

the 'neck up' rule for feature custom alterations is sorta boff. halflings can already pick out a feet feature in the pavilion (ex: large feet) and my half-halfling always asks even though the answer is no if he can have his foot hair groomed (have asked hair alterer's too with no luck)

There are plenty of features that are apparent about people from the neck down, and there's even a slot that lets you define one of those characteristics in the face/nose/(RANDOM FEATURE) line in the feature pavillion. I thought at one point a GM had stated that there was some headway in moving forward with body type/shape leniency. Whatever happened with that?

I think that feature slot should be reviewed a little closer and allowances made within reason based on what is currently allowed for any new player to start off with.

Just pulling a few random characters from my stock into the pavillion, these are some currently available below-the-neck features: broad shoulders, narrow waist, slender wrists, stooped shoulders, wide hips, broad chest, and hunched back. All of these seem like perfect examples of reasonable features but all fall under the no-no zone.

The L behind the Laphrael

It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a shoe.
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