Race Suggestions

Blue_Sphere · Post by **Blue_Sphere** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 4:25 am

What races would you like to see in ALFA2 that do not come standard in NWN2?

I will be looking at these to see which ones could be added. Please try to keep them to canon.

Blackwill · Post by **Blackwill** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 5:19 am

Gnolls, Orcs, Goblinoids and Kobolds. Oh and centaurs and faeries.

Stormseeker · Post by **Stormseeker** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 5:45 am

Firbog

Grand Fromage · Post by **Grand Fromage** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 6:05 am

Githzerai and Borg.

Rusty · Post by **Rusty** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 10:02 am

Treants.

Dorn · Post by **Dorn** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 10:17 am

Avariel - although the thought of people walking around with wings is....concerning.

Dragonblood - not the red dragon disciples. See note about wings above.

mr duncan · Post by **mr duncan** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 10:49 am

Only the races offered as player races, not the "you can play this monster race with this ECL as an optional rule"

This means only the ones we have already, and Gensai.

Rusty · Post by **Rusty** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 4:57 pm

LA races, of all kinds, are a complete PITA, for DMs, builders, scripters, gameworld balance, and other players.

Of those not provided for, as mr d notes, only Genasi realistically have some credence as a player race in ALFA, certainly at this point in time.

However, if you have the kind of coding ability to make extra races, there are definitely other areas that ALFA would love to use your expertise, such as editing/developing Feats, Spells, and PrCs. I'd recommend PMing cipher and asking if he has any specific needs.

HATEFACE · Post by **HATEFACE** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 4:04 am

Even though it's highly unlikely this will ever happan. I'll say what races I'd like to see.
--Dwarves--
Dwarf, wild
Dwarf, arctic.
--Elves--
Elf, Green -aka wild elf.
Fey'ri
--Gnomes--
Gnome, forest.
--Half-Elf--
Half-Drow
--Half-Orc--
Orog
--Human--
All Genasai
--Tiefling--
Fey'ri -Maybe a tiefling subrace.
--Aasimar--

That's probably it. - Though I'd rather that these subraces are avialable only through application process so DMs know who are playing what and that they're not runnin amock whilly-nilly.

Swift · Post by **Swift** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 4:10 am

Helios wrote:That's probably it. - Though I'd rather that these subraces are avialable only through application process so DMs know who are playing what and that they're not runnin amock whilly-nilly.

We would need a better system IMO. Any application system would be fraught with distrust and favouritism calls whenever someone gets turned down but someone else gets approved for the same thing.

Cynon · Post by **Cynon** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 1:23 pm

I'd love to see pure blood orcs. Orcs have become my thing of late. Playing a half orc is fine but for those half-orc players who lean towards the orcish, we all know playing a total Orc would be far more fun.

Awsome site here with loads of stuff about Orc breeds, classes, prestige classes, feats, etc etc:
http://www.orcs.ca/

I'm well bent on getting a half-orc faction organised. It would be nice if there was a possibility of having pure blood orcs as PC's as well as NPCs but obviously that depends on whether people understand the weight of playing a pure blood orc would be similar to playing a drow. Up on the surface and to a certain degree down in the underdark you can't just walk about the town like a half orc does.

Infact I think pureblood Orcs would really have to worry about being KoS, so if ALFA doesn't want a true KoS race walking about then this might be a bad idea.

It would be nice to have a poll perhaps to see how many people would actually consider playing a pureblood Orc if there was a well organised faction in ALFA.

[Edit] Oh yes and Half-dwarves