I love making races and need more Ideas. I've made a handful already which you will find by searching my name in the homebrew. Anyone have any good Ideas? Any Requests?
I think it would be cool to include more construct based ideas, like the modrons, were the ranks could be represented in a leveling system similar to spells
I think you should look into mythological creatures if you wanna go down that rabbit hole there’s pretty much endless amounts of inspiration to be found hope this helps
You can also just look at the monster manual and go "what if there was a playable race like this?" I made a skeletel race called Fajr when i wanted a "skeleton" race. Made them grow by eating sediment to supplement their diet, and they are basically "bones" with organs and some muscles, but not crazy tons. They look like skeletons, but are a sentient race that uses their undead appearance to frighten other beings and protect their squishy insides. Basically what i want to point out with this example is take a monster, figure out what would make them acceptable in civilization among others, and then fit them with racial abilities and make them human-like. Hope this helps!
A race of insectoids which communicate with psionic, as they are unable to speak normally due to their physiology. The males of the species are a very artistic race, and can produce a quickly hardening substance from a gland in their mouth which can be colored with pigments. They use this for constructing statues, architecture, murals, stained not-glass windows, and many other things. The females of the species are very different. They have no cement-spit producing gland, and instead have a very different trait. They never stop growing as they age, and gain great size and strength in exchange for a lot of manual dexterity in their later years of age. Some of the very oldest ones are even capable of carrying a very small house on their back!
(btw I did not steal the idea for the males of this race from the khepri of China Mieville's books, I came up with it long before I heard of Bas-Lag.)
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Yeah, bug people are an idea that interests me. But when I think bug people, I think of the ones in Hollow Knight.
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Devious serpent folk devoid of compassion, yuan-ti manipulate other creatures by arousing their doubts, evoking their fears, and elevating and crushing their hopes. From remote temples in jungles, swamps, and deserts, the yuan-ti plot to supplant and dominate all other races and to make themselves gods.
I would just look at the monster manual and take a couple of the features from random different creatures. Than take something like give it spell casting and create it's opinions on other races and some. Then think about what they're personality is right. You can't go wrong with taking the features from all other creatures and then mashing them together!
Racoon race kind of like Rocket from Guardians of the Galaxy. They'd probably make good rogues. They could come with slight of hand skill and climbing speed (racoons are good climbers).
Racoon race kind of like Rocket from Guardians of the Galaxy. They'd probably make good rogues. They could come with slight of hand skill and climbing speed (racoons are good climbers).
There is a raccoon race from Helena’s guide to monster hunting. It’s a home brew book but it does have physical copies
The race you are looking for is called the Rakin from it and it is a pretty cool race. One of my players is using it and I love how they portray it so far :D
I love making races and need more Ideas. I've made a handful already which you will find by searching my name in the homebrew. Anyone have any good Ideas? Any Requests?
I think it would be cool to include more construct based ideas, like the modrons, were the ranks could be represented in a leveling system similar to spells
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I'll look into that
I think you should look into mythological creatures if you wanna go down that rabbit hole there’s pretty much endless amounts of inspiration to be found hope this helps
You can also just look at the monster manual and go "what if there was a playable race like this?" I made a skeletel race called Fajr when i wanted a "skeleton" race. Made them grow by eating sediment to supplement their diet, and they are basically "bones" with organs and some muscles, but not crazy tons. They look like skeletons, but are a sentient race that uses their undead appearance to frighten other beings and protect their squishy insides. Basically what i want to point out with this example is take a monster, figure out what would make them acceptable in civilization among others, and then fit them with racial abilities and make them human-like. Hope this helps!
A race of insectoids which communicate with psionic, as they are unable to speak normally due to their physiology. The males of the species are a very artistic race, and can produce a quickly hardening substance from a gland in their mouth which can be colored with pigments. They use this for constructing statues, architecture, murals, stained not-glass windows, and many other things. The females of the species are very different. They have no cement-spit producing gland, and instead have a very different trait. They never stop growing as they age, and gain great size and strength in exchange for a lot of manual dexterity in their later years of age. Some of the very oldest ones are even capable of carrying a very small house on their back!
(btw I did not steal the idea for the males of this race from the khepri of China Mieville's books, I came up with it long before I heard of Bas-Lag.)
"Ignorance is bliss, and you look absolutely miserable."
Yeah, bug people are an idea that interests me. But when I think bug people, I think of the ones in Hollow Knight.
Devious serpent folk devoid of compassion, yuan-ti manipulate other creatures by arousing their doubts, evoking their fears, and elevating and crushing their hopes. From remote temples in jungles, swamps, and deserts, the yuan-ti plot to supplant and dominate all other races and to make themselves gods.
thx guys
I would just look at the monster manual and take a couple of the features from random different creatures. Than take something like give it spell casting and create it's opinions on other races and some. Then think about what they're personality is right. You can't go wrong with taking the features from all other creatures and then mashing them together!
A SpongeBob kind of race
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"Ignorance is bliss, and you look absolutely miserable."
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Make a snail race! Snails are cool!
Edit: actually I made one already
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I like the snail idea a lot.
I recently made a mousling. It was a cool race I created for a futuristic campaign
Racoon race kind of like Rocket from Guardians of the Galaxy. They'd probably make good rogues. They could come with slight of hand skill and climbing speed (racoons are good climbers).
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There is a raccoon race from Helena’s guide to monster hunting. It’s a home brew book but it does have physical copies
The race you are looking for is called the Rakin from it and it is a pretty cool race. One of my players is using it and I love how they portray it so far :D
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A humanoid shark race. We already have like four aquatic races, and like three of them are elves. Just add a bite attack. Please.
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Here is a weird one. A fey humanoid Rhinoceros beetle.
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Some kind of Fungus folk maybe ?
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I'm in a Witchlight campaign where a halfling is reskinned as a mushroom man. :)
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