Anyone have any interesting races they've created for their games. I am currently developing a sub-race for the Dragonborn. Part of the world I created in just water and I wanted to have two unique races to that world. One being the Dragon Turtles and the other being a race of crustaceans. I have artwork for both, now its time to create the stats.
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Currently running a campaign in my home-brewed world of Avaris.
This back cover has (most of) the 14 new races in Mists of Akuma.
Three types of Humans:soburi (imbued with magic or martial talent), ceramian (naturally inclined to technology), and ropaeo (born socialites).
Bakemono: strange oni-kin born from the congealed essence of insects that died in the Mists of Akuma (konchū, kumogatarui, or mure subraces).
Enjin: physically powerful ape-people from the once vast jungles of southern Soburin.
Hengeyokai: magical humanoids able to shift from their hybrid bodies into both animal or human forms. Subraces include Inu (Dog), Kitsune (Fox), Kumo (Spider), Kurēn (Crane), Monkī (Monkey), Neko (Cat), and Ratto (Rat) (and some secret ones for badgers/weasels/carp/rabbits).
Kappa: long-lived shelled reptilian humanoids.
Mutants: surviving a journey from across the Great Divide and warped by the energies unleashed by the War of Kaiyo.
Necroji: abominable undead soldiers crafted by Ropaeo necroscientists.
Oni-Touched: offspring of humans that have been tainted by the Mists of Akuma.
Psonorous: also from across the Great Divide, these humanoids were made physically weaker by the apocalyptic fallout there but received mental powers in return.
Pyon: frog people hailing from the swamps and bogs of Soburin.
Shikome: the brutish result of animals and beasts that fall to the corruption of the Mists of Akuma (blessed and cursed subraces).
Steametic: artificial humanoids made of metal and crafted by the engineers of fallen Ceramia.
Tanuki: squirrel-like humanoids from Soburin's forests.
Tengu: birdmen that live in the cold mountain reaches.
Umibo: a mysterious race of extremely long lived elemental humanoids infused with the essence of water.
I made some new ones for 2099 Wasteland as well but they get real weird (androids, smart zombies, aliens).
Have fun with the stats! Whenever I do a dragon race I try to have lots of cool subtypes -- you should dig around in non-western mythology for neat dragons and consider sub-racing them that way (as opposed to the traditional gold/red/etc. of dragonborn or even the elemental distinctions of eastern dragons).
Check out free PDFs for my designs (cyberpunk superheroic D&D 5E, eastern fantasy noir steampunk D&D 5E, and post-apocalyptic D&D 5E!) at https://mikemyler.com/ !
I recently created one for the Thri-Kreen! A praying mantis species that are commonly found in Red Sun, still developing so if you have any suggestions let me know!
Your Thri-Kreen character has a set of unique and uncommon abilities, due to their instinctual knowledge of such skills passed down from their ancestors.
Ability Score Increase. Your Dexterity score increases by 2, and your Wisdom score increases by 1.
Age. Thri-Kreen mature incredibly fast, reaching adulthood at 5 years. As a result of this, it is uncommon for them to live close to 30.
Alignment. Most Thri-Kreen are choatic, as they live as people of the land, acting only for their benefit, and the benefit of the clutch. Thri-Kreen are almost entirely neutral, caring only about members of their clutch. Their language makes it near impossible for outsiders to determine any definable personality or strong emotions.
Size. Thri-kreen can stand from 4 to 7 feet tall, weighing between 100 and 380 pounds. Your size is Medium
Speed. Your base walking speed is 35 feet.
Darkvision. Due to the insectoid ancestry of Thri-Kreen, you have mastered the ability to hunt in dark conditions, you are able to see in dim light out to 60 feet as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can't discern colours in darkness, only shades of grey.
Multi-Limbed. Thri-Kreen are well known for their four armed nature. Given this, you have the ability to wield double-handed weapons in one set of arms and have one shield equipped simultaneously, granting you the versatile use of these weapons as a result. Additionally, you can cast spells that require somatic components while wielding weapons, and can play instruments with all four hands. As well as carry four different items at once with ease. This fact also means that armour for Thri-Kreen must be specially made, and is triple the regular price.
Chameleon Armour. Thri-Kreen have inbuilt abilities that allow them to disguise their carapace, becoming one with the environment surrounding them. You have advantage on all Stealth checks made in desert or forested regions.
Martial Masters. As a Thri-Kreen, you have proficiency in gythkas and chatkchas.
Sleepless Beings. Thri-Kreen do not require sleep, only needing to rest while performing light activities and remaining alert for 4 hours. This grants you the same benefits as a long rest.
Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and Thri-Kreen. Thri-Kreen is a fast, sharp language with a series of odd clicks and whistle sounds embedded in it. This carries over into other languages Thri-Kreen speak, which gives them a very strange and outlandish image in the eyes of others.
Hengeyokai: magical humanoids able to shift from their hybrid bodies into both animal or human forms. Subraces include Inu (Dog), Kitsune (Fox), Kumo (Spider), Kurēn (Crane), Monkī (Monkey), Neko (Cat), and Ratto (Rat) (and some secret ones for badgers/weasels/carp/rabbits).
Shouldn't the Crane be Tsuru, the Monkey Saru and the Rat Nezumi?
On-topic, I've recently started work on a Psionic race, whose shtick is that they create a beast (that uses their action, like the origianl beast master ranger) to attack for them, that use the Psi points as HP.
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Hengeyokai: magical humanoids able to shift from their hybrid bodies into both animal or human forms. Subraces include Inu (Dog), Kitsune (Fox), Kumo (Spider), Kurēn (Crane), Monkī (Monkey), Neko (Cat), and Ratto (Rat) (and some secret ones for badgers/weasels/carp/rabbits).
Shouldn't the Crane be Tsuru, the Monkey Saru and the Rat Nezumi?
On-topic, I've recently started work on a Psionic race, whose shtick is that they create a beast (that uses their action, like the origianl beast master ranger) to attack for them, that use the Psi points as HP.
We originally had the monkey as Saru but somewhere in playtesting a KS backer convinced me to change it around (there were several name changes, most notably the city "Chikan" ~.~) but as far as I can tell (and I do not know Japanese so that's not terrifically far) kuren is crane. I avoided nezumi because I didn't want people to confuse MoA with Rokugan (eventually there'll be a races-only thing so down the line might've been problematic) but also I like how "ratto" sounds. :D
The original rules for the human subraces, shikome (hobgoblins), and tanuki are in the (free) primer here (there have been tweaks but nothing major for those).
Psi-beast race sounds neat! I've made a hell of a lot of races but never thought to have any with a psi-best buddy. Is it A Boy and His Blob kind of thing (I'm polishing up an EN5ider article with a sorcerer archetype not unlike that) or is it a conjured creature?
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We originally had the monkey as Saru but somewhere in playtesting a KS backer convinced me to change it around (there were several name changes, most notably the city "Chikan" ~.~) but as far as I can tell (and I do not know Japanese so that's not terrifically far) kuren is crane. I avoided nezumi because I didn't want people to confuse MoA with Rokugan (eventually there'll be a races-only thing so down the line might've been problematic) but also I like how "ratto" sounds. :D
The original rules for the human subraces, shikome (hobgoblins), and tanuki are in the (free) primer here (there have been tweaks but nothing major for those).
Psi-beast race sounds neat! I've made a hell of a lot of races but never thought to have any with a psi-best buddy. Is it A Boy and His Blob kind of thing (I'm polishing up an EN5ider article with a sorcerer archetype not unlike that) or is it a conjured creature?
Better to go from English, rather than to English. That site provides 3 translations (though Kijuuki refers to the machine, not the bird, from what I can tell). This source indicates that kuren is referring to the machine, and my Japanese friend just told me that they would refer to the bird as tsuru. Of course, that is your product, so call them what you want - I was just wondering why those choices were made. (My understanding of the language comes from the 4, approaching 5, years of high school Japanese (from grade 8 to 12)).
It is more like a conjured creature. I haven't nailed down whether to use existing animals, or to make one specifically for this race (whose name is currently up in the air). I am also working on expanding the options for dragonborn, and have a few ideas floating around for other races.
Better to go from English, rather than to English. That site provides 3 translations (though Kijuuki refers to the machine, not the bird, from what I can tell). This source indicates that kuren is referring to the machine, and my Japanese friend just told me that they would refer to the bird as tsuru. Of course, that is your product, so call them what you want - I was just wondering why those choices were made. (My understanding of the language comes from the 4, approaching 5, years of high school Japanese (from grade 8 to 12)).
It is more like a conjured creature. I haven't nailed down whether to use existing animals, or to make one specifically for this race (whose name is currently up in the air). I am also working on expanding the options for dragonborn, and have a few ideas floating around for other races.
I have apparently reached the viewing limits for that book, but I believe you -- Japanese is a strange language and lots of things can have more than one meaning. After the city of Chikan thing we didn't want to take any chances though so we had an emigrated cultural studies professor in Japan (and his students) go through the copy looking for anything that was culturally incorrect, mistranslated, or otherwise needed to be changed so as not to be offensive (he loved it and said that most of the class is picking up a copy so if nothing else, about 30 Japanese people and their American teacher believe we were mostly accurate in the writing. :D)
When I don't go for a beast companion, I reference the Homonculus and modify its abilities as necessary -- maybe take a shot at that (although psionic beasties have plenty of art and you may find something that deserves its own stat block ;) )
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I have a few; my main setting has ten races, but I don't know how many would be playable if I sat down and worked out stats.
They are, from left to right:
Humans - The most magically powerful and physically enduring race.
Maize-Cutters - The "shadow culture" that lives in the wild places set aside for them by the human nations. Referred to as "little siblings."
Phoonkt - Live in the depths of the ocean, consider surface-people horrific Lovecraftian terrors.
Iokyu - Patches of shadow that attach to cultural meaning like it's gravity and can only interact with the physical world through inhabited hosts.
Sky People - Mysterious people who live in the world within the clouds and use thunder-wings and glowing white disks to fly about. They trade their precious cloud-metal with the ground races.
Genesis - Demon space virus that infects you more the more you know about the culture they came from.
Yeeneegalessdee/The Language - Intelligent, self-observing communication method that lives in the noosphere/Sea of Memetics.
Golems - FANTASTIC METAL MEN!
The Seventh Race - Giant bdelloid rotifers that can breed with anything.
I would post more info but I'm AFB at the moment >_>
Got another setting I'm working on and that one has two types of human, mutants, giant cockroaches, and the skinnies, who are not-elves-I-swear with lichen-covered skin and druidic powers, and I'm contemplating adding nano-colony robots of a form or another.
I'm making a spider folk race called anara, and they are really good, check out my warm up race called tuli!! I might also make a moth folk race, it'll be epic!!
I just publish my first homebrew race in d&d beyond that I intent to use in my ongoing campaing. It's called Urcuchillan, and it's inspired in the Inca deitie Urcuchillay, protector of herds and provider of prosperity, described as an humanoid llama. Of course it's not historically accurated, I have implemented some "actual issues" and I'm not an expert historian but I guess fantasy allows me to do that.
I wish you can check it out and give me a feedback those of you who don't mind. I appologize for english mistakes but **** that language colonization, right?!
If any andean check this, I really hope a honest feedback for you.
Ps.: I also have illustrated it. If you like it, you're all allowed to use the homebrew content (of course) but not to use my art for personal or comercial purpose (of course...).
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Anyone have any interesting races they've created for their games. I am currently developing a sub-race for the Dragonborn. Part of the world I created in just water and I wanted to have two unique races to that world. One being the Dragon Turtles and the other being a race of crustaceans. I have artwork for both, now its time to create the stats.
Illustrator and Dungeon Master.
Currently running a campaign in my home-brewed world of Avaris.
This back cover has (most of) the 14 new races in Mists of Akuma.
I made some new ones for 2099 Wasteland as well but they get real weird (androids, smart zombies, aliens).
Have fun with the stats! Whenever I do a dragon race I try to have lots of cool subtypes -- you should dig around in non-western mythology for neat dragons and consider sub-racing them that way (as opposed to the traditional gold/red/etc. of dragonborn or even the elemental distinctions of eastern dragons).
Check out free PDFs for my designs (cyberpunk superheroic D&D 5E, eastern fantasy noir steampunk D&D 5E, and post-apocalyptic D&D 5E!) at https://mikemyler.com/ !
I recently created one for the Thri-Kreen! A praying mantis species that are commonly found in Red Sun, still developing so if you have any suggestions let me know!
http://homebrewery.naturalcrit.com/share/rJQEiRBQig
Traits for the lazy;
Your Thri-Kreen character has a set of unique and uncommon abilities, due to their instinctual knowledge of such skills passed down from their ancestors.
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Check out free PDFs for my designs (cyberpunk superheroic D&D 5E, eastern fantasy noir steampunk D&D 5E, and post-apocalyptic D&D 5E!) at https://mikemyler.com/ !
I have a few; my main setting has ten races, but I don't know how many would be playable if I sat down and worked out stats.
They are, from left to right:
Humans - The most magically powerful and physically enduring race.
Maize-Cutters - The "shadow culture" that lives in the wild places set aside for them by the human nations. Referred to as "little siblings."
Phoonkt - Live in the depths of the ocean, consider surface-people horrific Lovecraftian terrors.
Iokyu - Patches of shadow that attach to cultural meaning like it's gravity and can only interact with the physical world through inhabited hosts.
Sky People - Mysterious people who live in the world within the clouds and use thunder-wings and glowing white disks to fly about. They trade their precious cloud-metal with the ground races.
Genesis - Demon space virus that infects you more the more you know about the culture they came from.
Narhoojai - Psychic shapeshifting underground-dwelling pterosaurs.
Yeeneegalessdee/The Language - Intelligent, self-observing communication method that lives in the noosphere/Sea of Memetics.
Golems - FANTASTIC METAL MEN!
The Seventh Race - Giant bdelloid rotifers that can breed with anything.
I would post more info but I'm AFB at the moment >_>
Got another setting I'm working on and that one has two types of human, mutants, giant cockroaches, and the skinnies, who are not-elves-I-swear with lichen-covered skin and druidic powers, and I'm contemplating adding nano-colony robots of a form or another.
I'm making a spider folk race called anara, and they are really good, check out my warm up race called tuli!! I might also make a moth folk race, it'll be epic!!
when your done can you release the stats? i really love the designs
Hey everyone,
I just publish my first homebrew race in d&d beyond that I intent to use in my ongoing campaing. It's called Urcuchillan, and it's inspired in the Inca deitie Urcuchillay, protector of herds and provider of prosperity, described as an humanoid llama. Of course it's not historically accurated, I have implemented some "actual issues" and I'm not an expert historian but I guess fantasy allows me to do that.
I wish you can check it out and give me a feedback those of you who don't mind. I appologize for english mistakes but **** that language colonization, right?!
If any andean check this, I really hope a honest feedback for you.
Ps.: I also have illustrated it. If you like it, you're all allowed to use the homebrew content (of course) but not to use my art for personal or comercial purpose (of course...).