Sup/tg/, what non-standard races do you guys use in your campaigns?I'm thinking of running a hindu mythology campaign and making a bunch of mythological races into player races. Stuff like asparas, asuras, yakshas, maruts, vanaras, rakshasas, etc.You guys ever done something this? Completely replace traditional fantasy with something different?
>>97946148What game?
>>97946148Traditional fantasy is the faculty or activity of imagining things, especially things that are impossible or improbable, so there is no replacing it with something different; not that people haven't tried.Anyway, it isn't typically a good look when someone says they're thinking about eating shit, and your own expressed intent isn't too far off from that.If you're going to do something, just do it, don't be a worthless "ideas guy" who just always blathers on about what new idea he got, but never does anything with them ever.
>>97946722What do you think? 5E of course.>>97946732>don't discuss ideas you have until after you implement themFuck off.
>5efagThat tells us everything we need to know.
>>97946953>noooooooooo you can't play the most popular system! Y-you just can't... okay!
>>97946722DND
What's the purpose of fantasy races?
>>97947676Give plausible deniability for peoples racists instincts by giving them fictional equivalents to be racist about.
>>97946777Honestly, and with the greatest sincerity.Try Mythras instead.It will make the Kundalini serpent ascend your root chakra, if you know what 'm sayin'.
>>97947684That's why the truly based play 18th century colonial wargames and rotate sides at the battle of Islwanda.It's just as well Impis are fun to paint; you're gonna need "Zulus, thousands of 'em"
>>97947742I mean I'm open but 5e is what I know, it is really so much better that I should make the effort to switch?
>>97947756Open up any book based on BRP, which is what Mythras is.At a glance, you will understand that the system is based on percentiles out of a hundred.A skill at a hundred percent is presumed to always succeed in "optimal" "unnoposed" circumstances, but can be reduced by malus or opposed skill checks.Basically, if you can count to a hundred, you can play Mythras, or any other BRP system like call of Ch'thulhu or Runequest.It's modular, and easier to learn, read and teach than D&D, as well as easier to generate custom content for practically off the cuff; an NPC stat block can essentially be shat out on the spot with a standard racial stat profile and hitting the broad benchmarks for an expected standard of competence in a handful of key skills, and throwing in a cult spell from whatever religion they practice or whatever.However, the feel of the game is very different; characters stats normally don't grow intrinsically from advancement, but their skills develop, and you can gain extrinsic stat bonuses by magic, reward, divine blessing or plot contrivance or whatever.Also, Runequest has no hard barrier between what is a "Player race" and what is a "Creature"; the main difference is just thematic resources and official support; player characters and creatures essentially operate on the same system, so you can use BRP games to play whatever the fuck you like.Classless too, as you might intuit.>So you wanna be a fisherman>Roll your stats>Select from the pool of fisherman relevant skills, raise them to a level of adequate competence for a starting character>Select a few more misc skills just for fun and flavour>Character advances by using skills and gaining percentages on the skills they exercise during sessions.So much less hassle.If people who play other games talk down to you, it's because you're in a sort of Plato's Cave scenario; D&D's market share is mostly down to history and marketing, rather than being the easiest or best game.
>>97947202>nooooo cigarettes are the most popular stress relief! That means there's nothing wrong with them... okay?
>>97948374>cigarettes are the most popular stress reliefIt's not 1950 anymore grandpa.Why don't you just keel over already and make some room for the rest of us?
>>97948374>>97948507It's gooning desu.>SourceI just know.
>>97946148>running a hindu mythology campaignNot technically hindu but this will definitely fit
>>97946148A race based off of Mothman could be pretty cool, same for a Sasquatch race. Besides cryptids like them, what are some less popular creatures and beings from mythology and folklore that might make good fantasy races besides a certain race that has no head and a torso face, the dog-headed ones, and those guys with only one leg?
>>97948643Mothman and generally modern uban myths are cool and people should use them more (in horror if not fantasy), but he shouldn't be a race.
>>97948643Wendigo
>>97948643I've been wanting to do a new age fantasy campaign for ages. Grey and reptillian aliens are a must for that sorta thing
>>97946148There are no standard races, so there can't be any non standard races.
>>97947202Correct. You may not.
>>97951067>There are no standard racesCome on now, you know this is untrue. Human, dwarf, elf, dark elf, orc, halfling, gnome, etc. Don't play dumb, you know damn well what makes up the standard canon of fantasy races.
>>97946148Harpies
>>97951337>standard canon of fantasy racesD&D isn't the entirety of all potential and created fantasy.
>>97946148It depends on what setting I run. I tend to make new settings for every game. I tend to avoid the "standard" fantasy races, but it really depends on what my brain thinks "fits" into the setting.That being said of my last 4 fantasy games, 2 were published worlds , one was urban fantasy and one was pure fantasy. The UF I used humans, vampires, a shifter type, ghouls and Mara (think nightmare hags).For the pure Fantasy I used no standard races with humans being extinct. I had a felborn(kinda tiefling like), harpies, drakes, gotebruts(a minotaur like race), a felborn/harpy hybrid, and a cat like race
>>97946148What about ways or tips to put new spins on fantasy races while still keeping them recognizable? Like, maybe elves are still tied to nature but have scars and a berserker streak instead of being archery focused.
>>97951971>What about ways or tips to put new spins on [D&D] racesShoving a rusty fork up your ass would be a good start.
>>97951337OP said "in your campaign". There are no standard races in my campaign. Like I said.Dumbass.
>>97951971Every elf has a scar? What, are they born with them?
