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| Topic Started: Jan 8 2007, 11:37 AM (1,095 Views) | |
| Nag Ehgoeg | Jan 9 2007, 03:51 PM Post #26 |
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Furling. But I'm not adversed to Pooka... or Nox.
Slann. Orochi-bito. Unas.
Valdaermen. Fenri. Titans and Hunters also good. Not orginal ideas, I know. |
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| Quaon | Jan 9 2007, 04:06 PM Post #27 |
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Just so you know, my idea is ripped off from Rich Burlew. However, I really want to play that race. |
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| Noriega | Jan 9 2007, 08:07 PM Post #28 |
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How about we don't limit the races to three? If someone wants all of E's ideas, but Q still wants to play with his "Chinese", why not let him? Of course, we would have to submit our customized races for group approval to avoid someone coming up with an uber-race that flies, shoots lazers out of its eyes, and is invincible. |
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| Quaon | Jan 9 2007, 08:09 PM Post #29 |
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Good idea. |
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| East Anarx | Jan 9 2007, 11:22 PM Post #30 |
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Alright, I'm gonna be a dictator for a moment and limit the races to 5 absolutely maximum though. We can vote on which five exactly later, but for now, let's keep brainstorming, it can't hurt to think about this a little longer before we make up our minds. EDIT: and just for the record, I like your idea for a race too Q. ^_^ |
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| New Harumf | Jan 10 2007, 09:06 AM Post #31 |
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I would like to see a species of sentient and mobile plants. They would have no eyes, ears, faces, and would essecientially be bushy plants, green and cloroform-based, CO2 breathing, Oxigen-exhaling, able to move on their roots, but able to place their roots into microscopic fissures in rock and smash, move, distroy, and even build in this manner. They would communicate through touch, so if a group had branches and/or roots or leaves touching, they could think as a unit (i.e., a forest that could move, build, think, wage war, etc.) They would be the plant equvilent of humans, evolutionarily speaking. I would call them Florans |
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| Al Araam | Jan 10 2007, 09:50 AM Post #32 |
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I like these Florans. Sentient plants. :wub: |
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| Quaon | Jan 10 2007, 04:09 PM Post #33 |
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Why? What's the point? |
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| East Anarx | Jan 10 2007, 06:54 PM Post #34 |
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Does it matter what the point is? I came up with the idea for this, and I don't really want dozens of races, period. If you don't like it and want a game with tons of different races, then go ahead and make your own in a different thread. 5 races. That way we will be sure to put plenty of thought into a race before we just decide to let it exist. |
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| Abnar | Jan 10 2007, 07:14 PM Post #35 |
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This sounds extremely nifty. I had a race in mind, kinda like your traditional elves/gnomes, but not as medieval-fantasy-like. They're kinda short, with pointy features, a little hyper, more intelligent, big on machinery, and like flamboyant clothes. They're not a completely different race from humans, just a kind of genetic split a while back. I like Q's idea, for a race, and the Florans, and Slann seems like a good name for those lizard-people. Oh, also, what kind of time-setting would we be playing? |
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| Noriega | Jan 10 2007, 07:42 PM Post #36 |
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As long as we have humans, this is acceptable, out of complacency. But really, there is no good reason to limit races at all. That being said, your RP, your rules. |
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| East Anarx | Jan 10 2007, 07:47 PM Post #37 |
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True, though the odds of any more than 5 parallel species evolving sapience on a planet get thinner and thinner. Actually, 5 is already pushing it, but realism isn't that important. 5 is a good number. Period. |
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| Quaon | Jan 10 2007, 07:49 PM Post #38 |
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Can we have 5 + humans? |
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| East Anarx | Jan 10 2007, 08:01 PM Post #39 |
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No. Actually, none of them are going to be explicitly human. I mean, the viking norse guys are going to be very similar to humans, just much bigger, and so are your "chinese", just smaller and different in other ways too. But no pure human race. As for Abnar's question about the time-setting. It will be in four phases. The first will be fairly primitive. The second somewhere around medieval. The third modern. And the fourth will be future. |
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| Noriega | Jan 10 2007, 08:17 PM Post #40 |
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Then I am going to use the Viking race. |
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| East Anarx | Jan 10 2007, 08:24 PM Post #41 |
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So am I. You can read about them as I've just updated the front page with two races, the viking ones and the Florans. |
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| Quaon | Jan 10 2007, 08:31 PM Post #42 |
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What about mine? They don't have an official name-I'll devolp that at stage 2. But for now call them the Traders, the Travellers, or the Islanders. |
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| Rhadamanthus | Jan 10 2007, 08:31 PM Post #43 |
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To add to what E was saying, any sort of balance dynamic grows more and more difficult the more races one adds. Limiting the number of races is good in order to reduce unnecessary complication. I fully support E's decision to limit the races. |
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| East Anarx | Jan 10 2007, 08:36 PM Post #44 |
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They won't be the only ones that live on islands, you know. They may be called that or "Traders" or something by other races that don't communicate with them regularly, but they need a name they use to refer to themselves collectively as a race. Something chinese or oriental in origin perhaps? Any name's fine with me though, they're your race, Q. |
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| Quaon | Jan 10 2007, 08:38 PM Post #45 |
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I know, but I want them to stay on their islands, away from the people. Perhaps the Zugwai? |
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| East Anarx | Jan 10 2007, 08:39 PM Post #46 |
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Sure, I'll be sure to make a note of them being very isolationist when I write about them. Zugwai sounds fine to me. Until you come up with something you like better, I'll make a profile for them as Zugwai. |
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| East Anarx | Jan 10 2007, 09:18 PM Post #47 |
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By the way, the technology referred to in the race profiles refers specifically to their technology during the second phase. |
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| Abnar | Jan 11 2007, 07:48 AM Post #48 |
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Got a name for my race: Zidd. Can we add them to the list? |
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| New Harumf | Jan 11 2007, 08:27 AM Post #49 |
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Well, I am definately going with the Florans. I see that as a real challenge. |
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| East Anarx | Jan 11 2007, 08:28 AM Post #50 |
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Races competing for the last two spots: Zidd- what abnar was talking about Furling (or whatever we're gonna call them)- the rabbit creatures Slann (or whatever we're gonna call them)- the salamander ones I think that's it. What do you guys think? |
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