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Tetsubo
Mar 29, 2015, 10:04:56 AM3/29/15
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This is a two pronged question.
1) What is the most unusual setting race you've seen or used?
2) What is the most unusual individual character by race?
Personally:
1) There is a race in Oathbound that is essentially a sea jelly, that
might be the most unusual I've encountered. Used? The eleti, a race of
sapient animated skeletons.
2) Immature dragon perhaps. A number of lycanthropes I know.
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1) What is the most unusual setting race you've seen or used?
2) What is the most unusual individual character by race?
Personally:
1) There is a race in Oathbound that is essentially a sea jelly, that
might be the most unusual I've encountered. Used? The eleti, a race of
sapient animated skeletons.
2) Immature dragon perhaps. A number of lycanthropes I know.
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Tetsubo
Deviant Art: http://ironstaff.deviantart.com/
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/tetsubo57
Joanna Rowland Stuart
Mar 29, 2015, 6:01:59 PM3/29/15
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In article <mf90oj$igm$4...@dont-email.me>, tet...@comcast.net (Tetsubo)
wrote:
> This is a two pronged question.
>
> 1) What is the most unusual setting race you've seen or used?
>
> 2) What is the most unusual individual character by race?
1) Modrons and other similar constructs
2) Modrons etc, half-breed dragons (e.g. brass/copper,
gold/blue), half-vampire non-humans.
Cheers
JOanna
wrote:
> This is a two pronged question.
>
> 1) What is the most unusual setting race you've seen or used?
>
> 2) What is the most unusual individual character by race?
2) Modrons etc, half-breed dragons (e.g. brass/copper,
gold/blue), half-vampire non-humans.
Cheers
JOanna
Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)
Mar 29, 2015, 11:27:17 PM3/29/15
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On 3/29/15 10:05 AM, Tetsubo wrote:
> This is a two pronged question.
>
> 1) What is the most unusual setting race you've seen or used?
>
I had the Phandelumes, shapeshifting blobs which ate magical gems to
> This is a two pronged question.
>
> 1) What is the most unusual setting race you've seen or used?
>
maintain their powers. They were pretty strange.
> 2) What is the most unusual individual character by race?
automaton that the other players dubbed "Beachball from hell!" might be
one. Another player who was playing (literally) the Archangel Michael in
a space opera campaign. The half-life elemental were-phoenix.
Really, I couldn't begin to choose.
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Spalls Hurgenson
Mar 30, 2015, 9:48:33 AM3/30/15
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On Sun, 29 Mar 2015 10:05:00 -0400, Tetsubo <tet...@comcast.net>
wrote:
> This is a two pronged question.
>
> 1) What is the most unusual setting race you've seen or used?
>
> 2) What is the most unusual individual character by race?
Perhaps not the most unusual race, but certainly memorable, was a
character used by one of my players:
It was a custom-race/class, a being so unique it never was really
given a name. Essentially, it was a created thing, an artificial
life-form created by a god as the holy assassin, a self-guiding weapon
launched in an act of vengeance. It looked mostly human, but on closer
inspection everything about it was just /slightly/ out of proportion.
Under its skin, it had chitinous exoskeleton, which became obvious
after battle. It was a fierce unarmed melee fighter but couldn't use
any ranged weapons (or any weapons at all, for that matter). It had a
low natural armor class, magic resistance, and a ton of hitpoints. It
was basically death on the battlefield and few creatures could stand
toe-to-toe with it. Its major disadvantages were role-playing based;
it had to EAT any enemy it killed, and absolutely could not abide any
lawbreaking or offense to its god. These latter issues caused as many
problems for it (and the party!) as its awesome fighting ability
solved.
Alas, the character's story-arc - involving a wizard who had stolen
something from its god that the character had to recover - was never
played to completion as the player dropped out after a few months due
to personal issues. It was probably for the best though, as it was
severely overpowered and its arc overshadowed the rest of the group.
The character was never intended to be a permanent addition anyway,
just something to spice up the group until its quest was complete (at
which point it would be "deactivated" by the god until needed again).
wrote:
> This is a two pronged question.
>
> 1) What is the most unusual setting race you've seen or used?
>
> 2) What is the most unusual individual character by race?
character used by one of my players:
It was a custom-race/class, a being so unique it never was really
given a name. Essentially, it was a created thing, an artificial
life-form created by a god as the holy assassin, a self-guiding weapon
launched in an act of vengeance. It looked mostly human, but on closer
inspection everything about it was just /slightly/ out of proportion.
Under its skin, it had chitinous exoskeleton, which became obvious
after battle. It was a fierce unarmed melee fighter but couldn't use
any ranged weapons (or any weapons at all, for that matter). It had a
low natural armor class, magic resistance, and a ton of hitpoints. It
was basically death on the battlefield and few creatures could stand
toe-to-toe with it. Its major disadvantages were role-playing based;
it had to EAT any enemy it killed, and absolutely could not abide any
lawbreaking or offense to its god. These latter issues caused as many
problems for it (and the party!) as its awesome fighting ability
solved.
Alas, the character's story-arc - involving a wizard who had stolen
something from its god that the character had to recover - was never
played to completion as the player dropped out after a few months due
to personal issues. It was probably for the best though, as it was
severely overpowered and its arc overshadowed the rest of the group.
The character was never intended to be a permanent addition anyway,
just something to spice up the group until its quest was complete (at
which point it would be "deactivated" by the god until needed again).
Justisaur
Mar 30, 2015, 12:06:53 PM3/30/15
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On Sunday, March 29, 2015 at 7:04:56 AM UTC-7, Tetsubo wrote:
> This is a two pronged question.
>
> 1) What is the most unusual setting race you've seen or used?
>
> 2) What is the most unusual individual character by race?
>
> Personally:
>
> 1) There is a race in Oathbound that is essentially a sea jelly, that
> might be the most unusual I've encountered. Used? The eleti, a race of
> sapient animated skeletons.
>
> 2) Immature dragon perhaps. A number of lycanthropes I know.
Oddly I haven't had anything that odd in D&D at least. The strangest thing I've personally played is probably my Kenku Bard. Unless you count gamma world... The horned snake-man I use as my avatar everywhere is probably the strangest for me, although I'm not sure that beats the Kenku Bard.
> This is a two pronged question.
>
> 1) What is the most unusual setting race you've seen or used?
>
> 2) What is the most unusual individual character by race?
>
> Personally:
>
> 1) There is a race in Oathbound that is essentially a sea jelly, that
> might be the most unusual I've encountered. Used? The eleti, a race of
> sapient animated skeletons.
>
> 2) Immature dragon perhaps. A number of lycanthropes I know.
The strangest I've seen in play MF (GW clone) probably Sock the mutant plant in a pot, not sure what, but seemed to be something like an ivy, it couldn't speak, though it could understand what others said, as it had trouble communicating it eventually took a sock off of a dead enemy and wore it on one tendril and communicated using it as it's head nodding the sock up and down yes or shaking side to side for no. It started as a PC, but the player abandoned it for another character, a mutant human with a scorpion stinger for one arm. I liked Sock so well I took up using it as an NPC.
As far a D&D not played by me is probably either the Minotaur Paladin of Jupiter, or the Stone Giant Fighter who was molested by golem-priests as a child as part of his background.
As far as the weirdest thing I've seen in D&D intended as a PC race that
was never played was the anthropomorphic whale from Savage Species. The three races I made and posted are probably a tie for that - The Squibbon (land octopus), Pachir (non-anthropomorphic miniature elephant), & Tarmians (hive-mind termite-wasp).
I'd have to give the cake to Gas Spore Paladin & Sto-roper Bard, and Flumph Badgermancer. Mnaaar!
- Justisaur
Tetsubo
Mar 30, 2015, 4:16:45 PM3/30/15
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