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Adrian_Barraczi

03-01-07, 02:30 PM
Hi, I just wanted to know if anyone is interested in making some requests for me about a race you'd like to see.
Just tell me what kind of creature it should be and what CR, then i'll do it with a total description, base abilities and maybe also illustrations. Anything goes! (almost anything, because I would never make a ridicolous race as a retarded squirrel fish-frog again (long story)).
One last thing: I can handle about five requests at a time, since I've also made the same kind of post on the classes & prestige classes board.
041391klr

03-01-07, 06:46 PM
Ok Howza bout this.. A race that Has greay skin and hairless bodies. They have bone potrusions (Or something like that) where their hair should be....Oh yeah, when they are born they are actually not alive yet, they have to go to their "Village elder" and get a sort of tatoo on their face, not only does this tatoo bring the newborn to life, but it also tells them what their place in society is(Basically, it could be anything, from the mark of the ruler, to the mark of the hunter, and so on)...... Ooo and I was thinking, Maybe the ritual to bring the child to life would actually be puting a little symbiotic creature in its head or something Add a little fluff and stuff and lets see what we can come up with... (= a LA +0 would be nice too (=
dragonboy131313

03-01-07, 06:49 PM
how about a tiny cr 60? do any thing you want but i want it tiny plz.
dragonboy131313

03-01-07, 07:02 PM
better yet have one with + 16 int -4cha -4str-4con-4dex but no la
Evil DM Mk3

03-01-07, 07:05 PM
Another four-hundred-and-umtein-thousand elves.

Well we will get them anyway.
dragonboy131313

03-01-07, 07:09 PM
?:confused:
Lord_of_Darkness

03-02-07, 09:20 AM
how about a race that is small or smaller with four spider legs and four arms. no penalty to either dex, str or int. and no level adjustment.
Imsolost

03-02-07, 03:11 PM
A half-halfling...small with powerful build?
Angel Black

03-02-07, 09:05 PM
If you want a LA 0 race with a Powerful Build like trait give it Monkey Grip Feat instead.

Random races:

- Marilith like race with lower LA and HD.
- Small Constructs(Modron/Warforged like?)
- No arms ,mute,non psionic race(Beholder like?)
- blind humanoids
- Tank like race
-One that have amazing sound powers
- half planetouched half elemental low LA and big LA creatures
Bhaal006

03-02-07, 09:10 PM
Something cool/awesome that kills elves, i don't care about anything else except dead elves, just don't make it an elf. LA+1
taradusis

03-02-07, 09:22 PM
Large ocean going bullywugs.more peace loving a race whose intelligence starts at 3 rises to 18 and sinks back to 3 over a months time,the race should also switch genders as well. a race that faints at the thought of violence,plays dead and gives off a ghastly stench?
Wall

03-02-07, 09:29 PM
I'd like to see another (Living Construct) subtype creature. Not a magical construct, more of a techno-organic creature or something. CR anything, by class perhaps.
shadowsofwhite

03-02-07, 10:44 PM
These are ridiculous and unrealistic suggestions. The best I've seen is the one about the spider person.
I'm thinking there should be an insect-like creature, four legs, two arms, chitin shell, good balance and stability. I might just make that myself.
Angel Black

03-03-07, 12:50 PM
Something cool/awesome that kills elves, i don't care about anything else except dead elves, just don't make it an elf. LA+1

An Elf Eater,sweet :D

Just take off some of the Orc attribute bonuses and turn them into magic defenses...
bobothechimp

03-03-07, 01:03 PM
I would like to see a Choker converted into a playable race.
The Ubbergeek

03-03-07, 04:55 PM
Something cool/awesome that kills elves, i don't care about anything else except dead elves, just don't make it an elf. LA+1

I take someone here is a teen with much hormones, hum?
Ian0311

03-03-07, 05:13 PM
How about a fae/pixie/similar that doesn't have a mind boggling level adjustment?
Bosh_Vant

03-03-07, 05:54 PM
A full demonic and or angelic race with +0 Level adjustment (monster levels would be acceptable.) - something for starting on the planes.
Regular_K

03-03-07, 06:07 PM
I was thinking of making a Techie type race. I'm really into drama, and Techies have always been my heroes because they don't get recognize that often, so I wanted to make a race to honor them. I was thinking bonuses to craft skills, int bonus and cha minus, and dark vision (because techies do it in the dark!) LA preferably +0, but if you can't, then whatever.
Angel Black

03-03-07, 06:08 PM
better yet have one with + 16 int -4cha -4str-4con-4dex but no la

Sounds like a "Big Head Life Form",sorry to much of a int bonus to be a LA 0 race, but I like it, maybe this is more LA 0 like:

+ 4 int -2 to: str,con,dex and cha

with those penalties there are lots of room to add more things to these BHLF :D

http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000HWZ4DY.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg
Bosh_Vant

03-03-07, 06:12 PM
A plant based +0 race. Something that would be considered to be dual sexed. Ie like plants it can both pollinate other's and be pollinated itself, usually with the help of the wind or bees. It considers it self without gender and has issues determining the gender of other species. (And frankly doesn't see what the big deal is - frequently using the wrong pronouns.) Needs light and water to live for food but does not consume rations.

as an underdark mirror of them -

A +0 fungal based race. - again no gender and fungal like reproduction - it does need to consume to survive, has excelent underdark camoflage. Regenerates rapidly but is allegic to sunlight and damaged by bright light - it can not bear the sun for more than 10 minutes before dying (and is severly hampered when doing so. - Very uncharismatic and very strong.
Bhaal006

03-03-07, 08:14 PM
I take someone here is a teen with much hormones, hum?

Nope, i'm just sick and tired of elves thinking they're so great, thinking they're better thatn everybody(this is probably the fault of someone i game with), but everyone thinks elves are so awesome, and im sick of it.

LETS HEAR IT FOR HUMANS!!!!

(21 fat, bearded, white guy drinking mountain dew)
taradusis

03-03-07, 09:19 PM
Thri-keen lay their eggs in elves,what do you want,a fast breeding thri-keen that can adapt to any enviroment?If you purchase 2ed "thri-keen of athas" they have tohr-keen you could adapt?
orionwinterfire

03-03-07, 09:37 PM
A fey-like diminutive race whose skin "greens" instead of tans with sun exposure, and whose hair changes throughout their lifetime like the leaves on a tree: green in childhood, through autumn colors, then falling out in old age.

Sort of like a halfling-looking forest gnome with a twist.

• +2 Dexterity, –2 Strength
• Small
• Speed: 20ft
• Low-Light Vision
• Pass without Trace: self only, at will, as a free action, as a druid of character's level
• +2 racial bonus on Listen checks.
• +2 racial bonus on Move Silently checks.
• +4 racial bonus on Hide checks in wooded surroundings.
• Use Dex instead of Str mod on Climb, Jump, & Swim
• Automatic Languages: a simple language that enables them to communicate on a very basic level with forest animals
taradusis

03-04-07, 10:31 AM
additional races?A cross between kobolds and kangeroos,can hop,use boomerangs,no light penalty.A race of stone angels created in the same magical disaster that created the gargoyles,racial enemies of the gargoyles?a race of L/G werelions created by ASLANwhat the gith looked like before they became weirdlooking and powerful enough to leave the mindflayers.a celestial water elemental with clerical abilitiesa smaller faster version of the sea cat that can be trained to hunt?based on a cheetah/barracudahatches from eggs during first snowfall,males outnumber females by 20-1 and compete for breeding privileges by presenting females with live prey.males go berserk if female is hurt?a spider that eats skunk cabbage,has the ability to swell up and release a stinking cloud as a defence against giant waspsbased on the song,a hordling demon?there's a real life scorpian that has a hallucigenic drug in its stinger,have a bar where people put there arms in jars to be stung on purpose?
The Ubbergeek

03-04-07, 10:53 AM
How about taking para- and quasi- genasi?
Tanker01

03-09-07, 01:56 AM
I was thinking about creating a new race called Centaurpede. Basicly similar to a Centaur except having the lower body of a centipede instead of a horse. They would be either nocturnal or live in the underdark, have Darkvision to 60 ft., have movement of 30 with a climb speed of 15. Level adjustment +2 and AC of 15. They would be large monsterous humanoids and the alignment would usually be chaotic neutral. The exoskeleton that covers the lower portion of the body would continue up onto parts of the upper torso. No two Centaurpedes would have the same exoskeleton portions on the upper torso. Parts of the head could also be covered in the same way. The young are hatched from eggs and go through a papal/larval stage before becoming adults and joining the rest of the community. The favored class would be druid or ranger.
Naderion

03-09-07, 07:59 AM
Something cool/awesome that kills elves, i don't care about anything else except dead elves, just don't make it an elf. LA+1
That's very easy: Other elves. Im sure in the forgotten realms, more elves died at the hands of other else than of all other creatures together.
Bhaal006

03-09-07, 10:43 AM
did you miss the part about "not-an-elf"
Angel Black

05-20-08, 04:17 PM
A bump is in order to make some noise :)
taylors005

05-20-08, 09:31 PM
+0 genie/elemental people

+0 gargoyle things

+2 something with a reverse powerful build (a medium creature that is treated as being small)

a cross of elan and kalashtar

or an +0 elanish template
Angel Black

11-05-08, 03:08 PM
+0 genie/elemental people

+0 gargoyle things

+2 something with a reverse powerful build (a medium creature that is treated as being small)

a cross of elan and kalashtar

or an +0 elanish template

LA 0 genie can be really hard to make because he is an outsider.

Closest to the gargoyle is the Golmoid in an old Dragon Magazine.

Kobolds got Slight Build in http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/we/20060420a

+0 elanish template?

-2 Cha
Elanish Naturally Psionic: gain 2 extra power points at first level
By droping a total of +4 racial bonus to one or more skills creature can add an Elan Special Quality to his racial traits.

Special: humans can buy an Elan Special Quality with 3 skill points at first level.
Special:Kalashtar don't take the Elanish Naturally Psionic trait,instead they get one Elan's special Quality.
ragoftag

11-06-08, 09:49 AM
taylors005
+0 gargoyle thingsTry Raptors from Races of the Wild, but swap some stuff for NA and natural attacks. I have several 'flying' races, but none that fit this particular slot.
The-Mage-King

11-06-08, 10:36 AM
No LA 3.5 kitsune

3.5 template for "cursed" beings that transform. When transformed, appearance varies, but common features include: grey skin, demonic appearance, and pale hair.
Angel Black

11-07-08, 10:15 PM
How about a fae/pixie/similar that doesn't have a mind boggling level adjustment?

Petal in MM III is CR1
The-Mage-King

12-06-08, 03:09 PM
:bump: Had to do it. Can't let this die.
plaguewraith

12-06-08, 05:20 PM
i'd like a living dead race, a hybrid between undead and humans created by a horrid ritual and given a sort of half-life through the process dulling thei pain but reducing their reaction time.

no half dead subtype or LA please
Spastic_Kobold

12-06-08, 11:13 PM
Kirby as a race? I love that cute pink thing! (>^-^)>
OskriegGestort

12-08-08, 12:42 AM
Something cool/awesome that kills elves, i don't care about anything else except dead elves, just don't make it an elf. LA+1

DROW!!!!!:D :P