No.367460 [Last50 Posts]
Oddball races thread?
I've been on a kick lately with pathfinder digging up all the weird races nobody ever seems to mention in it. I'm sort of curious to hear about races for other systems with the problem of being forgotten or shunned, and stories of using them.
So have a couple from Pathfinder
Ganzi
>Like tiefling/aasimar but spawned from chaotic Proteans
>No two look alike, features are subtle but weird
>Can change someone's luck
>Bombastic but seemingly normal
>Form so fluid its resistant to sonic damage and electricity
>Somehow has sense motive instead of bluff
Astomoi
>People made of pure darkness
>No seriously they're just solid shadows with no face and rarely wear clothing
>Can't talk so uses telepathy to communicate and cast spells
>They don't eat but instead basically steal the soul of the food like a magic black hole
>This includes immunity to eating poison or diseased things, thus can eat anything
>But since they breath through their entire body and are basically black hole people poison smoke and air diseases fuck them
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No.367469
>>367460
You know what's odd? We have half-orcs and orcs, half-elves and elves. But where the fuck are lings?
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No.367472
>>367469
They're probably just considered short humans or tall halflings. There's not that much difference between the two races, anyway.
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No.367474
>>367469
Half-lings are crossbreeds of human and lynx.
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No.367476
>>367469
You can have a lizard or lizard-man, a goat or a goat-man, a goat or a pig-man, but the real question is what the fuck a hu is supposed to be.
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No.367477
>>367476
>what the fuck a hu is supposed to be
half a 2hu
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No.367482
Shilling my favorite, once again. 3.5
Dvati
>snow-skinned humanoids, pitch black hair
>Blue eyes, no sclera
>three fingers on each hand
>entire species is born as identical twins
>each body shares the same mind and soul
>if one body dies, the other takes unhealable Con damage /day
>have to share limited resources (spell slots, WBL) but each get own turn
>casting spells requires both bodies to spend their action on it
>each body only gets half the HP it normally would
>make great candidates for classes with at-will abilities because you can double up freely
>Bards are each duets
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No.367485
>>367482
Shit someone else knows about them?
I loved this race and always wanted to play it but I never got a chance to. The idea I was gonna go with was a pair of fighters who split sword and shield duty.
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No.367486
>>367485
>The idea I was gonna go with was a pair of fighters who split sword and shield duty.
A pair of one-handed fighters ? Because otherwise it looks like an ineffective use of 2 pairs of hands.
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No.367487
>>367485
>>367486
This, the best effective use for them is brother/sister incest love, to fuel the campaign and make the role play an order of magnitude better.
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No.367488
>>367487
>the best effective use for them is brother/sister incest love
No, you don't get it, the two bodies are effectively the same person. What you're thinking is actually 4-handed masturbation.
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No.367489
>>367488
If a penis enters a vagina then it's not masturbation.
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No.367490
>>367489
If your penis enters your vagina, then it is.
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No.367491
>>367486
Nah, one would use a greatsword and the other was going to use a tower shield and feats to block his brother.
>>367487
Twins so it'd always be gay but since they're basically one person it'd be more clone masturbation. They're identical, so they're the same sex.
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No.367494
>>367491
Rather than sword, why not a longspear or another reaching weapon ?
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No.367496
>>367494
Oh yeah, that would be more effective. Maybe the shield guy gets a sword to cover all damage types.
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No.367497
>>367496
What about a big fuckoff enchanted tower shield? One guy handles defense, while the other stabs you with the polearm.
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No.367498
>>367497
Well if a DM would let me get an even bigger shield for two hands I would, but as is we might as well give shield bro an extra stabbing device and a tower shield.
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No.367502
>>367498
Careful anon, down that road lies Dark Souls Squad Builds and dual-wielding tower shields
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No.367504
>>367485
Hell yeah. I'm the guy posting around about my healnetwork Vitalist build. Each body projects the network, and most of the Vitalist's abilities are SLAs or SUs, so each body can use one per turn.
If you get in a game that'll allow Dvati, it'll probably also allow Savage Species. Check out the Monstrous feats in there keeping in mind that you're one character with 4 arms, 2 heads, and 4 eyes. Multiweapon fighting options get crazy, culminating in the ability to cast two spells per turn.
>>367487
I've considered refluffing them at one point to represent a brother/sister combat duo.
>>367494
This works well, yeah. You can make your own tiny phalanx.
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No.367514
>Astomoi
>People made of pure darkness
The race for the edgy teenage emos, I suppose.
>>367469
Playing poker somewhere with the dwarf-elf hybrids.
>>367477
The joke being that Meiling is one of the few Youkai whose race is never clarified.
>>367482
Even with the drawbacks, this sounds extremely cheesy. Not to speak of slowing down thing when your party of five suddenly counts as ten, all of whom have to make their own rolls, etc.
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No.367525
>>367514
They are less an edgy race and more a space monster race.
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No.367527
>>367514
>the race for emos
Not quite. More for players with a hardon for "mysterious" and "cosmic weirdness." There are much edgier races out there.
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No.367626
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>>367482
It's like it's a Nier reference.
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No.367640
>>367626
Bitch these things are from the Dragon Compendium in 3.5
That said, the other two races being the Lupine (Werewolf hating Wolf People) and Diaboli, which are a literal race of male and female Daemonettes from the Plane of nightmares that had to flee due to their plane touching upon the Far Realm thanks to faggot elves ruining everything.
There's also an actual Half-Elf/Orc race in Kingdoms of Kalamar, Half-Hobgoblin and Half-gnolls.
Wisplings are highly undermentioned I might add- (Planetouched halflings)
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No.367735
>>367514
>cheesy
I will reiterate that you have to split WBL between two characters, and each body only gets half the HP it would have. A level 1 Dvati Wizard with 10 Con starts with 2 HP.
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No.367739
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No.367767
>>367514
Combat would only slow significantly if people didn't know their character well, and if the DM is seriously allowing everyone to be dvati you're doing it wrong.
>>367735
To be fair they can still go in to negatives so not as rough. Also with how casting on them works a wizard or similar class is a terrible since you lose their main benefit of having double the actions.
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No.375042
I grabbed a copy of this recently and it's got two races in it that I think are pretty cool.
Wilderlings
>Part human, part nature fey
>Nature bond that gives them either plant or animal features, older ones look like dryads or Malfurion Stormrage tier animal blends
>Bit odd statline that makes them really reliant on their natural DR/Cold Iron to protect them from their shit constitution score, especially at low levels
Agarician, Bolite
>Little poison mushroom people who glow
>Come from a culture of wildly varied mushroom people who have a sort of limited hive telepathy
>Most adventuring bolites relay information back to the powerful psychic mushroom being in charge of the place they came from, may result in the party having a fandom they've never met
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No.375118
>>367482
Oh my god, imagine the sex with a Dvati.
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No.375175
>>375118
I'd rather be the Dvati. Both halves of a spitroast.
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No.375183
>>375118
you and your squeeze are in a room while the other one is trying to make a cup of coffee [and failing badly]
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No.375188
>>375183
This brings up all kinds of implications, actually. You could cycle your bodies, sleeping with one while the other does whatever. Then trade. 24 hour a day work. Or lewds.
I wonder what kind of subfetishes would develop around the two body setup. Treating one body differently than the other to create erotic disassociation? Like selective denial or something. I guess self bondage can go to 11 right out of the gate.
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No.375211
I've always liked the idea of having Redcaps and other traditional fairies, gnomes and goblins in my games, but I never know what to do with them. Perhaps I'll write up a comprehensive guide to playing them.
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No.375328
>>367482
One of them was a BBEG i never got to finish. Good times.
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No.375336
>>367502
I'm pretty sure i had a friend of mine doing a legit 3.5 build with two shields. The idea was to mush the opponents against dungeon walls, there were some exploitable rules about that mechainic.
Ah the good old 3.5 minmaxing…
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No.375337
>>375042
Holy shit I need the stats on the Bolite, I want them so bad now but can't find them online.
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No.375339
>>375118
dude imagine _____ sex.
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No.375340
>>375188
is not self bondaging, because she is still your sister. you wouldn't fuck your tight little cute sister would you anon? neither would a Dvati.
god, actually not only that but you would be a flaming faggot. as it has the same sex that you have.
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No.375355
>>375337
The book didn't come out super long ago, but I'm pretty sure the stats and everything are under OGL, so here's the PC info. It doesn't go into their weird society so much, though.
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No.375359
>>375355
Also relevant: the material they make use of.
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No.375366
>>375355
>>375359
Holy shit yes I love these guys already!
They're practically begging to be a rainbow mage or badass lightbringing cleric.
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No.375372
>>375366
There's a druid archetype in the same book called the Mushroom Shepherd that fits them beautifully
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No.388106
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No.388114
>>367469
I always consider "half-ling" a corruption of "half-lin" - the dark secret of the halflings is that they are the result of crossbreeding humans with goblins, which is why they're the most fertile of the "classic demihumans".
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No.388139
>>388114
That makes too much sense.
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No.388151
>>388139
It does, doesn't it? Plus, it's a perfect excuse to add sexy female goblins to your setting.
I've also used halflings as the result of what happens when you crossbreed a human with a gnome, for settings where gnomes themselves are the result of crossbreeding elves with dwarves. Thus, they're "halflings" not because they're lioterally "Half a Ling", but because they're made up of halves; Half Elf, Half Dwarf and Half Human.
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No.388189
>>367469
https://mimir.net/factions/bleakerbarmies.html#ling
Ling (Planar / male of unknown race / illusionist 11 / Sensate / N)
>Ling seems a friendly enough basher at first, at least before you get to know him better. He's not in here so much for being insane, (though there's little question he is) but more because there's nowhere else safe to send him. See, this poor little pike's been hunted down wherever he's gone, but that'll become clearer when I tell you his story...
>Ling's a short little berk; about three foot tall, cherub-like, with large hairy feet. Does he sound like a halfling to you, cutter? Thought he might. He ain't though, at least, he ain't if you're believing what he has to say. Listen good, and try not to laugh too hard. Ling claims he is just that: a "ling". Don't look at me like that; I know what you're thinking. See, Ling says he's the father of the race of creatures that call themselves "halflings". He reckons they named themselves after him. "Yeah, right!" I hear you say.
>Thing is, berk, no matter what we try, we've not caught him in a lie. Try what we like, no divination spell says he's bobbing us. We've even tried psionics; he really believes he's telling the truth. So before you dismiss the barmy's claim: think about it.
>Ling reckons that thousands of years back he and one of the human powers were lovers, and the first halflings were the product of their romantic endeavours. Some time later, Ling happened across Yondalla (who apparently owed him a favour), and told her of these friendly little creatures who could do with some divine guidance. Thus it was that the halfling race was born and found their pantheon. So Ling claims.
>In practically the same breath he'll lament the other fruit of his loins: the tieflings. According to Ling, these creatures didn't exist until he'd met and 'got to know' the very first succubus (whose name, it seems, is consigned to the graveyard of history). Even since then, union between mortals and fiends has produced (somehow or other) the tieflings.
>As a setter of dangerous precedents (what else could tieflings be called?), Ling seems satisfied. He's entirely cagey about his origin or age, though the wizards're sure he's many many centuries old. It's also apparent that he ain't a power, or else the Lady'd never have let him into the City of Doors. Still the mystery remains.
>Like I told you before, Ling ain't in the Asylum 'cause he's dangerously insane (though if he spawned the tieflings on purpose I'd hardly call him rational); it's more for his own protection. See, one of Yondalla's own avatars has been chasing the poor sod around the Planes for some time now. Luckily (for him) the berk escaped her direct wrath by diving into Sigil, where he was safe for a while under the Lady's shadow. Thing is, Yondalla sent proxies after him, and in a bizarre turn of events, the combined halfling temples in the Lady's Ward issued a contract for his assassination. Not very charitable, right? Maybe they've got something to hide after all?
>Whatever happens to him, we've got to get rid of him somehow. The berk's costing us a fortune to feed.
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No.388208
>oddball races
How about oddball monsters?
I remember, but can't find, pictures of various demons some schoolboy made, with hilariously gory descriptions. Saw them many years ago on halfchan's /tg/. Looked like Doom demons if designed by a 8 year old. They had these hilariously autistic written descriptions, similar to those "forever bound" fetish pics. Something along the lines of "Forever crawling soldier spilling guts to kill family" or something similarly gloriously cheesy.
Does anyone have them, or know how to look for them? Thinking back, they were really creative, and I'd like to steal some of the ideas.
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No.403127
Equal Opportunity bump (minorities get unlimited opportunities to be equals).
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No.403182
Rifts has some great ones.
>Dewtani
>slowly become more evil and insane as life goes on
>paladins at age 10, insane murderers at 160
>naturally magical
>Dirari Ecto-Men
>psionic balls that use powers to wear clothes
>nobody knows how they mate, it's a mystery
>all criminals, for some reason
>dramins
>basically humans but every one of them is convinced that nothing but them exists. That they are the only being in the universe.
>Grackle tooth
>southern space crocodile men that like guns.
>surprisingly nice
>malvoren
>people made of red muscle tissue
>integrate themselves into anything armor, guns, mechs, etc
>love fighting, honorable
>worth a ton on the slave market, good luck catching one tho
>Zenith Moon Warpers
>reverse werewolves
>con artists
>trusts absolutely no-one, however if they actually start to like a person they are 100% loyal to that person
>completely self centered
I also really like how dragons are magically and psionically gifted at 2 weeks old, and are basically born with the ability to do calculus, speak elvish, and all sorts of other stuff.
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No.403187
>>388208
How about oddball aliens? "Alien Classifier", written and illustrated by Russian nationalist sci-fi writer Yuri Petukhov. It's pure gold, someone needs to translate it.
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No.403191
>>375336
That's also possible in pathfinder, I played a character who dual wielded shields.
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No.403216
>>403187
Мне впадлу, давай уж сам
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No.403976
>>403216
Лучше яровратовский путеводитель
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No.403980
>>403191
Not as many. I'm pretty sure there were some feats that gave damage to bullrush when you push people against a wall or did it in heavy armor but they aren't great.
>>403182
Grackle Tooth sounds like a fun time. Friendly gun gators need to be more popular.
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No.404473
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No.404479
>>404473
>first pic
Holy shit I am in elementary school again
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No.404671
>>367482
Sounds like a race meant to exploit game mechanics. Haha.
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No.418974
rebump since chrow took it upon himself to redact it.
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No.418975
I saw a setting with Fomorian / Formorians that were like, 4-armed ant people with martial weapons
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