Single-race fantasy adventure parties?
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painandgreed
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Had an all elven campaing once. 1E and everybody was a multiclassed elf with once class being magic-user(except for one fighter). Ran them through GDQ series. It's some combat when six of the party members open up with fireball and lightning bolt. They even researched a new spell "frostball" before fighting the fire giants. It was good because they never got past the guard at the entry way and the ensuing battle lasted for so long that eventually about every fire giant in the place ended up protecting the place there and forced the party to retreat (of course they had managed to kill almost every adult male in the place). It became quite obvious that a Fighter 8/Magicuser 8 was much, much more powerful than a fighter 9.
One of the surprising things that happened was I decided to adopt an elven timelineas they were elves in an elven country recieving orders from an elven queen. So their commands required them to do thier tasks in a number of years. They were effectivly tasked with doing the D series and required to leave the city to begin their adventure within two years. They made ample use of spell research rules to make up their own spells (including developing some out of Unearthed Arcana that they couldn't normally learn) and took all of those two years before they finally left. Even then they petitioned the queen for more time at the last minute but she sent guards to escort them outside the city gates. From there, they spent their time exploring the underdark and at the first city they came to that would accept their gold, they stopped and continued their spell research for another year game time before continuing.
One of the surprising things that happened was I decided to adopt an elven timelineas they were elves in an elven country recieving orders from an elven queen. So their commands required them to do thier tasks in a number of years. They were effectivly tasked with doing the D series and required to leave the city to begin their adventure within two years. They made ample use of spell research rules to make up their own spells (including developing some out of Unearthed Arcana that they couldn't normally learn) and took all of those two years before they finally left. Even then they petitioned the queen for more time at the last minute but she sent guards to escort them outside the city gates. From there, they spent their time exploring the underdark and at the first city they came to that would accept their gold, they stopped and continued their spell research for another year game time before continuing.
I once ran a module at GenCon (this would have been 1984, IIRC) called "Quest of the Halflings", in which orcish thieves had broken into the halfling archives and stolen a bunch of halfling historical treasures. The halflings, of course, send an all-halfling party to recover the treasures.
It was amusing to see how simple things, like 6' fences, really made the halflings have to work at it.
The players has a blast, as I recall.
It was amusing to see how simple things, like 6' fences, really made the halflings have to work at it.
The players has a blast, as I recall.
I've been considering how much easier it might be to delve into a non-human-standard ethnic/racial background if everyone around you had a similar perspective. A shared experience in creating the environment's background.
When you're a halfling, for example, humming your halfling tunes and making halfling jokes, thinking your halfling thoughts about how different everything is from your halfling childhood, it's disappointing to realize that the elves and dwarves and half-orcs with whom you're traveling aren't really all that interested -- they've got their own elvish, dwarvish, orcish backgrounds playing out in their heads.
When you're a halfling, for example, humming your halfling tunes and making halfling jokes, thinking your halfling thoughts about how different everything is from your halfling childhood, it's disappointing to realize that the elves and dwarves and half-orcs with whom you're traveling aren't really all that interested -- they've got their own elvish, dwarvish, orcish backgrounds playing out in their heads.
the Jester
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One of the parties that I run is mostly halflings, and there have been periods when it is all halflings. It's great fun! (Story hour in sig: Of Sound Mind the Halfling Way, which I just updated last night! 
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werk
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I've done all humans, all elves, saurials, all 'little people' and all freaks (dune stalker, firbolg, draconian, etc) parties.
It really didn't matter much, as every PC is unique anyway (or should be). What it did give was a real reason for them being together as a party despite their differences. A common theme to bond over.
The all elves party was my favorite, as I started them all as muticlassed royal guards all related in some way. King gave them some 'royal expeditionary' items, sweet mounts, and sent them on a grand quest.
It really didn't matter much, as every PC is unique anyway (or should be). What it did give was a real reason for them being together as a party despite their differences. A common theme to bond over.
The all elves party was my favorite, as I started them all as muticlassed royal guards all related in some way. King gave them some 'royal expeditionary' items, sweet mounts, and sent them on a grand quest.
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