celt said:
I don't know what to do with this phasing through solid stone thing. Bring the PC's to a village that has no doors? Then one of the PC's says "Mom!" as she walks through a wall? Then what? Tennis? Maybe the Belgariad reference (which I haven't read) brings something with it that I'm missing.
*grin*. Phasing through stone isn't a pleasant experience and involves melding with the stone, becoming one with it as you pass. There's one scene in the Belgariad where Relg takes a guy through with him too and....um.....let's go halfway through. Not nice! For attitude (and Relg was a bit of an exception to this, which I won't go into here), picture ascetic monks, living deep underground, chanting, etc. They could probably use echoes to communicate over vast underground distances too.
celt said:
This is pretty heavy duty. That better be one helluva secret. This idea might be working on me! Ok, tell me: What's the secret?
Somethink major like "there are no Gods" or "we're all going to die" or "the forefather of our race who we venerate was really an evil SOB" or "orcs are really elves with acne" or the ending to Seven or whatever.
celt said:
It's the Merlin race. I can't relate to what their lives must be like. What do they think about? Acquisition of wealth or power? Losing wealth or power?
They'd probably start wise and clever but frail (+2 INT -1 STR -1 CON), slowly gain intelligence but gain strength (-2 INT +1 STR +1 CON to balance back) then lose the strength but gain higher dexterity (-2 STR +2 DEX, Small size or whatever). Each of those three life phases would have a different preferred class (Wizard, Fighter then Rogue) to eventually an "old" member of this race would have class levels like Wiz6/Ftr7/Rog4 in the body of a halfling. Cute.
As to attitude, they'd probably be trying to halt this aging in some way. After all, imagine gaining Wizardly power then losing some of it as time passes and your mind loses it's sharpness.
Now I'm picturing a halfling lich and that's JUST WRONG...... ewwwww....
celt said:
This is almost the classical myth surrounding the real life druids. The shapeshifting and blending into nature. I don't know if I'd want to turn them into a race, but I'll probably use them like a nature guild.
Uhu. It would need some work to turn it into a whole race in itelf, but that does appeal to me......hmmmm..... maybe I'll figure it out and post up here.
celt said:
Thanks for all the ideas! Much appreciated!
You're welcome. Good thread, this.
Watch out for displacer humans. They're EVERYWHERE!!!!