Lancelot
Adventurer
Cool.
I'm into almost anything Mystara related. Are any of the unique Mystara races detailed in it as PC races? I've created my own versions of the lupin, rakasta, and tortle using the 2e Mystara MC and 2e Savage Coast setting (that was never released), but I'm always looking for more background on those races.
No. Just the basics: Elf, Dwarf, Halfling. Which, as you probably know, are race/class mixes (e.g. you're a 7th level Elf, not a 7th level Elf Fighter / Magic-User as in AD&D).
There's more info on the unique Mystaran races in a series of articles written for Dragon Magazine in the [rough] 150-200 range of issues, under the title of "The Voyage of the Princess Ark". Although, again, no rules for playing them as PCs.
There were 4 supplements for BECMI that *did* give rules for playing the unusual races. They were, in order:
1) Fairy Folk (not the correct title, included rules for playing drakes, pooka, brownies, sidhe, etc)
2) "Top Ballista" (including gnomes, nagpa, etc)
3) Sea Kingdoms (not the correct title, included rules for playing merfolk, shark-kin, kopru !!!, kna, etc)
4) "Night Howlers" (including lycanthropes and, from memory, lupins?)
I'm a big fan of all four of these supplements - a quick web search should given the right titles for #1 and #3.