D&D 4E 4E sword and sorcery..

[Garthanos]

Halflings are the innocuous everyman who wins out by luck... Jockster of Xena I would build using halfling mechanics.

 

[Somebloke]

Well anyway that's one way you could work it- it's easily adaptable to suit the campaign. I had another idea of people 'chosen' or 'touched' by gods- they would be more or less like normal people with a few 'extras'- for example, there was going to be a Kali-like dety who bore demonic beasts that intermingled- violently- with humans and who's children are known for their savage natures and violent passions, and use thehalf orc/dragonborn (with a shout of rage replacing the fire breath-psychic damage) model. Deva's would have been altered at birth by a Horus-style death entity, who also doubled as the Divine Librarian, keeper of memories- they could briefly and vaguely 'remember' every event in history. It's just another way of creating 'low magic' fantastic stuff.

 

[Somebloke]

Thanks for taking the time to share your ideas. Truthfully, I haven't quite decided exactly how much magic/science to include - I'm just mixing-and-matching ideas as they pop up until I find a combination that kinda fits.

I do like your ideas about reskinning humans by using the race mechanics as backgrounds. This somewhat resembles the rules in a link posted earlier and seems to be the simplest way to limit the Mos Eisley Cantina-effect without losing the variety of built-in race differentiating mechanisms.

Rest assured you are speaking to a man who despises the Mos Eisley Cantina effect...good luck with your campaign flavours.