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<blockquote data-quote="Faolyn" data-source="post: 8777279" data-attributes="member: 6915329"><p>The dirge. They were pretty cool. There's actually a <em>ton </em>of different races in Dragon mag, and monsters that would work as races, and most of 'em could be converted to heritages, heritage gifts, or cultures. I may do that later on.</p><p></p><p>Edit: For everyone else who doesn't remember or isn't aware of the dirge: they looked human-like with solid red eyes, gray skin, white or red hair, and they lived in a "nightmarishly twisted mirror of the Prime Material plane called Darkrealm." So, basically the Shadowfell. they had dead-white eyes, needed +1 or better weapons to hit, had regeneration and psionic abilities (taken from a small list of options), took triple damage from "energy from the Positive Plane," could be turned like undead and had most undead immunities, and had a touch attack that drained 5,000 XP(!) from the target. But they weren't undead.</p><p></p><p>Not much of their culture was listed, other than to say that they serve the lords of Darkrealm, are sadistically evil but mostly towards outsiders--they worked together well-and are divided into commoner (6th-level fighters) and commander (9th-level magic-users) castes. Not even commoner and military castes. Commoner and <em>commander</em>.</p><p></p><p>They'd have to be toned down significantly to be made playable, but the culture could be interesting. Maybe take the commoner/commander divide seriously and say their society is divided into slave/serf/grunts and officer/noble/spellcasters, with almost nothing in between.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Faolyn, post: 8777279, member: 6915329"] The dirge. They were pretty cool. There's actually a [I]ton [/I]of different races in Dragon mag, and monsters that would work as races, and most of 'em could be converted to heritages, heritage gifts, or cultures. I may do that later on. Edit: For everyone else who doesn't remember or isn't aware of the dirge: they looked human-like with solid red eyes, gray skin, white or red hair, and they lived in a "nightmarishly twisted mirror of the Prime Material plane called Darkrealm." So, basically the Shadowfell. they had dead-white eyes, needed +1 or better weapons to hit, had regeneration and psionic abilities (taken from a small list of options), took triple damage from "energy from the Positive Plane," could be turned like undead and had most undead immunities, and had a touch attack that drained 5,000 XP(!) from the target. But they weren't undead. Not much of their culture was listed, other than to say that they serve the lords of Darkrealm, are sadistically evil but mostly towards outsiders--they worked together well-and are divided into commoner (6th-level fighters) and commander (9th-level magic-users) castes. Not even commoner and military castes. Commoner and [I]commander[/I]. They'd have to be toned down significantly to be made playable, but the culture could be interesting. Maybe take the commoner/commander divide seriously and say their society is divided into slave/serf/grunts and officer/noble/spellcasters, with almost nothing in between. [/QUOTE]
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