A mystery race ?

[Aldarc]

I'd really dig the mojh, if it weren't for the whole dragon angle. Their basic concept of humans who are magically transmuting themselves towards some kind of arcane perfection is really cool, but I'm just so tired of dragon-based races.

As opposed to what? More pointy-eared races? Short-stocky races? Mojh are not those born of a wonderful romance between dragon and wife, but those who sacrificed their humanity to become more draconic (or rather the abyssal dramojh). The mojh are indeed dragon-based, but they have been created in a way that I find to be quite original and flavorful.

 

[HeinorNY]

I don't care about any of the D&D/WoW silly terrorism, I really wanted to be able to play undead characters.
Not a race of undeads but as an intelligent undead racial template.

If some people can play robots, I want to play undeads.
If there is a whole race of robots, I can't see a problem with a race of undeads, but the template is good enough.

Oh and I play WoW and I can't see how someone can even suggest any possible assimilation of one by the other. This guy probably never played WoW, or D&D...

 

[Rechan]

As opposed to what?

I can think of several things that could replace dragons in "Race sacrificing humanity to be closer to..."

Yaun-ti/Medusi/Naga.
Plants (never seen this done).
Coualt
Elementals/Djinn (albeit I think 'four elements' is about as bland as Dragons).
Beholders/Illithids/Aboleths (just throwin' it out there).

 

[Kobold Avenger]

The Shadar-Kai seem to be a lot more significant in 4e than they were in 3e, so they could be a "mystery PC race" and if not, then they're in MM1 most likely.

 

[Jack99]

The Shadar-Kai seem to be a lot more significant in 4e than they were in 3e, so they could be a "mystery PC race" and if not, then they're in MM1 most likely.

What's the Shadar-Kai?

 

[Lonely Tylenol]

What's the Shadar-Kai?

Fae from the plane of shadow.

 

[hopeless]

However...

That's very intriguing. But, it would seriously screw up Eberron. Half-dragons are an abomination there (see Vol).

As I recall it was more due to the fact she was also a bearer of the dragon mark of death, but that could be my mistake since I never looked too closely at that since normally half dragons should be extremely rare and the only person I knew who ran one pretty much meets the stereotypical munchkin role.
Something about dive bombing another player character and missing and by dive bombing it was apparently terminal velocity at least for his character from what he said...

Anyway is there any way to confirm whether half dragons are anathema or just those that come from a dragonmarked family?

 

[Lonely Tylenol]

What, insects aren't animals, now?

I think what you mean is each class of vertebrate, which would generally mean mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish. "Kingdom" is a larger classification, like animals, plants, fungi, etc.

(Sorry for the pedantic tangent. I couldn't help myself.)

No, thank you. I was going to do the same thing, with perhaps greater prejudice.

 

[Zamkaizer]

As I recall it was more due to the fact she was also a bearer of the dragon mark of death, but that could be my mistake since I never looked too closely at that since normally half dragons should be extremely rare and the only person I knew who ran one pretty much meets the stereotypical munchkin role.
Something about dive bombing another player character and missing and by dive bombing it was apparently terminal velocity at least for his character from what he said...

Anyway is there any way to confirm whether half dragons are anathema or just those that come from a dragonmarked family?

The elves of Aerenal worship the dead, so the members of Vol fit perfectly into their society. However, the elves of Aerenal and dragons of Argonessen loath one another and have been at war almost constantly. Erandis d'Vol was born of an elven mother and a green dragon father in an attempt to end that conflict, but she was instead seen as an abomination by both species, and the entirety of the line was exterminated in a rare act of cooperation.

In modern Eberron, Khorvaire elves would probably treat half-dragons with some suspicion and contempt, since they doubtlessly heard many myths of Aereni dragon-slayers in their youth. Valenar elves would probably find it difficult to treat half-dragons civilly since, although they've been been apart from Aereni civilization for some time, they were active participants in the dragon war, and their collected mythos undoubtedly reflects that. While in Khorvaire, Aerenal elves would probably find themselves unable to speak with half-dragons, for all their seething hatred, but able to do little else. In Aerenal, being of draconic ancestry is more or less a death wish.

 

[Rechan]

As I recall it was more due to the fact she was also a bearer of the dragon mark of death

At the time, the Undying Court and the House of Vol were having a cold civil war; both were vying for control of Aerenal Society. When Erandis's existence was exposed, the Undying Court used it as propaganda, playing into the hatred of elves vs. dragons, and got everyone to lynch every member of House Vol, believing it corrupted from the head down.