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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ralts Bloodthorne" data-source="post: 2926853" data-attributes="member: 6390">RacesRACESYup, the core races.Now, you need to decide something right now, as the GM. How many racial templates can be layered onto a creature before it become unique? How common are half-fiends? How common are half-dragons? I don't mean some creature you slapped the template onto to make a twisted and unique version, I mean as a whole?In other words, can the races interbreed regardless of genetics?For our world, let's place a maximum of 1 template, and let's add another book to our stack.Unearthed ArcanaWe'll add that book in, for the "bloodlines" section. That will take care of that.Anyway, we need to decide each race.First up, we need to decide Gods. Well, I'm using Dieties and Demigods, so that makes it a LOT easier.But, since Wee-Jas is obviously becoming the "Continent of EEEE-VAL!" (think of Mermaid Man yelling it <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />) why not do something a bit different.On Wee-Jas, the Drow won the war. So surface elves from Wee-Jas are drow. Not all worship Lolth, since Wee-Jas helped out, so we'll have to open our "Elf" notebook and add in a drow section...There, now we have surface dwelling drow.Still, we need to decide origins of each species.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">[*]Elves</li> </ul>Elves claim to have been the first created, placed in a paradise where they would dwell, immortal, for all eternity. Thier god, who wished to have living, breathing beauty to mach that of the stars, took falling stars and crafted the first elves from them (true) in order to have someone whose beauty matched his own in the universe (false, he created them out of a desire for worship and obediance and to pettily demonstrate how powerful he was to) However, dragons came from beyond the stars (False! The elven god created the Dragon Gods to pull his chariot, and the dragons to act as a scourge on the lazy, unworshipping wretches who populated the moon!) and began warrring with the elves. After nearly a century, however, a barrage of falling stars foretold that the Elven God Corellon Larethian was tired of the fighting, and although the elves and dragons both were warned that the God was tired of it, a comet that foretold that Bahumat and Tiamat both wished the fighting to end was ignored also. (False! Bahumat and Tiamat broke loose of Corellon's stables and escaped, and the comets were the two dragon gods escaping. The meteor shower was him throwing a fit!)Bahumat, Tiamat, and Corellon Larethian forced the elves and the dragons for paradise (True. All three were jealous of how much worship the human gods were getting, so they decided that it was hardship and mortality that made people worship gods, so BOOT! Out of paradise they went!), made them mortal and prone to age, sickness, injury, and yes, even death. When the elves and dragons arrived on earth, the elves attempted to continue the war, but the dragons spread thier wings and left, having been robbed of thier immortality and near-godhood, and tormented forever by the sound of music from gold and gems, a song that would always be elusively incomplete no matter how much they gathered.The elves, haughty and distainful of the "vermin" they met, attempted to enslave the humans and dwarves, and war burned the world. However, the elves retained enough magic to escape and to use the forests to hide them.For several hundred years, the elves avoided the humans, and pleaded with thier gods to allow them to return to thier "paradise" and to dwell there once again. However, after 2,000 years, no elves even remembered that paradise, and while they still told tales of having once lived in "paradise" they had fully adpated to the world.OK, now, we do this for EACH race. Where they came from, origin fables and truths,Hey, I warned you, this would be work intensive.Just think, we haven't even gotten to DURING the campaign yet.HumanOrigin Tale:Humans were fashioned from dust left over from the making of the universe, and having been made of bits of all the planes and all the stars, they have a constant curiosity to search for new things, and are able to quickly adapt.TruthPelor made them on the 7th day, after animals and monsters. Unfortunately, he was a little tipsy from the celebration and kept dropping bunches of them, resulting in there being multiple different batches made in his oven, as well as being scattered everywhere.Half-orcOrigin Tale:Experimentation by the elves to produce the ultimate warrior produced the half orc. (True)HalflingOrigin Tale:Originally crated by Fharlaghn, the god lost a bet and had to give Yondalla five thousand children. However, when Fharlaghn saw the size of the children, he cursed them with wanderlust. (True)GnomeOrigin Fable:When Garl Glittergold decided it was time to create his children, he took a gem and crafted it into the first two gnomes. (False)Truth:Garl Glittergold created his people from riverbank mud when Pelor wasn't looking, and taught them to burrow and hide until there were enough of them that Pelor couldn't justify destroying them, even though Garl Glittergold was not supposed to be a god of people, but instead, just God of gems and minerals.Half ElfOrigin FableCorellon was overcome by a human woman's beuaty and gave her a child.Truth:Corellon has a bad habit of getting hammered and picking up human barmaids.DwarfMoradin made the first dwarves, and baked them too long, resulting in warped creatures. He chucked these onto the ground (they became goblins) and tried again, but didn't cook them long enough. He threw these away also (They became kobolds), and tried again, this time he got dwarves. However, the kobolds and goblins have NEVER forgotten that Moradin threw them away.HumaniodsOrigin Tale (Orcs)Grummush created them despite Pelor telling him that he could not, and when the others drew lots for where their people would live, there were no lots left for Grummush's people, so he took his spear and blasted sections of the world, calling out: My people will live HERE, and HERE, and HERE!Truth:Orcs were created in two ways: By Wee-Jas corrupting humans. These orcs are often more ambitious and warlike.However, in the beginning, Pelor was pretty hammered when he made humans, and made them of different skin and hair and eye colours, and several batches were orcs. He kept dropping them on the world by accident.Grummush is Corellon's half-brother, fathered by Pelor upon Yollanda, and hates Corellon with a passion. Grummush takes in those races without gods, and his clerics preach strength over everything else.</blockquote>

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