D&D 5E Companion thread to 5E Survivor: Species

[Mind of tempest]

what is a lotus den halfling?

You spelled changeling wrong.

it has managed to find a market with both the high role players seeking challenge and the fluid gender people so I see it having staying power.

 

[Vaalingrade]

You spelled changeling wrong.

Or warforged. They're both pretty awesome.

Never really liked shifters because they're the lite version of the lycanthropes the devs refuse to let us just have.

Meanwhile, changelings are the version of doppelgangers we expect instead fo the weird grey aliens D&D feels they should be.

I don't have much feeling for Kalishtar as I've never interacted with the Quori stuff.

 

[Mind of tempest]

Or warforged. They're both pretty awesome.

Never really liked shifters because they're the lite version of the lycanthropes the devs refuse to let us just have.

Meanwhile, changelings are the version of doppelgangers we expect instead fo the weird grey aliens D&D feels they should be.

I don't have much feeling for Kalishtar as I've never interacted with the Quori stuff.

d&d doppelgangers feel like something out of the old sci-fi horror films the one where people are replaced and they also point and scream at you, might have been body snatchers.

the lack of the ability to just be a werewolf bugs me, we all know we want a sapient werewolf who is a fighter with a smart car's worth of armour on them.

kalishtar are trying to be both a psionic races and the human subspecies that never really work, the former never having a good fit yet and the latter is just never a good idea.

people who have been bodied with a dream alien could be cool but need more to work with.

 

[Vaalingrade]

d&d doppelgangers feel like something out of the old sci-fi horror films the one where people are replaced and they also point and scream at you, might have been body snatchers.

For true. I just wish they didn't hog up the name doppleganger for this alien critter.

the lack of the ability to just be a werewolf bugs me, we all know we want a sapient werewolf who is a fighter with a smart car's worth of armour on them.

Working on it. My system has a feat path that lets you be a werewolf. Three kinds of werewolf, actually.

kalishtar are trying to be both a psionic races and the human subspecies that never really work, the former never having a good fit yet and the latter is just never a good idea.

people who have been bodied with a dream alien could be cool but need more to work with.

I always thought of them as Goa'uld from Stargate.

 

[Mind of tempest]

For true. I just wish they didn't hog up the name doppleganger for this alien critter.

one came before the other there are worse things that could have happened

Working on it. My system has a feat path that lets you be a werewolf. Three kinds of werewolf, actually.

go on I am curious on types?

I always thought of them as Goa'uld from Stargate.

I see a lot of trill and the goa'uld faction beginning with T in them plus the old psychic human subspecies trope.
personally, I feel they do not quite work but I feel that way about all the human subspecies options you find.

I have always set out to make the psionic race but that is hard as accidentally turning into elves is a problem.

 

[Vaalingrade]

go on I am curious on types?

So there's so amny folkloric werewolves that I ended up breaking them up into 3 + 1 +1:

• The One With Nature, becomes a wolf and also a dire wolf
• The RAGE personified one that becomes a wolf and also a hybrid/crinos form.
• The balance of man and beast that is in continual wolf-person form.

Then there's the chaotic monster that is nothing but an engine of destruction.

And finally, there's a magic belt that lets you become a wolf.

I see a lot of trill and the goa'uld faction beginning with T in them plus the old psychic human subspecies trope.
personally, I feel they do not quite work but I feel that way about all the human subspecies options you find.

Tok'ra?

 

[Mind of tempest]

So there's so amny folkloric werewolves that I ended up breaking them up into 3 + 1 +1:

• The One With Nature, becomes a wolf and also a dire wolf
• The RAGE personified one that becomes a wolf and also a hybrid/crinos form.
• The balance of man and beast that is in continual wolf-person form.

Then there's the chaotic monster that is nothing but an engine of destruction.

And finally, there's a magic belt that lets you become a wolf.

Tok'ra?

yeah the tok'ra I have not watched the show since I was smaller and it was old then.

is the magic belt inspired by something as it sounds oddly familiar for some reason?

 

[Vaalingrade]

is the magic belt inspired by something as it sounds oddly familiar for some reason?

Historically, some werewolves legends involve someone making a deal with the devil for a magic wolf belt so they can do murders.

I actually got it from a Dresden files book.

 

[Mind of tempest]

Historically, some werewolves legends involve someone making a deal with the devil for a magic wolf belt so they can do murders.

I actually got it from a Dresden files book.

ah, I have read some of those books, I assume the author is a terrible person?

 

[Scribe]