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Message: <blockquote data-quote="QuietBrowser" data-source="post: 7137222" data-attributes="member: 6855057">I don't really know how to open this, so I'll just skip right to the point. I quite like the "D&D in space" angle of games like Spelljammer, Starfinder or even "space-set" Pathfinder, so I want to put together my own "Star-Fantasy" campaign setting. Now, for the most part, I can do that on my own but there's one thing I'm running into: "Alien" races.See, Pathfinder's my big inspiration here, with races like the Android, Lashunta, Kasatha, Shoabhan and Triaxian feeling more "star-borne" than Spelljammer's array of various beast-folk races. So, I'd like to try and come up with a couple of oddball, non-classical races - and I was hoping that others might be interested in giving me critique or sharing ideas in order to come up with some really alien races.Now, fair warning; my take on star-fantasy is of the "D&D in space" variety pioneered by Spelljammer, with added "science and sorcery is blurred" from 80s-ish toons and anime like Thundarr and Outlaw Star. A lot like my post-apocalyptic fantasy setting, in fact, which is why I'm planning on tying them together in the meta-cosmology.So far, these are the "fantasy alien" race concepts I've come up with:"Battlecats": An all-female race of amazonian cat-girls, these techno-barbarians hail from a particularly rugged world dominated by strange creatures that resemble a cross between cats and dragons. In fact, these rare and powerful feline monsters are actually the progenitors of the race, who are born from asexually produced litters and serve their "clan-mothers" much like how bees serve a hive. Fierce, independent and war-like, they are eager adventurers and renowned as mercenaries, bodyguards and, it must be admitted, concubines across the known stars.Inspiration: Ctarl-Ctarl (Outlaw Star), Kaijhit (Elder Scrolls)"Scavvers": Traveling the known stars in great colony-fleets, the Scavvers are an enigmatic race who never remove their protective enviro-armor suits save in the most intimate of positions. They are renowned and respected as master smiths, miners and, especially, lords of the mysterious sorcery-science of arcanotechnology: mining asteroids and moons, they trade valuable crafted goods across the worlds, commanding high prices and great respect - for their potent defense of their own lives if nothing else. Their homeworld was destroyed by some great apocalypse long ago; although welcome to settle anywhere, the truth is that they have developed a cultural fear to the very idea, believing their nomadic existence actually keeps their race safe from seeing it happen again.Inspiration: Quarians"Voidstalkers": Mysterious and feared four-armed psionic warriors who draw upon the cold darkness between the stars through their mental arts. Ruthless, they have crafted a reputation as assassins without peer, bloody warrior-sages who believe that suffering and struggle are the keys to enlightenment.Inspiration: Dark Templar Protoss, Kasatha</blockquote>

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