Does FR have human racial breakdowns like Greyhawk?
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Nightfall
Sage of the Scarred Lands
Skeptic's right. FR has three-five ethnic groups for humans. Most of them were either pre-Netherse or Netherese humans that later on intermixed with each other. Some became extinct (Like the Nars to a civilized degree) while others change (Rashamen and Raumuth(sp).)
Tinker Gnome
Adventurer
The Deep Imaskari are Humans, and they have different stats and abilities than normal Humans.
Hunter In Darkness
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ok heres the main ones
calishite...se,
chondathan..south and much of the heartlands,
damaran...ne the vast area,
illuskan...the north,
mulan...sw and thay
,rashemi...west en area above thay,
tethyrian....most of the heartlands and the sword coast
minor ones include
bedine....anauroch
chultan....the chult peninsula
durpari..durpar,estagund,veldorn,and var the golden
fFolk...moonshae isles
gur..nomads of the westenheartlands
halruaan....from halruaan..a mix of netherils and natives
imaskari....deep sw mostly dead some liveing in the underdark
lantanna..iland of same name
maztican....land far to the west past evermeet
nar..north of the moonseas
netherese....mostly dead4 groups left..mash drovers,the tunlar barbarains of tun,the barbarians of the ride and the people of shade
raumviran....lake of mists
shaaran....the shaar
shou....kara-tur
sossrim....sossal...north of the vast
talfiir........dead..westen heartlands
tashalan.....east of chult
tuigan.....the endless wasts
turami....turmish
u;utiun...polar reaches....the sea of moveing ice
vaasan...the moonsea
zakharan....zakhara
each main race hase its one feats and such...u can get the feel for most by the regoin there in
the realms is a big place with a long histroy folks move a round a lot....afew
maztican,shou,tuigan and zakharan had there own settings in 2e so there is much written up about them.......hope this help u some...and over look the spelling its late
calishite...se,
chondathan..south and much of the heartlands,
damaran...ne the vast area,
illuskan...the north,
mulan...sw and thay
,rashemi...west en area above thay,
tethyrian....most of the heartlands and the sword coast
minor ones include
bedine....anauroch
chultan....the chult peninsula
durpari..durpar,estagund,veldorn,and var the golden
fFolk...moonshae isles
gur..nomads of the westenheartlands
halruaan....from halruaan..a mix of netherils and natives
imaskari....deep sw mostly dead some liveing in the underdark
lantanna..iland of same name
maztican....land far to the west past evermeet
nar..north of the moonseas
netherese....mostly dead4 groups left..mash drovers,the tunlar barbarains of tun,the barbarians of the ride and the people of shade
raumviran....lake of mists
shaaran....the shaar
shou....kara-tur
sossrim....sossal...north of the vast
talfiir........dead..westen heartlands
tashalan.....east of chult
tuigan.....the endless wasts
turami....turmish
u;utiun...polar reaches....the sea of moveing ice
vaasan...the moonsea
zakharan....zakhara
each main race hase its one feats and such...u can get the feel for most by the regoin there in
the realms is a big place with a long histroy folks move a round a lot....afew
maztican,shou,tuigan and zakharan had there own settings in 2e so there is much written up about them.......hope this help u some...and over look the spelling its late
Nightfall
Sage of the Scarred Lands
(Psi)SeveredHead
Adventurer
Galeros said:
Maybe they don't count
Didn't Races of Faerun have feats for certain ethnic groups? (You had to pay feat slots; you didn't get racial bonuses just for being born in Thay, for instance.)
FR has enough ethnic groups that look like real-life ethnic groups (eg Mulhorandi) that it's not a good idea to pursue rules differences. It might look like racism, and better safe than sorry.
Nyaricus
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When Races of Faerun came out, it broke down the humans into a variety of ethnic groups, the like of which had only been ever hinted at before. While the FRCS broke down huamsn by region, it never really broke it down into ethnic groups.
So, using a real-life analogy, while the British Isles and Gaul both had the Celtic peoples living there, the main "CS book" for this celtic game didn't acknowledge that they were of the same culture in a mechanical fashion - rather their regional feats and such might be simlar, plus it might mention that there was a large majority of celtic peoples there. Then when Races of Europe came out, it broke it down in a more clear fashion, and even gave specific feats which only celtic people could take.
Thus, Raes of Faerun was a pretty neat book in that niche it created for itself, and gave an amazing amount of decription for human ethnicities. This was continued into the 3.5-branching book, Players Guide to Faerun in a lesser manner, where some of the feats were revised slightly, and all avaliable feats from a region where listed, plus ethnicities and such.
Possibly my favourite part, in a nerdy sort of way, was how the % of a certain ethnicity lived in a region was listed in Races of Faerun. It was a great spot of detail that was both interesting and helpful, in some ways more than others.
Not being a Greyhawk Player or DM, I can't say how much that this compares to the breakdown in that CS, but in Forgotten Realms, that is how it works, more or less.
Hope that helps!
cheers,
--N
So, using a real-life analogy, while the British Isles and Gaul both had the Celtic peoples living there, the main "CS book" for this celtic game didn't acknowledge that they were of the same culture in a mechanical fashion - rather their regional feats and such might be simlar, plus it might mention that there was a large majority of celtic peoples there. Then when Races of Europe came out, it broke it down in a more clear fashion, and even gave specific feats which only celtic people could take.
Thus, Raes of Faerun was a pretty neat book in that niche it created for itself, and gave an amazing amount of decription for human ethnicities. This was continued into the 3.5-branching book, Players Guide to Faerun in a lesser manner, where some of the feats were revised slightly, and all avaliable feats from a region where listed, plus ethnicities and such.
Possibly my favourite part, in a nerdy sort of way, was how the % of a certain ethnicity lived in a region was listed in Races of Faerun. It was a great spot of detail that was both interesting and helpful, in some ways more than others.
Not being a Greyhawk Player or DM, I can't say how much that this compares to the breakdown in that CS, but in Forgotten Realms, that is how it works, more or less.
Hope that helps!
cheers,
--N
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