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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Imret" data-source="post: 2716595" data-attributes="member: 991">I'd like to think you can do something interesting with the classic races and that it's often a lot more original than either putting elves in an even funnier suit with a new name and dumping them back in the woods, or splitting them into a dazzling array of subraces (elves of the coast! elves in the mountains! elves that are all left-handed!). Yes, this happens to all the races, but you can't tell me that elves don't see the worst of it.I've split the elves into three subraces only: the Dawn elves, dwellers in the Worldroot Forest and its central mountain cluster, pale copper of complexion and dark-haired, warriors with bow and spear and thinblade; the Dusk elves, island-dwellers off the southern coast, black-skinned and white-haired, the developers of most "Oriental" exotic weapons; and the Zenith elves, now figures of myth and legend, wiped out in the Lost War. The two remaining subraces are split between eight kindgoms (3 among the Dusk, 5 among the Dawn) whose ruling aristocracy together forms the Deliberative, answerable directly to the immortal regent for a long-missing god-king. While there has never been open elf-on-elf warfare, not all of their kingdoms are as closely allied as their common government would suggest.A lot of the races are still being worked, but I can definately state that orcs are not the evil raider/cannon-fodder species of most worlds; fashioned by the giants from earth, blood, and fire, they rarely venture out to the surface world and are utterly unrelated to goblins. They still war with the dwarves, but it's primarily over living space (and the fact that orcish corpses burn at the correct temperature for a forge...).That being said, I think there's a place in a D&D world for new PC races, particularly when they replace a PC race in only a small number of criterion, or fit into a new niche.Brief digression from the point - Does anyone have a handy link to the Small catfolk posted somewhere on ENWorld? I'd like to get a look at them for a starting point -I'm seeing quasi-paranoid, largely instinctual mystics...</blockquote>

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