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<blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 4511242" data-attributes="member: 19675">There are all kinds of ways to go with this.1) Thri-Kreen:&nbsp; Why not? They're in the original Dark Sun, after all, and do exist in the XPH alongside the 1/2Giant and Dromite.&nbsp; Want to tweek them?&nbsp; Change their special attack to a scorpion-like sting.2) Thorn Fey: Take elves and give them some kind of plant template, like the Woodling.&nbsp; Add in a bit of Spiker, and you have Elves who are part Cactus.3) Warforged: given their construction, they'd make ideal desert war constructs...and &quot;clockwork&quot; critters fit in with Ravenloft.&nbsp; An additional tweek- lift a page from Dr Who's Cybermen &amp; Daleks- they're not actually constructs, but some kind of creation into which psionically active brains have been housed (make them natural psionics, drop a couple of their immunities).4) Take some kind of corporeal undead like Wights or Ghouls and make them living critters.&nbsp; Transform their energy drain attacks into moisture drain attacks.5) Horned Lizard Men/Kobolds.&nbsp; Add a special attack- &quot;Squirt Blood from Eye&quot; (Ex), works like a Daze cantrip, usable at will (requires a Fort save by PC for each use over 3).&nbsp; Reduce their natural claw/bite attacks to minimal, give them natural armor with spikes.6) Other possible Lizard Man/Kobold tweeks: poisonous bite (Ex) like Gila Monsters; SLA: Expeditious Retreat like a Goanna.7) I'd consider tweeking the 1/2 Giant a bit to add in some elemental type features, a la the Stonechild and/or the Earth Genasi.8) Add some kind of S Bat humanoid, possibly in place of Rat humanoids, or even Halflings.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dannyalcatraz, post: 4511242, member: 19675"] There are all kinds of ways to go with this. 1) Thri-Kreen: Why not? They're in the original Dark Sun, after all, and do exist in the XPH alongside the 1/2Giant and Dromite. Want to tweek them? Change their special attack to a scorpion-like sting. 2) Thorn Fey: Take elves and give them some kind of plant template, like the Woodling. Add in a bit of Spiker, and you have Elves who are part Cactus. 3) Warforged: given their construction, they'd make ideal desert war constructs...and "clockwork" critters fit in with Ravenloft. An additional tweek- lift a page from Dr Who's Cybermen & Daleks- they're not actually constructs, but some kind of creation into which psionically active brains have been housed (make them natural psionics, drop a couple of their immunities). 4) Take some kind of corporeal undead like Wights or Ghouls and make them living critters. Transform their energy drain attacks into [I]moisture[/I] drain attacks. 5) Horned Lizard Men/Kobolds. Add a special attack- "Squirt Blood from Eye" (Ex), works like a Daze cantrip, usable at will (requires a Fort save by PC for each use over 3). Reduce their natural claw/bite attacks to minimal, give them natural armor with spikes. 6) Other possible Lizard Man/Kobold tweeks: poisonous bite (Ex) like Gila Monsters; SLA: Expeditious Retreat like a Goanna. 7) I'd consider tweeking the 1/2 Giant a bit to add in some elemental type features, a la the Stonechild and/or the Earth Genasi. 8) Add some kind of S Bat humanoid, possibly in place of Rat humanoids, or even Halflings. [/QUOTE]

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