NOW LIVE! Today's the day you meet your new best friend. You don’t have to leave Wolfy behind... In 'Pets & Sidekicks' your companions level up with you!

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="gamerprinter" data-source="post: 5253940" data-attributes="member: 50895">Racial RevelationsIn the beginning keeping more historically minded, I was looking at a humano-centric campaign setting; that PCs were mostly human. But since I cracked open the door and let Sidhe Elves and Half-Sidhe (Elves and half-elves) into the posts up above, I've been doing some more thinking.Always thinking the Picts were a fantastic race with good values into a Celtic setting, but mostly thinking them human has limited my scope on them. Some historic data suggest that the Picts were a different race from Celts, smaller, darker, perhaps Finno-Ugrian (like Lapps). The picts were known to be masterful fighters and wearers of tattoos. What if I made Picts into Dwarves?The Pathfinder gnome already has a fey connection, something about their hair, size and disposition. So no need to add anything there, they already fit.I see the halfling as an offshoot of the brownie race, say a brownie who has accepted a gift of clothing. Brownies are household fey and usually attach themselves to a particular piece of land or to a human family. Trading farm labor for a bowl of cream and porridge. Supposedly if you gift a brownie with more than the food, you have spurned the brownie. Thus a brownie who has accepted a gift has turned, and is now a halfling. Halflings dwell in family units and attach themseves to human lands assisting them as brownies do.Another d20 Celtic resource mentions the idea of half-orcs being half-fomorians (half-demons) which is another possibility. Fomorians rather than being orcs are ogres or orogs (orc mix ogres) with the Fiendish template. I see Firbolgs as being a more intelligent race of ogres and consist of barbarian warriors and ogre magi. There would be standard ogres as well as hags in the setting too.While I do plan to include giant races in the setting, the ogres are where much of the storyline surrounds.Thoughts?GP</blockquote>

Verification