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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Turanil" data-source="post: 1940585" data-attributes="member: 9646">Currently I have decided to go that way (as far as my homebrew is concerned): PC races are all of human descent. There are normal, unmodified, humans, plus several genetically engineered human races (an elf-like or dwarf-like race could just be a genetically modified human). There is also androids and the like. As such, players who want different racial traits will have some choice available to them.Then, there are intelligent alien species. These are not available as PC races. They are Lovecraft inspired (Great race of Yith, Mi-Go, Elder things, etc.). Communication with these races is extremely difficult when not outright impossible.Just an idea by the way: when describing alien species, be they much different from humans or similar, something is almost always overlooked: their "time frame" (for lack of a better term). Imagine some alien specie, maybe based on silicon rather than carbon, which is incredibly slow by Earth mammals standards. This specie would have the potential for living the same amount of experiences as humans would, but instead of occuring in one century, this would take 2000 or 3000 (Earth) years. They would appear horribly slow, almost immobile by human standards. All their planet would have lifeforms in this timeframe, so this would be okay for them on their own planet.</blockquote>