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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DammitVictor" data-source="post: 9015174" data-attributes="member: 6750908">I've got the other "standards", as well. Aside from the elves and orcs, all of the playable species are known as the "mortal races".Dwarves are pretty traditional. Five feet tall, four feet wide, they like to brawl and drink beer and build stuff. They're covered in blue-black fur, they have long bat ears stick up from their heads, and thick beards flowing around their short, rounded beaks. Dwarves tend to eschew armor since it provides diminishing returns with their own hardened flesh.Gnomes are small, childlike humanoids with some insectile features, most notably short antennae and gossamer wings. Gnomes live in tightly-knit communities called "hives" where they are very loosely ruled by their elected (and magically transmuted) Queens. Young neuter gnomes-- known as dromites-- frequently leave their hives behind to see the universe; many die, or settle down in hives far away from home, but those who return home bring a wealth of information with them. Gnomes are one of the several galactic species with lesser telepathy, which is the "I HAVE DARKVISION" of the Cosmic Rangers setting.Gremlins are most similar to large monkeys, measuring around three-and-a-half feet from the top of the head to the base of the tail; their powerful, agile tails are about the same length. They have dull, mottled green skin and fur in a variety of earth tones. Gremlins are only semi-verbal, speaking no native language of their own and speaking all of their "second" languages in a halting, broken fashion that belies their inhuman intelligence. Gremlins have an innate capacity for cursing people and machines, and take easily to destructive magic.Hobgoblins are basically a mix between D&D hobgoblins and ogre magi, slightly shorter and slimmer than humans on average with a pair of slender, twisting horns sprouting from their foreheads. Hobgoblins come in every color of the rainbow-- like a set of watercolor paints left out to dry in the sun-- and decorate their entire bodies with intricate black tattoos. Hobgoblins have a rigid, militaristic culture that's tempered, somewhat, by personal codes of honor and loyalties. Hobgoblins are supernaturally stealthy and can evade detection even by psychic and/or magical senses.Dezoli are... lizard-Vulcans, embodying both the ruthless pragmatism of the lizardfolk with the rational altruism of the iconic Star Trek species; iconic Dezoli in other media would include, of course, Spock as well as Richard B. Riddick. They're drawn to academic careers and, surprisingly, a disproportionate number of Dezoli are drawn to the priesthood in academic, investigative, and strictly thaumaturgical roles.I'm trying to work out a few more. I'd like to have a more martial insect-type species (that isn't Kreen) and a couple that are substantially larger than the human/elf/orc triumvirate. Generally, I'm working from D&D "fantasy races" as a basis, adding more... sciency twists to make them fit the space fantasy setting.</blockquote>

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