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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ripzerai" data-source="post: 3122863" data-attributes="member: 38324">Yair's elan fluff is excellent.I think the xeph might be interesting if they were related to the shadowswyfts from the Planar Handbook. They're both very similar races.Half-giants, by their fluff, were bred for generations by inhuman sorcerer-kings, so they wouldn't necessarily be even combinations of giant and human. It's very possible their masters made them weaker in order to ensure they could be controlled. As such, I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing that they only have a +2 strength. I probably wouldn't use them in anything but a Dark Sun or perhaps Planescape campaign, though.Maenads might be interesting if they were tied into Greek mythology - perhaps they're descendents of the mad nymphs who follow Bacchus on his revels. Or, given the suggestion that they overthrew their deity, they might be tied with the Tiere from Planes of Conflict, descendents of the original race not banished to Carceri with the others.I particularly like the gloamings from Underdark. Illumians are pretty cool, and I've actually come to accept spellscales (from Races of the Dragon). I hated spellscales at first because I was thinking of them from a Material Plane perspective - I couldn't imagine them fitting into Oerth. But I they fit perfectly into the City of Glass on the Elemental Plane of Water. I guess it's the same with illumians - they're a bit much to work into an existing material planar campaign, but they're a planar race anyway and they help flesh out the Plane of Shadow. And they have a grudge against the githyanki! Anyway, yeah, I can see using a lot of the new races more easily if you're playing a crossplanar or crossworld game. Even the ones from Incarnum.</blockquote>

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