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<blockquote data-quote="DammitVictor" data-source="post: 7967549" data-attributes="member: 6750908">If you want to have traditional subraces in your setting, the application of the Skills &amp; Powers rules is pretty straightforward-- you look at the existing subraces, note what they all have in common, and then design your own, for whatever purpose you're designing them for. In first edition AD&amp;D, when the subraces were introduced in Unearthed Arcana, subraces had different level limits, and even class options, from each other.If you're following along with my fake race-as-class nonsense, you can also design races to have varying racial abilities based on their class selection-- for instance, maybe all Dwarves are proficient in chainmail, axes and hammers, and crossbows... but Dwarves whoses classes grant those abilities get something else. Maybe Shiny Elves get Song Magic for their spellcasting class, and Sneaky Elves get Shadow.Most importantly, if you're linking race selection and class selection this way... you're opening both of them up to function in the other's design space. You can base a character's &quot;subrace&quot; on the classes they pick, like I've done with Elves, or grant specific class abilities through subrace selection.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DammitVictor, post: 7967549, member: 6750908"] If you want to have traditional subraces in your setting, the application of the [i]Skills & Powers[/i] rules is pretty straightforward-- you look at the existing subraces, note what they all have in common, and then design your own, for whatever purpose you're designing them for. In [i]first edition[/i] AD&D, when the subraces were introduced in [i]Unearthed Arcana[/i], subraces had different level limits, and even class options, from each other. If you're following along with my fake race-as-class nonsense, you can also design races to have varying racial abilities based on their class selection-- for instance, maybe all Dwarves are proficient in chainmail, axes and hammers, and crossbows... but Dwarves whoses classes grant those abilities get something else. Maybe Shiny Elves get Song Magic for their spellcasting class, and Sneaky Elves get Shadow. Most importantly, if you're linking race selection and class selection this way... you're opening both of them up to function in the other's design space. You can base a character's "subrace" on the classes they pick, like I've done with Elves, or grant specific class abilities through subrace selection. [/QUOTE]

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