Savage Species

[Viktyr Gehrig]

Re: You're making me feel old...

I remember the whole concept of monster characters being represented with 'monster' levels from way back with three books about it for D&D (not second ed - honest to goodness D&D!). There was one of woodland creatures (sprites, unicorns, treants, centaurs, etc), one of flying critters, and one of underwater creatures. Since you couldn't really multiclass in that game, it had (I think) 10 or 20 levels for each, and one of the levels represented 'maturity' at which point you were equivalent to a monster. You could keep gaining levels becomeing a more experienced version of that monster type (keep in mind elves and dwarves where classes in this game).

All in all cool to see that come round again. IF SS has a section on creating your own monter classes from ECLs, then it'll be a great companion volume ot Race of Faerun, but if not, the two books will kind shoot each other in the foot. I was grooving on Faerun, but I think SS will get my money first.

I still have one of those books-- one of the Gazeteers, for the Orcs of Thar. It offered you multi-classing, of a sort, by allowing you to take an XP penalty to pick up levels of Shaman or Witch Doctor.

I forgot about the fact that demihuman races were classes, too-- mainly because I used Orcs of Thar as a 1e accessory.

The special powers for shamans, based on which deity they followed was especially cool.

 

[Voadam]

Morgenstern,

There was one for lycanthropes as well called Night Howlers. you can get it as an ESD at svgames.com

 

[arwink]

The other two were -

Tall Tales of the Wee Folk - Fey
Top Ballista - Gnomes and Avaian creatures

 

[BOZ]

i wonder if they're going to include any new races, or previously unconverted old ones

 

[shadowlight]

...and provides specific information on playing something like 50+ monsters as characters...

*crosses fingers*
Come on Death Slaad!!!

 

[Gez]

*crosses fingers*
Come on Death Slaad!!!

Will we be able to evolve to black salad with a monster prestige class ?

(See both the ELH and the TOH.)

 

[shadowlight]

Will we be able to evolve to black salad with a monster prestige class ?

(See both the ELH and the TOH.)

Of course!! (But I think you have to make a trip to the spawing stone first