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<blockquote data-quote="Kapture" data-source="post: 2482612" data-attributes="member: 7645">Nyuh.Um. I just started a homebrew myself, in a similar situation where I hadn't run a homebrew for years, and I find the following <s>two</s> things:&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; 1) If you don't want to tell stories about the standard ADND races and their relationships, you should make up different races and superimpose your stories on them.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; 2) Most new players to your game will choose a human.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; 3) Most of the rest will reach for a familiar archetype to base a character on.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; 4) On the one hand, there's only so many archetypes you can comfortably use and have people be interested in them.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; a)There are only so many ways you can bend the system and have them be an ECL 0.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; 5) You can pick only the archetypes you like, but inevitibly someone will want to play something you don't like.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; 6) Less is not necessarily more.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; 7) Playing funky looking superhumans is fun.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; 8) I notice that just as many players like to play against type as with.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; 9) The sins of fantasy race archetypes will often be repeated on fantasy culture archetypes. So what the hell.I myself almost always go the Ming from Mongo/Nightbreed route.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kapture, post: 2482612, member: 7645"] Nyuh. Um. I just started a homebrew myself, in a similar situation where I hadn't run a homebrew for years, and I find the following [S]two[/S] things: 1) If you don't want to tell stories about the standard ADND races and their relationships, you should make up different races and superimpose your stories on them. 2) Most new players to your game will choose a human. 3) Most of the rest will reach for a familiar archetype to base a character on. 4) On the one hand, there's only so many archetypes you can comfortably use and have people be interested in them. a)There are only so many ways you can bend the system and have them be an ECL 0. 5) You can pick only the archetypes you like, but inevitibly someone will want to play something you don't like. 6) Less is not necessarily more. 7) Playing funky looking superhumans is fun. 8) I notice that just as many players like to play against type as with. 9) The sins of fantasy race archetypes will often be repeated on fantasy culture archetypes. So what the hell. I myself almost always go the Ming from Mongo/Nightbreed route. [/QUOTE]

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