D&D General What 3 Races Would You Spotlight in a New Campaign?

[Zardnaar]

Hmm Warforged+Kreen.

 

[Zardnaar]

OPs an idiot. He meant 3 new non PHB races. Scrub.

 

[Yaarel]

Hmm Warforged+Kreen.

That kinda has the vibe of the movie Alien.

Maybe the reproductive cycle of the Warforged-Kreen has very different forms.

 

[Shardstone]

Damn these last few posts did inspire me. I'd like a setting of: Human, Warforged, Thri'kreen, Yuan-Ti, Shadar-Kai, and Aasimar. If I get a bonus 7th, changeling.

 

[CreamCloud0]

OPs an idiot. He meant 3 new non PHB races. Scrub.

re-editing the first post to state what you meant is probably going to do more for clarity than these posts after the fact.

 

[Yaarel]

Damn these last few posts did inspire me. I'd like a setting of: Human, Warforged, Thri'kreen, Yuan-Ti, Shadar-Kai, and Aasimar. If I get a bonus 7th, changeling.

In configuration like that, the Five-Folk Band tropes could be:

Smart Folk: Thri-kreen (tech, psionic)
Heart Folk: Aasimar (idealist, sexy)
Big Folk: Warforged (one-person-army)
Rebel Folk: Shadar-kai (opposite of human, as foil to emphasize human)
Jock Folk: Human (personifies the tropes of the setting, survival, rebuilding)
Sixth Folk: Yuan-ti (a secret ally comes from among the villains of the story)

 

[Shardstone]

In configuration like that, the Five-Folk Band tropes could be:

Smart Folk: Thri-kreen (tech, psionic)
Heart Folk: Aasimar (idealist, sexy)
Big Folk: Warforged (one-person-army)
Rebel Folk: Shadar-kai (opposite of human)
Jock Folk: Human (personifies the tropes of the setting, survival, rebuilding)
Sixth Folk: Yuan-ti (an secret ally comes from among the villains of the story)

I like it, ty. Will start working on this idea now. However, what if Yuan-Ti are the Rebel Folk (rebelling against snake brainwashing, opposite of humans) and Shadar-kai are the sixth folk (wise, from another world, like Ents or Eagles in LotR).

 

[RoughCoronet0]

OPs an idiot. He meant 3 new non PHB races. Scrub.

It’s all good, going off this though…

Thri-kreen, Gnoll, Lizardfolk, Tabaxi, and Owlin.

The age of the Carnivores.

 

[Mind of tempest]

Add the cybernetic Warforged and the foursome somehow has a Matrix vibe.

the first three give more dark city than matrixs vibe.

I'm kinda suprised no ones nominated the obligatory Thr-kreen Cockroach survivor

mantis are related to both roaches and termites how ever scorpions will still have them beaten both by age, radiation resistance and unwillingness to die off as a type of life.

 

[Yaarel]

I like it, ty. Will start working on this idea now. However, what if Yuan-Ti are the Rebel Folk (rebelling against snake brainwashing, opposite of humans) and Shadar-kai are the sixth folk (wise, from another world, like Ents or Eagles in LotR).

Yeah, totally can work.

If the Yuan-ti are the Rebel Folk and the opposite of the Human Jock Folk, this says something about the Jock Folk who personify the quest of the story.

The Yuan-ti are Fiend (and Fiend-aspiring) with powers to charm and cause fear. That and their snake traits, tap into a satanic dragon vibe. Both instinctive and spiritual terror, as well as seductive and corrupting. As Rebel, the Jock is confronting and utilizing this darkside.

This would make the contrasted Jock Human more Celestial-aspiring, with resoluteness of mind, honesty, wholesomeness, and realism. Not just surviving the apocalyptic fallout, but striving to build a utopia. Then the Celestial Aasimar as the Heart Folk, would tap into religious inspiration, maybe an angelic prophet figure, a vision of a hopeful future.

If the Shadar-kai are the Sixth Folk, then their Shadowfell deathliness means death itself is the villain. Perhaps, the apocalypse resulted from a kind of nihilism. The villains might have a movie Pitch Black necromonger vibe, that preys on the souls of Humanoids as part of empire building.


Note that the setting invites a fundamentally Psionic vibe. The Thri-kreen, and Aasimar as old-school Angel, and the Yuan-ti are all innately Psionic and telepathic. The Human includes psi, but not all would need to be. Even the Warforged might be Psiforged and innately Psionic. A crystal-wielding Psiforged would give the Artificer a Psionic flavor. Maybe check out the UA Artificer with the Archivist as a Psionic subclass, with a psicrystal as the "iphone".

In this context, the villainous Shadar-kai might be normally non-psionic, and more Undead oriented. Albeit ghosts too as a disembodied mind or an echo of a deceased mind might be a Psionic phenomenon.