Where can I get race construction guidelines?

[Byrons_Ghost]

I've seen articles out on the net for creating balanced classes, monsters, spells, etc. What I'm looking for are some guidelines as to what would balance out playable races- what feature is worth what, how much a race gets before it crosses into LA territory, etc. Can anyone help me out?

 

[Samothdm]

Years ago there was a thing online called "RaceCalc" and "ClassCalc" that did basically what you're talking about. The sites have been taken down but I think I may still have the download of the database somewhere. E-mail me at samothdm at yahoo dot com and if I find it I'll send you a copy.

 

[Emiricol]

Yeah, I was a little saddened when those tools went away There was also a spreadsheet that I've since lost all track of, but not sure who put that out. Does EN World still have a downloads section? If so, might check there. (too lazy to look, but used to be tons of cool tools there.)

 

[FungiMuncher]

Also try:

http://personal.nbnet.nb.ca/shadows/Handbook/ECLcalc.html


Edit: The guidelines link should point to here:
http://soldarin.tripod.com/id5.html

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Also try:

http://personal.nbnet.nb.ca/shadows/Handbook/ECLcalc.html

Ooooh! Great link, thanks!!

 

[Samothdm]

That link leads to basically the same exact thing that I had from the old RaceCalc site. The only difference is that the old site had a pull-down menu of all of the races in the PH as well as races in FR and I think some other books and if you selected one, it filled in all of the modifiers for you automatically - the bonus being that if you only wanted to make a slight tweak to an existing race, you didn't have to go through and fill out everything yourself.

Other than that... I think that's what you wanted.

 

[Byrons_Ghost]

Thanks for the help everyone, I remember ClassCalc and this is the sort of thing I was looking for. Samo, I've sent you a mail from my gmail address, thanks for the offer.

 

[Douane]

Byrons_Ghost (and for everyone else interested),

I've attached the ClassCalc and RaceCalc files I saved way back, packed as a .rar file in a .zip file. (The board only takes zip and and zip itself seems to change/disrupt the files, so I had to rar them first.)


Hope this helps!

Folkert