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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GreenTengu" data-source="post: 6766483" data-attributes="member: 6777454">Even your extreme examples seem like things that could be negotiated down and compromised into something workable. A half-field troll with laser eyes is obviously an outlier and implies a lot of mechanical edges. Furthermore, this character is obviously an outlier. I think the most reasonable way to approach this would be to note that for mechanical reasons it is important characters be medium sized and they can't have fast healing. So maybe this means there is an off-shoot of Trolls that are smaller than the typical ones in the world. Tieflings already cover the concept of Half-Fiend, so that already exists in the game. Let's say we give this thing the stats of a Tiefling with the major attribute switched to Strength if it is going to be in a class that would grant the laser eyes OR make it mechanically a Dragonborn and say the "breath weapon" is coming from the eyes.Fundamentally, the concept sounds like it is both supposed to be a very unique occurrence and something that is going to be incredibly frightening among normal civilized folk. Best ways to introduce this character would either as a "pet" of some wizard NPC or PC or, alternatively, maybe the PCs start the game captured by a wizard and he is a horrific experiment the wizard has cooked up and can escape with the PCs and post that point they will need to come up with creative ways of keeping him hidden.The robot? Already done. It is called a "Warforged" or, just more generally, a "golem". The world concept is fantasy swords and sorcery, so instead of being operated by electronics, it is all steam-punk mechanics and/or magic.Generally speaking if your world has people with pointy ears who live to a thousand years and never sleep yet never learn anything are "few in number" but in fact found literally everywhere in the hundreds to the point that no one is surprised to see them and have the best... everything... and are adored by literally every good-aligned creature in the world, particularly the fay... and even have their own unique class that only they can be... Oh, and despite being a super long lived, slow breeding race, have somehow evolved to have way more distinct subraces and cultures than anyone else, each of whom just happens to be super specialized for every class in the game.Frankly, there is little that is less reasonable. And you have accepted that concept as necessary core and incorporated it into literally every single world the D&D system comes to.</blockquote>

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