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    Designing races for my own setting, any tips or ideas?

    Definitely lots of features you could use on that thing. The uneven fingers are good ones in my opinion. Hehe, good house rule. Having the right minis will probably be an issue, but I don't plan on much combat so it should be fine.
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    Designing races for my own setting, any tips or ideas?

    Pretty much yeah, nothing wrong with them in theory. I just think they are overdone. And yes, I agree that the best ideas are drawn from what we can understand of our own animal kingdom. Crazy stuff in nature.
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    Designing races for my own setting, any tips or ideas?

    The guys at AvatarArt.com did this, Definitely worth checking them out.
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    Designing races for my own setting, any tips or ideas?

    Thanks for the Replies! Infojunky While its true that humans by themselves can be more alien than anything, I'm trying to put together a group of core playable races, I just think it would be more interesting with more species. That said, the older post from may has been revised a few times...
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    Designing races for my own setting, any tips or ideas?

    So I've been refining my ideas for a few months now. I've had the help of the talented folks at AvatarArt in regards to the looks of the species. However, I was getting them to do pictures of each one of the seven species, and now one of them has been reconned out. I don't really have any more...
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    Designing races for my own setting, any tips or ideas?

    I'm not disagreeing with you on that, but I've been angling from the start for a more 'hard' sci-fi approach, and aliens that are too human are pretty common, I'm not saying they are badly written, far from it in fact since you then get to explore cultural differences from a standpoint very...
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    Designing races for my own setting, any tips or ideas?

    Epicenter, That's very true, our perceptions of beauty and morality will certainly have an effect on how we view others. And nightmarish creatures would definitely be almost vilified as a result. In designing these species I've trying to make them truly alien and not just humans with a...
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    Designing races for my own setting, any tips or ideas?

    So, I’ve been working on my own setting using MGed Traveller for a while now, but aside for a few people I haven’t gotten many opinions on the races I’ve been designing for it. I figured it’s best to get as many as possible in order to make unique and interesting species, so I would really...
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