Re: Races in Space

In <URL:news:local.spelljam> on Tue 10 Oct, Olander wrote:
> I was thinking about Spelljammer this weekend as I was reading my way
> through one of my new books. It occured to me that one of the things I
> really liked about SJ was just the wide variety of races that you ended up
> meeting while travelling. Krynn was always good for some funky races, plus
> there was the couple of Kara-Tur races that the Shou brought along with.
> 
> So I went into the SRD and made a nice big list of races that could show up
> as PCs in a SJ game. Some of them Drift up a little on the high side. the
> Number before the '+' indicates racial hit dice and the number after is the
> Level Adjustment. I put stars next to all of the ones that would be able to
> start at 5th level or lower.
> 
> There are also a few at the end of the list that I thought would fit well
> witht he setting... Eberron and Oriental Adventures. But thinking about it
> now there are probably a bunch in the 'Races of..' books.. and I think
> possibly in the Magic of Incarnum book.

Good list!

Interesting to see them all collected together, like this.

How many do you think need changing, or need extra write-ups, for
a Spelljamming setting?

Are there any rules out there for playing a young/immature
version of a race that has racial hit dice, with less than the
full set of hit dice?

(Or, races which get magical powers and hence a Level Adjustment,
but which are young and haven't developed their full powers, and
hence don't get the full LA applied?)


> SRD:
> Azers - (2+4)
> Centaur - (4+2)
> Doppelganger - (4+4)
> *Dwarf(Hill) - Deep, Duergar(+1), Duegar(Psionic) (+1), Mountain
> *Elf(High) - Half, Aquatic, Drow(+2), Gray, Wild, Wood
> Gargoyle - (4+5)
> Jann - (6+5)
> Giants - Hill(12+4), Stone(14+4)
> *Gnoll - (2+1)
> *Gnome(Rock) - Svirfneblin(+3), Forest
> *Goblin(common) - Bugbear(3+1), Hobgoblin(+1), Blue(+1)
> *Grimlock - (2+2)
> *Halfling(lightfoot) - Tallfellow, Deep
> *Kobold
> *Lizardfolk - (2+1)
> Minotaur - (6+2)
> Ogre - Common(4+2), Mage(5+7)
> *Orc - Half-Orc
> *Planetouched - Aasimar(+1), Tiefling(+1)
> Rakshasa - (7+7)
> Satyr - (5+2)
> Scorpionfolk - (12+4)
> *Pixie - (+4/+6)
> *Troglodyte - (2+2)
> Troll - (6+5)
> *Dromite - (+1)
> *Elan
> *Half-Giant - (+1)
> *Maenad
> *Xeph
> Unbodied - (4+4)
> 
> Outside the SRD:
> Hengeyokai (+0 in 3.5)
> Nezumi
> Korobokuru
> Spirit Folk
> Vanara
> Warforged
> Shifters
> Changelings
> Kalashtar
> Githyanki (+1)
> Githzeri (+1)
> Thri-Kreen (+?)

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