Re: Races in Space

You might find this article interesting:
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/dd/20060721a

Its about redesigning the Orge Magi to take advantage of the rules for its
theme, rather than being a straight transliteration from previous versions
of the game.

Kinda like the gamer version of 'Engrish'.


On 10/13/06, Dreamer <dreamer@??????.?????.??.uk> wrote:
>
> In <URL:news:local.spelljam> on Thu 12 Oct, Max wrote:
> > > 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 you could try Goodman Games 'The Deluxe Book of Templates'
> > which has several templates for immature, degenerate or diminished
> > versions of a race.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Looks interesting, but somewhat outside my budget, at the moment.
> [grin]
>
> Just as an example, we had rules pre-3rdEd for Ogre Magi PCs,
> which only became mature and equivalent to the standard monster
> on reaching Level 7/7 Fighter/Magic-user:
>
> http://www.romsys.demon.co.uk/frpg/dnd/race/ogremagi.htm
>
> 3rdEd SRD Ogre Magic have 5d8 HD and and +7 LA, which seeing as
> we gave them 7d6 HD pre-3rdEd (7d4 averaged with 7d8 (or 7d10
> under AD&D)) probably comes out about the same.
>
> --
> Dreamer
> dreamer@??????.?????.??.uk
> http://www.romsys.demon.co.uk/
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