Re: Races in Space

In <URL:news:local.spelljam> on Thu 19 Oct, Olander wrote:
> On a completely unrelated note:
> I've gotten it into my head that I want a race for a game I want to run. The
> idea for the race is similar to say the way things work for the dragons of
> Pern. It was inspired primarily by a special on animal planet about how
> humans and wolves evolved together so that they share the same ecological
> niche that they were once competing for.
> 
> I want to take that a step further and have a race whose primary feature is
> along the lines of the animal companion class feature. A mental link
> together possibly. Some bonuses when working together. I guess some sort of
> imprinting feature with the note that without the companionship of the
> other, they are often rather insane and short lived.
> 
> Its a symbiotic relationship without the weird implanted slugs.
> 
> Thoughts?

You might try and knock together a rough history of this race and
what pressures led them to the symbosis.  I often find that a
history gives me interesting features of a race, not all
positive, that I might otherwise of overlooked.

Say, you might have a world where there are creatures who steal
the spirits of others, for a while, then let them return to their
bodies, to 'charge up' enough to provide another meal.  After a
bit of this unadapted off-world species, like humans, tend to go
really thoroughly insane.

Say a related species somehow allied with the humans, to provide
them with senses warning of these spirit predators, and maybe
even some sort of protection or ablity to fight them, say in
spirit combat.  And in return they get an intelligence boost, and
maybe they feed on their humans at a low level, which doesn't
drive them insane.  After a while the humans can't do well
without their companions, but, they are very useful!

Does that go anywhere towards what you want???

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