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Plethora of Playable
RACES!
Have you ever played a rolegame and
complained that the number of playable races was too low, especially if the
game had scores of detailed non-player-character races? If you've ever
perused the monsters in an RPG's bestiary and gotten excited about playing one
of the exotic humanoid races, only to be told you can't play them because
they're only intended to be NPCs, you should like this.
Astroscape Zero is, at
its core, a sword-and-sorcery RPG, although of course there's a whole lot more
than that to it. But I started with the "tyipcal" fantasy races, and then went
crazy, with major race groups, minor races, and plenty of detailed subspecies.
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Homeworld: Spyro, the seat of the Interplanetary League and central
melting pot of all of Astroscape Zero and its 77 worlds.
Summary: The dominant race in the astroscape, with endless variations and bonus Skill
Points. If you can think it, you can create it.
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The Elf Races Homeworld:
Ni'fir-ma, home of dragons and other fantastic creatures.
Races/species:
Allum, the
desert elves; brownies, the brown elves; elves; high elves (also called
celestial elves); four varieties of green elves (leprechauns, clurichauns,
halrochauns, and meerachauns); patches, called arctic elves or white elves;
and the evil swarth, the dark elves.
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The
Halfling Rraces Homeworld:
Ni'fir-ma, which they share with the alfar.
Races/species: Halflings;
robins; kweekie, with full-body hair; puck, the jungle berg; and teekers,
who run run incredibly fast.
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The
Dwarf Rraces Homeworld:
Lectrumfleer, where the dwarves have mined for ages.
Races/species:
Dvalin, the artistic deor; dwarves, the miners; kadrow, the evil dwarves in
league with the swarth of the alfar; and powrie, the war dwarves.
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The
Gnome Races Homeworld:
Lectrumfleer and Spyro, mostly
Races/species: Gnomes, who live
in burrows, pilfer, and work illusions; cooter gnomes, skilled in making
things work; devil gnomes, called gremlins, who are good at making things
not work; and rock gnomes, a bizarre species of gnome that can phase in and
out of solid rock.
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The Goblinoid Races
Homeworld: Balgorf
Races/species: The bugbears, goblins,
hobgoblins, kobolds, ogres, and orcs. In RPGs, these races are traditionally
cannon fodder, but here you can play them. Each race is replete with reasons
why you'll want to play them.
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The Quaice Races
Homeworld: Eight of the 16 Primary Moons of Quelzar, a gas giant
Races/species: The five colored quaice
(blue, green, purple, red, and yellow),
with vastly different cultures based on one religion; two zevulon (black and
white), the major outcasts; and the zukorr, even greater outcasts.
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The
Centaur Races Homeworld:
Dashengar
Races/Species: Argotaurs (12
varieties of human/herd animal hybrids); centaurs (three species); minotaur;
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The Bug Races
Homeworld: Sulcas
Races/species: The greatest threat to
the astroscape, these humanoid insects and spiders want to escape their world and
overrun all other worlds on the astroscape, conquering worlds and eating
everyone. If they ever figure out how their Archways work, the astroscape is
in deep trouble. Luckily, some of them don't feel this way. |
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The Minor Races
Homeworlds: Various
Races/species: Here they are,
with notations on numbers of species and native worlds:
Amphin (2) - amphibian humanoids
(Atlantis)
Avian (8) - bird humanoids (Allahar)
Babel - communicators
Bot - intelligent machines (Mektorg)
Cephalon - great thinkers (Sylvas)
Cetacean - whale humanoids (Atlantis)
Crocogator - reptilian humanoids (Atlantis)
Crubster (4) - crustacean humanoids (Atlantis)
Draco - dragon humanoids (Ni'fir-ma)
Droid - androids (Mektorg)
Duarp - turtle humanoids (Atlantis)
Faerie - magical humanoids (Ni'fir-ma)
Felix (16) - cat humanoids (Ni'fir-ma)
Giantkind (4) - from 9-150 feet (Titania)
Glorad - irradiated humanoids (Incendus)
Goyle - bat humanoids (Spyro) |
Kodiak (7) - bear humanoids (Spyro)
Kondric - shark humanoids (Atlantis)
Lagomorph - rabbit humanoids (Ni'fir-ma)
Lamprid (2) - merfolk and tritons (Atlantis)
Lupus - wolf humanoids (Ni'fir-ma)
Oceef - octopus humanoid (Atlantis)
Odarin - shapeshifters (Ni'fir-ma)
Saurian - dinosaur humanoids (Jurzoic)
Silicon - rock humanoids (Jurzoic)
Squire - squirrel humanoids (Ni'fir-ma)
Tantor - elephant humanoids (Spyro)
Treant - tree humanoids
Troll - stinky, regnerating climbers (Balgorf)
Wantigo - bizarre caste system (Spyro)
Zayfodd - two-headed humanoid (Spyro) |
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