Orcies!

[Hatchnet]

Originally posted by Black_rose
what i see as original is something that has not been used a million times with a different skin  8o, elves are almost always archer, dwarves miners, bolth pure?? what the heck???  ?(  but they could take somethin from a really old forgotten myth, that would be one way of being an original game by using real life monsters (and they do exist) pyschic vampires, i had one for a while, then i swear i had a second one  but the fact is, they need something original or a least truely retro, most of their race\'s are used in one way or another in alot of things. why not have little used races from real mythology? that would be original

So are you say you want them to let us play as creatures the like of Valkries and Centars?

[Black_rose]

yes, not just us play as them as new races but also for the enimies to be from ancient stories and texts, look in old religions and sutch, they could find good bosses on the web oage i linked

[Robinmagus]

I really do agree with balck rose. If this game where to use a whole new set of monsters, i\'d pay to play! heck i might make a donation. now, the enemy thing. i would like the enemy races to be diffrent from char races. more of the ugly hidious creatures

A monstrous creature which inhabits the forests in Asia, especially in Indonesia, Malaysia and India. The manticore, considered to be the most dangerous predator in these regions, has the body of a lion and a head with human resemblance. The mouth is filled with three rows of razor-sharp teeth and the scaled tail ends in a ball with poisonous darts. The monster stalks through the forest in search of humans. Upon an encounter with a human, the manticore fires a volley of darts at the victim, who dies immediately. This unfortunate person is devoured completely, even the bones and clothing, as well as the possessions this person carried, vanish.

oooh i love that 1. i would like to kill it in PS one day

[Black_rose]

exactly, fighting centours meating the great hero beowolfe who took out a vicious beast ( im gunna read that some day ) or fight the dreded Incubus


In medieval European folklore, the incubus is a male demon (or evil spirit) who visits women in their sleep to lie with them in ghostly sexual intercourse. The woman who falls victim to an incubus will not awaken, although may experience it in a dream. Should she get pregnant the child will grow inside her as any normal child, except that it will possess supernatural capabilities. Usually the child grows into a person of evil intent or a powerful wizard. Legend has it that the magician Merlin was the result of the union of an incubus and a nun. A succubus is the female variety, and she concentrates herself on men. According to one legend, the incubus and the succubus were fallen angels.

The word incubus is Latin for \"nightmare\".

[Robinmagus]

What about races that arent all with human bodies. like four legged races...or races with no legs....somethin diffrent.

[Merdarion]

Well This idea was merged in some thread on Roleplaying forum called little experiment.

We there based on a race called meridians, which are great architects and builders.

They have perfectly shaped bodies with a second pair of arms.

Some of those used 4 swords, some used specially made swords.

Some Masterful archers could even use 2 bows at one moment.

One other race I could think of would be some kind of frog-men

Yeah you heard right Frog-Men, this sounds deaf doesnt it.

Frogs are just those little jumping toads arent they?

But think a frog can jump a multiple of his body length.

Those Frog-Men would have pretty much limits for using armor and weapons

But there could be wepons crafted for them.

[Robinmagus]

Here we go into customization of races  but i like the idea. Why not a special item for every race? Maybe they could be really good when they use that item. Like a special kind of shortblade for all those enkidukai out there.

[Merdarion]

Yeah or warhammers for dwarves.

But anyways, you cry about elves unoriginal.
Well the Planeshift elves have three things that are unoriginal :

--> the name (Elves)
--> their ears
-->their love for nature

They arent those godlike spellcasters of LOTR or that slimy elves of Morrowind.

And yes any game stole some ideas.

Bah. I dont think orcs fit into the setting.where should they live?

In the bamboo region around Ojavede maybe?

Or in the lovely planes and woods around hydlaa?

Or on any other place on yliakum?

Anyways  quite got into something:

We have those portals outta in the stonelaybirinth. Why shouldnt the outcome of races stop?

And you have to commit that the overall setting of planeshift is pretty unique.

[Black_rose]

they should live in a forest beach area

[Robinmagus]

They should live in caves and they should ambush players like you who dont think they fit in . Oh and kill all those other ppl too...