Random race issues

[ShadowFish]

skip this- I guess this is more of a complaint than a wish... but a thought popped into my head that bothered me.  I read xanaroth\'s post about humans being at a disadvantage, checked the races to realize he was wrong... then something else caught me eye.  

I was reading the kran description and read humanoid and realized all the races were humanoid. besides their color and a tail or different skin they all have the same basic shape.  Not that this effects me but i guess it would be interesting to see some more variety in the races. im not saying their should be more, but maybe change the ones already created.  Just saying that not all the races have to be limited to two arms or legs or have to have ears or noses.  The differences i saw from humans were wings, tails and horns and mayby a pointy ear and some fins...

maybe someone doesnt like walking or would rather have four fingers or four arms.

Another thing that bothers me is that physical attacks get extremely boring if they are always the same.  The attacks should also change so that probably means there would have to be multiple keys to assign as attacks or a way to put in different combos. krans sound like they will be mostly physical, but they should still be able to think up different ways to hit people that doesnt have to be as fancy asthe martial arts.

Plus games are alot better when everything is realistic as possible. not as in no magic but like if a fire ball was shot at a nolthirir and it blasted back with a wave of water then the water would destroy the flame. or if you blasted the dirt enough you would create craters and eventually dig  a hole. and the players should be able to take anything.. if they wanted to steal a mug from the bar and take it outside the town to throw at monsters they should be able too...

im sorry that this is hard to understand...

[Saphire]

You have a good point... if they\'re supposed to be unique ideas, why arn\'t they totally different from one another?

Like you said, the only thing that differentiates between them are tails, ears, horns, wings, and fins. Then again, it is easier to model characters if they all look fairly identical...

Catch 22:

Make them nearly identical and make lots of them later on
OR
Make them all totally different and have fewer of them produced at a time

8*/

[Entamis]

But AFAIK they are just races, not different species (except for Kran). I see nothing wrong with it.

[Kiva]

They are all humanoid creatures, just from diffrent planes of existance. If you had read a bit about the settings, then you\'d know the portals they all came through were from diffrent planes and dimensions and worlds. So all of them (except Ynnwn who are a mix race, and Lemurs and Kran who were created by magic), are somewhat human, just very far out.

[Seytra]

I of course read the background info. What I find most weird is that they come from different planes, not just planets, and _still_ can cross-breed happily. I mean, what are the odds of two sentient races developing on totally different planets or even planes, and not only look very much alike but also have compatible gene-pools and means of reproduction? Unless, of course, the \"planes of existance\" are something like \"alternate realities\" that are linked _because_ of these similarities...

[Entamis]

This is how I understand it - these planes aren\'t really that different.