New Dom3 races! Post suggestions here!

[Edi]

johan osterman said:

Obviously you didn't used that melodic Finnish accent you have to use when reading Kalevala in swedish*. I was expecting more from you. Unless you shape up there will be no more beta testing for you.

*Including pastiches, even if crappy.

Umm, Johan, did you notice he said FRENCH translations? Granted, a Finnish accent when speaking Swedish might be melodic, but it'll not do much for French...

Edi

[Humer]

Tyrant said:
India is a huge chunk of the world and home of all kinds of exotic mysticism. I don't know much about ancient India, and it might be hard to isolate a mythic thematic thread, but something could be done.

Yeah, they should feature the Karmic(sp?) wheel: all troops and/or commanders are immortal, but only so that when they die (in own domain) they reincarnate as different troop/commander based on... what? Luck? Productivity? Other scale? Experience? This is where my imagination fails me.

Of course, this requires a whole new system to implement - but then again, I'm no dev.

And cows as sacred troops! Yeah.

- Humer

[Mind Elemental]

Actually, Mongol Empire = Barbarian Kings T'ien Chi, if I'm not mistaken, and Persia is also included in Arcoscephale.

[PashaDawg]

How about based on Indian (Hindu) myths?

Or based on Native American or Eskimo myths?

A Zoroastrian/Persian type thing could be fun, too.

Or some sort of race that normally inhabits another plane of existence/dimension but has managed to manifest themselves on “this” plane/dimension. I'm thinking of something supernatural, but not undead.

Arabian knights type stuff would also be very cool.

Just some vague stabs in the dark...

[Kel]

PashaDawg said:
Or some sort of race that normally inhabits another plane of existence/dimension but has managed to manifest themselves on “this” plane/dimension. I'm thinking of something supernatural, but not undead.

You mean...like R'lyeh ?

- Kel

[deccan]

Kel said:

You mean...like R'lyeh ?
- Kel

Perhaps he means something more like Ether Lords / Warriors instead of weird indescribable monsters, drawing on D&D planescape.

[Vicious Love]

More like the ether warriors. And they were here first, apparently.

Second the Persian* and Indian thingies, incidentally. Though I'd still rather see a proper, original fantasy race. Yet further emphasis on the original, of bold print didn't suffice, bearing in mind that pretty much any historical civilization or mythos is preferable to pretty much any generic fantasy race, even the ones that are just second- or third- hand bastardizations of said mythoi(Myth & Folklore->Tolkien->Weis & Hickman 3rd Edition, with expanded Skills & Powers ruleset!).

* Although Mind Elemental is right about Arcoscephale. However, on a Persia saturation scale of one to "enough", I'd rate Arcoscephale about 3.7, compensated for by a Greece saturation value well in excess of 5.0. That's one-a spicy parameter!

Update: Have been awake 39 hours, and counting. Will retract "spicy parameter" comment once am thinking straight. Seyla.

[Vicious Love]

D'oh. Really should refresh before posting, I've been reading another thread with this one open in another window for about an hour.

Update: This thread. Pretty sweet stuff, it is. If you don't mind the train wreck style images which invariably crop up whenever any sort of media are posted on a forum.

[Nagot Gick Fel]

PashaDawg said:
How about based on Indian (Hindu) myths?

[...] or Eskimo myths?

A Zoroastrian/Persian type thing could be fun, too.

Arabian knights type stuff would also be very cool.

I've made mods for all of these (Arabian Nights has Zoroastrian-inspired mages after its conquest of 'Persia'), although only the Arabian Nights is complete. Except for the sprites: I'm so terrible with drawing tools, I gave up making them. It took me 5-6 hours to make the sprites I've attached (Arabian 'Mystic' on flying carpet), and this is my only decent attempt so far.

Someone, please help me! I need cute sprites for Mamluks, drugged war elephants, polar werebear shamen and penguins!

[Cainehill]

deccan said:

Perhaps he means something more like Ether Lords / Warriors instead of weird indescribable monsters, drawing on D&D planescape.

Slaadi! Githyankees and Githzerais and Githwrapping!