Sup /tg/, Anyone here have some awesome, unique ideas for fantasy

>>46691521
I'm tired of constant shitty attempts to make things different, usually by way of making the races either stupid or a shallow stereotype of a historical society.

>>46691545
Totally agreed. I was hoping someone might have come up with some legitimately unique races that aren't just a caricature of a historical society or NotElves.

>>46691521
I just do humans and nothing else. I've never found non-human species to be necessary.

>>46691686
Perhaps not necessary, but I think they're a ton of fun. I really like the aesthetic of non-human races in high fantasy. Now, in dark/low fantasy, I think human only is a pretty solid way to go.

All that aside, that's not what the thread is about. Thanks for your contribution either way, though.

>>46691521
An anorexic looking race of mountaintop dwellers who's first contact with the others was unfortunately a group of humans and dwaves meeting a cannibal tribe.

No ears, slit noses, and small bumps around the forehead are common. They are rather active but they are constantly misjudged as being lazy as sloths. They are usually nomadic and their laws classic eye for an eye.

Now all I need is a name.

>>46691521
Sentient quasi-colllective plant folk who do not, and possibly cannot, understand the needs and feelings of more fleshy races aside from their biological instincts. Tribal, intelligent, somewhat violent, and very group centric.

>>46691800
Do their physical features reflect evolution based on the mountaintop climate?

Why are they misjudge as being lazy when they're actually active?

Naming is one of the most challenging things ever in writing. Usually I use a lot of translation from real world languages. Sometimes I'll say, okay, this race has French-inspired names and go from there.

>>46691836
That seems awesome. I tend to like plant-folk and the indifference to human emotions is very eldritch-horror-y.

>>46691757
I've seen some interesting stuff done with neanderthals and other semi-modern humans.
I'm also a fan of using Ancient Greek/Roman species, like satyrs/harpies/minotaurs (obviously the near-furry nature of these creatures make toy have to be careful). Bit anything more exotic than that, like bug people or lesser servitor races from the Cthulhu Mythos just seem or of place.
Also can't say I'm overly fond of lizardmen as anything other than an enemy species.

>>46691932
Hmm we can justify the anorexic look and mountain dwelling with slow metabolisms and limited food. High activity because they have to search for food as well as create farms if they so choose. (I imagine it would be tough on a mountain)

Also, if they look like Ethiopians (sorry, those commercial's man) and live in the mountains, wouldn't they be easy to judge as lazy?

>>46691521
>Anyone here have some awesome, unique ideas for fantasy races?
1-Gurps space
2-Generate an random living being
3-Go back to 1 until you hit some threeshold

Keep everything but the bodies.

Elves -> giant spiders
Dwarves ->Moles
Hobbits ->rabbits or similar
Orcs ->Pigs/wolves
Goblins -> Bats

Et cetera.

I'm going to some form of hell for this.

In honor of our models and starlets with eating disorders. The mountain dwellers shall be hence forth known as The Bulim.

Should we move this to gdg?

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>>46691836
Thank you for describing the Florans from starbound.

>>46691521
>I'm tired of plain old Elf, Dwarf, Halfling etc, give me some autism as i'm so stupid i can't homebrew


why don't you try EBF you stupid lazy cunt