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TrosselKing
2015-04-14, 08:03 PM
I'm looking for a few other races for a Wild West/Western RPG. Here's a list of all the races and (most of) the classes I have across all five other campaigns: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Horror, Sci-Fi, and Cyberpunk (I don't have anything for Modern yet, mostly because I'm divided on two different ideas: either having a bunch of kids pretending to be these personas w/ magic powers, guns, and stuff, or playing it straight) https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NmI9VBShciqcq072rT61xnpkoTwooOAJzgBU5VAmNk0/edit?usp=sharing. Anyway, I kinda feel like I need more races to go through and it wouldn't hurt to have a few extra races in the Cyberpunk setting since I only have five so far.

Here are the notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DD7mAfL2hZXE_kou02REyswXJxlqU7wBVYxRi4Kz6RQ/edit?usp=sharing
And the character creation systems (I have so far):
Fantasy (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QMvf2J5_UMPfruM3QUURbNPJTpSE5a1XzV69E8_U3_8/edit?usp=sharing), Cyberpunk (https://docs.google.com/document/d/13b6072cakazCfW8mQc3ynkzGDIIb4KQFIzqmmaAryU8/edit?usp=sharing), Sci-Fi (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VcV7QZHVBgYURVaoSQJe3ZqnYEcfWBHcnPwwLVdolDM/edit?usp=sharing), Horror (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ezQQQQLxjretCXX6AIPKTl_iNkR1LT7hO6TZn5J_XWw/edit?usp=sharing), Western (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1S8zjDl-9Ddv51aBuxUesgQhdSDXvhdg0C11P7MqJSis/edit?usp=sharing)

Maglubiyet
2015-04-14, 09:02 PM
Why do you feel like you need more races? What is the theme of this Western going to be -- historic or high fantasy?

TrosselKing
2015-04-14, 10:04 PM
Why do you feel like you need more races? What is the theme of this Western going to be -- historic or high fantasy?

All of my other settings (again, except for Modern because I don't have anything for that yet) have a Massive Race Selection. Cyberpunk has the least with only 5 (Human, Mutant, mutated human-rats, Strung-out inhuman cyborgs, genetically perfect supermen), whereas Fantasy has a whopping 45 (another 14-15 that aren't official, but I just wrote them down for potential DLC...when/if that happens), Horror has about 9 (including some of the monsters like zombies, werewolves, and even Reapers), Sci-Fi has about 20, and as I said there's nothing for Modern because I don't know what to do with that. I want to try and play the whole Western thing (mostly) straight.

I say mostly because there's a lot of Steampunk stuff and the classes are divided into three categories (as with a lot of the other settings): Cowboys, who are more combat-heavy and use guns--except the Spell-Slinger which is the Western version of the Magic Knight, Indians, which mostly use magic and their own weaponry, and Settlers, who have uses outside of the party or their own practical purposes like lock-picking, seducing/conning information out of NPC's, finding valuables in the Prospector's case, stuff like that. I kinda want to give at least the illusion of having an equal race-to-class character build system. As you can see from the Compendium, I tried balancing all the races, and adding in that any race can play any class, regardless of gender, morality, age, etc. I especially want to expand on the races in the Western setting; if it helps, though, I originally had a Steampunk setting but fused the weapons, armor, and everything else into it because I felt having both would feel redundant. Don't really know if that will expand my potential races out any further but I just hoped.