UC MUD Races

One idea is to have basic races and have a bunch of sub-races based on location. This presents a problem with humans, so maybe we'll just leave them out. Entirely. (Hey baby, want to kill all humans?) Additionally, only a subset of races are playable. Some of those are "elite" and require a quest or some amount of time in game with a basic character before they can be unlocked.

Racial group	Race(s)	Size	Language Capability	Player Option	Description	Bonuses
Elf	Cavern, Forest, Plain, Mountain, Desert, Tundra	Medium	Sentient	Player Race. Some Elite	Elves are named for the region they're most found in.
Dwarf	TBD	Medium	Sentient	Player Race	All dwarves have beards
Halfling	Gnome, Hobbit, Kender	Small	Sentient	Player Race	Gnomes have increased magic and big ears. Hobbits are charismatic. Kender are nimble.
Fae	Brownie	Small	Sentient	Player Race	No wings, frail, increased magic
Fae	Satyr	Medium	Sentient	Elite Player Race	Mostly male, got legs, reaction adjustment
Fae	Nymph	Medium	Sentient	Elite Player Race	Mostly female, very pretty, inherent spells, reaction adjustment
Fae	Pixie	TBD	Sentient	NPC
Fae	Sprite	TBD	Sentient	NPC
Fae	Sidhe	Small	Sentient	Elite Player Race	Brownie with wings
Fae	Naiad	TBD	Sentient	NPC	Water fae
Reptite	Kobolds	Small	Sentient	NPC	Little Lizardfolk
Reptite	Naga	Medium	Sentient	NPC	Snake people
Reptite	Lizardfolk	Medium	Sentient	Elite Player Race	Lizard humanoids
Reptite	Troglodytes	TBD	Sentient	NPC
Reptite	Kappa	Small	Sentient	NPC	Water reptites
Anurans	Rana	TBD	Sentient	NPC	Frog people. Anurans are amphibious humanoids
Anurans	Bufonid	TBD	Sentient	NPC	Toad people
Anurans	Hylids	TBD	Sentient	NPC	Tree Frog people
Anurans	Dendrobs	TBD	Sentient	NPC	Poison Dart Frog people
Goblin	Orc	Medium	Sentient	Elite Player Race
Goblin	Gremlin	Small	Sentient	NPC
Goblin	Troll	Medium	Sentient	NPC
Goblin	Hobgoblin	Small	Sentient	NPC
Goblin	Kol'ksu	Small	Sentient	NPC	Water goblins
Giant	Storm, Ice, Fire, etc.	Large	Sentient	Elite player race	Adjustment to alignment and reaction based on type.
Giant	Ogre	Large	Sentient	Elite Player Race
Dragon	Chromatic and Mettalic?	Large	Sentient	NPC
Elenae	Lion, Tiger, etc.	Medium	Sentient	NPC	Like a centaur but with a cat instead of a horse.
Aeryn	Hawk, Raven, Heron	Medium	Sentient	NPC	Winged humanoids, bird wings
Golem	Material type	Medium	Sentient	Elite Player Race	Moving statues
Demons	TBD	TBD	Sentient	NPC
Angels	TBD	TBD	Sentient	NPC
Human	Half-elf, Half-orc, Half-ogre	Sentient	Player Race	Humans are not playable. Long ago, they were the largest single race on the planet. They could interbreed with just about anything, and they had a god named Bruce. Bruce was an asshole, and encouraged his followers to also be assholes, so the other gods ganged up on him and killed all the "pure" humans. There's a legend that Bruce was allowed to shelter one colony of humans (off on some island, somewhere, and everything on that island is lethal, except maybe some of the sheep), but none have been seen in ages.

Other Elite Races

Half-Dragon

• Standard size
• Breath attack
• Inherent AC
• Boost to stats
• Pick a dragon kind
• Adjustment to alignment
• Adjustment to reaction based on type
• Wings?
• What's the other half?

Half-Angel/Demon

• Standard Size
• Bonus to appropriate cleric powers
• Adjustment to alignment
• Adjustment to reaction based on type
• Wings
• Inherent spells

Race changing

Vampire

• Based on existing race
• Infection
• Curable

Lich

• Ritual
• Uncurable
• Requires magic

Mechanoid

• Ritual
• Uncurable
• Requires severing limbs

Were

• Wolf, Cat, Rat, etc.
• Uncontrollable change
• Curable
• Also able to learn to control change

Ghost

• Happens each time you die

Aging

• Do characters age? Will they eventually need to be retired? Do different races age differently?

Racial prejudices

The things listed below are to be used as guidelines for how NPCs react to certain races:

• Some races are "Evil": Half-orcs, half-ogres, half-chromatic dragons, half-demons, drow, ogres, orcs, lizardfolk, evil giant types, liches, vampires, weres.
  • This does not apply within their own race, though it might apply across to other "evil" races: Orcs mistrust half-demons, for instance.
  • Heck, even half-demons mistrust other half-demons.
• Pixies and Fairies are "flighty". Even the ones without wings.
• Small races are patronized by larger ones
• Weres and Vampires are infected. Might be treated as contagious
• Ghosts can't be seen except by clerics with the right skills
• Mechanoids might also be considered infected
• Golems are treated as machines
• Satyrs, Nymphs and Wild Elves are "interesting"
• Dwarves like beer
• Elves like trees
• Humans liked ~everything~ *eyebrow waggle*
• Half-elves are "lucky"

Specific interactions to consider:

• Who likes each other? Who doesn't?
• What kind of bonuses does this give them? Combat?

Interbreeding

• Humans and anything close to their size Thus all the half-things.
• Half-gnomes? Half-halflings? Half-giants? What's too small or too large?
• Are all these playable?
• Dragons, Angels, Demons breed with any standard race and modify that.

Non-sapient races

No interbreeding here. Just a list of animals/monsters that don't have language or civilization. Each super-category will have a size range to limit the subcategories

Animals

Canine

Dogs, wolves, foxes, coyotes

Feline

Lions, tigers, house cats, lynx

Avian

Eagles, owls, ravens, crows, sparrows, hawks, herons, flamingos, dodos

Reptiles

Turtles, crocodiles, alligators, lizards, snakes

Amphibian

Frogs, toads, salamanders, caecilian

Insect

Mosquitos, ants, bees, flies, cockroaches, fleas, beetles

Rodent

Rats, mice, gerbils, hamsters, squirrels, beavers, chipmunks, capybara, guinea pigs, voles

Ursine

Panda, polar bear, grizzly, brown bear, black bear

Fish

Freshwater and saltwater

Whale

Dolphins, orcas, baleen, blue

Mustelidae

Wolverines, ferrets, otters, honey badgers. This family is the shit.

Lagomorph

Hares, rabbits, pika

Pinniped

Walrus, sea lion, fur seal, earless seals

Arachnid

Spiders, scorpions, ticks

Crustacean

Crabs, lobster, shrimp, crayfish, krill, barnacles

Molluscs

Squid, octopus, cuttlefish, snails, slugs, oysters, clams, mussels, scallops

Echinoderms

Starfish, sand dollars

Marsupials

Kangaroo, koala, possum, sugar glider, thylacine, wallaby, bandicoot, Tasmanian Devil (need to rename), wombat,

Monotreme

Echidna, platypus

Chiroptera

Bats

Xenarthra

Anteaters, sloths, armadillo

Tubulidentata

Aardvark

Magical Monsters

Flora

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