UC MUD Races

Living creatures

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.

Group	Race	Size	Language Capability	Player Option	Description	Bonuses
Elf	Cavern, Forest, Plain, Mountain, Desert, Tundra, Grunge, Hipster	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	TBD	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.
Canine	Dogs, wolves, foxes, coyotes	Small to Medium	Non-sentient	NPC
Feline	Lions, tigers, house cats, lynx	Small to medium	Non-sentient	NPC
Avian	Eagles, owls, ravens, crows, sparrows, hawks, herons, flamingos, dodos	Small to medium	Non-sentient	NPC
Reptile	Turtles, crocodiles, alligators, lizards, snakes	Small to large	Non-sentient	NPC
Amphibian	Frogs, toads, salamanders, caecilian	Small to medium	Non-sentient	NPC
Insect	Mosquitos, ants, bees, flies, cockroaches, fleas, beetles	Small	Non-sentient	NPC
Rodent	Rats, mice, gerbils, hamsters, squirrels, beavers, chipmunks, capybara, guinea pigs, voles	Small	Non-sentient	NPC
Ursine	Panda, polar bear, grizzly, brown bear, black bear	Medium to large	Non-sentient	NPC
Fish	Freshwater and saltwater	Small to large	Non-sentient	NPC
Shark		Small to large	Non-sentient	NPC
Whale	Dolphins, orcas, baleen, blue	Medium to large	Non-sentient	NPC
Dinosaur		Medium to large	Non-sentient	NPC
Mustelidae	Wolverines, ferrets, otters, honey badgers.	Small	Non-sentient	NPC	This family is the shit.
Lagomorph	Hares, rabbits, pika	Small	Non-sentient	NPC
Pinniped	Walrus, sea lion, fur seal, earless seals	Small to medium	Non-sentient	NPC
Arachnid	Spiders, scorpions, ticks	Small	Non-sentient	NPC
Crustacean	Crabs, lobster, shrimp, crayfish, krill, barnacles	Small	Non-sentient	NPC
Molluscs	Squid, octopus, cuttlefish, snails, slugs, oysters, clams, mussels, scallops	Small to large	Non-sentient	NPC
Echinoderms	Starfish, sand dollars	Small	Non-sentient	NPC
Marsupials	Kangaroo, koala, possum, sugar glider, thylacine, wallaby, bandicoot, Tasmanian Devil (need to rename), wombat	Small to medium	Non-sentient	NPC
Monotreme	Echidna, platypus	Small	Non-sentient	NPC
Chiroptera	Bats	Small	Non-sentient	NPC
Xenarthra	Anteaters, sloths, armadillo	Small	Non-sentient	NPC
Tubulidentata	Aardvarks	Small	Non-sentient	NPC
Flora		Small to large	Non-sentient	NPC
other magical monsters

Racial Modifiers

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, 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 and Nymphs 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.
• Not really dealt with for non-sapient NPCs

Racial traits

Descriptive fields vary by race for sentient races.

Some may not be discernible to other races, though. Different groups have different secondary/tertiary sex characteristics, for example. Need a group tree/wheel/grid to show how closely related each is. The further away from each other, the harder it is for the different races to recognize traits of each other.

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