Races

The concept of Race has been replaced with Species; please see that topic for more up-to-date ideas. This topics remains here for posterity.

This is a list of potential player character races in FærieMUD, although it will be theoretically possible to play any race of creature in the entire bestiary. A character's race determines what sort of physical body or manifestation he will have in the game world. Note that this is distinct from the character's culture?, which is the societal structure in which he spent his formative years.

Description

While the object-oriented structure of FærieMUD? will allow nearly any NPC race or object class to be played by a Player Character?, it is obviously not wise to allow an unlimited range of choices, especially to the novice player. A player who is beginning a character for the first time (as opposed to creating a character after the death of her first), will be given a choice between the following races (a working list):

There are some considerable caveats to playing a rare race -- ones that require a more experienced player. A returning player (one who has played her previous character to his natural demise or unnatural destruction), may be given the opportunity to play a more challenging, but more powerful race, depending on her previous character's immortal statistics. These could include:

Note that these are not authoritative lists, and they discount the fact that there may be additional subraces within a given racial group that can be created by deities.

— Scotus - 27 May 2000 <br/>
— Ged The Greys Hain - 19 Nov 2002 [Separated race and culture]<br/>
— GedTheGreysHain - 04 May 2003 [Deprecated; linked to Species]