[DF] "Classic" Dungeon Fantasy racial vision types

[Bruno]

Originally Posted by Kuroshima

Personally, I also give 300 points, and allow them to take 20 more points of disadvantages, on top of the 50+5 in the professional templates. Mind you, this means that you get very competent starting characters! One of them even managed to include a racial lens and a lens! (Wood Elf Scout/Mystic Knight).

Some combinations are especially efficient. Ogre Barbarian and Celestial Paladin come to mind - but Wood Elf Scout is too. Not surprisingly, these seem to play into racial steriotypes ;)

[Anders]

How about the Ogre Mage? ;)

[Bruno]

Originally Posted by Asta Kask

How about the Ogre Mage? ;)

That magic resistance is killer :)

[Stone Dog]

Originally Posted by Bruno

That magic resistance is killer :)

"Somewhere in the East I have heard that the ogres have stumbled across some sort of elixir or ritual or something that improves their resistance to magic and heightens their intelligence. They turn an unnatural blue color, grow horns and apparently go some kind of crazy, but they end up becoming powerful creatures of magic on the other side of it. If they survive."

(( just a possible justification for D&D level ogre magi. ))

[sir_pudding]

Originally Posted by Stone Dog

"Somewhere in the East I have heard that the ogres have stumbled across some sort of elixir or ritual or something that improves their resistance to magic and heightens their intelligence. They turn an unnatural blue color, grow horns and apparently go some kind of crazy, but they end up becoming powerful creatures of magic on the other side of it. If they survive."

(( just a possible justification for D&D level ogre magi. ))

Isn't it simpler to just have the Oni be demons, and the western style Ogres be brutish giants? There's no reason to suppose that the two actually have anything in common.

[Stone Dog]

Originally Posted by sir_pudding

Isn't it simpler to just have the Oni be demons, and the western style Ogres be brutish giants? There's no reason to suppose that the two actually have anything in common.

Unless you don't want blue magic giants to be actual demons. There might not be a reason for them to have anything in common, but some people might like the traditional aspect of them. Demons have a lot of baggage that regular old D&D ogre mages don't, too. Hell. Banishing. That sort of thing.

[sir_pudding]

Originally Posted by Stone Dog

Unless you don't want blue magic giants to be actual demons. There might not be a reason for them to have anything in common, but some people might like the traditional aspect of them. Demons have a lot of baggage that regular old D&D ogre mages don't, too. Hell. Banishing. That sort of thing.

Isn't a demonic origin more traditional? The "Ogre Mages" of AD&D are based on Japanese Demons more than anything else.

[Stone Dog]

Originally Posted by sir_pudding

Isn't a demonic origin more traditional? The "Ogre Mages" of AD&D are based on Japanese Demons more than anything else.

Traditional to the DF genre, not to mythology in general.

[roguebfl]

Rokugan has better Gamifed Oni anyway 8)

[Stone Dog]

Originally Posted by roguebfl

Rokugan has better Gamifed Oni anyway 8)

The only damn thing in the whole game that can teleport and it is the named Oni that is an actual eating machine. GREAT. ;)

But this is all very off topic...