A race I'm suprised to see has not been suggested

[Chaosprism]

Elemental savants (from sorcerors) are in the works, so it shouldnt be too hard to extend some of those abilities into a new race, it's just the art department that have to animate the new genasi.

We may see aasimar and tieflings for players too one day.\


I'd still prefer to see gnomes, shifters and kalashtar before these though, things that are meant to be in eberron.

[Tirisha]

small problem.... Genasi are Forgotten Realms. They don't exist in Eberron.

[doubledge]

small problem.... Genasi are Forgotten Realms. They don't exist in Eberron.

tell that to the hundreds of drzzzzzzztttttz esque drow rangers running around.

[underpants]

To keep it in Eberron which they should

We need Shifters

bring on the shape shifters. They are major figures in most of the novels and a big part of eberron lore

[Failedlegend]

To keep it in Eberron which they should

We need Shifters

bring on the shape shifters. They are major figures in most of the novels and a big part of eberron lore

Hmmmm....I always thought Changelings were the shapechangers and shifters were Feline Humanoids lol.

[Eladiun]

I prefer if they would do the more conventional races first. Where mah gnomes at?

How do you think Warforged work? The gnomes are inside driving them.

[Cyr]

I too would like to see the various planetouched races. They would add a good amount of diversity. Gnomes are a base race and should be put in game, but I can't imagine them adding much to the game. The various monster races of course would be a blast to play in game also. I have zero interest in Eberron specific races because frankly after five years of playing DDO I can say Eberron is the worst campaign setting I have seen for d&d.

[Bodic]

Shifters, also known as the weretouched, are one of the intelligent races inhabiting Eberron. With both humans and lycanthropes among their distant ancestors, shifters posses just a small portion of their forefathers' shape-shifting abilities. They cannot transform wholly into an animal but can instead shift parts of their body to become animal-like for short periods of time. In 832 YK the Chuch of the Silver Flame led an inquisition to whipe out all lycanthropes in Khovaire, Shifters included. The inquisition lasts fifty years killing most lycanthropes and driving the survivors deep into the Eldeen Reaches.

Changelings are a humanoid race who are distantly descended from dopplegangers. Changelings possess a natural ability to alter their physical appearance much like their monstrous progenitor race, but are somewhat limited in the forms they can take compared to a doppleganger. That being said changelings are able to alter their height by as much as a foot growing either taller or shorter, change their physical features to appear as another humanoid race and even take on the appearance of either gender (though changelings are sexually dimorphic with clear physical differences between males and females). Changelings cannot, however, change the clothing or equipment they are wearing with their natural abilities and this is often one of the few clues that two different people may in fact be the same changeling in two forms. Able to assume many different forms at will, changelings only revert to their natural form when killed or when viewed with a true seeing spell. In their natural forms changelings resemble gray skinned humans but lack some facial definition such as nostrils or lips (though they still have noses and mouths). As noted above changelings can indeed take on the appearance of either gender but in their natural forms they are clearly either male or female.


Also Add the other Civilized races of Eberron
Orc
Gnome
Hobgoblin
Kalashtar

before Adding a Non Eberron Race

[dejafu]

small problem.... Genasi are Forgotten Realms. They don't exist in Eberron.

Eberron was always intended to be a "kitchen sink" D&D setting, where any monster, race, or class was able to have its place somewhere, somehow. Genasi seem to be pretty easy to explain in a setting where bound elementals are part of everday life and planar manifest zones are a regular occurrence.

There was actually a Dragon magazine article from a few years ago that offered ideas for how Genasi would fit into Eberron (though that admittedly was for the Edition That Shall Not Be Named Unless You Want to Earn Neg Rep Just For Mentioning It).

[Entelech]

Just because a single individual wants a specific "oooOOOOooooh! Lookit meeee!" thing doesn't mean the Devs need to rush out and implement it. There are a lot of folks waiting for a lot of things, after all.

From the game lore, Gnomes and Shifters are ahead of Tieflings in the queue, and Tieflings are ahead of Genasi.

Now, to be honest, all they need to implement Shifters is the 5-o-clock shadow technology from Half Elves, plus a few Wolverine/Dragonball Z hairstyles. Yes, even for the women. It's not like their goofy shapeshifting does anything that needs graphics any more than Power Attack does.

Also, Gnomes are the logical 32-point Int / Charisma caster race.

Not only are Gnomes and Shifters better choices lore-wise, they're better game-wise as well.

Once we have Gnomes and Shifters and Druids, maybe we can start thinking about Genasi, and Half-Drow, and Weresharks, and Awakened White Pines, and Impure Princes, and Kobolds, and Dragonborn, and Ninjas, and Dread Pirates, and Mystic Theurges, and Lions, and Tigers, and Bears, oh my!

[Failedlegend]

There was actually a Dragon magazine article from a few years ago that offered ideas for how Genasi would fit into Eberron (though that admittedly was for the Edition That Shall Not Be Named Unless You Want to Earn Neg Rep Just For Mentioning It).

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I have no issue with 3.5 either I just don't see why people hate 4e so much, probably the same reason the people who still play 2e hate 3e

Note: One caveat about 4e though, whoever decided to change the names of things in 4e (ie. Aasimar > Deva or Triceratops > Behemoth) should burn in a pot of molten feces.

Half-Drow

Please don't subject anyone to the idea that MORE elves are a good idea :P

[Seikojin]

genesai aint bad i admit - but id prefer it kept more eberon and theres core eberon races still mising. Im honestly not sure genesai exist in eberon - or if they did how they work and what planes (moons) they would be associated with. Im guessing fernia (fire), risia(ice) and lamania(air and earth).

Before genesai - and their alignment based ocunterparts asimar and tieflings id like to see some more eberon stuff.

gnomes, kalashtar and shifters.

oh and kobolds, hob goblins and bugbears as playable races too - long live the great dakahni empire!

and druids..still waiting on the druids.

+1, get core races for ebberon in before adding other races.

[Samiusbot]

Im honestly not sure genesai exist in eberon

Stuff in Eberron is like rule 34. If it exists, there is Eberron of it. No exceptions Well you get the idea.

I agree however Gnomes next plz!

[Failedlegend]

Shifters, also known as the weretouched, are one of the intelligent races inhabiting Eberron. With both humans and lycanthropes among their distant ancestors, shifters posses just a small portion of their forefathers' shape-shifting abilities. They cannot transform wholly into an animal but can instead shift parts of their body to become animal-like for short periods of time. In 832 YK the Chuch of the Silver Flame led an inquisition to whipe out all lycanthropes in Khovaire, Shifters included. The inquisition lasts fifty years killing most lycanthropes and driving the survivors deep into the Eldeen Reaches.

Changelings are a humanoid race who are distantly descended from dopplegangers. Changelings possess a natural ability to alter their physical appearance much like their monstrous progenitor race, but are somewhat limited in the forms they can take compared to a doppleganger. That being said changelings are able to alter their height by as much as a foot growing either taller or shorter, change their physical features to appear as another humanoid race and even take on the appearance of either gender (though changelings are sexually dimorphic with clear physical differences between males and females). Changelings cannot, however, change the clothing or equipment they are wearing with their natural abilities and this is often one of the few clues that two different people may in fact be the same changeling in two forms. Able to assume many different forms at will, changelings only revert to their natural form when killed or when viewed with a true seeing spell. In their natural forms changelings resemble gray skinned humans but lack some facial definition such as nostrils or lips (though they still have noses and mouths). As noted above changelings can indeed take on the appearance of either gender but in their natural forms they are clearly either male or female.


Also Add the other Civilized races of Eberron
Orc We already have Half-Orcs
Gnome Give us height sliders and make a short halfling and you have a gnome...unless Gnomes are a +Int race and they give them enough racial bonuses to being a wizard that they can contend with WF, Humans & H-Elfs in that area tha I'm all for them
Hobgoblin again to similar to H-Orcs
Kalashtar Need a description of this race...to me they just seem like humans with glowing eyes and psionic abilities

before Adding a Non Eberron Race

Ah cool thanks for that....I ask eveyrone who keeps saying "We should have X because its a core race" ok do you actually have a reason beyond that because it being "Core" is frankly worth bubcus gives us reasons why it would be a cool race and what it could possibly add to the game.

All and all who cares what their source if your only reason that Turbine should make a race first is because its a "core" race that a sad reason, I say go with as many unique different races we can like Dragonborn, Shardmind, Thri-Kreen, Genasi, Revenant, Kenku, Bullywug, Aasimar, Tiefling, etc.

Half-Drow

Please don't subject anyone to the idea that MORE elves are a good idea :P

Actually I also don't get why people keep asking for races like deuregar, ghostwise halflings, deep gnomes,etc. I've always viewed those as "Sub" races or templates put onto the base race more for roleplaying purposes really dueregar and deep gnomes are just darker skinned gnomes that usually dwell on the other side of the alignment scale.

Stuff in Eberron is like rule 34. If it exists, there is Eberron of it. No exceptions Well you get the idea.

Quoted for truth

[Tobril]

I prefer if they would do the more conventional races first. Where mah gnomes at?

Mwa ha ha ha!

The gnome-eater has struck again!

He devours all gnomes using his gnome-sized mouth and is 100% invulnerable to all gnome-based attacks!

Tremble in fear, puny gnomes!

[Tobril]

I agree however Gnomes next plz!

Nope, see above about the gnome eater.

[TheKeg]

KOBOLDS - YES YES OMG YES!!!!

ONLY if it's programmed to let out a random "Yark! Yark!" once in a while. Also, you HAVE to jump backwards, but you'd be allowed the super jumping capabilities of WW contortionist kobolds.

[broolthebeast]

ddo tip #294843

Drow are not a 28 point build race. due to their starting racial stat bonus. 32 point builds were created to balance the game with the drow.

[BlackSteel]

Edit: A note to devs - Don't make this a Drow-like race...actually NEVER limit a race to 28pt again (actually you really should remove that from them)...just give Genasi +2 Int, -2 Dex, Str or Wis (or make it variable depending on element...+2 X, -2 X)

drow are limited b/c of the multiple +2 stats at creation. they can already reach a higher stat buy in than other races as long as those stats arent dumped. (additionally you could have a 32 pt drow if its double TR'd)

[Failedlegend]

ddo tip #294843

Drow are not a 28 point build race. due to their starting racial stat bonus. 32 point builds were created to balance the game with the drow.

drow are limited b/c of the multiple +2 stats at creation. they can already reach a higher stat buy in than other races as long as those stats arent dumped. (additionally you could have a 32 pt drow if its double TR'd)

ummm...wow that has nothing to do with this thread...but...yes the 28pt limit is a HUGE disadvantage and I think it was a mistake on the devs part and am against them doing again (actually I'm very much for them removing the 28pt limit on drow...with some changes of course)