Scriptural Races?

[beejazz]

I think it would be fun playing in a campaign where everything wasn't Norse/Greek/Anglo-centric. How about one with races based on Biblical/Koranic, etc. races?

Lillim: Mainstream humanity, all descended from Lillith.

Nephillim: Descendants of angel-human crossbreeds... Large (or posessing the enlarge person spell like ability)

Djinn: Created of smokeless fire, morally ambiguous magically adept tricksters.

Marked: Descendants of Cain and bearers of the Mark (elaborate magical birthmark-tatoo).

Beasts: Pre-Adam humanity of obscure texts. Hunched, uncivilized, prehensile toes, etc.

[CYMRO]

You could even toss in the Goliaths from RoS.

How would the djinn be statted?  Would you be trying to avoid LA


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And what is so wrong with being hunched and having prehensiled toes?
It makes it easier to pick cabbage.....

[brainface]

The morally ambigious djinn are always good :)

(I've been reading the arabian nights recently.)

[CYMRO]

And would one include fiendish bloodline types?

[Captain Obvious]

i was thinkingof doing a thing like this recently too. my "as it is in heaven" CS was started off of these ideas, but i kind of want to something a bit closer to this as well (or at least see someone else do it and give them some input. I have too many CS's going at onece and not enough time).

I'd use mostly inspiration from the bible, but a major set of inspiration for this is the world created in the Lucifer series of graphic novels (ever read them? it's fabulous stuff).

[CYMRO]

Lucifer series? From Vertigo?
I have often wondered if they were worth the effort.  

[beejazz]

Well... I don't think I'd include the fiendish, and as these are the CORE races, I'd avoid LA or racial hit dice. I might, however, overhaul the race system so PCs get special powers attributed to their race as they advance in level. The classes might need overhauling, too (for just this reason).

[Captain Obvious]

Lucifer series? From Vertigo?
I have often wondered if they were worth the effort.

oh yeah, defenitely. The whole series is solid start to finish. It's one of my favourite serieses.