#race creation

[hex-fauna]

Question to people who make original alien races, what's the best thing to look for to come up with the physiology?

[newtsinboots]

A fun race of friends I created for a one-off where everyone “has a great time” and “don’t get tragically brutalized”...

[yeruo-shumu-kitten]

the nine races!

[agwitow]

The first in a series looking at how to design a fictional race of beings. There are numerous different examples of races within fiction. There are the ever popular elves and dwarves, the traditionally villainous orcs and goblins, and the potentially badass dragons and griffins. With a hundred other possible examples that I could give, it's easy to find pre-defined fantasy races to populate your fictional world. But is that what you want to do?

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

[i-am-the-inksinger]

Quick question: Is it BS to have a society that takes so much care in ensuring there is as much chance as possible that each child has a unique given name that new parents will even ask around prior to the actual naming to see which names are unavailable?