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Where is that Singe?
LOL, I guess some of our ideas aren't very original.even better!
If going for Sword and Sorcery, I'd avoid any classic races such as dwarves and elves that have become the standard for medieval fantasy.
I'd go with things like (for either PC or monster races):
Galatean -> Stone-like constructs with a society based around beauty and the arts.
Snake-men (or plain Yuan-ti) -> Rather human looking, but their tongue is a snake and is actually the part that controls the body
Heakaton -> Multi-armed half-giant, think Goro from Mortal Combats
Deva-> Ala 4e D&D
Garudan -> Antro-divine birds.
Rakshasa -> Shapeshifting (think changeling) feline fiend.
Salamandir -> Diminutive fire elementals, born alchemists and scholar.
We do have a "stone-creature", the cyclops, "a reptile-creature" and a few others.
Sorry for the confusion. As I posted upthread, the game was very-inspired by D&D to begin with, and I hope since D&D is the major RPG on the market, if D&D players are comfortable embracing a non-human game world, it might be worth pursuing.This is why I assumed D&D as well. If we were playing something based on say Stan Sakai's Usagi Yojimbo or either Looney Tunes or Walter Lantz animation, I would be fine with no humans.