Races

[sansthesis]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dragonlance_creatures

What races do we want to launch with?

Do races have different:

• attributes?
• permanent affects?
• skills?
• class restrictions?
• alignment restrictions?

We talked about letting players change their whotext based on the race that they picked so that we'd have fewer races in-code.

[XTremeTennis]

Here is a jumping off point for racial attributes;

Race	STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS
Dwarf	18	16	20	18	18
Goblin* (?)	16	20	18	16	18
Elf, High	16	20	16	20	18
Elf, Wild	18	20	18	16	18
Half-Elf (?)	18	18	18	18	18
Human	18	18	18	18	18
Kender*	16	20	18	18	16
Minotaur	20	18	20	16	16
Ogre (?)	22	16	20	16	16

*I cant figure out how to balance this race (?) means that I'm not even sure if it should be a race or not. As for class restrictions I think they should be kept fairly limited, the only ones I can really think of for sure would be Minotaur thief and Kender mage

[XTremeTennis]

while on attributes, I wonder if classes should have primary + secondary affectors, so that say a warrior would get both a perk to str and con or something. I'm not sure about racial skills/affects, that seems like a tough thing to balance. As a possible solution to balancing out kender we could give them resistance to mind affects, so charm/fear stuff, but a lot of the racial weaknesses and resistances seemed real arbitrary on ansalon, and I'm not really sure if that stuff is even needed. If you did do skills, should they be 100% unique? Gore for minotaur, always sneak in outdoors for kagonesti? stuff along that line