| MeloraChabert |
Evil Midnight Lurker wrote:You invented the wayangs and naga-ji for DE, too, and their writeups are admirably informative -- they're sort of anti-gnomes from the Plane of Shadow, or engineered servants for the naga masters. Bang, there you go! ^.^
...But yeah, samsarans are intriguing from what you've told us so far, and I'd like to see a "Samsarans of Golarion" Companion or some such, along with companions for the others.
The wayangs and the nagaji are to a certain extent "easier" to grasp and thus easier to summarize. Nagaji are basically 0 HD lizardfolk, while as you say, the wayangs are "reverse gnomes."
The samsarans are really pretty new; they're pretty unique and unlike much else. Furthermore, their strange method of birth and death, which is their defining characteristic, required a lot of the space in their entry. They were hands down the HARDEST part of the book to make fit in their allocated space. No contest.
I'd love a chance to expand upon them more... and a lot of interest from the customers will only increase the chances we'll be able to do just that.
Until then, I'm certainly willing to answer any questions folks have about them to the best of my ability.
Cool, I've got a Samsaran question that's been driving me crazy searching to no avail for an answer on the message boards.
I know they give birth to humans, so they can have children, but what races are they genetically compatible with?
Only other Samsarans? Samsarans and humans?
Are they treated genetically as human for purpose of other races they can reproduce with (like elves and orcs), maybe giving birth to half elves or half orcs who then reincarnate as Samsarans after death?
Or are they capable of reproducing with any humanoid, their Samsaran blood overpowering that race's heredity and producing a human child?
I've been pondering this one a while, obviously. I could easily just pick something for my game, but I like to know how a race is intended to be when possible, and go from there.