Race, Place and Two Cultures

[Cobbler]

This creative exercise for the Pathfinder Messageboards is to combine interesting races, places and cultures that may one day find their way into Golarion. Simply pick an OGL race, an interesting geographical habitat from Varisia or beyond and two inspiring motifs from real-world cultures.

Here are my examples:

Gnomes, the Sanos forest, Australian Aborigines & Medieval Monks.

These forest Gnomes are exiled keepers of lost knowledge. Each family is a guardian of a tree that contains hidden writing within it, and these repositories are copied and recopied over generations. If such a tree is ever lost, damaged or destroyed, a Gnome from the family is encouraged to go on a walkabout to discover knowledge about the world worthy of replacing what was lost.

Another example:

Dwarves, the veldt North of Janderhoff, Big-Game hunters and Mongolian nomads.

Across the veldt and plains South of the Cinderlands, Dwarven hunters track the big game. With magic, engineered ballistae and alchemical substances, these hunters shoot at great distance. Master taxidermists, they trade their precious hides and horns to perpetuate their nomadic, tinkering lifestyle. Living on the hard flat backs of giant beasts, their sturdy tent-encampments and dour yurts can be seen for miles across the plains.

Get the idea?

[Heathansson]

Those gnome monks should have didjeridoos(sp)?
I like this thread.

[Heathansson]

Woah. I spelled didjeridoo right.

[Chris Manos]

interesting thread. I'll have to fill this in more when I get a chance, but I'll try something involving halflings , knights templar and ninjas...

[Cobbler]

Thanks Chris! Thanks Heathansson! I find its a great way to get creative. Tomorrow I'll put together Half-Elves, Sea-Cliffs, Polynesians and American Hippies!

Looking forward to Halfling Knights of the Shadow!

Cheers

[fray]

So, I'm not familiar with what is OGL stuff... would someone tell me what are my race choices?

[Sect]

fray wrote:

So, I'm not familiar with what is OGL stuff... would someone tell me what are my race choices?

To make things simple, stick with PHB races. You COULD go with MM as well, but no one's really sure which monsters are WotC.

[Lilith]

Go to d20srd.org for a listing of what's in the SRD.

[Christopher Adams]

Heathansson wrote:

Woah. I spelled didjeridoo right.

I usually see it as didgeridoo. So, you were close.

[Sect]

Sect wrote:

fray wrote:

So, I'm not familiar with what is OGL stuff... would someone tell me what are my race choices?

To make things simple, stick with PHB races. You COULD go with MM as well, but no one's really sure which monsters are WotC.

Okay. According to the legal section of the SRD, all creatures from the MM except for the beholder, gauth, carrion crawler, displacer beast, githyanki, githzerai, illithid, umber hulk, and yuan-ti are OGL. It also list tanar'ri and baatezu, but I don't know if they're just referring to the name of the demons and devils, or all of them.