As a fan of the neitchien people from Andromeda, my wife wants to play a neitchien. I want to use the Pathfinder Race cookbook to make it a fair base race, but do I have to come up with another name, like Uber, or is neitchien fair game?
If it's in your game you aren't publishing it, you can do whatever you want.
As I was researching your actual question I found this site that you may find of some help.
Hooray for wikipedia! (check those references)
Now, Nietzsche cannot be copywritten because it's someone's name. However, a race named after him with that specific description is getting into hazy, litigious areas that I don't want to speculate on.
Personally, I would simply have them call themselves "The Golden Ones" to reflect Plato's Republic idea of a highest-tiered race that shouldn't "mix" with the lesser metals.
Or you can just call it what it is: Eugenics.
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As I was researching your actual question I found this site that you may find of some help.
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nietzschean_(Andromeda)[/url]
Now, Nietzsche cannot be copywritten because it's someone's name. However, a race named after him with that specific description is getting into hazy, litigious areas that I don't want to speculate on.
Personally, I would simply have them call themselves "The Golden Ones" to reflect Plato's Republic idea of a highest-tiered race that shouldn't "mix" with the lesser metals.
Or you can just call it what it is: Eugenics.
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I'm quite certain the term "Nietzchean," used as a science-fiction/fantasy race name is trademarked by Roddenberry's estate.
However, the WORD Nietzchean, on its own, is simply the name of an adherent of the "that which does not kill us makes us stronger" brand of philosophy.
In a published setting, using that race name is a Bad Idea (tm).
At home, if you can't think of a better name, I doubt you're going to get anyone pounding down your doors for trademark infringement.
Hee hee. Khan indeed.
Hmmm... Maybe call them Montalbonien?
Good one, Houstonderek.
I was wondering how to put the bone blades in the game until I realized all they are is a natural unarmed attack. Give the Ubers the Improved Unarmed Strike feat for free at first level, and the bone blades are merely the cosmetic appearance of the feat.
There's a few distinctions between natural attacks and improved unarmed strike. Honestly I'm to lazy to point all of these out but if you dig around you'll see what I mean.
I will give you one example though to make my case.
Improved Unarmed Strike is the start of a feat chain. Some of the feats in this chain include Deflect Arrows and Improved Grapple. Having claws should not predisposition you to learning either of these techniques. Inversely there's some feats and abilities that only apply to natural attacks such as Improved Natural Attack out of the Bestiary.
I would simply give them natural weapons. There's plenty of races in the Bestiary that have them and there's ample rules for this.
First Draft: Ubers
Ubers are the result of magical experiments and planned breeding. To them, life is a challenge, a threat to be overcome. They are gifted, but haughty, sure in their own superiority over "normals".
Abilities
ST+2, CON+2, CHA-2
Ubers are stronger than humans, and healthier, but their condescending and haughty attitudes are hard to deal with.
Natural Attack: Ubers were designed to have bones growing off their forearms connected with flexible cartalage and musculature. These bones can be used as a natural attack, and allow the Ubers to always be considered "armed". 1d6+STR DMG.
Rapid Healing: Ubers heal twice as fast as a normal human.
Resistant to Disease: Ubers get +5 to any roll to resist magical or non magical diseases.
Not being familiar with the Andromeda setting, but a HUGE fan of anything tied to Nietzsche, can anyone send me to an image of what these are supposed to look like? I'm trying to visually imagine these beyond the textual statblock.
Thanks!
Not sure if that linked properly. Took me to:
http://www.universeguide.com/Pictures/hotlink.png
Not sure if that linked properly. Took me to:
http://www.universeguide.com/Pictures/hotlink.png
Looks like they don't allow linking to images on their site. The image works fine if you copy and paste it into your browser address bar.
http://www.universeguide.com/Pictures/TyrAnasaziFull.jpg
Looks alright to me.