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I can never have enough Spelljammer in my own games, so, in order to facilitate that, I sat down and wrote up a race entry for the Rube Goldbergs of my favorite setting and their annoyingly dangerous pets.
I present to you, Tinker Gnomes and Giant Space Hamsters.
Inside this google doc, you'll find a complete race write-up for the Tinker Gnome ethnicity, including some of their history, backstory, naming conventions, and other details needed to play one or allow them in your own games. In addition, you'll find monster entries with stats and descriptions for the four most common varieties of Giant Space Hamsters: the originals, carnivorous, fire-breathing, and the dreaded miniature giant space hamsters.
Much of this is blatantly stolen or modified from memory from other games/editions.
I hope you enjoy, and feel free to critique or use as you wish.
If I have time later this week, I hope to add some Tinker Gnome equipment and ship examples.
These look a ton of fun.
About the only (very minor) thing I'd change is that after the detailed discussion of Tinker Gnome names, it might be fun to include some examples that demonstrate just how zany they can get. It all looks well-thought-out and interesting, though.
I originally wanted to do a big old spelljammer conversion for all the races and monsters (Neogi, Umberhulk, Giff, Scro, et cetera), but I'm running into a time crunch as I'm also prepping for a home game. Plus, I can never remember which things Hasbro likes to sue people over or what I can get away with under fair use.
I added a couple of example names to the document, as requested. I'd like to add more, but it's not nearly as much fun as making them up by appending titles and accomplishments as you play. I also started on adding some equipment from my notes, but I'm out of time at the moment, so I'll have to come back to it.
Thank you very much for the feedback.
pithica, I already did orcs for Starfinder (called them scro). I think you can do your own version of scro too, since Hasbro hasn't sued me over it.
Conversions constitute fair use. Although I think the Neogi are off limits like the mind flayers are.
Orcs aren't copyrighted. Only a limited number of monsters aren't public domain, like illithids, gith, and beholders. Stuff invented for D&D.
It's my understanding that the ones that are 'off limits' are the ones that were trademarked by TSR back in the 80s and 90s. I know that includes Mindflayers, Umberhulk, and Beholders (and Displacer Beasts). I think it also included Giff and Neogi. I know it doesn't include Orcs and I doubt it included scro, but that's already most of the list if I wanted to do a big spelljammer conversion.
I'm really hoping AA2 does a 'Space Orc', but if not, I'll probably do a conversion of those.