So, one of my biggest letdowns of the loss of EU was the loss of so many of Star Wars' colorful species. While some are certainly still there, and there is every opportunity others might be used for any of a number of things, if the writers care to, this gives the books here a chance to NOT have to print out every other race. If I hadn't accidentally found Chiss in Enter the Unknown, I'd still be missing one of my all-time favorite races (praise be to GA Thrawn )

Blah, blah, blah, so I was wondering if anyone might be willing to hand out some suggestions? This could easily become a "my fan-brewed races for FFG" thread, whether that's good, or bad, but while they float around, waiting to be reintroduced, I was curious if anyone might give me some ideas on a few I actually sort of need?

* Zeltron

* Feeorin

* Sith/Kissai

* Modified/Near-Humans (a Human and a ________ bred, or maybe long exposure to an alternate environment caused a mutation)

I have a small assortment of terrible character ideas, and need them for such. Any assistance would be great, and if anyone feels like catching me up on any other races they dribbled out in a book I might otherwise never considered buying, that would be great. Thanks much, and please have a good one.

The Unofficial Species Menagerie has Zeltron, and I found another thread that might have the Sith a while ago, but the others I haven't seen. The Great Movie Alien Compendium has a couple near-humans (Tholothian and Chalactan, something else I don't remember), but it covers what you see in the films only so far.

Near humans are easily made by taking the base line human and customizing the 2 skills that they start with, and adding physical description to match. In addition, you can pump 1 attribute to 3 and drop another to 1

So, one of my biggest letdowns of the loss of EU was the loss of so many of Star Wars' colorful species. While some are certainly still there, and there is every opportunity others might be used for any of a number of things, if the writers care to, this gives the books here a chance to NOT have to print out every other race. If I hadn't accidentally found Chiss in Enter the Unknown, I'd still be missing one of my all-time favorite races (praise be to GA Thrawn )

Blah, blah, blah, so I was wondering if anyone might be willing to hand out some suggestions? This could easily become a "my fan-brewed races for FFG" thread, whether that's good, or bad, but while they float around, waiting to be reintroduced, I was curious if anyone might give me some ideas on a few I actually sort of need?

* Zeltron

* Feeorin

* Sith/Kissai

* Modified/Near-Humans (a Human and a ________ bred, or maybe long exposure to an alternate environment caused a mutation)

I have a small assortment of terrible character ideas, and need them for such. Any assistance would be great, and if anyone feels like catching me up on any other races they dribbled out in a book I might otherwise never considered buying, that would be great. Thanks much, and please have a good one.

I really don't think the lose of the EU will have any bearing on this game. Reading through F&D they make references to a lot of Jedi and Sith history whose roots are in the EU. So it stands to reason that we likely won't lose many in the way of species to the removal of EU.

Well that's good, at least. Looking at many write-ups, it doesn't seem it'd be too difficult to assess what they'd have, if you already know the race from the source material. Having said that, would anyone care to add any of the sourcebooks, in any of the three lines, that just gave me a race the cores didn't? I like Enter the Unknown, but I didn't buy it for the Explorer specs, or the thing you can attach to the end of their trees (might have to see if any other books had good ones, for "concepts" I'd actually make a character with), I bought it for the Chiss write-up; if a Chiss hadn't been on the cover, making me say "ooh! the Chiss haven't fallen with the EU, and might be in this book!", it wouldn't have gotten a second look, from me.

As for the unofficial Species Menagerie, I like some of what's there, but that thread needs a warning disclaimer attached, because a few people there definitely became toxic, when in the presence of each other, based on some unfortunate real-life falling outs between them, which is too bad.

For near-humans I just use the human stats and choose one (or both) of their free skills as appropriate to the "species.". If they're supposed to have some special ability or talent I'll discuss it with the player (or GM if I'm playing) to work out an XP cost or skill trade-off for it. For example I might make a Zeltron as a standard human but trade away one of the free skills for a rank of the Smooth Talker talent.

That can work; I just get caught up with what's a "real alien", and a near-human, sometimes. Sure, I look at a Duro, a Hutt, or any of several other species, and I can tell, but I remember when Thrawn was the only "whatever he is" there was, and I remember when the Chiss were introduced as a species, of which Thrawn was revealed to be a member, and now some people say they are a race of somewhat adapted/evolved Humans, and not a true "alien race", at all. Same with the Zeltrons, possibly; I don't know if they are a real alien race, or just the result of evolving to be the best "party race" in existence, due to the harsh climates of Zeltros (you know, the "harsh" stuff, on the planet that is basically paradise everywhere.)

On the side, I also asked because I didn't want to make guesses, and suck at it. Feeorins, for instance, are ludicrously strong, tough, and big. Sometimes I like the "official" source covering what that entails, rather than me saying they start with a 4 Brawn (impossible, I know), but 1 Intellect and 1 Willpower, and whatever else you throw in to make it "balanced, but cheesy". I also didn't know if the silhouette system would allow/requre he be a bigger size, or if he'd have to be a speeder to be bigger than what any other player probably is. When I run SW, my rule is often "I will pull cheese, but I will have a credited source for it, rather than "just to be a ****." I used a jazzed up Gen'Dai on the party, and they "killed" him three times, seeing him walk aboard his departing ship after the last one, and they finally called BS. I was happy to get to blame the Clone Wars cartoon, which most of them didn't watch, and say "no, that's "real" in SW." Justification.