So I get that Sylvain are suppose to be the equivalent to "Elves" and all that jazz, but what about:
Even if they are not called the same, have any of you created your own versions of these fantastical races? Does anyone have a list of the races in the recent release "Those Who Walk Amongst Us"?
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Well, I do plan on writing up my own version of the "orc" and others.
I'm currently working on a small 'hack' (though not much of one) for running Anima as a more 'Trad' Fantasy rpg. That includes elves, dwarves, etc and classes having more meaning, and the whole 'zero to hero' vibe.
Sort of stealing from 4E, I'm building characters around three pillars: Race, Class, and Source/Focus (don't have a good name for it yet). All the races (even human) are built on 100 DP worth of abilities from the monster section. The Source (Martial, Arcane, etc) is another 'template' built on 100 DP. These are added to all characters at start.
Characters start at level 1 with 45 characteristic points and 400 DP (your two template DP values are ignored). I'm tweaking a few other things as well, to fit the feel (mostly a few advantages). I think every level you'll gain 1 characteristic point, and on even levels you'll gain 1 to a physical and 1 to a mental stat.
I'll post my races later. They are still WIP though.
When you say standard fantasy races, you mean Tolkien based fantasy races? Many of Nephilim are archetypes in other fantasy sub-genres, such as angels and anthromophs.
If so, the only one I can think of is Jayan would probably work for Trolls or Orcs.
Those Who Walked Amongst Us has 3 races. The first two have Nephilim versions. They are a summoner race with unnaturally coloured hair and living vampires. The third is an animalistic race.
Yes, I do mean Tolkien style races.
As I mentioned, yes I am aware that the Sylvain are "Elves" of sorts.
I am aware of the angel and anthromorph types.
I suppose "Jayan" could be trolls. However trolls and orcs are 2 different things.
If you want generic fantasy races, why are you playing Anima? There's a slew of games with traditional boring races.
Basically, most fantasy races aren't there...full stop.
Actually Anima is a J-Fantasy word. For reasons unknown, Japanese semm to like quite a lot Elves, Cat-folks (not really common in occidental Fantasy, actually), Angels (see the Ebudan...), but NOT the dwarves...If you played a few JRPG, you shall confirm that dwarven presence is usually extremely limited (perhaps the complete and absolute diversity between the dwarven phenotype and the "mongolian" one make such creatures distasteful for most japanese out there).
Anyway, I put dwarves in my campaign (calling them dvergr as is in Old Norse), justifying their very little presence with the fact that they decided to remain hidden for a very long time ensuring at the same time that all and any documentation on their existence would be destroyed.
I already made a post with their stats. If you make a search through the forum inserting the world "dvergr" you should find it easily enough.
As for Orks and Trolls I haven't still found use for them in my campaign, but recently I have designed rules for Drakonic characrers,called Fafnr (the name of the Dragon killed by Sigfried) and an Insectoid one called Aa Chiinche (Maya word for "Insect"). Perhaps I'm gonna post rules for them later...