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[Pentrep]

Does anyone else think they should add some races besides the original 3? I mean, the character creation was varied but 3 races only is a bit shallow. I for one think they should have thought a little outside of the box. I mean how much more generic can you get than: Dwarf, Human, and Elf? Your thoughts?

Modifié par Pentrep, 08 février 2010 - 03:31 .

[syren1987]

since the only nonplayable race in the current lore that i could see them making playable is qunari id say no.
I believe they wanted to avoid the massive spam of races some settings have(half-races being a member of these) anyway.

Modifié par syren1987, 08 février 2010 - 03:48 .

[rock_brm]

Pentrep wrote...

Does anyone else think they should add some races besides the original 3? I mean, the character creation was varied but 3 races only is a bit shallow. I for one think they should have thought a little outside of the box. I mean how much more generic can you get than: Dwarf, Human, and Elf? Your thoughts?

I don't think it matters really. You can have all manner of intrigues and whatnot with groups and factions of the same race. If other races don't add anything material to the proceedings they don't serve a purpose. It just comes down to what your story is.

Modifié par rock_brm, 08 février 2010 - 03:50 .

[JasonPogo]

In the current lore the only other race you could have is a half human half Dwarf.character. And these are supposed to be extreamly rare so it would take some major story telling to add them in.

[FreezaSama]

Pentrep wrote...

Does anyone else think they should add some races besides the original 3? I mean, the character creation was varied but 3 races only is a bit shallow. I for one think they should have thought a little outside of the box. I mean how much more generic can you get than: Dwarf, Human, and Elf? Your thoughts?

It'd be interesting, but I wouldn't bet on it happening before the sequel.

[Kwanzaabot]

The thing is, there's so many backgrounds the various races can come from, that it's almost like playing a different race. I mean, the Dalish are basically wood elves, but the city elves are something else altogether.



All I want to see is human barbarians/commoners, surface dwarves and qunari.



If they make a game/expansion in another nation, and new races make sense, by all means put 'em in, but I think we should flesh out Ferelden a bit more first.

[Halfno]

I actually like the fact that there is not a multitude of races. I would just like to see more origins. There are many human races without going to other species.

Modifié par Halfno, 08 février 2010 - 07:04 .

[Mass Fraud]

If any anything, the qunari seem to be the most obvious new race.

I would love to play as one....

[Gillasaurus]

I want to be a werewolf.

[RamonXick]

maybe some opposite story? we can play as Darkspwn, it should be cool! XD

[Ponce de Leon]

If they make the darkspawn dialogues similar to the ones of a stupid character in NWN or Fallout (ESPECIALLY Fallout), I'm in!

"aaah, a darkspawn!"

"nugh!"

"Die vile creature!"

"nugh?"

*attacks*

[RamonXick]

Haha!! i think so, but so much fun if we can play as "the architect" and can command the hurlock..

[Kwanzaabot]

Gillasaurus wrote...

I want to be a werewolf.

Seconded.

[beelzeybob]

Vampires and werewolves have been raped by twilight imo. Otherwise those vampires in oblivion would have been cool.

[NoAngel89]

Pentrep wrote...

Does anyone else think they should add some races besides the original 3? I mean, the character creation was varied but 3 races only is a bit shallow. I for one think they should have thought a little outside of the box. I mean how much more generic can you get than: Dwarf, Human, and Elf? Your thoughts?

Well thats pretty much fantasy right there. Unless you want to include cat lion people like everquest II, they'll probably make a crack joke about how they have hair balls in the mornings. Though they could make sub classes. Like maybe elves. Make a winter elves class. Elves who live on the sides of the frostback mountains whose powers are amplified by the natural lriuym in the mountains. Thats an an example. Cause honestly want else is there other then these classes. Make they can make a Orge or Chasind Human Origin Story. From the other class you got poor and noble class, weather it was how they live or their rank in society. Humans are the only ones, without a origin story of poor class struggling. Maybe you can include Mages, but come on they're cool and Feared. Not desrespected like the other origin class stories. Lower City Dwarfs and City Elves

Modifié par NoAngel89, 08 février 2010 - 11:16 .

[NoAngel89]

13eelzebub wrote...

Vampires and werewolves have been raped by twilight imo. Otherwise those vampires in oblivion would have been cool.

I would love to see vampires, that be instersting. I hate Twilight. Twilight has perverted the lore of Vampires and Werewolves. Vampires sparkal and werewolves are cults of young men who parade with no shirts on. If Vampires and Werewolves could read the book, they be shaking their heads. lol they probably deny their own existance.

Modifié par NoAngel89, 08 février 2010 - 11:32 .

[Loerwyn]

Aside from half races, I can't really see anything else that fits. Qunari would be extremely limiting (maybe more so than Dwarves), unless of course you're allowed the one-and-only female warrior Qunari, which is a level I highly doubt BioWare would sink to.

There's the rest of the world left uncovered at the moment, so there's possibilities for more sub-races (think Dark Elves/Drow or something, possibly quite fitting for Dragon Age's world) or other races (Halflings and the type?). I think BioWare are possibly sticking with the 3 we have just to avoid stepping on the toes of D&D and possibly looking a bit of a rip-off.

I like the idea of surface Dwarves though, very much so.

[Asylumer]

I forget what they're called but there's a certain group of Qunari who've forsaken the Qun and you can see them as mercenaries in DAO. Tal'vashoth? Anyways, they'd be a possible candidate as a playable race without the rigid limitations of Qunari society.

[Angel of Nessus]

Kwanzaabot wrote...

Gillasaurus wrote...

I want to be a werewolf.

Seconded.

Thirded..ed.

[Mass Fraud]

Asylumer wrote...

I forget what they're called but there's a certain group of Qunari who've forsaken the Qun and you can see them as mercenaries in DAO. Tal'vashoth? Anyways, they'd be a possible candidate as a playable race without the rigid limitations of Qunari society.

Good point....
The Qunari Tal'vashoth Origin story would be interesting.
I'm curious about twhat heir racial stats would be.

Has Bioware said anything about adding new races?

[TotoroTori]

If they do have a new race I demand a hobbit/halfling race

I think they would make a good merchant race at least but more then that.......I always though it would be a cool race to add in games...

[DJ0000]

I don't think they need more races. Adding loads of races brings the danger of having some stupid cat people or blue hobbits that just look ridiculous. The more races there are, the more ridiculous they get and the less seriously you can take the game(like those fish people in Elder Scrolls).



Also, it wouldn't be right if they just suddenly said there's a whole race of people that for some reason no one has ever mentioned or seen so far in the game.

[Maximus741000]

@DJ0000, you do realise that with bioware, you have no reason whatsoever to fear that they may blow it all out of proportion. As for the lore plothole, well Qunari are relatively new to Thedas, and if a halfling-like race exists then they probably took to hiding from the Tevinter Imperium and have either remained hidden, or unnoticed, or merely dismissed as skinny dwarves.

Personally, I would not mind seeing a halfling race, they would be perfect rogues, with all the attribute bonuses suited to dexterity, cunning and a bit into willpower, if at the expense of strength due to their small size, removing the prospect of them being warrior, like a dwarf can't be a mage.

[Dick Delaware]

TotoroTori wrote...

If they do have a new race I demand a hobbit/halfling race
I think they would make a good merchant race at least but more then that.......I always though it would be a cool race to add in games...

Ugh... that sounds kinda generic. We see hobbits everywhere now. Dwarves are merchants in DA anyways, adding another one just like them is superfluous.

I'd like to see races that exist solely in the Fade. I kind of imagine the Fade as an unpredictable, dangerous place, so whatever beings that exist there apart from demons must probably be very powerful to fight and resist them. It would of course be a unique race that doesn't exist in other fantasy, like the qunari (who are probably the most interesting individual race in the game).

The concept of demons interests me as well, and I'd love to see it fleshed out further in the sequel - I'm not even sure if they realize that they're even causing harm to people sometimes. My theory is that demons find their situation of living eternally in the ruined, blackened Fade so agonizingly boring that they possess mortals because they find our daily struggles and temporary, fleeting existence fascinating and beautiful