Symbols Project - Fantasy Races Needed! Talk To Me People!
Terraformer_Author
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Aaaaaaahhhh, the golden olden days...I remember living in Texas as a very young 19 year old lad, starry eyed and full of pip and vinegar - yes, those were days of shining promise...
I remember the top shelf of my closet - like an old book shelf in a dusty wizard's keep - crammed with tastey hardbound goodies. You know - they say that in a couple of decades, physical books will be a thing of the past (or very near so) - but no kindle, no e'reader, no computer screen, Ipod app, or multipurpose techy doohicky thingamabob watchamacallit will ever come close to the drum roll accompanied rush of cracking open a good old fashioned hard bound tome. Nothing can compare with that kind of magic, nothing...
I had'em all man...The Player's Manual, The Dungeon Master's Guide, Both volumes of the Monster Manuals, Deities And Demigods, The Greyhawk Boxed Set with the massive fold out map and tastey magazinettes, the red and green boxed D&D sets, with the dice, the booklets, the fold outs, and that delightful little white crayon, and a box of puter figurines.
Oh man - I wish that I still had them, and all the sets of dice I had to...Wow...
Well - unfortunately I DON'T have those icons anymore, and I have to rely on my rusty old memories to recall the contents of those books that I read for hours on end, lying on the couch like a bum in my sock feet eating chocolate chip cookies with them all stacked up next to me on the floor - and drooling over Dave Sutherland's impecably fascinating artwork - and Gygax's meticulous attention to excruciating detail.
Bottom line - I need to know about races that are frequently used in fantasy games to make map symbols for. Here's a list of some that I have already covered:
1, Elves,
2, Drow,
3, Humans,
4, Dwarves,
5, Halflings (Hobbits),
6, Lizard Men,
7, gnolls,
8, Ogres,
9, Trolls
10, Nymphs,
11, Mermaids,
12, Half Elves,
13, Half Drow.
That's about it for right now. SUGGESTIONS PLEASE! Lol
I remember the top shelf of my closet - like an old book shelf in a dusty wizard's keep - crammed with tastey hardbound goodies. You know - they say that in a couple of decades, physical books will be a thing of the past (or very near so) - but no kindle, no e'reader, no computer screen, Ipod app, or multipurpose techy doohicky thingamabob watchamacallit will ever come close to the drum roll accompanied rush of cracking open a good old fashioned hard bound tome. Nothing can compare with that kind of magic, nothing...
I had'em all man...The Player's Manual, The Dungeon Master's Guide, Both volumes of the Monster Manuals, Deities And Demigods, The Greyhawk Boxed Set with the massive fold out map and tastey magazinettes, the red and green boxed D&D sets, with the dice, the booklets, the fold outs, and that delightful little white crayon, and a box of puter figurines.
Oh man - I wish that I still had them, and all the sets of dice I had to...Wow...
Well - unfortunately I DON'T have those icons anymore, and I have to rely on my rusty old memories to recall the contents of those books that I read for hours on end, lying on the couch like a bum in my sock feet eating chocolate chip cookies with them all stacked up next to me on the floor - and drooling over Dave Sutherland's impecably fascinating artwork - and Gygax's meticulous attention to excruciating detail.
Bottom line - I need to know about races that are frequently used in fantasy games to make map symbols for. Here's a list of some that I have already covered:
1, Elves,
2, Drow,
3, Humans,
4, Dwarves,
5, Halflings (Hobbits),
6, Lizard Men,
7, gnolls,
8, Ogres,
9, Trolls
10, Nymphs,
11, Mermaids,
12, Half Elves,
13, Half Drow.
That's about it for right now. SUGGESTIONS PLEASE! Lol
Comments
Or different style hats to show someone is from a different region.
Spear styles, shield styles.
1. Aarakocra
2. Aerial servant
3. Aartuk
4. Beholder, Beholder-kin
5. Brownie
6. Bugbear
7. Bullywug
8. Centaur
9. Dryad
10. Dwarf, Duergar
11. Elf, Drow
12. Ettin
13. Firenewt
14. Giants
15. Gnoll
16. Gnome, Svirfneblin
17. Goblin
18. Halfling
19. Hobgoblin
20. Imp
21. Invisible stalker
22. Jermlaine
23. Kenku
24. Killmoulis
25. Kobold
26. Korred
27. Kuo-Toa
28. Lamia
29. Leprechaun
30. Lizard Man
31. Locathah
32. Lycanthrope
33. Medusa, Maedar
34. Meazel
35. Men
36. Merman
37. Mind Flayer
38. Minotaur
39. Mongrelman
40. Morkoth
41. Myconid
42. Naga
43. Nereid
44. Nixie
45. Nymph
46. Ogre
47. Orc, Orog, Half-Orc
48. Pixie
49. Rakshasa
50. Sahuagin
51. Satyr
52. Sprite
53. Sylph
54. Tasloi
55. Treant
56. Triton
57. Troglodyte
58. Troll
59. Wemic
60. Yeti
61. Yuan-ti
This is just a quick run through not including the elemetal planes, hells and heavens.
If you want to be a bit adventurous, PDF files of the 1st edition books do exist. I found a set on a newsgroup some time back. I even found some PDFs of the original D&D spiral bound books that predate the hardbound 1st editions. It was nice to have a PDF copy of my hardbound collection for reference.
You could look to see if scans or a PDF of them exhists if your looking for more art.