So, I really dig
Realms of Crawling Chaos (hereafter RoCC) for Labyrinth Lord - it was the purchase of this item that prompted me to start the DCC campaign, together with a smattering of play in
Dave Younce's and
Jason Paul MacCartan's games and
Daniel Bishop's Christmas module from last year ("The Thing in the Chimney" - adroitly run for me and
Jurgen Mayer by
Josha Petronis-Akins).
Since DCC is kinda my rules-set of choice these days, and I've been poring over interesting ideas in the never-ending quest to keep the folks coming to play, I have been much pondering over the White Ape, White Ape hybrids, Voormis, and Deep One hybrid ("Sea-Folk") in RoCC. As I have argued in other fora in the past, in DCC there's really no reason IMHO why you couldn't slap any "race" you wanted on a bunch of stats and wing the skills etc. from there (provided the class is right for you). So, if I had a high Strength and Stamina Warrior and wanted a White Ape, then hey, call him "Gruthorn the White Ape", have his occupation be "Banana Warden" or whatever, and off you go. Some approaches to occupations outside of the traditional medieval ones are simply outstanding, to my mind, and the core rules sort of encourage with a sly wink that characters should go with the mood that moves them. Hey, read it how you want to.
Anyways, with this in mind, and my eye on several neat posts on the DCCRPG community on G+, here are links to a bunch of alternate classes or races that have utility and could show up in a game near you, soon. Or not - I've noticed a good deal of puritanism so far although my circle of DCC gamers is small.
Serpent-Folk, Deep-One, and Orc
Centaur
Drunken Monk
Wild Mage
Kenku (note: several other races hidden in nearby links wink wink)
Lizardfolk
Monk
Ninja
There's even a campaign
around there somewhere where here, in which the Judge allows a motley crew of races culled from a wide variety of TSR stuff from way back.
Also, don't forget about
Crawl! fanzine #6 which has a Gnome, a Ranger, a Paladin, and a Bard.
I only link these because I hate elves. I hate them. At least, the Tolkienish elves, except the ones from the Rankin-Bass Hobbit movie. The Magic Candle had interesting bald, weird looking elves. Anyways, I don't judge you elfy types. It's all good.
If you know of more, please feel free to add a link in the comments.
Also, I just saw
this which I like to think about. A method to generate non-standard races for play during the funnel.
Thus came the Mole-Man
My own race, the
Deep One Hybrid
The Robot
re-coalesced into demireality.
Warforged
The Samurai is
lost in the aether maybe returned to us, with honor and much wisdom gleaned from the nebulous realm of non-existence
Thanks to you, sir, for your
Tiefling
There's a thing called
Transylvanian Adventures on RPGNow, includes a bunch of new classes.
A pretty cool
Druid for you
My very own
Tomb Rustler
A loose framework for the anti-halfling
Tcho-Tcho Marauder! It eats all your white ganglion paste and Long Pork Short Ribs
Mystic Bull's Tokar - shaggy maned stout hunter gatherers from THE GOD SEED AWAKENS
I saw a
Weird Scientist happen the other day
A
Talislantan Thrall Warrior
My own
Skate Hero, zipping around and olly-ing over stuff
The works of +Daniel Bishop are rife with new races; I think maybe it's a point of honor for him to include new ones in the things he publishes. The Creeping Beauties of the Woods series is now in its
second installment and has a Faerie Animal that is chock full of potential! I want to play a chaotic Fox Spirit heavily corrupted by plague in memoriam to the rabid critter I killed to death with a coffee mug last year, but I digress
Crawljammer #1 has a Lizardman Mercenary and the requisite occupations
I have it on good authority that the
Crawljammer! #2 has a Technomancer (it's now in my RPGNow cart)
Also, rumour has it that
Crawling Under A Broken Moon fanzine has a Technologist class, and it can be had for purchase over at
THIS LINK. Lords of Light! Let's Ride!
Tales from the Fallen Empire is a setting book for DCC, including 6 new classes and a revision of the Wizard - on the wishlist but soon to be picked up. It includes a Man-Ape, so it's a must-buy next paycheck for me.
Daniel Bishop posted another race on his blog which looks fun,
The Zariah
My toil is unceasing, far from home, I present
The Moon Dweller Psionicist
Behold the coming of
The Scrappler!
A thewsy
Barbarian
Age of Ruins has a Henchman set up for second-string survivors (not a full write up)
If something's not on here, it's mostly because I don't own it yet (for example in the case of the Tales of The Fallen Empire source book)
I am gratified that this list is evidently useful - spread the word to all yer friends! (also, it may need a break down and rebuild as it's getting unwieldy and may become a print thing also)