Question Closed Discussion for the WARPG team.

Not to be a pain in the arse, Minh... but if you are going to do a Whateley Universe RPG, you can't go crazy with 'conceptual' information. You can shoehorn the Universe into existing mechanics or craft unique mechanics and ruleset to fit the Universe's concepts... but you can't, for example, claim unique races of things that aren't already unique races in the WAU. And you can't just make up relationships between how things work that aren't part of the actual universe. Doing so might allow you to create a game, but that game wouldn't represent the Whateley Universe... and I am not willing to give authorization for a game to wear the name/brand that doesn't reflect the Universe. I'm willing to take it up with the rest if you 'insist' that we get an official vote on it, but I can almost guarantee that the further you stray from the actual existing information, the less likely it'll continue to be approved.

So if you must do race, you have to reflect the races that ACTUALLY exist in the WU, not try to make power traits into races.

An example:
- Humans are a race. Humans are the 'baseline' for statistics and receive no bonuses or penalties to primary stats. Humans can be Bad Assed Normals, Imbued, Empowered, Schimmelhorn Engineers, Psychics, Mages, Batsons, or they may possess Dynamorphs or Power Gems. Humans are rarely multi-classed.
- Mutants are a race. Mutants do not inherently receive bonuses or penalties to primary stats, however, a subset of mutants have the Exemplar or Regen traits which can be expressed primarily through stat bonuses. Mutants can be Psychics, PK Supermen, Energizers, Gadgeteers, Devisors, Mages, Shifters, or Avatars. Mutants may multi-class. Mutants may also possess Dynamorphs or Power Gems.
- Sidhe are a race. The Sidhe typically gain statistical bonuses equivalent to a mutant Exemplar 4 as a default improvement over the human race w/ key flaws (cold iron allergy, essence presence, etc). Sidhe are almost always at least two of three multi-class Psychic / Mage / Avatar
- Weres are a race. Weres typically gain statistical bonuses equivalent to a physical Exemplar 5 as a default improvement over the human race, w/ key flaws (silver allergy, mortal opponent: mythos). Weres are generally limited to Shifter but may on rare occasion be Psychic or Mages.

Animal featured mutants... are mutants with GSD or MATD or something expressed by nature of their power. They are not a unique race.

Something like that.

Malady wrote: ^ Interesting... Wouldn't it be more accurate to have Were and Mutant as conditions, instead of races? Dunno how that's modeled though.

Well, yes. My recommendation is always a point allocation with tiered buy in costs (the more flexible or broad scope the purchase is, the higher the price). That's especially true of a story universe turned game... because it is very rare for a story universe to have clear stair-stepping power gradients. And it is even more rare for characters to be power balanced.

The WU, as an example, generally has mutants at or near the power potential within a couple years of manifestation. They grow in skill... accumulating tricks and techniques, but mostly those are little to do with power.

Additionally, we constantly remind people that the stories are about the people... Not the powers. Some of the powers are very powerful and we barely consider using them on protagonists let alone balancing them with other more standard powers. Like paragon. And in the stories, we can get away with Tennyo on one hand and Aquerna on the other. In a game, you have to account for that difference... and it's not easy to do with a level system. Having different starting point ranges for different groups accounts for it easily.

But Mihn said he wanted to use a race/ class / level system. So the above is just a rough thought on where one of those categories might break down.