Writing a Race

A guide to writing Race Page

=How to Design a New Race?== All races belong to a "Circle", a developement process that lists when a race first appeared and are fleshed out as such. Races can be anything you wish them to be, so long as they fit in with the description of the circle their in, for example, you cannot have a civilised raced like the Demi in the first Circle because those races didn't build settlements.

Each race has Base Stats, these stats represent the "basic" strengths and weakness of each race. They are made up of a total of 250 points between certain stats. Some points will always be left overall as not all 250 will not be divided amongst the states equally. This is done to represent "variables" amongst the race that the player can add.

Each race will have a basic description that describes the racs habbits and approaches to the world. Races in the first two circles will be assigned "Representations" as they were designed to be races with symbolic meanings.

Things to avoid

 * As tempting as it is to write 10,000 races based on insects, don't. Either flesh out the existing race or make the page a sub-Race page rather then a race itself.  Similair sub-races will be merged together if there is too many details that are similair.
 * Immortal Races; Every races must have weakness, while some Races are naturally more powerful then others, they are not intended to be God-like.
 * Copying works (plagiarism). True we have some common races like Vampires, but these races use common folklore for their basic information and do not directly grab a huge chunk of text from whatever Vampire novel that happens to be popular at the time of writing.  In otherwords, the wikia has the ability (and it is preferred this happens) to give each traditional fantasy race the ability to have a unique spin on them.
 * Writing yourself into a corner. Give some areas for players to use creativity on them. In other worlds, don't writing a detailed novel on each race because that leaves almost nothing for the player to play with.  Yes, over time we will be fleshing out the world and adding new additions to things, developing a "lore" of our own.  However, the last thing the play needs to have to take into account is 60 page book of Demi Vs Elf war.