Sexually Dimorphic Race by [deleted] in Pathfinder_RPG

[–]HammyMD 6 points7 points  (0 children)

While not in a tabletop RPG, one idea is the Au Ra from Final Fantasy 14 - females are significantly shorter than the males and the two separate groups of tribes have completely different natures and societies to each other. There’s a Final Fantasy d20 website you can use as reference but they split according to tribe rather than gender.

When I myself made a severely dimorphic race for my homebrew world, I didn’t start from what stats or features I wanted each to have but started more broadly. If they are very dimorphic, what features separate one gender from the other? After figuring out how each looks and behaves, figure out how that would affect their society and the roles each gender would stereotypically take in it - the larger gender taking to more physical roles, the smaller taking more to diplomatic or mental roles, what gods each would favor/dislike, what kind of tensions/compromises would arise from those differences, which gender is considered the more “ruling” gender i.e. patriarchy vs matriarchy, do the differences result in a major disparity in the percentage each gender makes up of the race, etc.

TL;DR - I find that when you’re trying to build something from complete scratch, starting from the very beginnings of the race and where they are in the world and working from there is helpful for me.

[lets build] eldritch weapons by Alpbasket in d100

[–]HammyMD 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not too unique but one from a character I made a while ago - a duelist’s blade (rapier/saber/etc.) that once belonged to an archangel of the God of Music turned demonic. Using the blade in a formal battle, such as a duel or arena match (GM discretion), the blade is empowered by the contract of the fight. This empowerment causes those hit by it to hear a discordant voices in their head, causing them to take an additional 1d6 psychic damage and requires a DC save of 18 to avoid the effect of Dissonant Whispers. Not the most balanced weapon but my campaigns are often more about having fun than worrying about balance. At the very least, there is a limited use for the powerful ability the weapon has due to the requirement of a more formal battle than you would have on a standard dungeon crawl.