[T-Plus] Hallow-dwellers: full race or subrace?

[ISNorden]

I'm not sure whether I asked this same question in another thread, but here goes: I've considered adding a Hallow-dweller race to the next release of my module. (Since Ambarannon has human inhabitants who follow their own religion, allowing them as player characters makes sense IMO.)

[The Fury]

New races are great.

[ISNorden]

Cool; I always thought that people with a radically different culture (and *any* non-Tolkienian race is different in a mostly Tolkienian world) deserve their own histories at birth. Trouble is, there is room for only 25 races in the game--which one of the existing races do you think could be dropped without losing T-Plus' multiworld flavor? (I am subtitling the module as 'Tales of Three Worlds' from now on...)

[The Cosmic Gerbil]

How come you can only have 25 races? There are 32 in FuryMod.

[The Fury]

32? I must have gotten carried away.

[ISNorden]

Thirty-two main races, Fury? If that's in your module, not your stand-alone game...how does the player select race #26-32...do they have to scroll down, or are keypresses beyond "y" allowed at character creation? I got the impression that only 25 selections could fit onscreen; please correct me if I'm wrong.

[The Fury]

They have to use the arrow keys to select.

[ISNorden]

OK; if there is indeed room for Hallow-dwellers as a full race, I figure it's worth an arrow-key press to find them.

[Guest]

I believe that symbol keys are used beyond 24. It has indeed been done in a couple of mods alread.

[LogrusMage]

symbol keys show up as labels on those race names, but they don't work. dark maia (demons, not sure why the rename), for example, are labeled:

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{) dark maia

but pressing { won't get you one, you have to actually go down to it via arrows.

[ISNorden]

Thanks for the warning, I'll note that in the game docs for next release.

[LogrusMage]

*nod* i never found it to be that bad. hitting the symbol in question doesn't break anything, it just fails to do anything at all. still, including it in docs is probably a good idea. some people might just always use the letters, and might not even realise that there is a cursor there to arrow around.