Monday, May 18, 2026

Low magic Pathfinder 1e E6 project

One more post on the races options for my E6 project. While my setting doesn't necessarily have the same races as Pathfinder, which is very D&D, part of the reason I'd possibly use Pathfinder is to have more races available. Here's the complete list (minus psionics) of races in the rulebooks, I believe. I'll bold the ones that represent races explicitly in my setting, leave races that I wouldn't mind if someone played alone, and use strikethrough on races that I explicitly won't allow.

Core:

  • Dwarf
  • Elf
  • Gnome
  • Half-elf
  • Half-orc (called just Orc in Old Night system)
  • Halfling
  • Human

Featured: (about 50/50 in terms of what I'd allow)

  • Aasimar (called nephilim, but moved to appendix. On the fence, but it someone really wanted to play one, I wouldn't probably balk. 
  • Catfolk
  • Dhampir
  • Drow
  • Fetchling (shadow genasi?) (Would use for Grislings/Hyperboreans)
  • Goblin
  • Hobgoblin
  • Ifrit (fire genasi) (called surturs)
  • Kobold
  • Orc (could use as an alternate for orc. There's no half-orcs in my setting, but I don't care which stats you use.
  • Oread (earth genasi) (called dvergs_
  • Ratfolk  (they exist but are specifically a monster race only)
  • Sylph (air genasi) (hey, I use the same name!)
  • Tengu
  • Tiefling (called kemlings)
  • Undine (water genasi) (called tritons)

Uncommon: (otherwise known as, with one exception, not appearing in any of my games)

  • Changeling
  • Duergar
  • Gillmen
  • Grippli
  • Kitsune
  • Merman
  • Nagaji (snakeman)
  • Samsaran
  • Strix
  • Suli
  • Svirfneblin
  • Vanara (monkey)
  • Vishkanya
  • Wayang
UPDATE: In a completely unrelated tangent to add on, I've often been fascinated by the tiny home movement, but I think it's gotten out of hand. Let's say, for example, that my wife dies or something, I'm a widower in my mid-50s, and I decide that even though I probably can't afford it, I want to retire. Because I probably can't afford it, although maybe I can with life insurance, I want to buy some land out in the country for $100k or less, in Wyoming or maybe Colorado or Montana or even parts of Utah or Idaho. But Tiny Homes are usually surprisingly expensive. Why wouldn't a buy a regular mobile home instead? For about the same price, I can easily get 2-3x the square footage. I don't need lots of space, but if I'm sleeping in a loft, have no real space for an office and small library because I'm somewhere between 300-500 sq feet, why wouldn't I just get a mobile home for the same price that's 1200+ square feet, comes with three bedrooms (one of which could become an office/library) two bathroom, a spare bedroom for visitors, and a decent kitchen and living room space?

Living in a mobile home naturally comes with a bit of a stigma if you're in a trailer park, but if you have one isolated out in the country, who cares? It's cheap, it's functional, and it gives me everything that I need. Why overspend on a tonier tiny home, or a big full-sized "normal" house when I can do this instead and have all I need? A double wide is easily under $100k, maybe even under $80k. Heck, I've seen 100-+ sq ft single wide's in the $50ks. Although in that case, I probably lose the spare bedroom.

This assumes I'm a widower. My wife is unlikely to go for this plan. In multiple angles. She really doesn't want to live in Wyoming or any other "cold state" either.

I don't know what brought that on. Watching a bunch of widower and/or bachelor retirees in tiny homes on YouTube over the weekend, I guess. Kind of made me wonder what I would do if I were in their shoes.

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