Do you ever make a homebrew universe and port things from other universes into it? I like some alien races without necessarily liking the setting they come from, or that come from settings I'm not using, so hell, I just convert them to the system I'm using and drop them in, altering their background as little as possible to fit in to my universe.

I think that there are some races from wh40k that are cool enough to use in a generic SF setting, like the necrons, tho I rewrite them to leave out the C'tan. I also think the kroot and orks have potential as enemies and allies. I just make the orks a left over self perpetuating warrior/labor species from an ancient culture.

The spectrals and dragoncrests from living steel are both so good they deserve wider useage, so I use them.

I've copped the Kzinti on occasion, as they have such a fully developed culture and history it's easy to use them.

never have used most trek races fo whatever reason.

What races or things do you cop from other universes?

I'll agree with Spectrals and Dragoncrests, and add Jorune (Thiven, Thriddle, Ramian, Corastin, not the Iscin races, Cleash or, for some reason, Shanthas) and Talislanta (too many to mention) to the list of races/species.

Out of curiosity, what have you done with Spectrals and Dragoncrests?

Quote from: apparition13I'll agree with Spectrals and Dragoncrests, and add Jorune (Thiven, Thriddle, Ramian, Corastin, not the Iscin races, Cleash or, for some reason, Shanthas) and Talislanta (too many to mention) to the list of races/species.

Out of curiosity, what have you done with Spectrals and Dragoncrests?

Well, the dragoncrests occasionally make appearances as 'guest aliens' in some games, and often the players have to find a way to placate them after dishonorable humans have basically pissed them off and pushed them into mass retaliation, or sometimes the PCs ally with them to fight against bad governments and such, after they get the DCs to understand that humans don't have the same kind of semi-collective mind the DC have.

The spectrals just make excellent, awesome enemies unlike any other race.

Absitively posulutely.

Back in the day, the Moties of Mote in Gods eye and the Ringworld made it into my Traveller game.

These days, I feel a bit iffy about pulling in well recognized titles, and generally take care to rub the serial numbers off of any obvious inspirations.

But my latest worldbuilding effort for D&D is a world that is basically designed to pull in various third party d20 books to minimize my work. I showed a pic of it in the actual play forum. It's got Necromancer Games Mayfarrow setting, Bluffside, Freeport, Hamunaptra, Mindshadows/Naranjan, Sahasra, as well as various races from d20 products such as Elan, Xeph, Maenad, Artathi (cat-folf from Mythic Races), Asaatth (snake folk from scarred lands), Slitheren (rat men), and others.