is there room for one more? I am very interested in this idea
Why, of course. You can read the posts written by other people as well in this topic, it'll just give you a better insight. They asked some really good questions and we came to conclusion on some things which will really improve the experience overall.
1. Stats or not I like characters to have a role in the party. Strengths and weaknesses. What have they learnt and done up until now. Otherwise despite history and differences everyone ends up doing everything.
Of course, and what you said here is pretty much said in the first post. If you look at difference between an elf and dwarf in the race short but straight-forward race descriptions I created on the first post, you'll see pretty much who stands on the front lines and who jumps backwards to deal damage from the distance, or perhaps sneak up behind the enemy.
As stated before on one of my posts, we simply cannot afford to have a Blackborn being a Rogue or stealthy. Simply race descriptions don't allow everyone to be everything, because of their body structure and shape.
Other races cannot match speed of the elves, except for maybe Khadirs who are somewhere close to them but still not matching it. So that kind of gives every player a rough view of what "classes" are available for each race and path they pick.
2. Problem with two is if you start the journey not knowing how to fire a bow or swing a sword, just because you get into a few scraps, a year later when you are trying to save the world, you still won't be good at firing a bow or swinging a sword.
Having knowledge and skills to swing a sword and fire an arrow is exactly how are going to start, actually. What I meant by starting off small is to have our characters be slightly younger, so they can have time and space to develop (in case we do a part two, make a time-line break between the chapters/scenarios and so on.
I was exactly thinking that our characters start only with their experience with weapons they are familiar with, instead of blowing Kamehameha at the enemies, spawning ten Water Elementals or shooting fireballs out the tips of their fingers. Hope you get the point on this one.
3. Half demons! Or at least demon blood, since you mentioned they existed.
My idea was to introduce these bad fellas after the first scenario, after our characters actually get over the "plague" which struck the Blackborn elders. Once we actually find that small faction in the wilderness and establish a contact with them, then they can be added as playable race or whatever you had in mind. Do you agree on the approach?
Of course my suggestion for them is to be a small faction of half or pure blooded demons, who for their weaknesses back in the days remained on the world of Loerynn even after the war and adopted the life-style. It would be much better that to have some demons actually care about their plants, farms, houses, families and so on rather than simply put Demonic Legion playable as villains.
Tell me what you think on this one, as it's a really interesting idea overall. :)
4. Tur'tan. Love the starting idea, but if this green plague is such a worry that all clans and towns have been notified, why would they send a bunch of ill-equipped untrained investigators? For one reason or another we would have to be suited to the job and also be known to or recognised by the authority of the town we are leaving.
The scale of plague and the amount of plagued individuals is not that really great or huge. They are still in
rumor stage to put it like that as well. The very reason of this meeting is to prevent this, in case it is true, from growing and becoming a world-wide threat to everyone. Blackborn tribesmen are reasonable, and actually expect other cultures to be as well in order to prevent this from erupting into something serious, or history of wars from repeating.
Oh and,
@Dark Light, your input is more than great. It actually made me smile while I was typing this. Some really good questions and I must say that you have actually forced me to think about it even more, and I perhaps came up with even better ideas than before for the future. Any input and question is precious and welcome, and I'll be more than happy to respond to everything.
