This was a fun little self-imposed challenge that came to me after rereading the rules for Outcast Rating generation in 3.5's Ravenloft DMG. As I've always admitted, I'm a fan of 4th edition, and whilst we never did get a proper Ravenloft campaign setting in that edition, the Outcast Rating mechanics port over to it fairly easily, due to 4e sharing the 3.5 style of distinct numerical-based bonuses and penalties. So, I thought I'd apply the formula for Outcast Ratings to 4e's list of playable races, and share my personal results, just because I didn't think it would be hurting anyone.
I'll admit outright that I'm being more generous with the Reputation step than I expect others might, simply because I feel that if Ravenloft is truly a planar backwater, it's only legitimate to let that work to the players' advantage when possible. It screws them over enough as is.
If people want to share their own opinions on how these races would fare in the Outcast Rating scores, then please feel welcome to do so, I'm always interested in hearing another opinion.
VIEW CONTENT:
Eladrin
Size: Medium (+1)
Appearance: Distinctly Inhuman (+2)
Reputation: Good (-1)
Other Factors: Unnatural Powers (+1)
Total Outcast Rating: 3
Elf
Size: Medium (+1)
Appearance: Slightly Inhuman (+1)
Reputation: Good (-1)
Other Factors: Unnatural Powers (+1)
Total Outcast Rating: 2
Dwarf
Size: Medium (+1)
Appearance: Slightly Inhuman (+1)
Reputation: Good (-1)
Other Factors: Unnatural Powers (+1)
Total Outcast Rating: 2
Halfling
Size: Small (+0)
Appearance: Slightly Inhuman (+1)
Reputation: Good (-1)
Other Factors: None (+0)
Total Outcast Rating: 1
Half-Elf
Size: Medium (+1)
Appearance: Slightly Inhuman (+1)
Reputation: Good (-1)
Other Factors: Unnatural Powers (+1)
Total Outcast Rating: 2
Dragonborn
Size: Medium (+1)
Appearance: Monstrous (+3)
Reputation: Predatory (+2)
Other Factors: Unnatural Powers (+1)
Total Outcast Rating: 7
Tiefling
Size: Medium (+1)
Appearance: Monstrous (+3)
Reputation: Fiendish (+3)
Other Factors: Unnatural Powers (+1)
Total Outcast Rating: 8
Half-Orc
Size: Medium (+1)
Appearance: Slightly Inhuman (+1)
Reputation: None (+0) or Evil (+1) if mistaken for Caliban
Other Factors: None (+0)
Total Outcast Rating: 2 or 3
Gnome
Size: Small (+0)
Appearance: Slightly Inhuman (+1)
Reputation: Good (-1)
Other Factors: Unnatural Powers (+1)
Total Outcast Rating: 1
Goliath
Size: Medium (+1)
Appearance: Distinctly Inhuman (+2)
Reputation: None (+0) or Evil (+1) if mistaken for Caliban or Predatory (+2) if mistaken for Ogre
Other Factors: None (+0)
Total Outcast Rating: 2, 3, or 4
Deva
Size: Medium (+1)
Appearance: Distinctly Inhuman (+2)
Reputation: Angelic (-2)
Other Factors: Unnatural Powers (+1)
Total Outcast Rating: 2
Shifter
Size: Medium (+1)
Appearance: Slightly Inhuman (+1)
Reputation: Predatory (+2)
Other Factors: Unnatural Powers (+1)
Total Outcast Rating: 5
Githzerai
Size: Medium (+1)
Appearance: Distinctly Inhuman (+2)
Reputation: None (+0)
Other Factors: Unnatural Powers (+1)
Total Outcast Rating: 4
Minotaur
Size: Medium (+1)
Appearance: Monstrous (+3)
Reputation: None (+0)
Other Factors: None (+0)
Total Outcast Rating: 4
Shardmind
Size: Medium (+1)
Appearance: Monstrous (+3)
Reputation: None (+0)
Other Factors: Unnatural Powers (+1), Beyond the Pale (+1)
Total Outcast Rating: 6
Wilden
Size: Medium (+1)
Appearance: Monstrous (+3)
Reputation: None (+0)
Other Factors: Unnatural Powers (+1), Beyond the Pale (+1)
Total Outcast Rating: 6
Goblin
Size: Small (+0)
Appearance: Monstrous (+3)
Reputation: Predatory (+2)
Other Factors: Culture Shock (+1)
Total Outcast Rating: 6
Kobold
Size: Small (+0)
Appearance: Monstrous (+3)
Reputation: Predatory (+2)
Other Factors: Culture Shock (+1)
Total Outcast Rating: 6
Svirfneblin
Size: Small (+0)
Appearance: Slightly Inhuman (+1)
Reputation: Good (-1)
Other Factors: Unnatural Powers (+1), Culture Shock (+1)
Total Outcast Rating: 1
Revenant
Size: Medium (+1)
Appearance: Distinctly Inhuman (+2) or Monstrous (+3)
Reputation: Predatory (+2)
Other Factors: Unnatural Powers (+1), Beyond the Pale (+1)
Total Outcast Rating: 7 or 8
Shade
Size: Medium (+1)
Appearance: Distinctly Inhuman (+2)
Reputation: None (+0)
Other Factors: Unnatural Powers (+1)
Total Outcast Rating: 4
Vryloka
Size: Medium (+1)
Appearance: Slightly Inhuman (+1)
Reputation: Predatory (+2)
Other Factors: Unnatural Powers (+1)
Total Outcast Rating: 5
Hamadryad
Size: Medium (+1)
Appearance: Slightly Inhuman (+1)
Reputation: Good (-1)
Other Factors: Unnatural Powers (+1), Beyond the Pale (+1), Culture Shock (+1)
Total Outcast Rating: 4
Pixie
Size: Tiny (-1)
Appearance: Distinctly Inhuman (+2)
Reputation: Good (-1)
Other Factors: Unnatural Powers (+1), Beyond the Pale (+1), Culture Shock (+1)
Total Outcast Rating: 3
Satyr
Size: Medium (+1)
Appearance: Distinctly Inhuman (+2)
Reputation: Good (-1)
Other Factors: Unnatural Powers (+1), Beyond the Pale (+1), Culture Shock (+1)
Total Outcast Rating: 5
Bladeling
Size: Medium (+1)
Appearance: Monstrous (+3)
Reputation: Fiendish (+3)
Other Factors: Unnatural Powers (+1), Beyond the Pale (+1)
Total Outcast Rating: +8
Drow
Size: Medium (+1)
Appearance: Distinctly Inhuman (+2)
Reputation: Good (-1) due to being mistaken for Elf
Other Factors: Unnatural Powers (+1)
Total Outcast Rating: 3
Genasi
Size: Medium (+1)
Appearance: Distinctly Inhuman (+2)
Reputation: None or Fiendish (+3) if mistaken for demon
Other Factors: Unnatural Powers (+1)
Total Outcast Rating: 4 or 7
Changeling
Size: Medium (+1)
Appearance: Monstrous (+3)
Reputation: Predatory (+2)
Other Factors: Unnatural Powers (+1)
Total Outcast Rating: 7
Kalashtar
Size: Medium (+1)
Appearance: Slightly Inhuman (+1)
Reputation: None (+0)
Other Factors: Unnatural Powers (+1)
Total Outcast Rating: 3
Warforged
Size: Medium (+1)
Appearance: Monstrous (+3)
Reputation: Predatory (+2)
Other Factors: Beyond the Pale (+1), Unnatural Powers (+1)
Total Outcast Rating: 8
Mul
Size: Medium (+1)
Appearance: Slightly Inhuman (+1)
Reputation: None (+0)
Other Factors: None (+0)
Total Outcast Rating: 2
Thri-Kreen
Size: Medium (+1)
Appearance: Monstrous (+3)
Reputation: None (+0)
Other Factors: Culture Shock (+1)
Total Outcast Rating: 5
Shadar-Kai
Size: Medium (+1)
Appearance: Distinctly Inhuman (+2)
Reputation: None or Fiendish (+3)
Other Factors: Unnatural Powers (+1), Culture Shock (+1)
Total Outcast Rating: 5 or 8
Gnoll
Size: Medium (+1)
Appearance: Monstrous (+3)
Reputation: None (+0)
Other Factors: Culture Shock (+1)
Total Outcast Rating: 5
Hengeyokai
Size: Medium (+1)
Appearance: Slightly Inhuman (+1)
Reputation: None (+0) or Predatory (+2) if mistaken for werecreature
Other Factors: Unnatural Powers (+1), Beyond the Pale (+1), Culture Shock (+1)
Total Outcast Rating: 5 or 7
Kenku
Size: Medium (+1)
Appearance: Monstrous (+3)
Reputation: None (+0)
Other Factors: Culture Shock (+1)
Total Outcast Rating: 5
Hobgoblin
Size: Medium (+1)
Appearance: Monstrous (+3)
Reputation: Predatory (+2)
Other Factors: Culture Shock (+1)
Total Outcast Rating: 7
"Is there any word more meaningless than 'hope'? Besides 'blarfurgsnarg,' of course."
"Seek and Locate! Locate and Destroy! Destroy and Rejoice!"
Man, that's a lot of people. Anyway, why dwarves that are well known misers and isolationists have a good reputation? Or the elves and Eladrin?
"You truly see what a person is made of, when you begin to slice into them" - Semirhage
"I am not mad, no matter what you're implying." - Litalia My DMGuild work!
alhoon wrote:Man, that's a lot of people. Anyway, why dwarves that are well known misers and isolationists have a good reputation? Or the elves and Eladrin?
That's taken directly from the 3.5 Ravenloft DMG. Creatures with "Good" reputations are "any creature that is traditionally considered inherently good/nonhostile towards humans" - it literally just means "you're considered a demihuman or a Usually Good creature", whilst the Angelic reputation means "you're considered an Always Good creature".
"Is there any word more meaningless than 'hope'? Besides 'blarfurgsnarg,' of course."
"Seek and Locate! Locate and Destroy! Destroy and Rejoice!"
Oh... so "good" = "actually not actively evil" reputation. You have to forgive me, I didn't remember much of that. I always went mostly with a "CR2-3 for not scary humanoids, CR8 you're a monster and attacked on sight"
"You truly see what a person is made of, when you begin to slice into them" - Semirhage
"I am not mad, no matter what you're implying." - Litalia My DMGuild work!
