Nice opening pic.

4th Edition Stat Block:
(The names of powers and such is pretty generic; your input on what they should be called is welcome.)

>Racial Traits
Average Height: 5'-6'
Average Weight: 100-120 lbs

Ability Scores: +2 Dexterity, choice of +2 Wisdom or +2 Intelligence
Size: Medium
Speed: 5
Vision: Darkvision (See Echolocation)

Vulnerable 5 Sonic

Languages: Common, Kateca (Language of the Kalang, naming is open to input)

Skill Bonuses: +2 Acrobatics, +2 Perception

>>13878874
Keeps getting better all the time.

Oh hell yes. I was just going to try to post but saw this existed.

Any more writefags and/or drawfags out there? Or even some more fluff discussion. That'd be neat.

>Echolocation
Kalang navigate primarily based on sound. Blindness only causes a -5 penalty to perception. However, the deafened condition results in a loss of darkvision, a -10 penalty to perception, and targets gain partial concealment.

>Bat Body
A Kalang's body differs from most other humanoids. They are treated a Small creatures for the purpose of wielding weapons; they are unable to use two-handed weapons, and versatile weapons may not be used two-handed for a bonus.

>Bat Flight
Kalang gain access to the Bat Flight racial power.

>>13878990
Check the two previous threads. And we have an EPIC drawfag who'd done some character designs in the previous thread, he said he was gonna add color later tonight.

So I'd assume these guys would have a heavy music focus when it came to the arts, right? How much discussion has there been on that?

>Bat Flight
You leap in the air and take flight
Encounter
Move Action * Personal
Special: You must be wearing light armor
Effect: You gain a fly speed of 7. While flying, you may only make basic attacks. In addition, you gain access to the following power:
-Swoop * At-Will
Requirement: You must be flying
Effect: You fly your speed. At any point during the movement, you may make a basic attack. If the attack hits, the target is knocked prone. You gain a +2 bonus to AC against opportunity attacks made during this movement.

Hey, guys. I've managed to make some small progress in between work periods throughout the day. Firstly, I made his legs longer like requested, and modified the shirt so that it's not impossible to wear due to the creature's anatomic limitations. Let me know your opinions.

>>13879019
Just that even sculptors would focus on what sounds interesting when hit with echolocation. Oh also that their monks would be focused on attacking with sonic waves.

Also, color. I've started with some basic earthly overtone, and I'll work other colors from there, eventually. I'm going to be busy tonight as well, though, so I'll probably be updated with this one and other types of Kalang designs throughout next week.

>>13879019
Quite a bit. Sound is a huge part of their world, so music and song is a big artistic aspect, as is sculpture that produces pleasing sounds when wind blows through it or echos bounce off of it. Even clothing is made with differing textures of materials, like cloth and leather, to make a distinct echo-picture. Color is not alien to them, just unimportant... to human eyes it could be the most garish shade of purple and orange and green, but if made from "pleasant-sounding" materials, it would be considered beautiful.

bamp

>>13879085
Next week? Aww... this is turning out too awesome to hafta wait...

>>13879163

On second thought...I'm strongly considering saying "fuck you" to this party I'm going to tonight so I can stay and work on this. Hmm....

I was thinking them of a smaller sized race, just a tad taller than dwarves. I mean, bats aren't big IRL most a tiny. I guess you could make the different types into different sizes, such as:

Insect Eaters: 3' - 4'

Fruit Eaters, Cannibals: 4' -5'

Vampire, Flightless: 5' -6'

Or whatever Different Castes were discussed last thread.

>>13879196
Castes weren't discussed except by one guy who basically wanted to retcon two threads of material to make them more-or-less evil flying cannibals.

And going by writefaggotry in the previous thread, the Kalang aren't much bigger than dwarves, topping out at around five feet, with dwarves being around four.

>>13879236
Thanks for clearing that up.

Would'nt they be counted as Small at 4'?

>>13879236
I do like this. Though no less than four foot five unless they are especially runty.

The vampires though are their version of ogres. So definately six feet or more.

Feats:
>Focused Flight
Prerequisite: Kalang
Benefit: You gain a +2 bonus to attacks made while flying

>Way of the Vampire Hunter
Prerequisite: Kalang
Benifit: You gain a +2 feat bonus to damage rolls against undead creatures.

>Grasping Claws
Prerequisite: Kalang
Benefit: While flying, you may use the following power:
Grasping Claws
Melee
Standard * At-Will
Dex vs AC
Requirement: You must be flying
1d6 + Dex
Effect: You slide the target 1 square
Special: This attack counts as a basic melee for the purposes of powers.

>Military Experience
Prerequisite: Kalang
Benefit: You may use your Bat Flight racial power while wearing chainmail

>Ultrasonic Frequencies
Prerequisite: Kalang
Benefit: You gain a +4 feat bonus to damage rolls with sonic powers.

>>13878931
>>13879000
>>13879054
>>13879313
That covers Kalang through the standard heroic tier of 4e. Also, I guess average heights should be 4'-5', not 5'-6'.

>>13879289
re-read the statblock - they're counted as Small only for the purpose of wielding weapons, not in general. So no twohanders and whatnot.

>>13879290
Yeah - Kalang are between humans and dwarves heightwise, with the Kamazotzl being the huge flightless ogrish monsters prowling the deeps of the cavern and scavenging what they can that falls from above.

This is pretty cool

But what are they good at? Like, elves are good at magic, dwarves at building shit and shit, humans are the middle.

What's their niche?

here's a bat deity for you /tg/

>>13879438
Monk and Rangers with a touch of Rogue / Fighter I'd imagine.

>>13879438

They're BAT PEOPLE.

>>13879488
So kind of wilderness survivalists. /k/ommando militiamen

A little update before I go. I'll continue later tonight.

>>13879438
Cave survivalists and undead removal

>>13879438
They're kinda elflike in their favored classes; not much face-to-face meat-shield tanking, more get-in-get-out quick strikes and such - Monk, Rogue, maybe Ranger. We originally pictured them as taking pages from Shaolin Monks - pacifists mostly, but with enough training that they're able to fight back if pushed and defend those who can't fight back.

Wouldn't they be more Aztec Monks?

>>13879580
Yeah, they culturally and stylewise are largely Aztec-flavored, but the original "persona" we created for them was Shaolin-style pacifism - they don't like to fight, but they will if they need to, and can do it well. Think Bruce Lee or Jackie Chan sorta outlook here - they throw the second punch, and do it so there isn't a third.

Since they see the taking of a life as something that empowers the gods of death and evil, they try to avoid bloodshed and conflict.

>>13879534
Could there be Kalang who actively hunt/search for undead? A sort of Witch Hunter for their race? Something like an Echo Silencer or some better name like that, seeing as how undead could be seen as an Echo of their former selves in Kalang culture.

Do the vampire bat ones have stats for 3.5 yet?

>>13879651
Oh yes, we've established there are indeed a facet of Kalang who hunt vampires and undead - such monsters are seen as twisted servants/children of Ghost-who-shrieks and Great Silence.

Haven't figured out a suitable name for them yet, but they do exist.

>>13879698
They're near-mindless brutes, barely above animals. Probably just refluff an Ogre statblock and cut down the Intelligence stats.

>>13879651
Vampire Hunters.

>>13879763
"I do not want this fight. I do not like this fight. But I fight nonetheless, becan I can and I must, to protect those who cannot. If my wings are torn to ribbons while I keep a demon's claw from harming an innocent, then I will gladly cease to fly. If my life ends to prevent a nightstalker's hunger from destroying a village, I will meet the Great Silence with no fear and with a smile on my lips. I am a Vampire Hunter."

>>13879517
It is physically impossible for you to suck or fail, isn't it?

>>13879517
AWESOME.

>>13879642
The ones who had the misfortune to live near drow cities are a bit more militant, though. It creates some cultural tensions when they meet with kalang from colonies not under constant threat of invasion and enslavement.

>>13879651
Hrm. Echo Silencer. I like that. The undead hunters new name has been found!

>>13879651
With their Polytheism perhaps they have a god of...Not war since they don't have one. But one of battle. One whose disciples are taught not to seek conflict but end it when it comes, and remove those who seek to bring discord to the Song of Creation.

Such deity fights on behalf of the Gold Crowned to end the abominations of the Ghost Who Shrieks.

>>13880017
>>13880065

The Silent Ones are seen as strange, mystical figures among Kalang - not for any sort of supernatural powers, but because of the incredible focus of will and strength of mind such warriors have for dedicating their lives to facing the twisted children who have walked anew after knowing the claws of the Great Silence and the maddening cry of Ghost-who-shrieks, and doing so constantly without giving in to such powers as many others surely would. If fear and admiration could be combined into a single emotion, it would be what most Kalang feel for these hunters of the undead.

>>13880144
Bat demonhunters?

Imokaywiththis.jpg

>>13880244
Pretty much, yeah. We set pretty early on that Kalang HATED the undead, and even set that, for reasons we never got around to explaining, that they were immune to being turned into vampires (but not zombies or other undead). So having a special "vampire hunter" sect was obvious.

Damn, this is really good stuff. /tg/ getting stuff done at it's finest. Considering stealing something like this for the Shattered Sun setting we're also doing; a race that traditionally lives in darkness might be an interesting addition. Possibly emerge from underground after the Sun hatched, now that night was a more constant thing, friends to Strobers etc.

>>13880341
ooh, a getting-shit-done crossover? Go for it, man, have fun, let us know how it turns out.

>>13880362
Proof we are awesome - we has crossover.

>>13880341
Fuck

Yeah.

Elves are mostly extinct in that setting after all if I remember right.

Though they'd probably in such a setting have a more night based deity, be one of the few things in the dark who do not wish anyone harm but the Discordant ones

>>13880341
>>13880593
This is great, but lets not slip off-track. Shatter Sun guy can retcon and rewrite Kalang however he wants for his setting, but we're working on "canon" stuff for them here, befitting a general D&D-style thing.

Here's the link to the current Shattered Sun thread: >>13880423

The archived threads are here: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=sun

And the entry on 1d4chan: http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Shattered_Sun

I think it'd be interesting to see the how another race, culture and mythology would talk about what's happened to the Sun, especially one that doesn't really spend a lot of time on the surface and is pretty comfy in the dark.

Hate to be That Guy, but has anyone thought up 3.5/Pathfinder stats for them at all?

More writefagging also appreciated for those who don't want to indulge

>>13880674
well, sofar as that goes, I think we figured that Kalang got the same adjustments as elves - +2 Dex, -2Con - and a bonus to Listen checks, but we never really got around to explore past that.

>>13879517
It's later tonight, where's the rest?

bump

aww, we're not done, are we?

Archived.

Hopefully drawfag appears to finish the colorwork before thread ends.

>>13880674
What sort of writefagging needs to be done?

>>13881829
Not sure, we've done plenty of it in the other threads, can't really think of any stuff we might've left untouched, personally.

guess drawfag's not coming back tonight...

>>13879721
I rather liked the idea of the albinos who were affected by death gods. Perhaps we could combine this with a racial feat like discussed before?
>>13879313
>Ghosttouched
Prerequisites - Kalang, must be taken at level 1
Benefits: An albino touched by either the pale wings of Great-Silence or the marked by the claws of Ghost-Who-Shrieks, you claws of get +1CL on all Necromancy spells and +2 on turn/rebuke attempts made against undead. You get +2 circumstance bonuses on dealing with Diplomacy, Bluff and Intimidate check made against undead.

Sorry
if I got the nomenclature/notation wrong. I'm a 3.5 guy, so I'm more comfortable writing it this way. Please fix it as you see fit.

>>13882231
And a -4 against Diplomacy Kalang would probably be adequate too.

>>13882231
>>13882279

Great Silence has not claimed this thread - it lives on!

>>13882279
Yeah. I was unsure of how to pull work that. On one hand - undead are feared and hated by the Kalang race. As discussed by this guy here (http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/13865562/#13870958) , the Kalang wouldn't kill such a child outright - it seems very anti-communal and against their society's philosophy. But I wonder how much is fear and how much is respect. Sort of like how dealing with a fey creature might be - at once inspiring and terrifying.

I could see some might be inspiring leaders, even if their role is looked on with disgust (kind of like having an Ithillid in a good-aligned party - the creature is disgusting but you can't deny it's personal presence). Still, -4 to Diplomacy against Kalang seems to make sense, too.

Does this warrant more investigation, or am I probing too deeply.

I am reminded. What special gear you think a Undead Hunter might have? Obviously something to make fire so they can burn the bodies they fell so they do not rise again.

>>13882366
Praise the Gold-Crowned!

>>13882406
New Lore: Most leaders of the Undead hunters are Albinos as it is believed they are deathtouched. They still somewhat ostracized from society, mostly by their peers while they are young but if they can live they usually have iron wills. So its natural those who were accused of being somehow in league with the Ghost-Who-Shrieks would fight his minions to absolve themselves

>>13882419
A fine chain-net which reduces the movement speed of undead creatures?

I figure an undead Kalang might fly pretty quickly once it no longer has the ability to be exhausted. perhaps bolas which wrap around wings and legs, which effect undead severely but don't do squat against the living?

>>13882474
That's perfect. I was thinking of it myself but wasn't sure how to word things clearly.

>>13882474
Makes a great deal of sense. Turn evil against itself.

Plus, we can always have the delicious 'one of the ostracized kids goes rogue' plots for a campaign, if needed.

Plus, some of the Eaten (See http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/13865562/#13870811)

So Ghosttouched == Eaten? Or are there distinctions between those touched by Ghost-Who-Shrieks and those touched by Great-Silence? Would it kind of be like the distinction between the different types of Warlocks if 4th E (Star warlocks, Fey warlokcs, etc)?

>>13882608
Nah. The eaten are the blind venomous gibbering ones. They are seen as the Kalang that give into the Ghost-Who-Shriek's song and join in a discordant melody. Aberrations somewhere between dead and living.

>>13882608
And yeah. The two kinds of touched of Silence and Discord. One would be Lawful Evil the other would be Chaotic

>>13882663
So maybe Silence get bonuses to casting spells which cause death (Powerword Kill, etc) whereas Discord might do better on Create Undead type spells? How would one incorporate the Bring Death/Silence tendencies, or the Distort Life/Health ones?

>>13882608
>>13882637
Eaten are more like evil cultists, I think. While Ghosttouched are more likely to become Eaten, its not guaranteed. Many become Hunters as well, to atone for their apparent curse.

I think the blind gibbering ones (the ones folks keep nicknaming Zubats) haven't been given a name yet...

>>13882797
Well what suitable name should we have for them? They obviously live deeper in the underdark... Sightless?

>>13882870
How about just "Deep Ones"? Kinda cliche, but it sorta fits, since they dwell in the deepest caverns where sane ka never go.

>>13882933
Suppose that makes sense. About the same principle to regular humans. Things with connection to aberrant old god that dwells deep

>>13883156
Too deep... yes... they went too deep into the shadowy places of the world, where even the blessed night-watching eye of the Golden-crowned cannot see... where Ghost-who-shireks dwells... he found them, twisted them, drove them mad... this is why it is dangerous to look too deep into caverns. Madness and death hide there.

Living among the Bat-folk, Chapter 5 – Festivities, Rituals and Customs. Page 334

Considering how important is social relationships for the Kalang, it is not a big surprise they usually hold events all year-round, commemorating many phases in their lives, and other such things of importance. Even visitors are expected to join the celebrations, and the slight refusal is apparently greatly frowned upon.

A new year in a Ka’s society starts as soon as they rise from Hibernation, in the beginning of spring. They hold a feast, which they aptly name “The First of Many Feasts”. They don't usually wear anything especial for this feast, in case some elfic fashion afficionado is interested to know.

It’s a surprise to learn that it lacks the idea us Dwarves have for feasts, as in fact they eat very little; mostly it’s plain water, a bug soup they call “Melolontha”, and fruit cakes they prepared before hibernation. Don’t expect roasts or beer, friends! The Kalang say eating such things after long periods of not eating give them cramps. And a cramped Ka won’t be able to dance.

>>13883914

And by dance, I obviously meant they stretch their wings for the first time in months and fly around in the cave. They look as if they are relearning to fly, a bit clumsy at first, but rapidly growing bold, and many of them are already doing dizzing performances within the hour. In the spirit of introducing “That wingless small fellow” to the Ka’s life, a young Kalang called “Blue-water-in-gray-cave” offered to carry me on his back. Dumbest idea I ever had. On the bright side I found it to be a great idea not to be full of Beer and roasted pork when flying like that.

This feast is all about new beginnings, especially in the matters of love and friendship, said Blue-water. Apparently it’s a time to revalidate the bond with a mate (or fall in love with one to begin with), relative or friend, since every Ka feel like they are seeing and hearing one other for the first time again.

Nearing the end of the night, they sit in a circle and spend a long time talking about the dreams they had, which they believe are messages from the Embrace-of-Night, their Mother Goddess. They also discuss their plans for the year. It is appropriate for the visitor to leave only after telling his or her dream if he or she wishes so, after all that spinning and diving in the air.

And the lorespinner returns. Marvelous.

>>13884075
I do enjoy the songs our Lorechanters spin

>>13884075
Not for too long I'm afraid, way sleepy.
Just posting something I tried to do, but I'm not completely satisfied with the way it turned out (mostly about the style than content).

I have a few rites in mind to write about, but...

>>13884223
Do what you can. We can always make new threads.

>>13883914
>>13883930
These fluff-posts make my heart smile.

Drawfag reportan. Sleepy as fuck, but I'll finish at least the tones before I go to bed.

>>13884748
I'd consider this a fair stop-point for now, as late as it is. The rest can get a new thread tomorrow evening. Brilliant work, artist and writers alike.

>>13884748
Dude, these are really good. Did you go to some sort of art class? Do you draw all digitally in PS, or what? And do you create your own pre-set brushes/textures? I'd be really interested to know.

>>13884794

Fair enough. I'll return tomorrow with more art updates. Excellent work, everyone. I'm looking forward to introducing this race in my group's campaign when it is completed.

>>13884802

Not really, just practice and freelancing. I color in PS. For the inking is used a custom brush I made myself, and for the coloring I'm using a normal hard round brush with varying opacity and adjusted to pen pressure.

>>13878931
I thought Kalang body should be slightly smaller than a dwarf, with their wings making them into medium sized creatures.

>>13884840
the height in the first statblock was a typo - meant to say 4' - 5', not 5' - 6'.