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Originally Posted by manikus
Were half-ogres a player race in 2e?
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Well, I don't remember seeing an "official", but mid-2nd edition is when I stopped being a purchaser of dnd stuff. There was a way to go all build-a-bear style on making your own classes and races and such, with experience point multipliers for various abilities (I think it was part of 2nd edition DMG but don't quote me on this as I have all my books stored up in Michigan, and I live currently in Florida).
On a side note, re-creating the existing character types (of paladin and ranger especially) made for a larger experience point total to level up than is given in the character explanation. In fact, with the paladin and the ranger had such a high experience point multiplier that when you made your own character types with that high an XP multiplier, it was explained as being super-characters with too many powers and was not recommended to use them.
Similarly you could make other playable races, but off the top of my head I don't remember much about that. I do remember a decent dragon magazine article with centaurs as playable characters, tho.
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