<<< have been asked how I feel about playing a morocanth.[snip] So far I've read River of Cradles, Elder Secrets and the Bestiary. While these give me basic stats, they don't seem to have enough to run a morocanth PC, especially a trader, which is what I'm being asked for. >>>
Spookily I'm playing a Morokanth Issaries initiate right now.
The best stuff is in 'Borderlands' which is good for working out skill class modifiers (especially Manipulation) and several others skills that 'kanth get instead of human skills. If your referee plays RQ2; go with the RQ2 stats as RQ3 'kanth are weaker and less dextrous, but haggle for 'kanth martial arts from the Bestiary. For additional unofficial source material, there was a lot of very good stuff on the digest between 24 May - 10 Jul. 1996.
I play my morokanth as a very dodgy East End car dealer. Any corpse may be a potential 'special cut'; Trolls and Lunars are his biggest customers. He's left his tribe with some of his mum's herdmen in order to 'see the world' (avoid local entanglements). His worldview makes him very supremacist because he is Morokanth and Praxian.
My biggest problem in playing a morokanth has been the other player's lack of real distrust. Okay he first met the other PCs (mostly Sartarite) when he smuggles them out of Pavis under the watch of the Lunar guards as part of his herd. But none of the PCs are Praxian, so they should be suspicious as hell as to what the 'kanth is up to. Instead they take every chance to belittle his lack of thumbs!
Adam Crossingham
PS Apologies for being v. late, I always seem to run a month behind reading the Digest.
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