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Assuming players are 100% required to go through the normal character creation to play their character, can we create NPC's and assign their control to the player and remove their created character - to allow them to play a race outside of the 5 main ones. I suppose it'd require a way to manually level them up aswell?

I don't know if we can remove their created character, but, if the editor works the same way it did for DoS1, you can place down an NPC or monster and tick a box in its properties to designate it as a player controlled unit.

You should be able to let players use virtually any race, and gain experience and input attributes and abilities and that just like regular player characters. The main problem is a lack of animations and armor/weapon models that work with other races. Wearing gear with an unsupported race may create visual anomalies.

Yeah, I'm suspecting it's something like that. One of my players wants to play an Orc, so I'm hoping either that's the case or someone goes through with an Orc playable race mod. As was said though, the armour issue is the biggest hurdle there.

Do you know if it's possible to add races to the character creation window? For example, in the case mentioned by Vith, could we add an orc race? Obviously customization would be non-existant and armor / certain weapon models would be problematic, but is it possible and, if so, is it easy to do?