If anyone can think of a better title, I'm open to suggestions! Sorry the formatting is strange. I'll fix it when I post it on the blog.
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Appearance
1. Eyes: What shape are the people’s eyes? How big are they? What colour? Are the pupils and irises larger or smaller than normal?
2. Nose: What shape are the people’s noses? How big are they? How long or short?
3. Mouth: Are their mouths long or short? How full are the lips?
4. Ears: How big are the ears? Do they poke out? How much? Are they abnormally shaped?
5. Face: What shape are their faces? Are they thin or well filled out? How big are they?
6. Hair:

- Women: How long is it? Is it straight or curly? What colour is it?
- Men: How long is it? What colour is it?

7. Bodies: Are they tall or short? Are they fat, skinny or in the middle? What is their skin tone?


Clothing

1. Women: Skirts or pants? Specific colours? Specific styles?

2. Men: Specific colours? Specific styles?

Actions

1. Speech: Is it slow or fast? Do they speak in riddles or clearly? Is their speech garbled or understandable?

2. Movements: Are they slow or fast? Jerky or smooth?

Characteristics

1. Mind: These would be characteristics like impatience, tender-heartedness, etc.

2. Body: These would be characteristics like shyness, quietness, etc.

Preferences

1. Likes: What kind of colours do they like? What sort of objects? Shapes? Feelings?

2. Dislikes: What kind of colours don’t they like? What sort of objects? Shapes? Feelings?

Health

1. Beneficial: What things can cure them, or make them healthier?

2. Lethal: What things can injure or even kill them?

If it would help your critiquing to see some results of my system, you can see mine at http://aloveofbooks.wordpress.com/2010/02/14/the-four-elemental-races-sylphs/ and Radisana's at http://rosebellamont.wordpress.com/arde ... criptions/ and http://rosebellamont.wordpress.com/arde ... teristics/

Good!

I would suggest a little intro and some description of the different questions.

No answer to your question Inesdar, but to ROTW...
What you have is good, but it could use some more substance -- more questions, etc. I've made up some questions of my own for the process, and I think we should include some of those (hope I don't sound presumptuous. )

Here's an example of one of my races run through the questions I made up. The scales are from 1 to 5.

Subject: Raechal
Physical:
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Eyes
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Color: Green, Blue, Hazel
Deep-set: No
Pupil shape: Oval
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Hair
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Texture: Soft
Thickness: 2 1/2
Shine: 3
Length: Varies
Facial: Mild
Color: Predominantly black
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Nose
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Shape: Sharp, slightly turned-up
Prominence: 3
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Ears
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Shape: Cupped and slightly pointed
Location: High on the head
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Skin
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Color: Dark, fades to light as they age
Thickness: 2 1/2
Opacity: 3 1/2
Scarring: 4
Quickness of Healing: 3 1/2
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Face
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Expression Readability: 4
Forehead: High
Cheekbones: Prominent
Jawline: Varies
Chin Prominence: 2 1/2
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Build
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Height: Average 4' 11" to 5' 11"
Delicacy: 3 1/2
Limbs: Short and thin but surprisingly strong
General: Thin, lithe and short but with more stamina than you would expect
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Senses
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Sight: 3
Touch: 3
Hearing: 4 1/2
Taste: 2
Smell: 2 1/2
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Intolerances/Weaknesses
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Claustrophobia
Very loud noises
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Movement
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Speed: 3
Grace: 2 1/2
Agility: 3
Strength: 3
Stamina: 4
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Magic
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Ease: 2
Sustainability: 4
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Talents
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Taming animals

I understand that 1) I'm only scratching the surface 2) this system may not work for everyone and 3) that it doesn't go very well with your current system. But if we could find some way to combine them... *shrug* I dunno, just some suggestions. And I also understand that my post is a bit long, but considering Jay's post on fractalling I don't feel that bad. :P

So are y'all working on some amazing process to combine these two race-making things? I was pretty impressed by both, but the part that stuck out to me was the rating system that Lady Eruwaedhiel made...kind of like cards in a trading game :P

And Raven, are you working on any books other than the Robin Hood one, since that really doesn't have races per se? I'm curious...I don't have time to click on your links but I do remember skimming one of them from reading your blog but I can't remember if I saw anything about a new book.

eruheran

For the time being, this article has been put on hold, and will grace the blog with itss presence at a later date. The thread is being archived.