Create a race that is defined by one type of technology, and is a descendant of the human race.
What technology are they defined by ? (ex: cloning, cybernetics, robotics, genetics,…)
Why did the become defined by that?
What effect does being defined by that technology have on their development/evolution?
Create a race of monsters that attack from the myst.
why do they stay to the myst?
Why do they attack in the first place?
How can you make this a scary story?
Create a race that could be the Ancients.
Why are they the Ancients? Were they destroyed? Did they leave?
What if they were evil in intent?
Create a race that does something that leaves a long lasting mark on their bodies every time something happens.
What is the something they are reacting to?
What is it they do to themselves? How permanent is it?
How do these marks affecto others that see them?
Create a race by taking a fantasy race and accelerating their development into the far future.
What do they look like now?
How has the technology changed their race?
What make the original fantasy race seem like neanderthals to the race?
Create a race of telepaths.
Why do they have that power?
How does that power affect their society?
Create a race that was created by another for one specific purpose.
examples:
Create a race from the shoulders up look human but from the shoulders down they are repulsive.
Why do they look like us?
Why don’t they look like us?
Are they good or evil?
What are there values?
Would they get along with humans?
Would humans kill on sight?
What about them makes them better or worse than us?
Create a Race that has some physical anomaly for each year they live. (example trees have a ring for each year they live)
What if this physical anomaly is always visible?
How does one of this race hide there age?
what would seeing someone’s age affect the society?
Create a culture of humans, that if we saw them today would be considered another race.
What have they gravitated to that makes them so different?
What do they hold dear that we do not?
What makes them so much better than us?
What makes them so much worse than us?