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Thanks.

This Dragon article is the best source you'll find for that.

http://www.tsr.com/Dragon/Backissues/157may90/157EcologyOfTheWemic.txt

On the other hand, after seeing all of the abilities wemics have, not just the couple mentioned in the Humanoids Handbook and Monstrous Compendium, you might be reconsidering. As long as the player is willing to take one the psychological aspects, it shouldn't be a problem - their compulsive honesty can be a *real* drawback.

Oh, I agree. It's just that some people are hooked on 'balance' notions, and might not consider an RP disadvantage worth the statstical benefits that wemics have. (I'm neither overly concerned with everything adding up just so, nor do I consider an RP disadvatage 'too weak'.)

As it happens, my player has decided he will play a wemic, truth and all. Unfortunately honesty is not going to be a problem in my party (2 Paladins, an LG ranger and a reformed Elven theif.. it's being dishonest that's caused him to want to stop playing his present fighter).

Even so, it could cause all sorts of problems in negotiations or diplomacy. Even paladins can be adroit negotiators, and can easily refuse to say things that are considered too sensitive to reveal. The wemic, on the other hand, may well blow the attempt with some true, but unwanted, statement, or reveal more than they were supposed to... etc.

Then, there's what happens when they decide they have a reason to party. (Alcohol and a wemic is a very bad combination...)

I actually inhereted my campaign world from a friend who "moved on" from fantasy to WOD and he had a big thing for wemics. In the northern part of the continent they are the most populous meta-human, and further south where my party actually is they're still 5th or 6th. So, that's not too much of a problem.
The problem that Neutronium Dragon really highlighted for me though was the alcohol. My party habitually stays in inns and taverns and suchlike, I can just imagine the Kender (yes, that player has problems with the rest of the party too) daring the wemic to a drinking match. }{-) Since the player decided he wanted to play a wemic I've been thinking of actually conning my party into shifting locations to return to the wemic homeland, dunno yet. That part of my campaign world used to be free-roaming savannah until a bunch of humans decided they could use the land more profitably. They're just blots on the landscape yet, but it could be interesting to play there..
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Even if they're not common to a region, they may not have such a problem getting in the gate as orc or goblin PCs would. Barring a recent war for some reason, wemics are not normally known for being human-hostile. That's not to say there'd be no problems, but with a bit silver-tongued speaking, they could probably get in without too much trouble. Whether, of course, the wemic would be all that thrilled at going into a city is another question...

Heh heh heh. The repair bills could be quite large, and there's always the potential for someone to get injured/killed, given how playfully agressive they can get while plastered. Not so much of a problem among their own, but humans are a bit more fragile.

Hmm. Wemics are quite territorrial, and if they feel their territorry is being invaded, they're likely to respond with force. Those settlers had better be really well armed and numerous, or they're likely to get torn apart...