I noticed some odd new races available in the builder that don’t seem to be from any available books.
Are these a preview of things to come? or just some homebrews?
Which races are you speaking of? Pretty sure the builder is up to date with content from all currently available products.
I think it’s got the races mentioned in sidebars and the series character booklets. Pretty sure they’ve all been printed somewhere though.
The ones I’m not familiar with the published source are:
Borg, Cardassian, Ferengi, Jem’Hadar, Romulan, Vorta
They are all in the Core rulebook under the relevant NPC entries for each race starting at page 317. Ferengi was expanded upon in the DS9 Character Sheets
Ahhh, ok. I. Didn’t realise they provided enough details to create full characters.
After all this time playing, I still hadn’t read every page of the core book!
Likewise and I’ve only been playing and running for over a year!
An NPC species sidebar provides everything you need to create a player character of that species… the only thing they’re lacking are species-specific talents, and those are optional anyway.
Ahhh, ok. I. Didn’t realise they provided enough details to create full characters.
After all this time playing, I still hadn’t read every page of the core book!
They don’t have species Talents in the core book, but since those Talents aren’t requirements, it doesn’t really prevent you from playing those species.
Soong-type androids are presented in full in the TNG characters PDF, and changelings and Ferengi in the DS9 characters supplement, all with species Talents.