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<blockquote data-quote="Kobold Avenger" data-source="post: 7600396" data-attributes="member: 779"><p>I think the greater expansion of furries seems to be a mostly a particular niche. Generally stronger among Japanese sources as there's a lot of animal spirits sort of things like Tengu/Kenku, Nezumi or Tanuki. Kenku are already covered in D&D, and the Hengeyokai that's been in OA since the start could cover a large variety of those, and because they're shapeshifters they can be as furry or non-furry as a DM wants (one could simply remove or de-emphasize the hybrid form).</p><p></p><p>For other sources there's the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West (the inspiration for the anime Dragon Ball and the TV series Into the Badlands and many other things) might be one of the few expansion of furries for Chinese sources as it's main character the Monkey King/Sun Wu Kim could be depicted as a Monkey, but more often than not he's just been depicted as a Human too. </p><p></p><p>There's Chinese stories where there are animal spirits which assume Human form and live lives among Humans. They could be the Spirit Folk PC race, though that race seems to cover more case of spirits of plants or natural features.</p><p></p><p>Indian mythology has the Vanara, monkey like beings which are probably the inspiration for the Monkey King. Naga are another thing in Indian and Southeast Asian myths, but there's already Naga in D&D, even though they don't match most peoples expectation of a Human with a snake lower body.</p><p></p><p>But I don't think it's furrier overall among most Asian sources than it is for European or other sources, which have tales like Three Little Pigs or Red Riding Hood.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kobold Avenger, post: 7600396, member: 779"] I think the greater expansion of furries seems to be a mostly a particular niche. Generally stronger among Japanese sources as there's a lot of animal spirits sort of things like Tengu/Kenku, Nezumi or Tanuki. Kenku are already covered in D&D, and the Hengeyokai that's been in OA since the start could cover a large variety of those, and because they're shapeshifters they can be as furry or non-furry as a DM wants (one could simply remove or de-emphasize the hybrid form). For other sources there's the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West (the inspiration for the anime Dragon Ball and the TV series Into the Badlands and many other things) might be one of the few expansion of furries for Chinese sources as it's main character the Monkey King/Sun Wu Kim could be depicted as a Monkey, but more often than not he's just been depicted as a Human too. There's Chinese stories where there are animal spirits which assume Human form and live lives among Humans. They could be the Spirit Folk PC race, though that race seems to cover more case of spirits of plants or natural features. Indian mythology has the Vanara, monkey like beings which are probably the inspiration for the Monkey King. Naga are another thing in Indian and Southeast Asian myths, but there's already Naga in D&D, even though they don't match most peoples expectation of a Human with a snake lower body. But I don't think it's furrier overall among most Asian sources than it is for European or other sources, which have tales like Three Little Pigs or Red Riding Hood. [/QUOTE]
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