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<blockquote data-quote="Systole" data-source="post: 6076730" data-attributes="member: 93930"><p>I assume you mean the variant heritage tieflings, which we don't allow. However, that's not the issue -- from what I've seen, catfolk aren't broken. Neither are the other humanoids with mix-and-match animal heads. My problem with catfolk is that I think that they're just lazy. They're just a drop-in that you can put in any fantasy world you care to name, because hey, cat-heads!</p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #ffa500"></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #ffa500">"Hey, animal head plus human body! Isn't that cool?" </span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #ee82ee"> "Yeah, but what's their backstory? Their history? How do they fit into the world</span>?" </p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #ffa500">"Well, they've got cat heads ... on human bodies!" </span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #ee82ee">"..."</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #ffa500">"So cool, I know!"</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #ee82ee">"Should I ask what else you've got?"</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #ee82ee"></span><span style="color: #ffa500">"Well, I was thinking of a race of people that -- get this -- have <em>snake </em>heads. On human bodies!"</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #ee82ee">"..."</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p><p>We've got a big, complex, interesting world already. If you want to sell me on catfolk, then convince me that they make this big, complex, interesting world even more so. Convince me that they bring something to the table that we don't already have. Give me a twist or a conflict or some lost forbidden knowledge or <em>something</em>. Make them unique and integrated. Most of all, make them <em>necessary</em>. If we accept catfolk, then a year from now, I do not want to look back and think, "If we simply removed everything about catfolk from E'n, there would be absolutely zero impact on the rest of the world as we know it."</p><p></p><p>Wayangs are a good example. I was not immediately sold on wayangs, but they are necessary for <a href="http://livingpf.wikia.com/wiki/Sumbru" target="_blank">Sumbru</a>, and Sumbru is pretty damn cool. E'n would be different and less interesting without it and without them. Make me believe that about catfolk, and you can have my vote. So far, this fascist furry utopia you're describing isn't grabbing me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Systole, post: 6076730, member: 93930"] I assume you mean the variant heritage tieflings, which we don't allow. However, that's not the issue -- from what I've seen, catfolk aren't broken. Neither are the other humanoids with mix-and-match animal heads. My problem with catfolk is that I think that they're just lazy. They're just a drop-in that you can put in any fantasy world you care to name, because hey, cat-heads! [INDENT][COLOR=#ffa500] "Hey, animal head plus human body! Isn't that cool?" [/COLOR] [COLOR=#ee82ee] "Yeah, but what's their backstory? Their history? How do they fit into the world[/COLOR]?" [COLOR=#ffa500]"Well, they've got cat heads ... on human bodies!" [/COLOR] [COLOR=#ee82ee]"..."[/COLOR] [COLOR=#ffa500]"So cool, I know!"[/COLOR] [COLOR=#ee82ee]"Should I ask what else you've got?" [/COLOR][COLOR=#ffa500]"Well, I was thinking of a race of people that -- get this -- have [I]snake [/I]heads. On human bodies!"[/COLOR] [COLOR=#ee82ee]"..."[/COLOR] [/INDENT] We've got a big, complex, interesting world already. If you want to sell me on catfolk, then convince me that they make this big, complex, interesting world even more so. Convince me that they bring something to the table that we don't already have. Give me a twist or a conflict or some lost forbidden knowledge or [I]something[/I]. Make them unique and integrated. Most of all, make them [I]necessary[/I]. If we accept catfolk, then a year from now, I do not want to look back and think, "If we simply removed everything about catfolk from E'n, there would be absolutely zero impact on the rest of the world as we know it." Wayangs are a good example. I was not immediately sold on wayangs, but they are necessary for [URL="http://livingpf.wikia.com/wiki/Sumbru"]Sumbru[/URL], and Sumbru is pretty damn cool. E'n would be different and less interesting without it and without them. Make me believe that about catfolk, and you can have my vote. So far, this fascist furry utopia you're describing isn't grabbing me. [/QUOTE]
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