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The race I was talking about (Ardlings, I think they were called?) were descended from Guardinals. It was still a confused mess...
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Dog people are the original furries - the ancient Greeks called them cynocephaloi (lit. Dog-head) and had a whole mythology about them...
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Yeah, the lack of a catch-all anthro race in D&D seems like a glaring omission to me. And they kind of tried to make one for the 2024...
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What's truly astonishing to me is that D&D still doesn't have a dog-person or wolf-person race. Like, at all. We've got multiple brands...
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I strongly suspect these guys in Elden Ring were inspired by the pumpkin-headed bugbear:
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I seem to also recall that there were a lot of miscommunications between EGG and his artist(s?). I believe the dog noses was a result of...
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Given that they made Gith into Aberrations, when they share basically no characteristics with other Aberrations, just some history, it...
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Someone -- maybe the Cult of Tiamat -- doing this to the kobolds is a great way to unify all the different depictions of them over the...
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I've occasionally thought similarly... like thinking that kobolds could be to dragonborn what goblins are to bugbears. Two species...
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It was 3e that fully pivoted to small dragonfolk kobolds. But they weren’t exactly dog-people before that. Dog noses were the only dog...
Sep 10, 2025
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This “maintaining the relationship between the task and intent” thing is confusing to me. The intent is what the player hopes will...
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The feature, by the way, says that “you usually contacted your patron via intermediaries”. It DOES NOT say that the patron wasn’t...
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False. Before level 3 the default is that your patron isn’t specified, but no actual rule prevents deciding your patron up front. That...
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Sounds like you can for sure talk to them before that. The feature just gives you a direct link that you can use at any time. Also...
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