Animal Races in DnD

[Graf]

I have to admit that I'm not a fan of shallow races... a lot of the races I've seen based on animals are painfully underdeveloped. But that doesn't make animal races bad...

Rifts did a great job of making dog-men and (for a roleplaying game) went into overdrive relating them to their oppressive creator society, their psionic hound-masters, the average citizen which trusted and affirmed them, etc. Despite being pretty weak the class was pretty popular, it was an engrossing and fun personality concept.

Having said that (and I haven't looked at story hours so please don't think I'm including your homebrewed version in this statement): the most recent example's of animal-races haven't been much to speak of so I can see why there might be complaints about the overall trend...
For example: S&S recently put a cat-people race into their books (in Termena) and it was, unfortunately, a classic paragraph-of-text-followed-by-stat-block. Far less detailed that the (well done) presentations of some of the core races like Dwarves/Elves/etc.
(Hopefully we'll see more in CC-revised to make a liar of me)

 

[tleilaxu]

personally, i enjoy making fun of furries

 

[Sanackranib]

new CC stuff

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For example: S&S recently put a cat-people race into their books (in Termena) and it was, unfortunately, a classic paragraph-of-text-followed-by-stat-block. Far less detailed that the (well done) presentations of some of the core races like Dwarves/Elves/etc.
(Hopefully we'll see more in CC-revised to make a liar of me) [/B]

Hope springs eturnal

 

[DnDChick]

Shameless Self Promotion

Here is another shameless self promotion about furries in DnD:

Furries and Fantasy: The World of Fauna

Enjoy.

 

[Desdichado]

And of course, that mini-campaign had to mention sex and breeding, didn't it?

 

[DnDChick]

Nope ... it didn't have to. I just wanted to address the issue. The topic is more about the inability of species to crossbreed due to biological incompatibility than intercourse, anyway.

 

[Desdichado]

Well, I was thinking it'd be hard not to mention it, otherwise, I'm sure you'd get a ton of e-mails right off the bat asking about it. That wasn't really a comment on the setting itself.

 

[DnDChick]

Well, I was thinking it'd be hard not to mention it, otherwise, I'm sure you'd get a ton of e-mails right off the bat asking about it. That wasn't really a comment on the setting itself.

Understood ... I just wanted to nix the possibility of bizarre crossbreeds in the game. lol

 

[Desdichado]

This would actually be a fun setting to do, I think, as a kinda Redwall-ish game. I'll have to bookmark that page, DNDChick. Or better yet, just save it to my hard-drive!

 

[Elu Warrior]

I'm not a real Fan of "furries" per se. I prefer the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle paradigm myself. It's a subtle difference that lets me look at myself in the mirror.