Anthropomorphic Animal PCs!

[Dragonbait]

That was well before any of us had regular computer access (college years) and found out "furries" was even a "thing". So I it's always agrivating when the "furries" stigma wrecks my enjoyment of anthropomorphic characters.

Yeah, the internet tells people almost everything they enjoy can be segregated and defined as bad/wrong/fun. And yet, when I deal with people outside of the net they have zero idea of what a furry is. I remember having to explain what a furry is to a bunch of my fellow gamers who weren't message board browsers and the vague definitions and strange stigmas revolving around it. One player then asked "So am I a sexual deviant because I just drew Mickey Mouse?"

okay, back on target.

Oh, I almost forgot: His primary method of dealing with evil would be to bite them, inflict them with lycanthropy, and then wait a few days while they involuntarily become lawful good

Oh.. My... Goodness.. I would have never thought of that. That's hilarious and really a creative use of a "curse"! Now I wanna play a Winnie Pooh paladin. Think think think think

 

[thundershot]

Okay, I've got to admit, the werebear concept is great.

 

[AngeltheTechrat]

We had a great point at which our party debated whether or not to use a pair of cursed rings of alignment change we had aquired on evil people.

(Our DM, Thundershot, started putting curses in all the wrong objects because no one would ever try on a helm or a belt.)

The party mostly wound up divided along the lines of the LG characters saying we should, and the CG characters saying we shouldn't. But my previously mentioned unicorn rider and her mount (both CG, but Halo the mount more "agressive" toward evil) wound up on opposite sides of the debate. Much fun.

 

[Aeolius]

Assuming, in such a campaign, you began as a small awakened forest animal. What sort of animal would you choose and what would be your expectations in such a game?

 

[SolitonMan]

I later refined it to paladin-monk specifically to make "Defeat you with my BEAR HANDS!" jokes.

- I just love that, it's the kind of pun my fellow gamers always threaten to stab me with a pencil over.

When I read the OP's first post, I was thinking in game-mechanical terms. Specifically, the section in Savage Species on Anthropomorphic Animals. I guess I'm pretty OOTL because I've never even heard the term "furry" before - well, not in a gaming context.

While I don't think I'd personally enjoy playing an awakened animal (or whatever a "furry" is defined as) for a normal game, I can see that type of character being appealing to some of the young kids I know as a way to introduce them to the game. It wouldn't be your typical kill-things-and-take-their-stuff, but maybe something more like "Babe".

But to reiterate, in terms of 3E Savage Species defined anthropomorphic animals, I definitely like 'em.

heh heh heh - "BEAR hands" - ahhhahahahahaha...

 

[Silvercat Moonpaw]

While I don't think I'd personally enjoy playing an awakened animal (or whatever a "furry" is defined as) for a normal game, I can see that type of character being appealing to some of the young kids I know as a way to introduce them to the game.

Hey, some older kids like them too.

 

[Man in the Funny Hat]

"Bear hands". Yeah, my gaming life will now never be complete until I can use this.

I abhor the idea of people using anthro PC's as a means of expressing their sexual issues, but aside from that I'm good with it. I've certainly had a few anthro PC concepts, mostly just because I had a few miniatures to use for them. Never did USE any of them though. More recently, however, I've had a desire to introduce a white mouse NPC based on an illustration of a white mouse in glasses standing on a scroll he's reading.

 

[AngeltheTechrat]

- I just love that, it's the kind of pun my fellow gamers always threaten to stab me with a pencil over.

When I read the OP's first post, I was thinking in game-mechanical terms. Specifically, the section in Savage Species on Anthropomorphic Animals. I guess I'm pretty OOTL because I've never even heard the term "furry" before - well, not in a gaming context.

While I don't think I'd personally enjoy playing an awakened animal (or whatever a "furry" is defined as) for a normal game, I can see that type of character being appealing to some of the young kids I know as a way to introduce them to the game. It wouldn't be your typical kill-things-and-take-their-stuff, but maybe something more like "Babe".

But to reiterate, in terms of 3E Savage Species defined anthropomorphic animals, I definitely like 'em.

heh heh heh - "BEAR hands" - ahhhahahahahaha...

Yeah. The anthropomorphic animal template from Savage Species was terrific. If a race to match your vision didn't already exist, you could easily make it. I'm hoping the Anumi from Alluria's Remarkable Races series will prove as versatile.

 

[AngeltheTechrat]

"Bear hands". Yeah, my gaming life will now never be complete until I can use this.

I abhor the idea of people using anthro PC's as a means of expressing their sexual issues, but aside from that I'm good with it. I've certainly had a few anthro PC concepts, mostly just because I had a few miniatures to use for them. Never did USE any of them though. More recently, however, I've had a desire to introduce a white mouse NPC based on an illustration of a white mouse in glasses standing on a scroll he's reading.

I um... I think I have a problem with people using their PCs as a means of expressiong their "sexual issues". (Though lord knows I think I did when I was in highschool... <facefaults> ..ugh.. let us not think of things that happened 20 years ago..)

Does anthro or not even have anything to do with that issue, though?

 

[greatamericanfolkher]

Personally, as a game master (especially in the game I’m currently running where I can easily see someone bringing in a Giff or awakened animal character) my general rule for unusual PC races says that if the reason that they want to play a race isn’t squicky, and the race isn’t out of place in the setting or broken like “whoa” that I’ll generally allow it.

Oh, and “bear hands”. Thanks to you, my players are going to have to fight that paladin now.