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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Darrin Drader" data-source="post: 1067054" data-attributes="member: 7394">First of all, forgive me for my attempt to hijack this thread and plug my own material. It does have a purpose.The furry debate is an interesting one, and one that hits close to home for me. As you may or may not know, Oathbound, a campaign world I've done a bit of design work for, has plenty of furries. As a fantasy fan, I've never been overly interested in furries myself. When I was invited to work on Oathbound before it was released and before anyone had any idea what it would be about, I was initially disappointed at all of the animal based races. At the time I wasn't really looking at it as a paycheck, but as a potential opportunity, and not one that I needed to follow. I ultimately decided to go forward with the work I was commissioned because it was an interesting stretch for me. When designing sharacters based on new races, I'm always asking myself how the mentality of the creature deviates from the standard human and how is the creature perceived by society. After doing this for a while, I found it to be quite a lot of fun. We're all familliar with the half orc and the elf, and the dwarven point of view. How about that of an intelligent tiger with wings? Or what about an upright walking sentient version of a house cat? How much more interesting would it be to actually play that creature? And what about their natural attacks and other racial abilities. Sometimes they can run faster, fly, hover, breath under water, and do other things that humans normally wouldn't be able to do without the aid of magic.So tying this back to the Diamond Throne, yeah, Monte put furries into the world. More to the point, very few of his races are just humans that happen to be a little shorter or a little thinner. Good for him! In fact, at some point I actually want to get into a DT game just to see how that gameplay is different than standard D&D. Diamond Throne is a setting that interests me and after reading AU, I would like to explore it some more to see what it offers. Judging by Monte's past work, I'm sure there will be plot aplenty, so we'll see what's in store.</blockquote>

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