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<blockquote data-quote="Salamandyr" data-source="post: 7155615" data-attributes="member: 40233">Not really concerned about Tolkien; D&amp;D isn't LOTR, it's Howard, Leiber, de Camp and Pratt, Anderson, and Vance. (insert caveat that D&amp;D is really about whatever you want it to be...and the more your imagination ranges from the modern &quot;House Style&quot; the better your games will be).Tabaxi are fine, though for my money, the D&amp;D cat race are Rakasta--the desert dwelling cat people who ride sabertooth tigers and fight with steel claws.&nbsp; Really gratified to see the number of people who prefer humanocentric campaigns.&nbsp; For myself, I'm partial to encouraging the weirdness of nonhuman races...I like &quot;Half-bloods&quot; since it's a valid way to establish a difference that marks the PC out from the common herd while still connecting the character to the overall world.&nbsp; And I like &quot;beastmen&quot; because you can't get around their strangeness.&nbsp; It encourages an other-worldly mindset in a way that saying &quot;elf&quot; (at this late stage in their existence within the fantasy pantheon) doesn't.So Tabaxi are good, and Dragonborn (though I'd prefer another name), and Tieflings, and Half-Elves, and Aasimar.&nbsp; Even better are Centaurs, Satyrs, and Dryads.&nbsp; Gnomes are a bit of all right (not Tinker Gnomes).&nbsp; I'd prefer a game where my choices consisted of a few different variations of human, and some of these.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Salamandyr, post: 7155615, member: 40233"] Not really concerned about Tolkien; D&D isn't LOTR, it's Howard, Leiber, de Camp and Pratt, Anderson, and Vance. (insert caveat that D&D is really about whatever you want it to be...and the more your imagination ranges from the modern "House Style" the better your games will be). Tabaxi are fine, though for my money, the D&D cat race are Rakasta--the desert dwelling cat people who ride sabertooth tigers and fight with steel claws. Really gratified to see the number of people who prefer humanocentric campaigns. For myself, I'm partial to encouraging the weirdness of nonhuman races...I like "Half-bloods" since it's a valid way to establish a difference that marks the PC out from the common herd while still connecting the character to the overall world. And I like "beastmen" because you can't get around their strangeness. It encourages an other-worldly mindset in a way that saying "elf" (at this late stage in their existence within the fantasy pantheon) doesn't. So Tabaxi are good, and Dragonborn (though I'd prefer another name), and Tieflings, and Half-Elves, and Aasimar. Even better are Centaurs, Satyrs, and Dryads. Gnomes are a bit of all right (not Tinker Gnomes). I'd prefer a game where my choices consisted of a few different variations of human, and some of these. [/QUOTE]

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