D&D 5E Companion thread to 5E Survivor: Species

[Tonguez]

You got it almost right in your post, just skipped an "a"! Their name is not nearly as bad as "svirfneblin" or "baatezu" or "bards"...

Yeah I use to call them everything from Akarocka to Akrockara to Arakockara

Kenku is much much simpler

 

[RealAlHazred]

Yeah I use to call them everything from Akarocka to Akrockara to Arakockara

Kenku is much much simpler

... and copyright Wizards of the Coast. At least one indie publisher had to change their company name because it turns out "kenku" was a copyrightable D&Dism of "tengu," the actual Asian mythological creature.

 

[AnotherGuy]

Tieflings have 69 points. Nice. Halflings have 51. Dragonborn have 46. Shifters have 46. Elves have 41. Lizardfolk have 17.

Cute how you "missed" dwarves at 50+ and gnomes at around 40.

 

[overgeeked]

Cute how you "missed" dwarves at 50+ and gnomes at around 40.

I was on my phone. Sorry.

 

[Vaalingrade]

It's just so weird, right?

Wizards of the Coast takes an elf, changes its appearance and gives it a unique ability based on its ancestral home, and everyone complains "oh yuck, another elf, get rid of it, why are there so many," etc.

Wizards of the Coast takes a tiefling, changes its appearance and gives it a unique ability based on its bloodline, and everyone complains "oh gross another tiefling, toss it in the bin, there are just too many of these," etc.

Wizards of the Coast takes a human, changes its appearance and gives it a unique ability based on an animal, and everyone exclaims in wonder "oh wow a totally unique species, such a rich contribution to my game world, why didn't they do this sooner," etc.

We've been told literally every species is a human in a funny hat, so it doesn't matter.

Nothing matters.

Because people make dumb arguments.

 

[CleverNickName]

We've been told literally every species is a human in a funny hat, so it doesn't matter.

Nothing matters.

Because people make dumb arguments.

Well, yeah. This is a Survivor thread, where nothing matters and everything is a dumb argument. You think my rant about animal-headed humans is silly? Just a few posts up, folks are barking about spelling, of all things.

It's all in good fun...as long as nobody starts insulting people or making it personal, anyway.

 

[RealAlHazred]

It suddenly occurs to me to wonder if my predilection for animal-headed humans has to do with my Egyptophilia... In which case, we can blame King Tut and the Tutmania of the 80s.

 

[overgeeked]

It suddenly occurs to me to wonder if my predilection for animal-headed humans has to do with my Egyptomania... In which case, we can blame King Tut and the Tutmania of the 80s.

Maybe mine, too. But I've always found non-humans more interesting. I pretend to be a human every day. I don't want to keep pretending to be a human in the game, too.

 

[CleverNickName]

It suddenly occurs to me to wonder if my predilection for animal-headed humans has to do with my Egyptomania... In which case, we can blame King Tut and the Tutmania of the 80s.

You could adapt the whole pantheon into playable PC races with just minor visual adjustments. Replace the word "eagle" with "crane" in the Aarakocra's description, and you've got a good stand-in for Thoth. Crocodiles are lizard-shaped reptiles, so Sobek could be a Lizardfolk. Bastet is already a tabaxi...

 

[Mind of tempest]

You could adapt the whole pantheon into playable PC races with just minor visual adjustments. Replace the word "eagle" with "crane" in the Aarakocra's description, and you've got a good stand-in for Thoth. Crocodiles are lizard-shaped reptiles, so Sobek could be a Lizardfolk. Bastet is already a tabaxi...

Thoth is an ibis, not a crane.

Maybe mine, too. But I've always found non-humans more interesting. I pretend to be a human every day. I don't want to keep pretending to be a human in the game, too.

plus you get to look cooler than any human will ever look.