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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 5727527" data-attributes="member: 57383">Yes, I presume that's why you forgot the +8 racial bonus in their skill line too.They should have Climb +11, not +3.Hmm, maybe we should take the 2 ranks out of Climb and put them somewhere else. Probably Listen and Spot, to make it:Skills: Climb +9, Jump +5, Listen +1, Spot +1, Swim +5Time for flavour text then!A naked manlike creature. Its head, chest and lower legs are covered in a thick pelt of hair, the rest of its body is bare mud-brown skin. The creature stinks like a rancid weasel and its entire body is stained with filth. Hands and feet sport pointed, claw-like nails.These disgusting creatures may once have been humans or another humanoid race, but are now little more than beasts. They have all the worse aspects of humanity that their limited wits can support - cowardice, greed, lust, sloth and mischief are almost instinctive to a yahoo.The houyhnhnm keep "tamed" yahoos as beasts of burden (or possible  slaves), and other intelligent beings may use tame yahoos in this way. Wild yahoos congregate in gang or mobs led by the most treacherous and vicious male, who keeps a lickspittle as his second-in-command. Whenever the mob changes its leader, usually by deceit or violence, the entire tribe heaps ordure on the old leader's lickspittle. A group of wild yahoos frequently wars with neighboring yahoos or engages in a civil war among themselves. Such conflicts rarely result in deaths, mostly due to the yahoos' cowardice and lack of weapons.All yahoos are violently fond of shiny stones, and will go to great  effort to dig them from the ground or steal them from another yahoo. A  yahoo will keep its hoard of stones buried in some secret spot. Fields rich in such stones are the site of the yahoos' most frequent and fiercest battles.Yahoos will always flee from or obey a houyhnhnm, depending on the  circumstances. Even the wildest yahoo will not attack a houyhnhnm or  other horse-like creature. A yahoo will see other humanoids as  another yahoo, and will attack, bully, grovel towards this new yahoo, depending  to the circumstances. The really unlucky may have a yahoo of the opposite sex lust after them. A yahoo is likely to see a soft-skinned and clawless humanoid (like an adventurer) as a weakling ripe for tormenting. Yahoos hate humanoids who show a close relationship with the houyhnhmm, any often assault such humanoids the moment they leave the protection of a houyhnhnm. It is possibly they view such a person as being a houyhnhnm "lickspittle".The houyhnhnm use their yahoos them to carry loads or drag sleds for transporting sick or elderly houyhnhnm. A tamed yahoo always obeys a houyhnhnm's orders, but will work petty mischief if unsupervised - stealing food or milk, devouring their master's pets, vandalizing property and so forth.  Yahoos are too short-sighted, fractious and indolent to organize any  resistance against their masters, but require constant supervision to produce any useful work. Houyhnhnm often tie leashes made from vines or braided twigs to the neck of their yahoos, unsupervised yahoos are tied to posts or beams to keep them from working mischief.Yahoos will eat almost anything. Most of their diet is roots and carrion, supplemented by fruit, nuts, and small animals. They like the flesh of fish, rats and weasels. Yahoos particularly enjoy the effect of intoxicating plants (a certain root is highly sought after), and eat them at every opportunity.Most wild yahoos sleep in shallow dens dug in sloping earth, but they may also sleep in trees and caves. Domestic yahoos sleep in kennels constructed by their masters.A yahoo is the same height and weight as a human. Male yahoos have  matted beards and a ridge of hair down their spines, females have long  hair but lack the hairy ridge. Yahoos develop more quickly than humans, becoming full-grown in their early teens. Yahoos are very unclean and often wallow or sleep in mud.Yahoos do not have a language, but can be taught to obey very simple commands.COMBATWhenever possible, yahoos prefer to fight from a distance. They throw rocks, branches and even their own filth at opponents. Extremely craven, yahoos will flee from even slight setbacks.</blockquote>

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