Do you miss the tortle?

[wcpfish]

I don't know about everyone else but I loved the bipedal turtle race known as Tortles that were introduced back in Dragon #315. I also grew up with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Where is the 4e turtlefolk? 4E needs a hero who can kick some shell! Here it tis...

 

[Firebird]

Well, to be honest, my players showed no desire to play a tortle. Ever.
They considered them an offshoot of the various "Fuzzy" anthropomorphic races and too silly to take seriously as a character.
A ninja tortle as a character in my campaign would take it in a direction that would break the fourth wall and would be denied on those grounds.
Great fit for some games, perhaps, just not for mine.

 

[Greg K]

I don't know about everyone else but I loved the bipedal turtle race known as Tortles that were introduced back in Dragon #315.

Nope. That may have been when they were introduced into 3e. They were introduced back in the 1980's. The earliest appearance that I know of was module x9 :The Savage Coast for the Dungeons and Dragons Expert Set.

 

[Pentius]

I didn't miss the tortle, or even know about the previous incarnations. Nice write up, though, I like the soup recipe.