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<blockquote data-quote="Barastrondo" data-source="post: 677702" data-attributes="member: 3820">I really like bats, and really like the idea of an anthropomorphic bat race that plays up what's cool about bats, which is probably why I don't really like desmodu. I would prefer small critters that could plausibly fly on their own, probably skittering across ceilings and walls like those cinematic Moria goblins, not hulking monstrosities who ride even bigger bats. A race that kind of combined the classic South American and Asian bat lore (cultures that recognized that having bats around to devour insects is not a bad thing) with the darker European bat lore (perhaps the race is cursed to be more susceptible to a particular strain of vampirism). Putting a bat face and fur on an ogre-sized critter just weirds me out; it seems more like trying to rationalize a giant race with blindsight so they can really challenge PCs than any sort of clever use of bats. Of course, I don't use gnolls as written, either. You show me something that looks like a hyena, I want it to act like a hyena...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Barastrondo, post: 677702, member: 3820"] I really like bats, and really like the idea of an anthropomorphic bat race that plays up what's cool about bats, which is probably why I don't really like desmodu. I would prefer small critters that could plausibly fly on their own, probably skittering across ceilings and walls like those cinematic Moria goblins, not hulking monstrosities who ride [I]even bigger[/I] bats. A race that kind of combined the classic South American and Asian bat lore (cultures that recognized that having bats around to devour insects is not a bad thing) with the darker European bat lore (perhaps the race is cursed to be more susceptible to a particular strain of vampirism). Putting a bat face and fur on an ogre-sized critter just weirds me out; it seems more like trying to rationalize a giant race with blindsight so they can [I]really[/I] challenge PCs than any sort of clever use of bats. Of course, I don't use gnolls as written, either. You show me something that looks like a hyena, I want it to act like a hyena... [/QUOTE]

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