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The player base needs a better introduction so they can get past the whole "furries!" knee-jerk reaction for these species. They need to be part of an adventure or two so there's room to educate on what they are.
I think a lot of that 'furries' reaction (to a much greater extent than any of the other animal species) was because everyone can pick their own animal to mix with human traits. So literally everyone can make their own 'furry oc' in the game.The player base needs a better introduction so they can get past the whole "furries!" knee-jerk reaction for these species. They need to be part of an adventure or two so there's room to educate on what they are.
I dunno if it was an outright kneejerk reaction to furries per se as much as it was piling celestial furries with cosmic wings on top of ‘mundane’ furries, especially when they trampled on the Aasimar shtick to do so.The player base needs a better introduction so they can get past the whole "furries!" knee-jerk reaction for these species. They need to be part of an adventure or two so there's room to educate on what they are.
This is because frankly fanasty designers are in a creative rut. They want to create more that LOTR races and have short cut to animal-folk.Although I did think the Aardling as initially presented bit into the Aasimar's celestial angle, that wasn't my primary objection. My primary objection was that we already have a lot of animal/humanoid species in the game, so this added another layer of animal/species hybrid that was more generic and narratively confusing. Is that person a Tabaxi? An Aardling?
I think it's simply because "animal people" are a common trope both in myth and fiction, and WotC wants to have something to offer the large numbers of potential players who want to play such characters.This is because frankly fanasty designers are in a creative rut. They want to create more that LOTR races and have short cut to animal-folk.
They could do that AND create new types of races.I think it's simply because "animal people" are a common trope both in myth and fiction, and WotC wants to have something to offer the large numbers of potential players who want to play such characters.
Shame WotC kinda forgot that lawful and chaotic sides of the spectrum exist, unless linked to the good/evil part.And the two remaining outer planes of Lawful Neutral Mechanus, and Chaotic Neutral Limbo? Maybe the Modrons and Slaad get their own special descendant races, or perhaps we just suggest that those two planes just couldn't support or ever have relations with Prime creatures to actually create descendants of those planes?