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<blockquote data-quote="Bird Of Play" data-source="post: 8392132" data-attributes="member: 7032193">So, I'm trying to (partially) avoid the anthropocentrism of DnD, where every species from ogres to trolls to fairies to giants to goblins is just a not too wild variation of the human shape.I mean, I'm ok with elves and dwarves and gnomes looking a lot like humans, but I'm trying to avoid applying this to every other species that DnD describes as humanoid. I'm trying not to make any creature they meet a semi-sentient or sentient copy of the human race, unlike what the DnD manual implies.For example, it's easy to make trolls sufficiently less humanoid by picking something like Skyrim's version of trolls.But I have a hard time with giants and, even more so, fairies/feys.Does anyone have any idea how to make fairies less humanlike? I really want to avoid the whole &quot;tiny human with wings&quot;. I would have liked to make them like insectoid people, but then I decided I couldn't because I already have a tiefling npc who's halfbug and leads a hive of humber hulks (who, too, are kinda like insectoid people, even if with buglike intelligence). So, i think the insectoid trope is well and used already.I also can't make them look like light spirits since that would be more of an aasimar/celestial thing?I'd really appreciate some ideas!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Bird Of Play, post: 8392132, member: 7032193"] So, I'm trying to (partially) avoid the anthropocentrism of DnD, where every species from ogres to trolls to fairies to giants to goblins is just a not too wild variation of the human shape. I mean, I'm ok with elves and dwarves and gnomes looking a lot like humans, but I'm trying to avoid applying this to every other species that DnD describes as humanoid. I'm trying not to make any creature they meet a semi-sentient or sentient copy of the human race, unlike what the DnD manual implies. For example, it's easy to make trolls sufficiently less humanoid by picking something like Skyrim's version of trolls. But I have a hard time with giants and, even more so, fairies/feys. Does anyone have any idea how to make fairies less humanlike? I really want to avoid the whole "tiny human with wings". I would have liked to make them like insectoid people, but then I decided I couldn't because I already have a tiefling npc who's halfbug and leads a hive of humber hulks (who, too, are kinda like insectoid people, even if with buglike intelligence). So, i think the insectoid trope is well and used already. I also can't make them look like light spirits since that would be more of an aasimar/celestial thing? I'd really appreciate some ideas! [/QUOTE]

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