Intelligent Apes

[Zephrin the Lost]

Thinking of adding a race of intelligent apes to the jungle setting in my campaign. As this would probably be an RP encounter rather than combat, I'm looking for some inspiration to round out the ape's customs, culture and type of settlement to deepen the encounter.

It's 4e, but any older material might serve for inspiration. Where have smart monkeys gotten a write up in D&D or other fantasy RPG?

Thanks!

--Z

 

[Herschel]

What are some humans for $200, Alex. ;-)

Wasn't there a group of "planar" apes from Justic League or the like a few years back? You could also base them on some primative cultures with just retaining their simian physiology.

 

[Lord Zack]

I know the Pathfinder Campaign Setting has some intelligent apes, but I'm not sure exactly which book they're described in.

 

[jaerdaph]

I thought Apes of Nature, Myth, & the Imagination (for 3e/d20 Modern) from Betabunny Publishing was really well done.

 

[jaerdaph]

And Terra Primate (Unisystem) from Eden Studios might be of interest too.

And Free20: Monkey Business is a free PDF from Skortched Urf' Studios.

 

[EricNoah]

There were some intelligent flying apes in Paizo's Cruicble of Chaos (I think that's the name of the module).

 

[Zephrin the Lost]

Man, Terra Primate looks great! Not in my budget for this month but I'm bookmarking it. Thanks!

 

[MarkB]

Most real-world apes settle into a fairly standard 'pack' system with 'alphas', dominance games, etc. It might be fun to extrapolate that to intelligent apes, so that they have trading houses and ruling councils in which all the back-biting and corporate-ladder-climbing of our own modern corporations and political bodies is all there - but in this case, formalised and openly accepted as legitimate behaviour.

 

[El Mahdi]

...Where have smart monkeys gotten a write up in D&D or other fantasy RPG?...

Almost all RPG's have a write up for them, usually as a core race...called Humans.

 

[Sorrowdusk]

For WHATEVER reason-there were intelligent seafaring apes, Hadozee, as a PC race in Stormwrack of all places.

I just did not get it.

This might "float your boat".