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<blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 9025268" data-attributes="member: 58172">Huh. According to Mordenkainen, the Tabaxi were created by a &quot;Cat Lord&quot;, who is one of the kinds of &quot;Beast Lord&quot;. A Tabaxi is one of the Ardlings. The Ardling species would absorb the Tabaxi species as one of the &quot;animal ancestors&quot;. Depending on the kind of cat, whether domestic or large such as Tiger, Cheetah, or Jaguar, the Tabaxi cat ancestry can function as either Racers or Climbers. Probably &quot;Tabaxi&quot; now works best as a &quot;culture&quot; (namely a Background), whose members are descendants of various kinds of cats.I know the first version of the Ardling required revision. Is there new info about feedback on the second version of Ardling?The Ardling can ... potentially ... appeal to both Aasimar fans as a counterpart to Tiefling and to humanimal fans as an accessible &quot;core&quot; way to build a Tabaxi or something that resembles one of the many other humanimal species.But it is tricky to thread the needle between the two because the flavors are conflictive.I hope, adding the Shapeshifter as one of the Ardling ancestry types that descends from a Beast Lord, will allow a human-appearing Celestial that can satisfy the Aasimar fans, while the humanimal flavor remains intact for the humanimal fans. The Ardling will still be of Beastlandic origin. I think a human head is enough, and the Divine cantrip is Celestial and angelic. An alternate form into a permanent choice of a specific natural animal, can be cool. I think many Aasimar fans can work with this as a core option. The Aasimar remains a noncore choice that many tables will make use of.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Yaarel, post: 9025268, member: 58172"] Huh. According to Mordenkainen, the Tabaxi were created by a "Cat Lord", who is one of the kinds of "Beast Lord". A Tabaxi is one of the Ardlings. The Ardling species would absorb the Tabaxi species as one of the "animal ancestors". Depending on the kind of cat, whether domestic or large such as Tiger, Cheetah, or Jaguar, the Tabaxi cat ancestry can function as either Racers or Climbers. Probably "Tabaxi" now works best as a "culture" (namely a Background), whose members are descendants of various kinds of cats. I know the first version of the Ardling required revision. Is there new info about feedback on the second version of Ardling? The Ardling can ... potentially ... appeal to both Aasimar fans as a counterpart to Tiefling and to humanimal fans as an accessible "core" way to build a Tabaxi or something that resembles one of the many other humanimal species. But it is tricky to thread the needle between the two because the flavors are conflictive. I hope, adding the Shapeshifter as one of the Ardling ancestry types that descends from a Beast Lord, will allow a human-appearing Celestial that can satisfy the Aasimar fans, while the humanimal flavor remains intact for the humanimal fans. The Ardling will still be of Beastlandic origin. I think a human head is enough, and the Divine cantrip is Celestial and angelic. An alternate form into a permanent choice of a specific natural animal, can be cool. I think many Aasimar fans can work with this as a core option. The Aasimar remains a noncore choice that many tables will make use of. [/QUOTE]

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