Name D&D's Bat People

[Wik]

[EDIT- Also, don't forget the Cryion from Mystara. Definitely a type of Bat-men. The tabi may or may not count as well.]

Damn, you beat me to it.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I think "cat people" win, hands down:

• Rakasta (and numerous subtypes)
• Catfolk
• Tabaxi
• Tibbit
• Werecat
• Weretiger
• Werejaguar
• Leonal
• Leomarh
• Rakshasa

I'm probably missing a few.

I'd add the Wemic to that list.

 

[Ripzerai]

Night hunters (Monsters of Faerun) look vaguely like humanoid bats. And, of course, we can't forget the varrangoin, or abyss bats. And nightwing nightshades, there's another.

There is a 2E Dragon magazine with several variant races, one of them being part drow, part something else, that have bat wings.

Just about everything has bat wings. If you start counting just wings, then you have to count creatures like succubi, balors, half-fiends, darkenbeasts, deep glaraunts, and dragons. This thread is more about heads, I think.

There are lots of spider creatures, however. Discounting creatures with no humanoid features like phase spiders (although they had humanoid heads in 2e), we still have ettercaps, chitines, choldriths, driders, werespiders, araneas, and probably more.

Add hutaakans to the list of canine people, but take out gnolls (since hyenas aren't canines).

How about reptile people? There's gotta be a lot of those, even not counting snakes or dragonkin.

Lizardheads:

1. Lizardfolk
2. Asabi
3. Gator men
4. Khaasta
5. Firenewts
6. Lizard kings
7. Troglodytes
8. Dracons
9. Cay-men
10. Chameleon men
11. Sis'thik
12. Tortles
13. Kappa

Or frog people!

1. Slaadi
2. Hydroloths
3. Hezrou
4. Asperim
5. Wastri and his mostly human cultists
6. Bullywugs
7. Grung
8. Grippli
9. Sivs
10. Blindheims
11. Forgotten Realms amphibian progenitors - "batrachi"
12. Neraphim
13. Frog People (from Dave Arneson's "Temple of the Frog" adventure)

Still just one race of hippofolk, though.

 

[Shemeska]

Huh, I would've guessed there was more Cat or Dog headed peoples...

Canines
*Arcanoloths
*Gnolls
*Jackel-weres
*Werewolves
*no doubt I'm missing half a dozen

Nycaloths have vaguely canine heads.

And then giving them mean looks from Elysium, we've got Lupinals as well.

And, with that mention, I think the celestial furries Guardinals add to most of the animal head catagories.

Lupinal - humanoid wolves
Equinal - humanoid horses
Avoral - humanoid hawks
Leonal - humanoid lions
Cervidal - humanoid goats
Ursinal - humanoid bears
Musteval - humanoid weasels

 

[Cthulhudrew]

Should lycanthropic types really count, though? I know Erik included them in his initial post, but it seems to me that the were-types shouldn't really count, as they are only partially "animal heads" (and then only at certain times).

 

[Sammael]

Dragon Magazine had so many anthropomorphic animals that just listing them would take up an entire thread... I recall an issue that had like 10 types of lizardfolk alone (including my favorites - Brute Crocodilians and Geckonids).

 

[Cthulhudrew]

How about reptile people? There's gotta be a lot of those, even not counting snakes or dragonkin.

Lizardheads:

1. Lizardfolk
2. Asabi
3. Gator men
4. Khaasta
5. Firenewts
6. Lizard kings
7. Troglodytes
8. Dracons
9. Cay-men
10. Chameleon men
11. Sis'thik
12. Tortles
13. Kappa

Also the Tren, the troglodyte cousins from Forgotten Realms.

And the Saurials

 

[Silver Moon]

How about these:

1. Bruce Wayne
2. Dick Grayson
3. Kathy Kane
4. Barbara Gordon
5. Jason Todd
6. Tim Drake


Sorry.....couldn't resist.

 

[Lalato]

Wow... ask for bat-people and you get everything else except bat-people.

--sam

 

[BOZ]

I have a theory that goes something like this.

D&D has a lot of creatures that could be described as "animal heads."

There are more Bat People than any other kind of animal heads.

i wouldn't have thought so - and the posts elsewhere in this thread seem to support that for me.

here's one i noticed, see AC9 - Creature Catalouge and the Humanoids chapter therein. what do you have? Cay-man, Cryion, Gator Man, Hutaakan, Kna, Lupin, Pachydermion, Phanaton, Rakasta, Shark-kin, Snapper, and Tortle. that's probably more animal-head men in one book than i've seen anywhere else!