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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SKyOdin" data-source="post: 4798004" data-attributes="member: 57939">Rechan covered this pretty well, but I have a couple of things to add. The reason that I like anthropomorphic animal races is due in large part to being exposed to them quite a bit in the formative years of my interest in fantasy. What really got me interested in the fantasy genre were various SNES-era Japanese RPGs. Among them was an RPG series called Breath of Fire where the main cast looks like <a href="http://www.creativeuncut.com/gallery-03/bof2-boxart.html" target="_blank">this</a>. (Note that the one guy in the center who looks like a human is actually a dragon). So from early on, antropomorhpic animal races in fantasy was a familiar concept to me. Since then, I have been exposed to a lot of literature, anime, and videogames that have also featured animal races. For example, my favorite piece of literature these days is the the Hindu epic, the Ramayana, in which one of the coolest characters is a monkey god named Hanuman.In short, I like animal races in D&D in large part due to nostalgia and familiarity.EDIT: Thinking about it, I actually have a related question: Why do so many people get so fanboyish about elves? For some reason, I have never really understood the appeal. While I can understand the appeal of a race that lives much longer than a human, I can't figure out why people would want to play one. I have never actually played an elf character, in part because I could never figure out why it would be any different from playing a human.</blockquote>

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