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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 9829891" data-attributes="member: 93670">I think that the disconnect is one of willingness to feel comfortable enough being honest with the answer lurking behind that.  The closest we probably got was when someone brought up a desire to play an anthropomorphic turtle without using <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=anthropomorphic+slang+term&client=ms-android-blu-rvo3&hs=bV5o&sca_esv=f2274eb1493be43e&sxsrf=AE3TifP4xD55cWYNlOxv_NaYWzASbStdCA%3A1767319638180&ei=VihXabvgCoSDwbkPr6XO6AM&oq=anthropomorphic+slang+term&gs_lp=EhNtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXdpei1zZXJwIhphbnRocm9wb21vcnBoaWMgc2xhbmcgdGVybTIFECEYoAEyBRAhGKABMgUQIRigATIFECEYqwIyBRAhGJ8FMgUQIRifBTIFECEYnwUyBRAhGJ8FSNw9UKUQWI85cAJ4AZABAJgBsQKgAZ4NqgEHMS45LjEuMbgBA8gBAPgBAZgCDqACgA_CAgoQABiwAxjWBBhHwgINEAAYgAQYsAMYQxiKBcICEBAAGIAEGLEDGEYY-QEYowXCAg0QABiABBixAxhDGIoFwgIFEAAYgATCAgoQABiABBhDGIoFwgITEAAYgAQYsQMYRhj5ARiMBdgBAcICCxAAGIAEGJECGIoFwgIGEAAYFhgewgILEAAYgAQYhgMYigXCAggQABiABBiiBMICBRAAGO8FmAMAiAYBkAYRugYECAEYE5IHCDIuMTAuMS4xoAfcRLIHCDAuMTAuMS4xuAfdDsIHBzItMi44LjTIB9wBgAgA&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-serp" target="_blank">the more common slang term for it.</a>[Spoiler="That right there.."]AI Overview+5What is Anthropomorphism? — Definition and ExamplesThere isn't one single slang term for anthropomorphic, but the closest and most common informal term is "anthro", short for anthropomorphic, often used within the furry fandom to describe human-like animal characters, while "furry" refers to the fandom itself or a person interested in such characters, and terms like "humanoid" describe creatures with a basic human shape (two arms, two legs) even if not animal-like, but slang for the act of anthropomorphizing often involves calling something a "talking animal" or "humanized" in casual speech. [/Spoiler]Nearly any other race aside from gnoll or tabaxi would entirely sidestep this entire chasm of stonewalling around the actual desire save for perhaps dragonborn harengon and kobold.When the impasse is "because the player is a furry and  wants to play that but won't admit it so the gm knows what they want" it results in a problem that is 100% on the player being unreasonable by not telling the gm enough to even consider how it could be fit to the setting.Note:[ispoiler] I've seen more than one show up to the local FLGS AL night to play in full costume before and nobody really cared beyond the fact that a foam helmet covering their face made it very very difficult to hear them with reasonable volume levels till they took it off and set it aside [/ispoiler].  I'm quite sure there are others less extravagantly dressed showing week after week and nobody cares, but GMs are not mind readers</blockquote>

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