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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mecheon" data-source="post: 9830677" data-attributes="member: 6801776">I mean, if this was the reason I'd be raising some eyebrows because it doesn't make sense? Like, it doesn't even lead into the other oneFirstly, if you have a Middle Eastern theme then why would Rakshasha be coming up in the first place?Middle East is, y'know. Djinn territory. In our world that's between Egypt up to Turkey. You tell me 'middle east campaign' and I'm expecting something in Al Qadim's playbook, a setting that, as written, absolutely would be fine with Tabaxi given how Al Qadim works, I'm not expecting Rakshasha, given Rakshasha are associated with South AsiaAlso like. The Middle East includes Egypt. If you're telling me my main concern in a fantasy Egypt when being a Tabaxi is I'm going to be confused with a South Asian monster then I am going to be very confused. I think the main threat to a Tabaxi in an Egypt-y setting is the local equivilent of Baast's temple finding out I exist and immediately trying to convert me over to cat religionSecondly, its a dumb thing D&D does but like.... Rakshasha aren't cat people? Pathfinder gets it right by giving them varied forms but, no, they're fiends that wear that as a form, that's not their actual 100% true form. I'm pretty sure 1e confirms that somewhere, but they're shapeshifters that can adopt multiple forms. A random dude on the street is far more likely to be a Rakshasha than the foreign cat-man who also is missing the give away actual tells of a Rakshasha, the backwards hands, which they'd keep if they turned into humansThirdly, if we assume you actually meant 'South Asia' rather than 'Middle East', you're calling all cat people in an Indian themed setting Rakshasha then uh. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narasimha" target="_blank">Not accurate in the slightest</a>. Like. That alone is basically pretty good justification for putting Leonin in I'd say. You're already going to have Vanara if you're doing an Indian themed setting so you've got some animal peopleIf we're in either not-Egypt or not-India and someone attacks my Tabaxi for being a cat person, there's more than enough evidence of "Yeah there's something going on here, thinking I'm a rakshasha shouldn't be the first thought in these circumstances"I can understand a different setting but I think "that player adjacent race (that most incoming people will have expectations to be playable) is always evil and can't be played" is dumb in the year 2026 and an excuse for not wanting actual motivations to fight. Orcs have been playable in supplements longer than I've been alive and hell knows Complete Book of Humanoids had far wilder things than themThe morality of orcs in Lord of the Rings is a complicated long-running topic, but the generally accepted answer is "Orcs could theoretically do good its just the ones we encounter are in the particular force they're in is an enemy force", not that they're always evil no matter the circumstancesFolks love tortles, and you got plenty of play with them. Sure there's the TMNT stuff, but there's being an impossibly ancient wizened old turtle guy who's been around forever that'll have completely different flavour to being an impossibly ancient elf, and as it goes with turtles, there's the associations with dragons. Could work for the dragon king out east and you've been sent to this strange land to hunt down some treasure that was taken years ago, and there's no way the shark guys are going to be nearly personible enough to come up on land and ask around for it</blockquote>

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