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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 8341143" data-attributes="member: 82106">I wasn't sure there was especially a LOT to distinguish them. I mean, obviously they are slightly different 'spins' on Grippli, but I would think any 'anthro' animal people are going to sort of look like 'a chimp crossed with an...' anyway. You could describe the 'elaborate' burrow systems of the underground living variant, and a tree-living variant can fairly obviously build interesting tree homes of some sort. I'd note that making them similar in various particulars to human habitations is a bit anthropocentric, but it may simply be a practical necessity, and if they are already 'anthro' animal people anyway it is kind of water under the bridge! Still, it might be interesting for tree frog people to travel on the undersides of gripping poles that run between platforms or something, and perhaps they build them at various angles, since they can walk anywhere and don't need horizontal surfaces, etc. I was also thinking about more biomechanics WRT any sort of non-human race and how its tools are formed. We create ours largely to suit the particular range of motion and styles of grip humans have. Other intelligent creatures might favor somewhat different designs, like knives with handles at right angles to the blade, or other sorts of handles and grips, etc. Other common objects might well vary a good bit from human tools and utensils also.While it is hard to really develop a conception of a really non-human mentality, some sci-fi authors have made a decent go of it. You might imagine how that would arise and what it would be like (I remember Larry Niven stating that Puppeteers for example are highly aggressive, being herd living grazing animals in origin and reacting to possible threats in a specific and not-very-human way.).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 8341143, member: 82106"] I wasn't sure there was especially a LOT to distinguish them. I mean, obviously they are slightly different 'spins' on Grippli, but I would think any 'anthro' animal people are going to sort of look like 'a chimp crossed with an...' anyway. You could describe the 'elaborate' burrow systems of the underground living variant, and a tree-living variant can fairly obviously build interesting tree homes of some sort. I'd note that making them similar in various particulars to human habitations is a bit anthropocentric, but it may simply be a practical necessity, and if they are already 'anthro' animal people anyway it is kind of water under the bridge! Still, it might be interesting for tree frog people to travel on the undersides of gripping poles that run between platforms or something, and perhaps they build them at various angles, since they can walk anywhere and don't need horizontal surfaces, etc. I was also thinking about more biomechanics WRT any sort of non-human race and how its tools are formed. We create ours largely to suit the particular range of motion and styles of grip humans have. Other intelligent creatures might favor somewhat different designs, like knives with handles at right angles to the blade, or other sorts of handles and grips, etc. Other common objects might well vary a good bit from human tools and utensils also. While it is hard to really develop a conception of a really non-human mentality, some sci-fi authors have made a decent go of it. You might imagine how that would arise and what it would be like (I remember Larry Niven stating that Puppeteers for example are highly aggressive, being herd living grazing animals in origin and reacting to possible threats in a specific and not-very-human way.). [/QUOTE]

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