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<blockquote data-quote="Frozen_Heart" data-source="post: 8851201" data-attributes="member: 7029687">The reason things like elves, dwarves, and haflings are not visually jarring is that they just look like humans, but different. In fact, we've had different sapient species which once existed irl. They looked like humans, but different. Even something as visually different as a lizardfolk looks internally consistent. Just being a reptile which is sapient and bipedal.I find aardlings particularly problematic at they're just a human body with an animal head glued on. They're more like something Sid from Toy Story would make from spare parts ripped off other toys while bored.But then again the species in my setting evolved rather than were created by gods. A god could create anything they wanted using magic, and it doesn't matter how it looks. An aardling could therefore be consistent to that settings rules.I'd even allow an aardling if a player came to me with a backstory which fit the worlds lore. Something like 'a wizard did it' to explain why their human has a crocodiles head would be perfectly reasonable.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Frozen_Heart, post: 8851201, member: 7029687"] The reason things like elves, dwarves, and haflings are not visually jarring is that they just look like humans, but different. In fact, we've had different sapient species which once existed irl. They looked like humans, but different. Even something as visually different as a lizardfolk looks internally consistent. Just being a reptile which is sapient and bipedal. I find aardlings particularly problematic at they're just a human body with an animal head glued on. They're more like something Sid from Toy Story would make from spare parts ripped off other toys while bored. But then again the species in my setting evolved rather than were created by gods. A god could create anything they wanted using magic, and it doesn't matter how it looks. An aardling could therefore be consistent to that settings rules. I'd even allow an aardling if a player came to me with a backstory which fit the worlds lore. Something like 'a wizard did it' to explain why their human has a crocodiles head would be perfectly reasonable. [/QUOTE]

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