D&D General why do we lack a canine race?

[Fanaelialae]

I mean, who would realistically want to adventure with someone that barks hysterically at every stranger they meet, chases every wagon they see, and has an irrational hatred of town criers?

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

D&D had got the lupins.

Lupin

In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the lupin is a humanoid with a dog-like appearance. Sages believe them to be a result of crossbreeding between humans and gnolls. They are intelligent and productive craftsmen and are friendly towards most races. In the Mystara campaign...

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Savage Species had got in the appendix a list of antropomorphic animals.

In the previous decades the players weren't too interested into furry PCs.

Cynocephaly - Wikipedia

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The hutaakans are jackal-like heads.

 

[Mecheon]

The Lupin are the go-to for canine-ish race, though frankly they're generally wolf-ish in their latest version

As for why not, probably because they're tied to Mystara. Bear folks are at least a thing that can be dragged from Dragonlance if I recall correctly

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Anyone else tired enough to misread that as Cocaine race?

 

[AnotherGuy]

In a way, they have reappeared. Khenra - DND 5th Edition

Nice. Thanks for that!

 

[Alzrius]

The snarky answer would be, canine races never appeared in Tolkien, so, they shouldn&t be in D^D

The snarky reply would be, that gnomes never appeared in Tolkien either, and yet they're still a PC race in D&D.

...despite 4E's best efforts.

 

[DEFCON 1]

Due to werewolves being the most well-known and populous lycanthrope, Shifters are also I think predominantly thought of as canine. Sure, you can theoretically have ursine and porcine Shifters too, but most of the artwork for them have mainly been wolf-based.

 

[Corinnguard]

As for why not, probably because they're tied to Mystara. Bear folks are at least a thing that can be dragged from Dragonlance if I recall correctly

Bearfolk as a PC species appeared in the Midgard Heroes Handbook by Kobold Press not too long ago.

Back in 3e, Bastion Press did create a canine race called the Dover. They resembled anthropomorphic German Shepherd Dogs. What made them interesting to me back then was that all of them had the Two-Weapon Fighting feat as a bonus feat.

 

[Corinnguard]

In PF2, there are the Shoony. Shoony - Ancestries - Archives of Nethys: Pathfinder 2nd Edition Database

 

[M_Natas]

we have both of the two greater categories of feiliforms, true cats and hyenas there are a few more options in that category of carnivores but we have none of the caniforms or dog like animals why do we not have dog and bear people?

Because Furries.

the dog I know would sell and we even have a historical real world term for dog-headed men so naming would be easy?

KYNOKEPHALOI is a handful to say and write ...

Anyone else tired enough to misread that as Cocaine race?

I would play that, but maybe that would be a better background?