Levistus's_Leviathan
5e Freelancer
D&D used to have one. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...wqsBegQIDxAF&usg=AOvVaw1WS6zlpk9WG1dLptHC6Uy8
Breed groups is good, possibly with environmental factors. Breeds like huskies & malamutes would be resistant to cold; Salukis would fare better in warmer climates.It probably would be easier to make canine subraces based off of their breed groups (Sporting, Hound, Working, Etc.) than to do actual breeds of dog. Plus, it ought to be breeds native to the setting, if there are any in settings like Eberron and the Forgotten Realms.
Werewolves only got the "spread via biting" thing very recently. As in, within the last two hundred years.Hengeyokai could easily be split into about 5 different races completely, they're the equivilent of squishy pretty distinct creatures together into one. They're honestly way different given werewolves have the whole spreading bite thing, whereas hengeyokai moreso play similar roles to the fey. The beautiful woman who comes out of nowhere and has a mystery to her? Out west that's a troll or huldra, but that's also a bunch of kitsune stories. A bunch of kitsune stories you absolutely couldn't swap in any other thing grouped under hengeyokai for, because a tanuki has a whole entire other set of things it does, and likewise a bakeneko does an entire whole other set of things
I mean, don't we already do that with "fae," "yo(u)kai," "genies," "demons," and, to tap into more modern stuff, "cryptids"? Hell, even "dinosaur" is technically abused to refer to a wide variety of things that were only distantly related, e.g. plesiosaurs and pterosaurs were not dinosaurs, but we call them "dinosaurs" out of convenience (in part because the evolutionary history there is clear as mud.)They're the equivilent of going "Yeah, fairies, dwarves, elves and gnomes? They're all the same source, so they're all just the one thing"
I almost always think in terms of fantastical versions of Doctor Moreau or The High Evolutionary when planting anthros in my FRPG campaigns.Therefore antropomorphic dogs also have to be from "artifical origin", something like the magic version of genetic engineering.
Or divine origin. A deity transforms his two faithful hounds into the first mated pair of a new race.Dogs are domesticated animals. This means their origin is not in the wild nature. Therefore antropomorphic dogs also have to be from "artifical origin", something like the magic version of genetic engineering.