Is it "cheating" for harpies to try to develop magical/psionic

>>46000261

It is only sensible.

Just like it is only sensible for wizards and clerics to rule over everywhere in that same setting.

You could probably cook up some reasons for why Harpies wouldn't do it, if you didn't want them to.

>>46000261
How would they do the finger waggling involved?
Or pick up the books?

>>46000261

Reminds me of Poppy O' Possum.

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>>46000261

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>>46000261
>>46000524
Sensible is not exactly the word I'd use, as there are mundane alternatives that have the same effect: either they could have "thumb-like" claws/apendages that allow them to more or less hold objects or they function like real life bords and grab everything they need with their feet/talons. Theoretically a bird-human could be flexible enough to comfortably stand on one leg for hours on end while using the other to bring a book to his face and read it.

Making them a psionic or magical race would be more at home in a high fantasy, high magic world where races that are almost entirely reliant on magic for their basic functions are not uncommon.

>>46001140
Psionics don't need no finger-waggling.

Harpies aren't sentient

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>>46000261
Give them little bird-hands at the ends of their wings, or have them use their feet.

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>>46005562
Bats are surprisingly cute. I want one.

>>46004805
Jesus christ that gif is adorable

>>46005466
I think you mean sapient. A cow is sentient. I still disagree.

I was considering harpies descended from apes, who evolved analogous to fruit bats, but retained hand-like feet (like chimpanzees have) with which they can hold things and use tools.
They'd look pretty grotesque/horror-y though.

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>>46001595
>>46000261
Indeed

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>>46005578

Bump for harpies and harpy arm reasoning

>>46005578
They carry every disease. You're better off without.

>>46007640
Vaccinations are a thing. The only issue i have with bats is their literal non-stop urinating and inability to learn where they can and can't shit.

>>46000261
Is it "cheating" for humans to try to develop magical/psionic powers of flight (like Fly) to compensate for their lack of wings, or is it only sensible in a high fantasy, high magic world?

>>46007640
So do people.

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>>46005562
Just do Dromaeosaur hands. Its anatomically possible and generally looks cooler.

>>46000261
>That filename
Bullshit.

>>46000524
It makes sense to compensate for a natural weakness, but I think the better question is: Would Harpy casters even come up with the idea themselves? I mean, they have no concept of "hands" and presumably got along pretty well with whatever they were doing before.

They might only get the idea from handed casters when the cultures meet.

>>46000261
>draw a girl
>call it a boy
JAPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN

>>46007982
Bats are disease resevoirs. It's on a whole other scale.

>>46006623
Top kek

>>46006623
That bat is amazing