Can we have an unusual races thread? I'm planning for a

>>53988256
We just had one, check the archive. There should be a couple of ideas you find cool.

>>53988256
>Can we have an unusual races thread?
No, you can't.

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Baxxid are currently my favorite strange fantasy species. Huge 6- eyed, bone-snake-wyrms with giant murder-claws, that are shy and timid things that get easily embarrassed.

>>53988256
Have you tried not being a contrarian?

>>53988256
Hurry! Someone post Sergals and tank this thread!

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>>53989144
Have you tried not being a faggot? How is wanting something unusual being a contrarian?

>>53989176
They're not unusual at this point.

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nigga your setting best have bug people

>>53989496
Do Gargoyles inspired by beetles, mantis, and moths count?

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>>53989496
You know it. More, if you count crustaceans as bugs

>>53989752
Hitmonlee?

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>>53989773
Probably

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Rock people a best

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I like simple but rarely used races; like wolf people.

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>>53989875
I like races that have traits of familiar things without flat out being "anthropomorphic X"

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>>53988256

Squideer?

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>alien thread
>full of just "furry humans with weird heads"

>>53988256
How unusual is "unusual"? D&D has actually done a lot of weird shit, from polar halflings to neanderthals to 18" tall amazons to elf-ogre hybrids to Skeksis to philosopher-priest giant owls to treants, and that's just a small selection off the top of my head.

>>53990327
Nice reaction image, actually haven't seen that one before

>>53990302
Comic looks kinda fun. Is it any good?
Source?

>>53990327
I miss old veno...

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>>53990386

It's a bonus comic for Saffron and Sage, by the artist of Comicide. Both are available at SaffronComic.com

>>53990327
>Posting venomancer
>A Human that was turned to a plant thing, and still Terran.
Anon. Ya gotta bring more to the table if you are going to complain.

>>53988256
Oooh look that shitty Tumblr design mindset

Queer-looking furries with chicken legs and coloured tongues wooow so unusual and original

Seems like you can't buy talent eh

All these shitty modified humans, we need some proper fucking aliens.
Have a Martian.

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>>53990509
I knew someone was gonna complain about that.

AND YET he's STILL more alien then the actual aliens in this thread!
>>53990637
^^

>>53990346
Also, if you're willing to ignore the stigma /tg/ tends to give beastfolk races, despite their long history in RPGs (check out this list and see how many races boil down to "variant demihuman", "monstrous humanoid" and "beastfolk" - https://1d4chan.org/wiki/List_of_D%26D_PC_Races), then you can probably come up with some pretty unusual races.

For example, what about borrowing from the tale of the Mares of Diomedes and creating a culture of matriarchal/amazonian carnivorous and/or cannibalistic horse-people?

>>53990637
Denied.

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All these shitty humans with extra bits glued on, shameful. Have a martian.
Also got text examples if they're acceptable

>>53990652
Wow, it's a Grell.

>>53989810
great, now I want to fuck a rock

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>>53990748
I know this feel all too well.

>>53989875

Shit, that's actually kind of cute.

>>53989819
What is this from? Looks like the artist from Prophet but it's not that comic.

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>>53989358

SNAKE?

>>53992134
some deviantart guy who likes doing weird alien biology. It's pretty good. Sorry, but I don't have the artist name.

>>53990652
I mean, in a generic TTRPG context, you usually want player races to be humanoid enough to use similar equipment. NPC races can be whatevs tho i guess

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>Unusual race thread.
>All the furries start stealthposting.

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>>53988913
Nessus is CUTE! CUTE!

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>>53988256
And /tg/ says the furries are a non-issue

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>>53993854
>>53993739

Fuck off, 40kids

>>53992702

Abiogenesis is the artist. His focus is the alien race he made up called the Birrin, and all the assorted biology/ecology/history of their planet.

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>>53993879
>g-get out of my fetish thread i-it's supposed to be my safespace!

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>>53994143
Faggot

>>53992702
>>53992702
>>53994019
Thank you.

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>>53988256
Thanks for starting this thread, OP, I'm actually looking for some ideas for alien races and this does help a little. I don't have much for pictures but some things I have so far include:

>Colonial hive-mind/empathic coral mass
Technically, they're more like a mass of polyps enveloped in a moisture preserving membrane. They can form tendrils, fuse, and split colonies almost at will, and their collective intelligence has been enough that they've discovered intergalactic travel to find ideal waters. Despite being so amorphous, their empathic powers made them quickly able to understand humans and us them in kind. Their empathic abilities also mean their masses will take on some traits of other sapient life forms they encounter.

>Axolotl, octopus, electric eels
Basically, a pale, serpentine amphibious race which possess a quartet of tentacle limbs sprouting from the mantel around their neck. They can deliver low-power (doesn't feel worse than a static jolt) shock to things they touch in the surface. In their copper, iron, and sodium rich native waters though, these shocks are powerful against their prey. They've also learned to use these electrical discharges as a form of communication

>Tripods
Inspired a bit by War of the Worlds, these creatures have a three-limbed cephalopod-like larval state and eventually turn into towering tripodial spider-esque creatures with a singular eye divided into three segments. Each limb can be used for both movement and to grip things with (you guessed it) a tri-radial, tri-jointed pincer.

Still working out a name for them.

can't link pics now but check out Mechanical Dream's offerings

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>>53995759

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>>53995786
>paper dragon

>>53994143
I mean you CAN just hide the thread, so I don't see how this is an issue...

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>>53995894

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>>53989144
>>53989176
Why do you hate creativity?

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telepathic nose lump?

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Hail the Right-hand people

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>>53996476

>>53990327
>When waifumancer is gone
ITS NOT FAIR.

>>53989358
Is this a Kroot that's eaten nothing but Tyranids? Even if it's not, it's fucking tops.

>>53997318
so you're from /an/ I see

>>53997332
Sure, let's go with that

>>53988947
Why does she have a bird torso for a nose?

>>53988256
I've started GM'ing a Zelda campaign recently and love working with the game's races, much more than stock fantasy races.

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>>53997142
Nah. It's from the primordial evo game from some time ago on /tg/. The whole race/civ are baller as fuck

>>53994580
How do the polyps travel through space? How did they manage to build stuff and use fire? They sound like shape-shifting aquatic blobs.

Tell me about the sort of societies the eels and the tripods build. I hope these aren't monocultures - they don't sound over-specialized.

>>53994286
Nice. Also, cute.

>>53994580
The tripods sound like scaled down versions of the Elder Things.

>no wings
>radial symmetry with three segments instead of five
>more simplistic eye and limb structure

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>>54001652
Did you say moth people?

Because I heard fucking moth people.

>>53995786
>Man-Drake
>a man covered in male ducks(drakes)
fuck

>>54000643
>All those terrifying creatures, and the advanced tech behind them
Now I remember why the Geists were so scary

>>53995961
This, they can hide 1 thread if I can filter 15 40K threads.

>>54002029
>>54001652
I miss Bugworld. What ever appened to it and what became of the stuff from those threads

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>>54002130
P. Much everything that dude came up with was as terrifying as it was amazing

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These guys were cool, also

>>53990327
>>53990639
OP said "unusual races," never mentioned aliens.

>>54000772
The polyps, I admit, are a challenge at figuring out much deeper. I was thinking they might have begun to master metallurgic principles via careful manipulation of iron ores in close-to-surface volcanic vents on their homeworld.

As for eels and tripods (actually the polyps too) I don't imagine or want to write them and mono-cultural, but I'm still working out ideas.

I know that with the eels, there is a big cultural divide (and appearance split) between those who end up spending more time on land, more in the water, and those in between. It does vary a lot depending on which location on their homeworlds you encounter them.

But I do know, due to their pretty much boneless limbs and their ability to control small electric pulses from their hands, their weapons are completely incompatible with humans. (different ergonomics and because the firing mechanism relies on the 'electric impulse' ability)

>>54000911
I actually hadn't thought about that when I made them. I basically was roughly basing them off War of the Worlds Martians, then added in the 'tripodial insect/spider-crab' thing at the suggestion of a friend because it sounded kind of kickass to imagine the tripod fighting machines mirrored their 'adult' appearance.

>>53988960
I fucking love these guys. Best new comic I've picked up lately.

>>54004254
Depends on the setting should be stated more often. What counts as unusual varies between settings.

>>54004353
Polyps may be able to create their technology inside of their "bodies" using body processes analogous to electroplating to shape metals and other materials. The time taken to make advanced technology scales exponentially with size and building ships capable of space travel would likely require the union and cooperation of a vast number of smaller colonies

>>54004743
That's true, but there are certain tropes, themes, and conciets that are considered standard for fantasy, especially TTRPGs. "Standard/Classic fantasy", if you will. Elves, dwarves, orcs, etc.
The sort of thing that if you deviate from you get people whining about special snowflakes and contrarians and faggotry

>>54004743
>all that
Oh, my god, thank you. That's amazing! I hope you're okay if I do use this.

Though, I am thinking that since the effort to create their technology would have required perhaps a nearly global effort of the polyp colonies, this also means they're a rare, justified case of mono-culturalism within the species.

I suppose that would have been a given with a hivemind, colonial organism. Though in my early ideas, I had imagined that due to each organism being a colony of it's own, you'd end up with each individual being wildly independent because they're basically their own sovereign nation or at least a large community.

>>54004800
And it's easy to divvy things out into broad categories to make things fit a setting.
You have standard races. Humans, elves, dwarves, and so on. You have ___folk for bipedal animal races. You have ___kin for races related to but set apart from monsters, demons, or other fantastic creatures or beings. Aliens and xenobiology open things up even more, as does magic, and so on.
There's a lot to work with to make everybody happy.

>>54005005
Go ahead and use it. You can even use both of your ideas as needed. They're a colonial race where colonies can join together or split apart. That means that there would be some degree of independence of joined colonies or influential polyps at varying levels. That may even be almost necessary for multi-step tasks such as construction and assembly.
Despite the monoculture and hivemind I suspect that they would have very complex rules for interaction among themselves, let alone others.

>>53988256
Every "Unusual Race" ends up being some fetishy overly anthropomorphic bullshit.

>>54006082
Everything winds up being fetishy and overly anthropomorphized, though. We took elves from being weary, perfect immortal superhumans to long eared cock hungry sluts

>>54006082
The only thing worse, though, is edgy tryhards who think they can steer away from that by making incomprehensible races with no commonality with mankind that are only defined by their weirdness.

>>54006118
Don't forget that Halflings, Dwarves, and Gnomes are also now eiter pedobait or for shortstack fetishists, and Orcs are for musclegirls, bara, and GREEN'd

>>54006082
HUMANS are fetishy overly anthropomorphic bullshit, anon.

>>54006164
>Prefers stale same old shit with a different paint job
>Shits on any attempt at creativity

Worthless anons like you are the problem

>>54006118
>Thinks Tolkien elves are original elves

Your ignorance is showing anon

>>54006419
They're not the origin of the concept of elves but you're a liar or a fool if you think it's not his elves everyone thinks of (even though they're just cribbing gygax's take on them)

>>54006385
>muh speshul snowflake race with zero thought behind it is "creativity"

This dumbass idea that change is automatically good without thinking said change through is why people don't like your shitty creations, Anon. Stop pestering your players and just write that novel nobody will ever read already.

>>54006553
>No one likes my hermaphroditic wolf/dragon race so I'm going to rage like an autistic

Good for you anon

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>>54002029
that moth is THICC, boi

>>54006608
Hahaha, good one Anon. This is what projecting looks like.

>>54006608
Why do you always make everything about creepy sex, anon?

>>54006553
>Completely New and Original Idea
>Snowflakes from the Ultra Rainbow Dimension
>Non-gendered Ice creatures each one it's own unique snowflake like design
>Can mate with any other species, no exceptions
>Best friends forever with all of the furry peoples
>+5 untyped bonus to checking your privilege
>Turn into any animal or humanoid or mix in between

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>>54006724
That's just life anon, this is what life is

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>>54006635
(you)

>>54008180
Wow, that guy looks like he'd be pretty handy to have around

>>54008631
mushrooms are fucking scary

>>54011635
why scholar snake? it's clearly a lizard!

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Flumphs are fairly odd: nice thing commonly found in a place that could accurately be described as rape/slavery central, sustains itself parasitically off of the ambient emotional energy of sentient beings, has a spray based defense mechanism, and floats through the air.

>>54011733
giving a snake legs doesn't make it a liazard, their anatomy is more unique than that

>>53988256

Heres a couple I used

>semi-sentient tapeworms

These induce great courage and daredevil behavior in infected individuals, causing them to seek out dragons to fight and hopefully get eaten so the worm can finish its life cycle. Dont bite gold coins from dragon hoards if you dont want to get infected, though some individuals do it on purpose anyway. The worms are able to telepathically communicate with their hosts, though they are not very vocal or intelligent.

>volcano snails

These are essentially ambulatory volcanos. Gigantic, snail-like fire elementals and their cinder cone shells, primordial remnants of the creation of the world, who often retained sparks of completely unpredictable wild magic. There is no telling what they might do, teleportation, time magic, and gravity manipulation were all observed among more mundane fire based effects. Luckily they are not hostile and they are content just wandering around following ancient ley lines and seeking out mineral veins to eat, thought they are completely ignorant of what they wander through. Oceans, dragon lairs, cities. They are sentient and able to reproduce but their life cycle is geological in scale. Sometimes they congregate in the hundreds or burrow for millions of years but no one knows why.


>the guiding mother.

An ancient terraforming spaceship, derelict in orbit, its AI still trying to carry out its orders. Though its genetic banks were damaged, the ship has decided to guide evolution and society till it can successfully breed back the race who built it and an ecosysem to support them. The ship also revealed its presence as a godess to many tribals to gain followers for the great work through wonders like fire from the sky(through laser batteries) and artifacts like unbreakable metal tools, weapons and strange battlearmors to her favored.

>>54013783

contd.


>a race of angry atheist antelopes

Cursed by their god to wander around as animals, they violently hate everything related to divine magic. Because they have no opposable thumbs or any way of manipulating their environment, they kept their civilization alive through oral history and by allying themselves with steppe nomads who quickly saw the value in having intelligent mounts who HATE all those temple-building, god-worshipping city folk. They also like stupidly long horse names, war chants, and impaling things on their horns.

>the university of eternity

A cabal of archliches who got bored of power and ruling realms and dedicated their lives to the research of theoretical magics and the nature of spacetime. Joining them is invitation-only though they are known to meddle with mortal affairs if they particularly need something, reagents, sacrifices or information, though they rarely need to use actual force. Many consider them the logical conclusion of wizarding curiosity.

>sentient metal

No one knows where it came from. Maybe it escaped from the forge of the dwarven god of metallurgy,came from another dimension or some practical joke of an alchemy master. There is about 200 tons of it around and it can be split however many articles, it retains its sentience even in molecular shards, its even aware where its other parts are located. The weirdest thing is, the sentient metal has a weirdly upbeat personality, is very talkative and loves to serve mortals. It can rearrange itself into various articles, blades, armor, spoons on demand when asked nicely though it particularly likes utensils for some reason. It also respects posession most of the time but it can not be looted violently. Sometimes sentient metal objects disappear and reform into other items somewhere else, though not before profusely apologizing for the inconvenience.

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>>53990507
I, CATO SECARIUS

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>"""unusual""" races
>literally just generic furfaggot fetish spam
>>>/trash/

>>54013472
>Hire a science fiction writer to design the races and fluff of your sci-fi game
>nearly none of it is memorable
Don't get me wrong, as far as concepts went, I liked the Engis, and the Zoltan and Lanius were okay. But everything else was boring shit.

>>53988256
So, you want furries? Judging by your choice of image

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If I were to make a race out of Stegosaurus people. How could I do it?

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>>54015482
>>54016582
>>53993854
>>53993739
Holy samefag batman! Its as if some morons shit in a thread after having read only the OP and ignoring all the other posts!

>>54016652
The Cabal? Vogons?

>>54002300
You can also go to /trash/ to get your furry fix

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How does one go about making a cohesive sci-fi race? I'm trying to make a collection of sentient races for a Space Opera setting, but I don't want just to make the usual Star Trek humanoids or the non-funcional weird aliens.
Is there any book, video or something on that matter? Maybe even a setting or movie that done it correctly?
Pic semi-related, some stuff I drew, but still far from what I'm looking for.

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>Implying there is anything wrong with "furry" races

>>54019999
You're right, it's the scaleniggers, avians, and inverts we should be on the look out for. At least furries are still mammals.

>>54015482
Did you even look at the thread before getting an autistic fit?

>>54020367
He is right, literally only 2 non-furry images in this very thread. You are free to prove me wrong though.

>>54020518
If you look up a few posts I see a human reaction image, a space marine, and a completely normal dinosaur. None of these three images are furry.

>>54020638
>If you look up
Threads are read from top to bottom, until you feel the need to make a post.

>>54020217
>inverts
wot?

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>>53988256
I know I'm a bit late but you might like the races I made. I wanted to create some interesting things to put in Dwarf Fortress, so I did. Let me know what you think of them if you give it a shot.

http://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=12897

Also, here is a pastebin containing their lore.

https://pastebin.com/01BHMGYE

>>54020885
You see, there are a few questions you don't want to make. This is one of them.

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humanoid slimes!

low-key magical realm!

>>54019806
I'm not quite sure myself. I find it a lot harder to do than fantasy stuff, though mainly it's on the civ/society end. Trying not only to come up with the way an alien society might work, but then come up with enough to imply thousands of years of history and culture and such.

I think that in general you should come up with some standards for the "common" dominant species and then work from there. You probably want most of them to have reasonably terran biochemistry and environmental tolerances (though permanently suitbound races are sometimes fun).
Probably want a handful of body plans unless you want to try to develop ergonomics and logistics for like 300 different forms. You can get a lot of mileage out of like three or four if you're creative, IMHO

Beyond that, it's just sort of a mater of creative liberty, trying to strike a balance between too human and incomprehensibly alien

>>54020718
Yeah, I know. This doesn't stop anyone from looking at the post I just made and moving the scroll wheel up.

>>54021030
Wew I just realized how many spelling errors and instances of poor wording there were in my lore sheet. They should be fixed now.

>>54016085
I don't think they were really meant to be creative. Just distinctive mechanically.
x race is twice as good at fixin!
x races is twice as good at fightin!

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>>54021396
Yeah, I'm not looking at going too extreme on environments for PC races to avoid any nightmares. As for the culture, I think I can solve it smoothly after I figure their biology, so I'm not worrying about it just yet.
Well, I'll take your advice on the "template-esque" approach, might do me some good.
Thanks.

>>54019999
Nice quad

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>>54022405
or if you prefer

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And I really like these guys

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>>53997361
I don't know, but

>>53988947
is one of the scariest things I've ever seen. That halo of veins.

>>54021794
This might be one of my favorite pictures ever.

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>>53988940
>>53988913
>>53988868
>"I wanna play a tiefling!"
>"I wanna play a drow!"
>"I wanna play a tengu!"
>"I wanna play a [insert blue-skinned homebrw race here]"

No.
I am so sick of these fucking niggers who think they are allowed to play whatever they want in my campaigns. No, your shitty tengu is not allowed. No, your ratfolk is not allowed. No, your catfolk is not allowed. No, your tiefling is not allowed: that is a literal fucking demonspawn. Why the fuck would that be allowed in any campaign, let alone this one? No, you cannot play a drow. You will be shot on sight on the surface. Half these fuckers don't even read Drizz't so they have no excuse for wanting to play a drow, besides "lol it's different." Fuck different. Here's the thing: your race is the most boring fucking part of your character. Unless you do something interesting with it (which 90% of these stupid cunts don't do), then you are just weighing down the game. When you have a thri-keen, some homebrew furry shit, a tiefling and some fuck who wants to play kender, you know what? Fuck this. I made a setting that actually feels somewhat like the real world because it doesn't have 90 different races running around like it's motherfucking Mos Eisley cantina. It's not my fault that YOU are a bad roleplayer who can't be satisfied playing something out of the core book. Create an interesting character, and you can play as a human for the rest of your RPG career. I had groups that were entirely human yet they had personalities that seemed like real people. But no, no one wants to lump in 30 homebrew races plus 60 official wizards of the coast crapshit races they pump out like chocolate because they know it will keep people entertained and requires zero effort on their part. No DM worth shit wants to spend hours and hours putting that in his world. Play. A. Fucking. Human. You need to EARN the privilege of playing another race.

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>>54022825
Come on, friend. Stop saving thumbnails.

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54022697

I'm not even going to dignify you with a (You)

>>54022697
Who hurt you?

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>>>54022697
Nice blog post. Wanna tell us about how if you wanna REALLY roleplay you need to be an anglo saxon male fighter and anything else is namby pamby special snowflakery

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>>54022914
Woops.

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>>54023039
Hey I was looking for something like that for a synthetic race I was cooking based on a challenge I saw here.

>>54022648
You should read the back story for it
also check out some more of Keith Thompsons art, he's a G

>>54021654
I didn't expect them to be creative. It's okay to have simple and ordinary races whose appearance quickly convey their purpose and whose culture doesn't really matter.

I'm just baffled they had a scifi writer work on this if they wanted to go for forgettable and super simple.


is the best he could come up with.

>>54005319
What I always find absurd with weaver is that he's a good creative writer and he has a solid understanding of poses and theme, but he's not creative artistically, he can't really draw THAT well even if he's been at it for almost 13 years(I still like his art but man, he's a slow one) and all his characters are esentially just basic shapes, mostly triangles.

Its nothing major, since he manages to bring out the good even with his bad and he has his moments, i'm just saying, mostly basic shapes.

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>>53990264
Agreed 100%

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Why do people always get triggered by the idea of deviating from the human, human with pointy ears, small human, different small human, and muscular small human set of races?
It can add nice fluff to a plot and is much easier to make interesting than gnomes and shit.

>>54024948
>It can add nice fluff

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>>54024948
I think some people just don't like furries, Personally I think it largely depends on execution of the idea.

>>54024948
Most people don't care, as long as its not pointlessly fetishistic/sparkledog. Sure, you may find the occasional autist like that one faggot in the thread, but for the most part people tend to not care

>>54025008
This. Some people just can't keep their knees under control art the slightest hint of real-world inspiration

>>54025104
real world inspiration is fine, but thats not why people hate furries. If you are on here, you should prolly be able to know why they hate them though.

>>54025363
Some people can't tell the difference or refuse to make the distinction, though. That's the problem.

>>54025363
>If you are on here, you should prolly be able to know why they hate them though.
Because of stale Something Autistic memes? I'd say most people are pretty much sick of the joke by now, especially since there are far more malicious subcultures to worry about. If you actually play games in the real world and not through shitty online meetups, you'll find the presence of those icky furries is far overblown. Now, weebs on the other hand...

You should try not letting the internet dictate your interests and fears. It helps you enjoy things more.

>>54025659
>jokes

Eh. It's not a joke. The hate comes from furrys spamming the boards and trying to inject their fetish into every thread. Also fursonas didn't help. It has cooled off some since mlp got it's own board. Grated this thread doesn't deserve all the shit posting. I've posted several images in it.

>>54026027
It really doesn't. Most of it is just residual meme-tradition, and grudges created by them. You start spazzing out at furries because it's the thing to do, and then you can justify it to yourself because the furries spazzed out in turn. I've had a lot of people set out for the magical realm, and I've gamed for a lot of furries. There's not much overlap between the two sets.

>>54026193
I'm just telling you what history on 4chan, man. Really the mlp thing wasn't that long ago

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>>54025659
Furries are can be disgusting degenerates sometimes desu.
I have played with a few in real life and they fit the stereotypes to a tee.
Still stupid to scream furry in a non-fetish thread.

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>>54026470
>are can be.
Woops.

>>54026552
I-is that supposed to be a Winter Lantern?

>>54022997
No one??

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>>54025008
As long as you're not playing online it doesn't even matter in my experience, if a group trusts you as a GM then they're going to trust you won't have magical realm shit just because you have some wolfmen, beetle people and centaurs in your setting. A wholly beastfolk setting might make some wary but that's about it.

>>54027707
I have never had a real problem with it, then again I usually don't actually put too many beast-people in my settings as I don't usually run games where they would fit.

Played in a game online with some furries, its ok so far.

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>>54024193
Wait, what?
That guy is Weaver? I had no idea.

Honestly I kind of agree... All these designs could use some detail and sophistication.

Anyway, do skelly people count as unusual?

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>>54022697
>Play. A. Fucking. Human.
wish granted

>>54025659
agreed, at this point I'd say the "No Furry" rule is unnecessary, the only time anything that could be considered "Furry" in nature that is actually of any harm is something that already violates a different site rule, no need to exclude them specifically, all it does is needlessly restrict possible topics(/co/ is especially hit hard by this outdated rule since at least a third of all /co/ content is technically "Furry" in nature)

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>>54030457
What the actual fuck.

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What the actual, horrifying, fuck?

>>54030750
I always lose my shit when I read the subway commuter mating bit.

>>54027707

>a one-eyed being is an archer

What is depth perception?

>>54030797

Ah, I see you're discovering the joys of post-Qu evolution!

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>>54030841

>>54030750
>>54030797
the guy wanted Humans, so I delivered

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>>54030750
>Subway commuters
Oh god.

>>54030841
Probably some psionic powers or something. Plus it's not like melee combat would be much easier, at least at range with a moving target you can take your time and line up the shot.

>>54013783
What! I posted an idea for telepathic tapeworms the other day! Though your idea is better. Though they sound more like the protozoa toxoplasma gondii (rats=people, cats=dragons), Dicrocoelium dendriticum (ants=people, cows=dragon) or Euhaplorchis californiensis (fish=people, birds=dragons).

I'm stealing your spaceship idea, tbf.

>>54023005
Nice! Love these.

>>54030457
Speaking of which, does anyone have a Man after Man pdf or link?

>>54030841
>he doesn't close one eye while shooting.

>>54026027
Mate, I've been on the internet for most of my adult life (sadly). And this memery about furries inserting their fetish into everything?

It only barely existed in that form 15 years. 15. Years. And I wasn't on some rando forum, either. I was on a high quality roleplaying forum, and we had all of one open furry player. And yes, his open furryness got him a lot of shit. Then again, looking back at it, the politically active normies on the non-RP forums were much, MUCH more obnoxious than the few furries ever were. And THEY were the people who eventually piled into the RPG forums and destroyed them. Not the furries.

So what was it the furries did? They had furry avatars, occasionally talked about furry shit, and had a predisposition to wanting to play anthro races. Honestly, my edgy teen ass inserted way more Magical Realm shit into games than that sole furry ever did. And by all rights, we may have had more furries who simply weren't open to the fact. I was a big TES fan, so I did insert a cat race into my Fantasy setting. Everyone on /tg/ would lose their shit and call that Magical Realm, too.

And that's because /tg/ has a slightly warped view of reality, and uses this ancient view of furries to warrant a lot of shitposting, just as you've seen in this thread. It's literally a meme, at this point. A self-replicating cultural behaviour that exists without outside influence.

>>54031303
*15 years ago

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>>54031303
I don't give a fuck what happened on other forums. I was only mentioning what happened on 4chan. Mlp flooding was quite recent. Anyway stop being fags and post unusual races pictures.

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>>54031405
>le I have no argument so everyone talking about the issue I started talking about is a faggot meme

Bronies and furries aren't the same thing, and the SA anti-furry meme predates Bronies by literally a decade. What we saw with Bronies, however, is very similar to what we saw with furries years ago: A new group in love with their own newfound agency acts obnoxiously before they figure out the social rules surrounding them as a group.

But you can have this shark thing.

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>>54031457
Furies have flooded 4chan as well as I stated before. I just mentioned mlp because it was more recent wave.

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>>54031515
Frankly, I haven't seen it, and I've been here for ages. They're on /b/... but that's /b/.

Does this cute demon count as an unusual race?

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>>54031728
Then you haven't be here that long. I still see occasionally.

>Does this cute demon count as an unusual race?

Nope.

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>>54031803
I've been here for ages. You should probably just grow some thicker skin.

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>>54032024
Sure you have. Also not going to post related images anymore? Tsk.

>>54031235

>he does close one eye when shooting

Holy fuck, I can only assume you've never actually picked up a gun before.

>>54032171
That picture of the nice catfolk wasn't enough?

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>>54032356
That's just a cat. Here's cat people.

>>54010396
Most of them are nice folk though

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>furries are spouting the "people only dislike furries because of sa!!!" historical revisionism again
>furries aren't even a problem haha we're totally fine now
>in a thread dedicated to unusual races that's like 60% generic furry fetish stuff
>in a board dedicated to a hobby where you need to actively avoid autistic furfags or they'll constantly derail your games with trying to fuck animal people
How can you even be this deluded?

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>>54026027
>>54031405
>>54031515
>>54031803
>>54032744

You, your samefag bait, and your shitposting need to fuck off.

I would hope to see that you have the self awareness to realize that when somebody comes on /tg/ talking about dumb political bullshit, you'd realize they were trolling. But you suddenly and absolutely believe that when the 'furry invasion' happened, after goons and 4channers alike saw how it made people so angry, that every single one of the furries who were forcing their fetish everywhere were legitimate, not a single one was a troll trying to stir up trouble? This is literally how stupid you are.

I find it hilarious that you retards continue to shitspot your nonsensical hatred of 'furries', as if that is even a group that exists or can be categorized. You do realize most people on this website have seen and jerked off to furry porn right? Does that make them furry? Is that furry? I wanted to be a gnoll make you a furry? It's completely 100% irrelevant to anything in this thread and yet you continue to shitpost about it against and again, hoping that the /tg/ hivemind will agree with you so you can look cool and tough on the internet, but people are really fucking tried of your bullshit, namely me, here to *inserts paw into your tailhole*.

Shut the fuck up, stop shitposting. Stop ruining every thread with anthro characters, from Redwall to Ironclaw you faggots cannot stop bringing up furries. You seem to have a serious issue with even the thought that someone somewhere might want to jack off to the idea of furry animal people, but a literal thread about why elves would prefer anal sex was just on this board this week, and that's totally ok. Fat virgins imagining themselves as wolf dudes are apparently a huge issue and horrible blight on this board, but faggots who constantly want to jerk off to put smut all over this board about their elf/orc/goblin waifus are just being funny haha.

Literally kill yourself. Stop breathing.

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>>54032905
This >>54032744 is the only post I've made in this thread you autistic fucking sperg. You're a pretty good example of how furfaggots are completely fucking insufferable though

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>>54032905
This is the kind of behavior they are talking about.

>>54032194
It's a joke, trigglypuff.

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>>54032905
Anon, stop it and calm the fuck down you rabid moron.

We spent the whole thread ignoring the faggots and not giving them (You)s. All your sperging is doing is vindicating the sitposters and turning yourself into just as big of a shitposter.

Seriously, you need to stop posting, and spend a week off of 4chanfor your own health, this type of angry blogposting just makes you look like an autistic furry. Stop it you moron, and I say this as the guy who originally posted >>54022956 and >>54016913

You people are awful at arguments. Always jumping with an argument and 3 stones in hand.
I can only imagine how deliteful must be a RPG session with you guys.

>>54034012
Fuck off with your shitposting. Its not my fault as soon as I went to bed all the Europeans and Australians suddenly decided to have a shitposting war with eachother.
Or would you called this "banter" instead of shitposting?

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Chill

>>54032620
This. I once had a mushroom as a roommate, he was a pretty fun guy

>>54034396
CARLOS!!

>>54030479
I support the "No Furry" rule just because removing it would open up floodgates and cause a lot of people to start posting tons of furshit just because they can. It's similar to GR15, MLP is 7 years old and nobody cares about it anymore other than a few turbo-autists but if they lifted the rule I guarantee tons of people would start posting pone in every thread with the frequency of the pony spam in 2010 solely to piss people off. It needs to stay just for the sake of keeping the status quo.

>>54030841
Maybe he's got a super awesome alien compound eye or some shit

>>54002029
we really need new pictures of this little fellers

>>54034728
An unfortunate truth. I think a light handed approach to enforcing it would probably be the best outcome. As it is it's a little weird. I've been banned for posting skaven here. Or bojack screenshots on /co/

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>>54037185
I agree. If someone posts a big muscle bara furry abomination I'm sure as shit going to report it, but I'm rather lax about what I do/don't want to see. Maybe I've been slowly infected by degeneracy though I don't know

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>>54037561
>>54037185
Seems reasonable enough.

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I just find it finny how despite the people complaining about furry fetishists, there is but a single furry picture in the thread that is even remotely sexual (>>53989875).

>>54034728
>I support the "No Furry" rule just because removing it would open up floodgates and cause a lot of people to start posting tons of furshit just because they can. It's similar to GR15, MLP is 7 years old and nobody cares about it anymore other than a few turbo-autists but if they lifted the rule I guarantee tons of people would start posting pone in every thread with the frequency of the pony spam in 2010 solely to piss people off. It needs to stay just for the sake of keeping the status quo.
I disagree, if mostly because the people enforcing that rule do so in the most arbitrary ways, the only times something "Furry" is ever a problem being posted is pretty much always something that breaks a different rule anyways

but honestly I'm personally in favor of getting rid of any form of moderation on this site cause it just doesn't work right

>>54037185
that is the problem though, 4chan has horrid moderation staff, with all sorts of obnoxious biases, which is why I'm in favor of getting rid of the No Furry clause, it just gives them more means to abuse their authority

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>>53994286

I, fur one, am in full support of abolishing global rule 3. Fursecution is an old meme and furries are totally better now. We should support a safe space fur all here on 4chan, 40kids and power-tripping mods who ban me when i post kobold porn need to fuck off

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Leechfolk are nice

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Gleep gloop posting some aliens

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>>54041565

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>>54041603

>>54041822
Didn't there used to be a stellaris mod with these guys and the birrin?

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>>54042124

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The reason anthromorphic animal races are a common fantasy alternative is because it's easy to comprehend.

Take this fucker. He's a thriddle. Try to describe it in a single sentence.

"Small featherless turkey without the beak but instead a vagina mouth and eyestalks."

Instead of:

"A blonde human with pointed ears."

"A green lizard that stands like a man."

Both are incredibly lazy, but it works really well according to the crowds.

I personally love the truly alien, but the problem is no one likes playing them.

It's uncomfortable or something for someone to insert themselves into a hexapodal fungi-like psychic gestalt that is actually three minds working as one body.

Skyrealms of Jorune and Tekumel taught us this. I'm sad both had such obtuse systems to help bury them under other games.

I love this thread. Keep up the fun.

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>>54030841
I'm blind in my left eye and yet I can still put 3 arrows in a 1/2" group at 35 paces.

>>54023062
Brett Keane?

>>54031728
Does... Does that demon want to fuck me? Because I think that demon wants to fuck me.

>>54042924
Is this from something and/or is there a bigger version? Some of those designs seem neat but they're still kind of small.

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>>54043305
I got ya, senpai

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>>54043329
Huh. Should be bigger. Anyways, dudes DA is Lucid Dakou, so check it out there

>>54042642
Just think how good you would be if both eyes worked.

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These dudes are neat.

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>>54043329
Christ, that first one though

>>54042628
>I personally love the truly alien, but the problem is no one likes playing them.
It's also hard to get good representative art, and hard for players to find character art that fits. Keeping it very close to human like elves means you can just use human images or edit them slightly, and furry races are a way to have something unique that isn't completely impossible to find illustrations of.

Another reason why they're easier is because they come with assumptions and things to build on when it comes to culture, mentality, habitat, diet, intelligence and so on.

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>>54043347
>>54043305
You can just open the images in a new tab if you're being limited by screen width.

>>53990327
>tfw no more Bananamancer

>>54022697
yummy pasta

my dudes im making a subterranean race for my sci fi campaign. They're not aliens, but gene-beasts that got loose and live underground. Any ideas/tips for their appearance or clothing?

>>54038996
>I'm personally in favor of getting rid of any form of moderation on this site cause it just doesn't work right
They say that we understand the importance of something the most when we don't have it anymore.

>>54047368
Can you explain the gene-beast part a bit? You mean like creatures engineered for heavy work or something?

>>54047874
yes. synthetic organisms, hybrids of various animals, etc.

>>54047368
>Any ideas/tips for their appearance or clothing?
The classics are always good.
http://zhowee14.deviantart.com/art/morlock-328390634

>>54043456
I love it when people take inspiration from animals that are weird but ignored, penguins are fucking strange

>>54042628
they are just weak anon, one day they will understand.
>>54041396
you don't need to lie to us anon, the problem isn't anthro animals, it's the weird shit the furry community associates with them.

>>54022697
>It's not my fault that YOU are a bad roleplayer who can't be satisfied playing something out of the core book.
Tiefling and Drow are literally in the core rule book you faggot.

And dont blame shitty players for using the races wrong. My current favourite player is using a white dragonborn to great effect, and not only feels like an actual person, but also has a lot of conflicts internally and externally.