>>47447508
Fucking furfaggot.

Sounds like pokemon 2.0 desu senpai.

>>47447508
I can imagine just how many people would be making special snowflakes that can bond to a powerful monster and lots of semi-powerful monsters

My first thought was "How would you have a bonded beast babysit a child?"

>>47447508
Elves need a lot more work. Right now they're just hippies.

I think it works better to say that "powerful" controls how many beasts you can bond with.rather than how powerful the beast is. Strength of the beast makes them harder to convince to band, which is at least semi-voluntary. You can have evil people use force to obtain the beasts will, and good characters have the whole mutual respect thing.

Monstrous humanoids is forbidden bonding in most cultures.

>>47447638
The first beast you bond with is your "bloodbond," and bonding to it is a right of passage to adulthood.

>>47447508
Sounds like your average anime setting where the short and long of the setting is "Everybody has X, thus the biggest X haver is the and you are not a person before you are an X haver too".


Which this quite literally sounds like.

>>47448521
That's just fantasy dude. Humans are adaptable and important for x reason. Dwarves are stubborn and greedy and use runes instead of magic. Elves are physically and magically adept, but thinning out because of x.

Why is everybody hating on this guy's idea because he posted an anime-esque picture

>>47448461
Tell me more about this bloodbond

I think as long as the PCs are humans it's fine. Not much point having this monster tamer thing going on if half the party aren't even doing it. Could consider replacing dorfs and elfs with rock and crystal people/spirits. Not much point having the old standbys as far as I can see.

>>47447508
I hate settings where humans are automatically superior to every other fucking being just because. Same people who bitch about vampires too probably.

>>47448706
In primitive times, and still today amongst the barbarian hordes, those who sought adulthood needed to prove themselves by mastering a beast. This generally meant leaving their village and finding a beast in the woods, capturing it, and getting it to accept their bond. It in many ways enforced a caste system, where warriors would find a predatory animal, while farmers would find an ox or dog that would be useful for work. (I feel like pets aren't a thing for humans in this culture. Dogs are wild or bonded) Those who couldn't pass the test were treated kind of like the mentally disabled or a sickly child. Once this first beast was tamed, the beast and master would undergo a ritual that solidified their bond, and made it unbreakable. The master will always care for the beast, and the beast will always obey the master.

These days, in the cities, schools have class time dedicated to learning how to bond, and field trips to scout potential partners. In high society, a wealthy child's bloodbond will probably be bought for them, and his taming will be overseen by a true beastmaster.

While the bond is magical, it doesn't require any aptitude for magic. People who study magic sometimes study the Tome of Beasts and use magic to exploit the power of the bond.

>>47447508
Replace god with professor Oak,
monsters with pokemon
dwarves with pokeball makers
and elves with badge holders.

It turns into a mon-genre