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Animal people or beastfolk; while an extremely contentious topic, I feel,are a classic part of fantasy and not something to be simply discarded for internet memes.
However if one is to use them in their settings; how best to do it? How best to justify their existence with the presence of other animals of the same type as them? Are regular rabbits, for example, a type of degenerated rabbit folk, a cousin, or an entirely different species?
>>44038254
that exact question is one I do my best to never have to answer.
If a PC or player asked it, there would be a random encounter.
>>44038254
>Are regular rabbits, for example, a type of degenerated rabbit folk, a cousin, or an entirely different species?
They see their "Counter parts" how Humans see monkeys. They can see the origins, but are clearly different. Generally human's talking about how we were monkeys doesn't come up in everyday conversation, so neither should this.
>>44038254
The gods made the world with animals.
Then a trickster god stole thought/fire and scattered it into various animals. They became the beastfolk. Can explain the humanoid races, or not and they can be a deliberate creation by the other gods before or after the trickster beatfolk god/spirit(s)
Sum up your characters backstory, /tg/
>>44038196
Grew up on Coruscant. Joined Gang. Left Gang. Left Planet.
>>44038196
Grown poor, became ganger, saved priest who then saved him.
Ten words?
Seer who adventures because she wants to be cool.
How do you add bird people/characters capable of flight into a game, /tg/?
It's seriously hard to design encounters, dungeons, or even just general storylines if one or more of the players can fly? It's the same reason why I restrict or just erase spells like 'flight' entirely, it's too powerful, so how would a race without limitations on their flying abilities even be able to function?
>>44037057
Well, first off, you can add bird people to your setting whenever you feel like, you only need to design for it when somebody actually plays a bird character. Then it just comes down to designing for the party. Give the bird character some things to do that only a bird character can do just like how you would give everyone else something to do. Don't bother making puzzles for people who can't fly if you already have somebody that can fly as a prerequisite.
>>44037057
Flight is actually pointless in most dungeons, because the ceilings are actually rather short(most of the time)
Flight becomes OP in Wilderness encounters.
The easiest way to ban non-magical flight, is to say that flying is exhausting, or you have to turn/maintain forward motion.
It doesn't work for shit in DnD because flight is completely broken.
Mostly because the scaling of Climb, Jump and other physical feats have no real scaling.
If you are jumping forward, 1 skill rank = 30cm, this has somewhat working scaling. Except it turns into a 1/3 scaling of just running, which again would scale with flight.
If you are jumping up, 4 skill ranks = 30cm.
A flying creature, even if it will descend each round towards 1 feet over ground, would still have the equal to 50 ranks of jump just moving upwards.
So flying creatures are...
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So you and your team finally did it. You manage to storm the lair of the douchebag tyrant that is pretty much responsible for everything bad that happened to you both directly and indirectly. His henchmen are the only people around that are standing in your way, but there is something strange about them. You can sense that they are fighting in way you cannot identify, yet you cut them down as they are coming towards you en masses with all the most terrifying weapons they can find.
After slaughtering them all, you finally get to the tyrant. After an extensive battle, he...
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>>44037028
I change the party.
>>44037028
I say the following:
No. I already crossed a line when I had to murder his henchmen that only wanted protect their families you overgrown manchildren!
This is the reason I bloody hate hypocritical moralizers that say these kinds of things.
Whereas the henchmen's fault was that they had no real alternative but to work for the scumbag due to him threatening that he'll murder their families and had to do all the damning things because this, he is too dangerous to be left alive.
So...
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>>44037028
They knew the risks when they chose to side with this tyrant. I gave them ample opportunity to flee or throw down their arms, but they did not, despite being clearly outmatched.
>To the tyrant
You are beaten, yield or face the god's judgement.
>Either arrest and take him to be tried fairly, or lop his head off depending on his response
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>>44036558
Bullywugs, swamp
>>44036604
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>>44036604
I like bullywugs. Seconding
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Recently, I've been writing a low-fantasy setting for a D&D campaign. The world is basically "Not-europe" with a few classical fantasy creatures splashed in. But the main enemies that the party will face are other humans.
For inspiration, I started reading actual historical texts, as well as different mythologies. I think I'm going to borrow heavily from Scandanavian myth and a greek-like pantheon. (At first it sounds very overdone, but I think that most settings miss the mark quite a bit.) This is a world where the gods don't have direct...
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