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Can You Make an RPG With Animal Characters Without Being "Furry"?

Started by Mordred Pendragon, December 15, 2016, 07:48:07 AM

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Spinachcat

Yo Doc "Furfucker" Sammy!

What else do you have to share with us about Trench Critters?

System? How gritty? What's the role of the Trench Critter PC vs. fellow NPC critters in battle?

Is it going to be Europe 1911?


Quote from: Anon Adderlan;935768WE GET ASSHOLE CHIPS?!?

Yes we do! Unless you're British. They get butthole crisps.

It's a cultural thing.
 

Quote from: Charon's Little Helper;935961But... what I do is awesome and not weird.  It's what other people do that is weird and worthy of scorn!

So true!

Mordred Pendragon

Quote from: Spinachcat;937080Yo Doc "Furfucker" Sammy!

What else do you have to share with us about Trench Critters?

System? How gritty? What's the role of the Trench Critter PC vs. fellow NPC critters in battle?

Is it going to be Europe 1911?




Yes we do! Unless you're British. They get butthole crisps.

It's a cultural thing.
 



So true!

I'm still working on it, I took a break from it because of the holidays but I can resume work on the actual system soon.
Sic Semper Tyrannis

crkrueger

Quote from: Spinachcat;937080Yo Doc "Furfucker" Sammy!
Ok, that's a good official nickname. Doesn't quite roll off the tongue.  Let's go with "The Jersey Furfucker".
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Mordred Pendragon

Quote from: CRKrueger;937099Ok, that's a good official nickname. Doesn't quite roll off the tongue.  Let's go with "The Jersey Furfucker".

But I'm not a furry.
Sic Semper Tyrannis

Black Vulmea

Quote from: Doc Sammy;937115But I'm not a furry.
Yeah, keep telling yourself that.
"Of course five generic Kobolds in a plain room is going to be dull. Making it potentially not dull is kinda the GM\'s job." - #Ladybird, theRPGsite

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Spinachcat

Quote from: Doc Sammy;937115But I'm not a furry.

Says the guy wearing the fursuit! :)

Enjoy the holiday and keep up the work on Trench Critters. Definitely looking forward to more thoughts on it. I like the idea of a dedicated setting focus / clear theme in the game.

Also, hopefully you'll be living on the Jersey shore by June in time for half naked guido season!

Catelf

Quote from: Black Vulmea;937124Yeah, keep telling yourself that.
If Doc Sammy claim to not be a furry, then Doc Sammy isn't a Furry.
It's as simple as that.
And it isn't even because of the claim that all furries want to have sex with anthropomorphic animals, or dress up as such, because that is not true and have not ever been true.
No.
It is because of two things:
1: Personal Integrity of how one wants to define oneself.
and
2: The focus of one's interest.

#1 could be questioned, admittedly, but it is still important.
#2 however, is more factual based.
Doc Sammy may have originated as a bit of a sonic-fan, but not even those are automatically furries, as they like the specific aesthetics of the sonic games, animation series, and comics, as well as the characters therein.
The focus is this on the Sonic aesthetics, not the matter that sonic is an anthro hedgehog.
He has also gone from that to "less anthro" forms, like Beatrix Potter, Secret of NIMH, and so on.
And if he did so due to the series that was the inspiration for his rpg, then his current focus is that series and that game, not the direct fancy for anthropomorphic animals.
Thus, he is NOT a Furry.

Is it possible that he will eventually prove to be interested in the aesthetics and idea of anthropomorphic animal characters themselves?
Yes, but it is also possible he won't.
It is up to him to notice that if there is any, or not if there actually isn't.



EDIT:
By the way, while writing this response, I was somehow logged out (it has happened before during writing responses), and when I tried to log in again, it somehow claimed it was a failed attempt. Twice.
I know this has nothing to do with the topic, but I rarely gather enough ... initiative, to post this where I should.
I'm not even sure if it is a bug or a "feature".
I may not dislike D&D any longer, but I still dislike the Chaos-Lawful/Evil-Good alignment system, as well as the level system.
;)
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Black Vulmea

Quote from: Catelf;937127. . . snipped display of high dudgeon . . .
I'm just busting his balls, Catelf. Calm the fuck down.

If you or Sammy or anyone else chooses to identify as 'furry,' I honestly couldn't care less, as long as you fucking pervs stay at least five hundred feet from my kids.*


* And since your identity is so tightly wrapped in this nonsense, I won't leave it to chance and just tell you straight up, now I'm busting your fuzzy little balls. As far as you know.
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Catelf

Quote from: Black Vulmea;937144I'm just busting his balls, Catelf. Calm the fuck down.

If you or Sammy or anyone else chooses to identify as 'furry,' I honestly couldn't care less, as long as you fucking pervs stay at least five hundred feet from my kids.*


* And since your identity is so tightly wrapped in this nonsense, I won't leave it to chance and just tell you straight up, now I'm busting your fuzzy little balls. As far as you know.
Oh, you do know that sarcasm and joking of that kind is indeed hard to convey over the net without saying it right out, right?
So it's good to actually know that you are just busting hairballs, as some that might say similar or the same things might actually mean it, sadly.
I mean like: we all know D&D encourages demon summoning, right?:p
I may not dislike D&D any longer, but I still dislike the Chaos-Lawful/Evil-Good alignment system, as well as the level system.
;)
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Black Vulmea

Quote from: Catelf;937160So it's good to actually know that you are just busting hairballs . . .


That's the spirit, C. :)
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Anon Adderlan

Quote from: Black Vulmea;937144I'm just busting his balls, Catelf. Calm the fuck down.

Hey, why make assumptions about gender? Not every furry identifies with having balls. On the other hand some identify with having several sets...

...but seriously the fact this form of sarcasm is no longer recognized by the new majority is the #1 absolutely foundational reason the internet is such an intolerable shithole at this point. People don't actually know what to take seriously anymore.

Nexus

Quote from: Catelf;937160Oh, you do know that sarcasm and joking of that kind is indeed hard to convey over the net without saying it right out, right?
So it's good to actually know that you are just busting hairballs, as some that might say similar or the same things might actually mean it, sadly.

Yeah, it is and when someone's normal posting tone is aggressive and abrasive its can be even harder to tell when they're joking.
Remember when Illinois Nazis where a joke in the Blue Brothers movie?

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Black Vulmea

Quote from: Nexus;937180Yeah, it is and when someone's normal posting tone is aggressive and abrasive its can be even harder to tell when they're joking.
How could anyone write the pigshit I post and NOT be taking the piss?
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Gronan of Simmerya

Quote from: Black Vulmea;937182How could anyone write the pigshit I post and NOT be taking the piss?

I know, right?
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