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Considering Deeper Dynamics of Embracing Animal Races in the Campaign!

Started by SHARK, March 11, 2024, 07:31:40 AM

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March 24, 2024, 04:57:23 PM
Quote from: BoxCrayonTales on March 24, 2024, 12:35:10 PM
I gave a little thought to writing animal races and had a few ideas.

Beastmen Totems
Under this idea, there are various tribes of humans who use magic to bind themselves to an animal totem, causing their bodies to reflect the features of their totem. This could be represented with any kind of totemistic barbarian class.

Polymorphic Beastmen
Under this option, Beastmen are a polymorphic species. The animal aspect of a beastman isn't determined by the aspect of his parents. It might be random or semi-random at birth and/or he might have to find or choose it as part of a rite of passage.

These options allows you to have beastmen without needing to build an entire tribe for every single animal species.

Greetings!

I love Beastman Totems! I use those with barbarian Human tribes that have Animal Brotherhood cults. It is so authentic, too, and firmly rooted in historical mythology.

Semper Fidelis,

SHARK
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SHARK

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March 24, 2024, 05:03:48 PM
Quote from: Ruprecht on March 24, 2024, 02:12:34 PM
Quote from: SHARK on March 11, 2024, 07:31:40 AM
Humans, of course, can be very adaptable. It seemed to me that while human communities *could* choose to accommodate non-human, animal-like races, many human communities simply would not. Absolutely not.
I'd always thought they would have a separate foreign town like the Portuguese in Nagasaki.

Greetings!

Oh yes, Ruprecht! I agree. In my world of Thandor, while most Yheddu communities are sub-communities within the urban seetlements of humans and sometimes other races, there are a few self-governing, independent Yheddu communities, as you suggest. I just figured that kind of thing would be a gradual development, as within my campaign, the time-line, such as it is, the Yheddu have only become urban and civilized relatively recently, say a few generations. Even that varies, though. Some have become urbanized within the last three generations, while others have been doing it for twice that, or more to an extent, depending on the population and region.

Semper Fidelis,

SHARK
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