What classes are sneks best suited for?

Well, they are symbols of wisdom in many traditions. So perhaps clerics or sages?

>they are symbols of wisdom in many traditions
Care to name some examples? I can only think of the caduceus from the top of my head but that one's limited to medical science.

Enchanter/mesmerist. Did Jungle Book teach you nothing ;) ?

Oracles work well, too.

supposedly it is in some African and Hindi beliefs. Then again, there is a bit of it in the Bible of all places, as it is through the snake that Adam and Eve ate the fruit of knowledge.

>I can only think of the caduceus from the top of my head but that one's limited to medical science.
That's completely apocryphal, actually. The rod of Asclepius has to do with medicine, and the Caduceus being a symbol of medicine is entirely a persistent misunderstanding.

The caduceus is a sign of trade and commerce, as well as printing and eloquent writing.

Still doesn't quite fit as a sign of a sage, though.

rangers, rogues, mages.

They're good at spears, but they're so huge that they present a large target in a hand to hand.

Mage. Huge spells that fuck everything in a small town over only.
A shame she didn't join in BoF4 and was just stuck as a suit of armor.

Assassins
>Sneaky snake slithering
>Poisoning knives with own venom
>Natural Camouflage in plants
>No footsteps

Fluid Druid

The extra mass means they do have a lot of power behind their strikes, and it's nearly impossible to beat them if they get into grappling range.

you're thinking of whether they're going to win the fight or not.
I'm thinking of how many wounds they will inevitably take and the snake's general weakness to blood loss and organ damage.

For whatever reason they're generally granted at minimum human durability to that sort of stuff. Or worse in many cases.

I just generally worry about snakes in actual combat where they might get hit, since they have, by volume and mass, like a 95% gutshot ratio.

A human, you hit them somewhere, you've got a good chance of hitting an arm, leg, shoulder, etc.
A snake, you hit somewhere, chances are that's a gutshot. Which is lethal with every weapon I can think of.

According to the monster girls series, that's basically ALL muscle, so it's basically shooting them in the outer thigh, ass our outer calf.

from what I know of snakes, they're basically guts all the way through, with a layer of muscle around.

It's like if your arm also had a septic line in it to ensure you super die if you get shot in it.

It's one of the primary reasons snakes are so generally skittish and standoffish in nature. They can't risk a conflict, and so will try to scare or flee from threats.

That's the difference between snakes and monstergirls, monstergirls have their organs in the human part.

Right, but lamia lean a lot more toward human in a lot of regards.

well, that sucks for entirely different reasons.

Primary of which meaning you lose the advantages of having massive guts, like extreme poison processing ability and long breath holding time.

Though, you gain the advantage of two lungs instead of one, which makes normal snakes very prone to pneumonia.

All in all, bad trade though. I'd take the improved disease resistance and blood filtering capacity and just stay out of fights rather than the musculature design, if given a choice.

Now posting cute lamias

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Humans are really resilient anyways, they can bounce back from most things. In terms of raw survival, the musculature is superior in the short run.

Which is also the run that evolution cares about.

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I think I'm going to leave it off at that, because while discussing organ minmaxing is great, there are absolutely zero games that actually model such organ minmaxing.

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second-to-last

last and personal favourite

right, so a mage of some sort then

giant snake squishy nerds

I've always been partial to gigantic, monstrous folk who turn out to be casters instead

pic related

Use a classless system you fucking braindead wretch.

Even unclassed systems generally have archetypes nestled in.

In every system I've seen them, Lamia are casters.

Maybe monk? I imagine you could do some crazy stuff if you were that flexible and strong.

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A spy arachnoid actually seems cool, too bad it will probably only work in something not too serious.
>Use web to listen in on people
>Use wallclimbing to spy/infiltrate
>Have proficiency with modern day connections because puns

Or you could play a superhero called Spyder

Snake shape is useless for anything which isn't a snake.

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i love tiny lamias.

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Maybe the body developed to store magical energy like some kind of electric eel?

>Spyder
That physically hurt me

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Post cute lamia bookworms.

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Battle mage

If magic is produced in organs, sure, why not. Not really snakes anymore, but their appearance could be similar.
Of course you'd have to enlarge their butts and breasts to put more magic organs into, but that goes without saying.

>What classes are sneks best suited for?
Belly dancer
youtube.com/watch?v=ewY3r_d_B8I

Yeah, but a Snake Girl is generally depicted having orofices around where the human and snake bits meet, and have a human torso that should still have all their guts in it. I think the snake part is mostly muscle, and is less critically easy to wound.

Also, the difference in size between a normal snake and a man sized lamia means you need a lot more muscle just to get around. Square-cube law, yo.

Well assassins come to mind

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Warriors.

Depends on how Lamia organism works. If they have all their vital organs in their human part and the snek part is pure muscles, then they could pretty much fill any archetype you want imho.
This raises a question: How do snek people copulate?

Hemipenis.

I want to see a cat girl snek hybrid just to see how long Longcat can go.

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So like regular snakes. Good to know.

Just think of how snuggly it could be!

What about this?

What about no?

Anything that favors mobility more than durability. Casters, rogues, rangers. If they do take a head-to-head melee combat class, they would never wear heavy armor and wear medium only on occasion, favoring light/no armor. Weapons have long reach (spears, tridents, other polearms), are finesse rather than strength (whip, maybe rapier), and/or are dual wielded (scimitars).

>Pic Related

>Of course you'd have to enlarge their butts and breasts to put more magic organs into, but that goes without saying.
Yes...

No more snuggly than a regular cat. The other cat/snake can wrap around you or your limbs like a big warm and fuzzy sock.

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I think that's the last one I can find.

Archers

Rogue or ranger, seeing as snakes have the quietest modes of locomotion. Fighting with spears and dual swords would be good. With such a big body, a shield is pointless.

The end of the tail has a sleeve but most of the tail does not?

Those lamia and their cooky crazy fashion trends

If it wore a hook on the end of its tail, it could probably use its entire body to draw the bow. You could get a lot of power that way.

you can't cover the entire tail with cloth without disabling snake movement.
So they just cover the cloaca.

If you want some full-tail clothing, you're going to need some kind of articulated or mono-directional-friction material.

I'd imagine that for cases of Lamia or Centaurs, it is not only largely muscle but probably redundant/secondary organs as well down there.

I can especially see this for Centaurs, who were probably born and raised to fight. Even if you stuck to ranged fighting, having secondary organs would be a big boon.

I want to adopt snekbro!

A Lamia monk focused on grappling would be outright terrifying.

Warrior sneks will have a great deal of weight behind their strikes compared to a human and the longer ones will be able to do so without being put off balance if the attack is deflected. They might also be able to arc their attacks at angles to essentially flank with themselves, particularly if they make use of their tails or tail-weapon attachments.

Snek sneaks and thieves will have a hard time as a second-story specialist because they're probably much bigger than your usual humanoid, but that doesn't completely shut them out of the profession. They can more easily hide toolkits and lockpicks in larger clothing options, and they can theoretically climb or lift themselves up the wall, they just need to case the place thoroughly and make sure that there's no one to catch them while they're at it.

Snek Silvertongues and leaders are more a matter of persona and ambition rather than race; can be done but doesn't matter so much on race as many other classes or archetypes.

Snek Mage and Snek Faithcasters are pretty well elaborated on already.

I'm going to go look for it but there's a set of feats in Dragon Magazine and another set in PF that are fantastic for a grappling snake-tailed monk or brawler or barbarian.

Found them. Final Embrace line from PF is pretty lame but it works if Constrict and grappling are your intended goal. Strong Coils is basically improved natural attack for constrict damage in Dragon 313.

Approximately how much would a full (7m) snek need to eat per day?

>Has no ears; wears a hat to make himself look normal

I'm dying here!

pets

Are you a vet, or just pulling this out of your ass? From my experience of killing snakes, it is not easy without beheading them.

what do you mean, "not easy"?

Do you observe them for hours after attempting to kill them to see if the wounds done finish them off or something?

There is a video of a squirrel killing a poisonous snake

also based rat gets their revengeance sometimes

I've seen them run over multiple times and still finish crossing the street. I mean, they are probably going to die soon. Its not like they fall apart or die to random shit other animals wouldn't.

I don't doubt that, but I also don't know the conditions of the animals. A pissed off squirrel can do a lot of damage.

My entire point is they have a much higher ratio of dying to their wounds after the matter compared to other creatures.

jizz djinn

Spunk monk

Which you have provided no evidence of.

Busdriver

Lawyer