How does Veeky Forums like its beast races?

people who dont implement them for whatever reason and just want to tell us we are having fun the wrong way can move on without a post.-Edition

All female and horny. They have to kidnap Human men to breed. Human women take up arms to keep those damn beastfolk away from their men!

>people who dont implement them for whatever reason and just want to tell us we are having fun the wrong way can move on without a post.-Edition
Go fuck yourself OP, you can't tell me what to do.

Fuck off back to the Monstergirls wiki.

back to /monster/
and fap before posting

signed: op

I like them varied. I know it's a non-answer, but it's the only one I can give.

Some of the beast races are closer to humanity, and some of them are rather more alien or weird in mindset. A dog-person or wolf-person is always going to be more easy to relate for a human than a merfolk. This doesn't mean that there aren't friendships or commerce or the like, though. It just leads to the occassional culture clash.

I do generally have them fairly beastly, though. None of this "dog ears on perfectly human dude" thing. You're an ox-man? Then you're basically a small, swole minotaur, bro. Milk that for all it's worth!

In general, though, I try to make them people. People of varying degrees of weird, but people.

...

Not even trying.

I don't mind anything on that scale, as long as it fits the game world in a way that isn't exempt from common sense.

Grade 4. Still basically animals, but they can walk, talk, and hold stuff.

Monsters. Beastmen are vicious savage monsters. They rape and pillage like barbarians and have no redeeming qualities. They're the spawn of foul powers mingling with natural beasts. They are beasts become like men, not men become like beasts.

i don't implement them and you're having fun wrong.

When it's just me at home without any pants on the internet? Anything naked.

When Im playing a game with my Bro's on the weekend? Long as it's not magical realm territory to make things awkward I don't care.

I do them short and cute. Something like 2 or 3.
Started as a background characters. Players were... wary of them, to say the least.

Minimal interaction. Then an NPC companion was introduced. Still a minor role.
Took me one and a half a year but I finally got the fuckers. Players, I mean. One of them is now fine with flirting with them critters.
I am now 100% sure I can manipulate my players' fetishes. I already made one fucker like traps once, I can make the other one like furries.
I am become fetishmancer.
I'm not even into furries

Personally, I've always felt that it should depend on what the group is comfortable with, and how mature enough you are to not sexualize them like a creep.

Then again, the same could be said for many thi GE inter hobby.

As for My personal tastes, I find furry, mimi, and rubber forehead ayy to be boring. If I'm going to bother putting in non-human races, I want them to actually appear unique and interesting in their own right. Afterall, humans don't look like chimps or bonobos, so why should the races look exactly like either humans or animals?

And that's IF I bother putting in nonhumans in the first place.

Pic related is where I draw the line for sexy animal people, but I also use animal races that are basically bipedal versions of animals (and not sexy, unless you find swole crocodiles or yaks to be sexy). Tauric races are also OK most of the time..

>tldr

Full furry. No need to beat around the bush.
>I like my Lizards Aztec or Inca.
>Cats Egyptian
>Wolves Roman
>Foxes/Naga Arabian
>Cows Greek
>Birds Native American
>Bears Celtic
>Big cats Chinese or Indian
>Hyenas Voodoo
>Rodents/Lions English
>Rabbits French
>and Beetles/Insects Japanese

Main beast race is various mammalian animals like cats, dogs, foxes, and squirrels turned into 1.
Satyrs are probably like 1.5
Mer-people and the monkey-people like pic related are probably 2 by definition

>i like my races to be as boring as possible

Brah, Arabian Foxes are the best.
>Fast and quick as a whirling dervish
>Sly enough to deal with Djinn
>Clever and ruthless traders
>Dressed in all sorts of colorful finery
>Haram of vixens draped in silk, will quickly tear apart those who threaten the Sultan
>Magical artifacts everywhere, guarded by puzzles only the quick-minded can solve

There's a whole other scale this picture fails to represent. It's going near maximum cuteness and the furry race at every stage of this only has its features FOR the cuteness. I'll accept a furry race no questions asked but probably not if it's just furbait or a cutesy anime girl. Unless I'm GMing some kind of high school adventure.

yep, just as boring as i expected

why would you play an ugly character, you must be some kind of gross nerd lol

So, old good sly arabs combined with old good sly foxes? That's a whole lot of redundant shit.

It's kind of shit, user

2twisted4me

They range greatly.
Some are animals that talk, some are animal people, some are humans with animal ears.

Generic races are boring, I'd rather see insectoid or crustacean or amphibian or really just anything that isn't cat/dog/fox/wolf garbage.

i'd rather see cats or dogs or wolves or foxes or really just anything that isn't insect/crab/frog garbage.

Well, I can't cure your shit taste.

I don't like races that are straight up "A specific animal but like a human", so anything like Dog-people, cat-people etc is out. Lizardmen are usually fine since they seldom are designed after a specific animal. For a mammalian counterpart, wookies are a good example.

and uh I guess that means 3-4 on OP's scale?

How about moths?

nah you're trash

>a specific animal

you mean like a lizard

Not even trying/10, but i go full ham on their cultures and origins of their species.

Humans are just another kind of beastmen, albeit mutated ones.

Cool and interesting.
Sorry that you can't jerk it to sea snippers.

>he masturbates

No, like a specific genus or family of animals, such as Canidae. Being loosely based on belonging to a certain order such as Squamata I have no problem with.

>and fap before posting
When will this cancerous meme die?

too bad that's not what you said retard :^)

Like this.

I take the George Lucas/Rick & Morty approach to races -- there are a handful of species that you see over and over, like humans, elves, orcs and dwarves, but there's an eclectic mix of other monsters whose species you never learn about, because it would be too time consuming and inappropriate to catalogue them all.

You will never learn why the guy selling you scrolls in the market looks like a giant one-eyed raven in a top hat. He'll be offended if you ask; he looks like a person, and you look like a hairless ape. Fuck you, buy your scrolls elsewhere. Meanwhile there are twelve-legged lizard men, anthropophagi, giant fat walrus-men with fungus growing off of them, and screeching moth monsters that speak only an obscure dialect of Drow Sign Language that you can barely understand -- but you think they'll pay top coin for peaches.

Currently trying to cobble together an empire out of a set of tribes in one of the most inhospitable yet financially lucretive places on the planet.

Remarkable in that they are the only civilized mortal race that doesn't share a common ancestor with humans, elves, dwarves, and orcs so no children, even infertile ones, are possible.

Yes I did. "Lizard" is not a specific animal.

Like related.
Learn it. Live it.

To be fair: "All female, horny, and the kidnap human men to breed" sounds like the plot to porn. Or monster musume, which is already close enough.

Anything beyond nekomimi (only ears/tail) us permanent banned by me.
If you are a weevil then at least make it less cringe worthy.
I make my beast people a single race with fey ancestry that takes traits from a spirit beast.
For example lizard people just have weird eyes,tounges and a scaly tail an are otherwise fully human.

>fey ancestry
get out.

neither is dog.

link?

That's how i go about it too.

I'm confused now. What is your definition of a specific animal? Do I have to specify breed for it to count, or...?

Hunched posture, bent legs, faces mostly animalistic but with slightly recognizable human qualities, hands resembling those of a human but with claws, body completely covered in thick fur or scales. Personalities are generally that of the animal except with sapience and primitive human intelligence.

>lizard isn't descriptive enough
>dog is
Spell it with me!
C o g n i t i v e
D i s s o n a n c e

There's a pretty damn big difference between a crocodile and a gecko.

i don't get what's hard to understand about this. dog and lizard are categories. they don't reference specific animals.

just like there's a difference between a weiner dog and a mastiff

>How does Veeky Forums like its beast races?
As is the rule with nearly everything here, it's fine until it devolves into magical realm. Are they a legitimate faction with their own form of culture? Do the females look like slightly weaker males and not big-titty'd bimbos? If it feels like magical realm, it probably is.

>My beastmen are a primitive savage race-

>the females aren't big-titty'd bimbos

discarded.

>slightly weaker males
Women are not "slightly" weaker than men. They are substantially weaker than men.

>I have incorrect preferences

Nevermind any sensible metric of similarity, going purely by appearnce; I strongly disagree.

shh, let's not start.

also
>not having your beastmen have different sexual dimorphism

no you don't.

Don't start this shit again

>not having your lady beastmen all be hot chicks

kys

thats the whole point of beastmen you retard

>my dwarves are a dour and greedy race
hurr hurr fuck off
>my elves are a long-lived race in tune with nature
hurr hurr fuck off

that's what you sound like

Yes I do.

try and stop me.

yes, and you're having wrong kind of fun. Please report to the nearest fun center for mandatory voluntary reeducation, citizen.

mostly i'm tired of it being a horse beaten to the consistency of a hamburger patty. I mean, it works sometimes, but other times author just plops them in the setting obviously without thinking much.

Dogs are dogs. How are they a category?

no you don't.

It's true. There's nothing to start.

Lizard is a suborder of reptiles, consisting of thousands of species. Meanwhile, dog refers to a single subspecies of the Canis Lupus species.

Or to look at it another way, you're talking about the difference between basing something on dogs and basing them on Caniforms - which would mean including features from bears, badgers, weasels, red pandas, and otters as well as dogs, foxes, and jackals.

nah you're the one who's wrong fag

Oh can't I?

Why is it so hard to understand that someone can have different opinions than you?

1: please indicate by attaching an image the specific animal that the word "dog" refers to.

2: lizards are lizards. how are they a category?

It's starting stuff because no one cares you raging autists.

This is a thread about animal people, not "muh -4 str" go start a thread on that if you want to talk about it instead of shitting up this one.

>Tired stereotypes are good, let me smear these tired stereotypes all over my face
>aaaaawwww yeaaaah

That PDF is the only reason I would play 5e.

nah i understand just fine. but you don't disagree.

Someone else brought up something factually incorrect - they got corrected. You're pretty salty for no reason senpai~

Intentional cringe is still cringe and I despise it, but the racial modifiers are quite solid. I'm really surprised the author didn't just give them huge stat bonuses and magical powers.

I love beast races! They're fun to include in most games, and I usually have two or three varieties in every fantasy campaign I run. They're just universally evil in my main campaign setting, and not available to PCs. The body and soul are connected in-universe, and permanent physical transformations cause you to lose your 'humanity' and free will. Shape-shifting is likewise very dangerous because you can get stuck with the mind and soul of whatever you turn yourself into. So, the beast races (like kobolds and gnolls) are essentially soulless monsters that follow their base instincts blindly.

nah

Fine, here are a bunch of dogs. As most animals, all dogs are not completely identical to each other, but that doesn't make them different animals.

I'll do as I wish.

See . "Lizards are lizards" is like saying "bears are weasels."

I seriously don't get your reasoning here. Care to explain?