In your games of D&D, how acceptable is it to have races of various beastly humanoids, from canonical classics like lupins, aranea, rakasta, lizardfolk, gnolls, ratfolk and minotaurs, to more homebrew creations, existing alongside or in place of more "conventional" humanoids?
Have you ever run or played a game where, say, minotaurs and/or gnolls took the role of orcs? Or ratfolk replaced gnomes as the "cunning artificer race"? I wanna hear your thoughts.
I veto it and won't budge no matter what. I'd rather cancel the game than play with furries.
It's totally fine/acceptable. Spice it up.
I got to admit, people like you are as bad as the furries shoving their fetish in everyone's face. Because someone wants to play a lizardman, doesn't mean they want to fuck a lizardman (or fuck someone as a lizardman).
I replaced demons with Rahkshi.
Come to think of it... what is the list of D&D beastfolk races that've actually been playable? Anyone got a clue? These are the only ones I can remember:
Aranea - Shapeshifting magical spiders, from Mystara: Red Steel.
Rakasta - Proud warrior cat-people from Mystara.
Lupins - Wolf people (originally dog-people) from Mystara, divided between Amerindian-knock off tribals and the faux-French kingdom of Renardie.
Tortles - Peaceful, super-tough turtle people from Mystara: Red Steel.
Ratfolk - Have these shown up as anything other than the Nezumi of Legends of the Five Rings D20, or am I nuts?
Vanara - Agile Asian/Indian-themed monkey-people who make natural monks, from Oriental Adventures D20.
Minotaur - Humanoid cattle, playable both in Dragonlance D20 (Races of Ansalon) and 4th edition core.
Gnolls - Humanoid hyenas who, despite being usually chaotic evil, have been playable in every edition up until 5th. 1e's Orcs of Thar, 2e's Complete Book of Humanoids, 3e's Monster Manual/Forgotten Realms: Unapproachable East/Savage Species/Races of the Wild, 4e's Dragon Magazine #367.
Grippli: Small, non-violent, peaceful humanoid tree frogs. First appeared in TSR's Monster Cards back in 1982. They received PC writeups in Dragon Magazine for both 2e (#262) and 3e (#324)
Oh, wait, I forgot one:
Chitines - Small-sized spider-people who were created by the drow as slaves and then escaped. Dragon Magazine #262 for AD&D 2e, and Forgotten Realms: Underdark for 3e.
Kenku (crow people), Tabaxi (cat people) and Lizardfolk have also been playable in many editions. 5th edition added PC rules all of them in the Volo's Guide to Monsters.
Tabaxi, really? I remember they were introduced as a monstrous race in AD&D 2e's Forgotten Realms: Maztica box set, but I don't remember them getting PC stats (unless you count as a reskin of the 3e Catfolk race from Races of the Wild) up until 5e.
I'm fine if you do something cool with it and take the animal into account with your character. I have the right to veto on a case by case basis. I will know if you're trying to pull any bullshit. I am not here to play out your furry fantasies.