How would you do an athro setting without falling into magical realm or the other usual furry trappings?

How would you do an athro setting without falling into magical realm or the other usual furry trappings?

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You can't.

Sure you can. Just fade to black if/when you have to and make it clear that any dipshit walking around with neon fur is going to be treated like the dumbass ganger/hippie/snowflake everyone thinks they are.

Mouse Guard?

>wow they sure got us good with that prank
>let's commit a homicide
What the fuck is wrong with cats?

step 0. Consume lots of existing anthro fiction which is not furry trash, and see to it that your players do so as well. This is the most important step
step 1. Don't be a complete goddamn creep
step 2. Don't be a furry
step 2a. Don't play with furries
step 3. Don't sexualize anthros

>What the fuck is wrong with cats?
Well, you know. Cats and dogs drinking together, mass hysteria, that sort of thing.

I want to know what's up with the cobra going after the waitress. Like, it would have just been the cats and dogs if she didn't get mad at the tittyzebra for no reason.

Disney's Robin Hood

They were already pretty on-edge just having line-of-sight to dogs. And splashing a cat and denying it milk is not advisable, even when you're not already said cat's mortal enemy.

Plus, they're literally animals.

Shit animals, get a dog instead.

People who look like animals, not animals that look like people

Play it with other people who share your distaste for weird furry shit.
That's it.

[WILD SPECULATION]
The cats are lower level gangbangers, the dogs mobsters. The cats probably came there for a fight, from the way they checked their claws before they got in and how they sat directly across from the dogs.
Essentially, it was an attempt at a territory grab that went wrong, since everyone died.

Yeah, but why did Snek try and eat the Zebra?

no humans
the only way for the anthros to make more anthros is to toss artificial bones into this one ooze lake deep underground, and then come next spring they'll find plant-y pods on their lawn, filled with newborn baby anthros
they do not have genitals, and their nether regions are not erogenous

I would buy it.

Snek was a predatory weirdo who saw a chance and tried to take it.

Shitty street thug taking advantage of a distraction to try and molest the waitress.

If you don't want it to fall into furry territory, go for monstergirl

If you look closely the Sneks are women. Could be that they're jealous of the Zebra waitress.

pretty much the only way you can.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Or Ikuisuuden Laakso / The Valley of Eternity. Finnish penguin rpg.

By not caring about the weirdos who screech about furries if they even suspect a piece of media has an aspect of their anti-fandom?

Got the scent of blood.

Just as long as you're not a filthy Rockhopper.

assume sexuality doesn't bear a role in your worldbuilding except for "yeah, that's how people reproduce" and the occasional femme fatale trope.

but more imoortantly, don't play with mentally ill manchildren.

like hotline miami except the masks are actual heads

I had it in a setting once in which the party encountered a village of weird shamans, druids, and witches. These people were trying to get closer to nature by literally transforming parts of themselves into animals; the more animal-like they were the better. This was their way to enlightenment in their eyes. Their leader was literally a goat that was supposedly once a man (if you have ever seen that PETA episode of South Park it was pretty much that). Overall, it was weird as fuck for the party which was the point and they should have seen that the fucking asshole snake-human-mofo was going to backstab them all.

the amount of furries who have said to me they got started because they had a crush on Robin Hood is enough for me to call bullshit

>How would you do an athro setting without falling into magical realm or the other usual furry trappings?

Run it however you want and don't be concerned with pleasing neckbears on Veeky Forums that don't even have friends to game with.

Mouse Guard or Mutant: Year Zero.

Look at their jackets. The cats are niggers, the dogs are probably like Italian mafiosos. Standard chimp out procedure