Catpeople in your worldbuilding

Is pic relevant overdone or cliche or cringy in homemade worldbuilding settings? I don't mean furfaging it either. Actual cultures with them as the races.

Would you reject playing in a world with these types of races, by that I mean not just felines but other anthropomorphized animals, such as bears, various birds and small mammals as well?

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Yes, I would reject it, because in my experience anthos appear when we're entering someone's magical realm
That said if I knew they were going to be done well I wouldn't object

Generally speaking I wouldn't allow them unless they were already a part of a given world, and of the list of fantasy settings I like not many of them have cat people.

So if it was more of a rarity from lets say, people seeking some kind of enlightenment or magical ritualistic practice and they create or discover an anthropomorphized spirit guide. This would be better than walking into a city full of cat/boar/vulture people?

Were-cats are poor cursed souls and deserve quick death whenever encountered. Beware their bite, or they will pass on their curse.

Were-cats are merciless killers that play with their victims by torturing them for as long as they can. Even a were-wolf is more merciful with its fury.

> Mfw this thread

I don't trust furries to keep it locked down, so they don't exist.

The exception to that is dragonborn, because I'm not going to be the ass banning a PHB race because of my personal hate.

Full disclaimer: a planet of anthros is furfagging and I wouldn't play in it.
Yes, the community is THAT bad that I wouldn't have the possibility of connecting my gaming with that, even in tought.

Now, feline sapients.

On one hand, catpeople tend to be bad design. Catgirls are well catgirls (they can't even be assed to have the different personalities of housecats, jesus), and catmen are generally onesided proud warrior bullshit alright.

On the other, cats per se are pretty interesting and I dare to say apt for adventures, more than perhaps any other "animalman". Even the domestic cat is one nasty motherfucker, look at the statistic of how much wildlife is killed by them.

And regarding the fapbait, well, I don't think people will stop having birdmen because of Papi which is best MonMusu anyway]

So I think they are salvageable, but you need to define an interesting personality for them in the first place.

It would certainly be easier to have them be social animals like lions, for example, but it's not necessary: what if they are tiger-like and territorial, but against each other basically (so they blend into human or whatever society, but tigerman A has street A and tigerman has street B and they don't really like one to step into each other's territory)?

Think about shit like this; have an interesting catmen psyche. Then we would talk.

If not at most for me there is mouseguard, the games about werewolves or Golden Sky Stories.

Ironclaw does this surprisingly well, with separating species based on houses and lineages. It's a pretty decent system to boot. There's also "Shard" with an arguably much more in-depth worldbuilding and focus on the mythology of the different animal folk, though the system itself is not the best and the lore can be described as, "Humans uplifted these creatures and then fucked off. Here are your anthros!"

Good old Veeky Forums. No problem playing futa loli vampires because it isn't creepy in the slightest, but a beastfolk? Nope, break out the memes on them! I think the reddit spacing on that last one gave it away a little too much, though.

Points to ponder thanks

I wouldn't reject it, as long as it's not magical realm. There's long precedent for animal-based races, and with the right execution they can be great. Just put more of a focus on literally everything other than sexuality.

See, if you tried to sell me on your setting's catfolk with that image, I'd reject it right the fuck away because that's clearly not "Actual cultures with them as the races". That's clearly (well drawn) furshit.

I don't play futa loli vampires. All my characters have been adults and not undead or hermaphrodites.
Nice try redditor only one of those autists would assume everyone using double spaces comes from reddit's markdown system

What, it's not possible to be against furshit as well as futa loli vampires? Those are both terrible, get over yourself.

This. There's a place for man-beast fusions in tabletop games, and that place is as villains under DM control. Werewolves. Rakshasas. Sphinx. Minotaur. All are powerful mythical beastlike creatures that want to fuck you up.

I and my group don't play futa loli vampires, pal.

>well, ACTUALLY I did a boy vampire as an NPC. Perhaps 11 yo in appereance. For the express request of one girl in my group.
>He was his grumpy as fuck Maker and the most romantic thing he did with her was watching the stars for some sort of bizzare ritual I don't really remember, but I dunno, maybe that's creepy for you. Kinda like him, he had attitude and didn't give a fuck about this youngesters that made the coterie

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>All are powerful mythical beastlike creatures that want to fuck you up.

I'd... rephrase that, in the context of fighting furfaggotry.

>All are powerful mythical beastlike creatures that want to fuck you up.

This afternoon I met a cat. I tried petting him for a bit and he licked my finger. It's a pleasant feeling. Even though I'm more of a dog person, the sensation of a cat licking your finger is so much better. Dogs tend to drool all over the place, while a cat's lick feels more pleasant. There's a lot less saliva, and their coarse tongues tickle a bit.

I'm working on a setting for D&D 5e. I'm seriously considering retooling Tabaxi in to being basically just a race of awakened cats. I don't really care for standard cat-people and I recently read The Dream Quest to Unknown Kadath.

How much of a bad idea is this? Is it really worse than standard catfolk?

That's not that far off from Tibbits, which are basically small sized humanoids that can freely shapeshift into cats that are supposedly what happens when a bunch of cat familiars get too intelligent and breed.
Or the cats in monster hunter

Honestly, sounds boring.

Obviously you must next try it on your penis.

My cat people look like the kid on the right except with a lot more cat features and a lot more physical and existential pain.

Quest for Glory III: Wages of War did it well. Give them there own culture and nation. Make them proud as a people, not just "proud warriors". They were also centaurs like, likely to side step magic realm.

I did a planet of anthros, but I am capable of focusing on the beast and not the man, which is what separates me from furfags. In mixed worlds, it's a running gag for a flirted-with beastman to say "I'm not into bestiality" to humans who want fluffy tail.

The cat people of my setting of a special ability called Soul Scenting.

Basically, if they can get a good whiff of you they can remember your smell because your soul has a dinstinct smell. Allowing them to do this will earn you their trust because then they can basically track you do if you ever fuck them over.

Another aspect of that is that they can "scent" you so they always know you are welcome in their particular clan. However, going to the wrong clan with another osmeone else's sceent can get you killed.

I was making a setting that was almost entirely beastraces. The premise was that sometime earlier in history everyone was human, but a catastrophic event caused different kingdoms/races to merge with an animal (like the chinese zodiac, so the wind kingdom merged with birds and the water kingdom merged with fish). I realized how easy it would be to fetishize and I wanted to make it a bit more palatable, so now its about hunting and killing monsters to graft their parts onto your person to gain new abilities. Takes a bit more overt effort to fetishize and greatly improves the setting.

>puss-in-boots style cats

Go for it, sounds fun

There's only one form of cat people I allow in my homebrews.

youtube.com/watch?v=APrBdP0bBJM

That's a lot of 9's
Anyways, you can't avoid a fetish user, any attempt at doing so is just switching to a different fetish. You don't think there are people that get off on xenografting? Haha, guess again!

I know you can't stop someone from altering your work, or the base product, but you can influence how easy or common it is influenced. Another thread I'm reading just fetishized the leveling process of RPGs so anything is possible. Its about making it fetish-resistant instead of fetish-proof.

Even just looking at the OP there's a reason Khajiit and Charr are considered among the best renditions of cat races. They don't rely on their sex-appeal to exist. They each have their own amount of r34, but its far less than your average jap catgirl or whatever you'd find on e621.

i made a folk of cat-like people in my setting multiple times. as real druids have the ability to alter their physical bodies by calling forth the conceptual spirits of the world, they can actively mutate and pass on these changes to their children.
as druids are mostly solitary/ living in tiny communities, the offspring would either stay innawoods or try to integrate somewhere else. Neth-han for example are exhibiting traits of felines in both body and mind, but still human enough to form symbiosis with the settlements they live in by filling in niches that normal humans cant.

post catpeople

even though most of my beastfolk go topless because of fluff, they at least wear pants.

otherwise, i dont mind. they are fine as long as they tie with at least one of the setting's concepts, such as magical mutation or curse/blessing/creation by gods.

myself, i do not deny them sexuality, in some cases they are more bold than humans but i play it out as comedic should it come to this.
such as the literal cat-burgler in an alternate-earth setting that messes with the deputy on multiple occasions no one bothered shooting her because she is the lesser evil that regulary takes care of the bigger evil

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>They were also centaurs like, likely to side step magic realm.
HA.

It's perfectly acceptable.

>hmm, how do i convince people that catfolk aren't fetishbait?
>i know! I'll post fetishbait!

user. No. Bad.

There's nothing wrong with fetishes.

There's plenty of wrong in posting them on Veeky Forums, though.

Not in the thread about specifically avoiding them.

You have your /pfg/, post there.

And if you're falseflagging, shame on you. We have enough unironic shitposting on Veeky Forums already.

>"user stop posting fetishbait"
>posts hunky musculature fetishbait instead of lithe boytoy fetishbait.

Literally everything is fetishbait at this point. Any character will appeal to someone.

It's ok if you play with ok people.
I'm a degenerate furfag and even I have never sexualized an anthropomorphic RPG character. I'm into human women too and I manage to refrain from jerking off everytime the barmaid shows up. If I wanted to masturbate I could just do that, with proper pornography, in private, away from my unwashed, obese, and flatulent gaming group.

Appealing =/= blatantly obvious.

There's such thing as subtlety, user. I know they don't teach it in America, but i believe you're smart enough to read on it yourself.