Are there any tabletop games that allow you to play a heteromorphic race, rather than limiting you to humans and demi-humans, without having to homebrew it? I'm exhausted with the usual, boring options.
What monsters have you played, and how did you stat them, if you had to brew it yourself?
I murdered a woman, bottled her soul, and took her daughter as a slave. I cut the girl open and took two ribs, with which she would would grip her steel. I'd use the mother to possess other children. Mine, they would commit murder and perform as prostitutes beside the daughter. When I grew bored of those trinkets, I'd murder them, slowly, over days, and make the mother share their pain. Each I dined together with her daughter and my pigs. From each I took a tooth I'd carved the image their faces and their names, a gift of pearls to our daughter.
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You're in the wrong thread and the wrong life
I don't get it, Big Dan.
>What monsters have you played
That's not even the whole story, or the only one I played. Let me tell you more.
I played a bear once.
Was a ton of fun.
Sir Bearington?
Nope, Bear Monk.
Sorta based on Ursa from DOTA2 in personality.
just play a human you retard
Wrong kind of monster there
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You knew good and well what he meant, user.
>Wants to play a monster
>But not really
Pfft. Small time. Let me tell you about my character.
He doesn't use coasters.
MODS
How terribly edgy of you.
Okay.
>do games let you
Games are just rules, you can homebrew anything for any system at any time.
I think you may be lost in the trappings of conventional fantasy where Humans are generic peasant race and all the interesting bits come from being a four thousand year old mega-elf that El-Iluvitar set down upon the firmament before the first dawn. If you seriously want to play a monster race then I suggest you find a monster that interests you and re-interpret its +20 Mega Cock Girth stat bonuses into utility or racial features, and possibly have some reasonable disadvantages.
Megaversal, particularly the Rifts setting, has a staggering amount of non-human options, and even non-humanoid.
Hell, there's even a major genocidal race out there with a major hate-on for anything bipedal with two arms.
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This cover is a particular favorite, you could play anything in this picture.
Though I'll admit some of the vegetation is a stretch, but a vegetation gestalt hero can cover a multitude of plantliness.
What even was that guy? My friends and I started an inside joke that he just flew around watching people and shot at gods.
Splugorth Slaver.
Aquatic race that has served as a minon race to the Splugorth alien intelligences for so long that they've lost any other cultural identity.
Those that serve as typical slavers are permanently bound to their equally iconic slaver barge, which sustains them and allows them to travel the surface to serve their masters.
Featuring powerful rune magic enhancements and attachments, the Splugorth Slaver and Barge form the backbone of most slaving excursions, to the point that many lay folk believe them to be the actual Splugorth.
They are often accompanied by other minon and slave races in service to the Splugorth. Splynncryth of Atlantis often favors pairing the heavy barge with a group of agile Altaran warriors.
Also know as the blind warrior women, they are an bioengineered asexual warrior race whose original masters are lost to time that have long been subjugated by the Slugorth, some of whom hope to see a rise to minion race, while some stull habor a wish for rebellion.
Kids... let me tell you the High Fantasy story of Benjamin Dover
>Be Ben
>9'11 Iron Golem
>Ton and a half pounds
>Fighter class, fisting proficiencies
>So much metal and muscle without the ability to speak
>Had a misting vaporizer in throat to throw poisons
>Get sent out by creator to go find a dwarven artifact
>Go out to find a human paladin leading a small band of knights
>With him is a few monstrous beasts
>A blue slaad who was sentient
>A Minotaur with anger issues
>And the edgiest demi-god ever
>Bloo, Horn, and Xazel are their names
>Paladin is Archon
>Offer services through sign language
>They need all the help they can get as they're going into a dungeon of immense peril
>Fly through these rooms, more often than not Ben saving the day
>outsmarts illusions, defeats enemies in pure darkness, and most importantly punches and kicks like a master monk
>Human soldiers are in awe of him
>Get to the dark room
>Creatures that shout apart flesh destroy a few soldiers, and the minotaur
>It's pitch black
>Use echolocation of Ben's heavy feet and the screams as he punches and kicks lightning fast as he walks forward
>Kill two of them while the demi-god claims
>HA! I COULD SEE THEM THE WHOLE TIME
>just play a human you retard
NO
FUCK OFF
I'LL PLAY A FUCKING CANNON GOLEM IF I WANT TO
Fantasy Craft lets you play as a number of races.
>Drakes, which are smallish dragons
>Dwarves
>Elves
>Goblins
>Giants
>Humans
>Orcs
>Ogres
>Ben's a fucking golem and he hates Xazel
>The light comes as he shoots them with his demon bow
>Ben killed three, he killed two, and the soldiers killed one
>Find a regenerating apple
>Neato.webm
>Many casualties
>Paladin prays for them and we move on
>Slaad charges in to a room claws ready
>No combat
>There is just a deck of cards
>Xazel "As son of Sun I shall draw first" gets a nice house
>Excuse me, another one
>Everyone else gets something forgetable
>Ben draws a Holy Avenger
>Useless in his hands he knows what it is and offers it to the paladin
>upon taking it, it bursts into white fire and we move on
>Next room
>3 ettin, five trolls, and a few insect giants
>Paladin charges in, and gets salad tossed by trolls
>Ben runs to his side, rips a troll in half and beats the other two away
>Other feats were throwing a dead troll into an ettin knocking it over
>Then killing an ettin by slamming one decapitated head into the other one
>Mushy ewie brains
>Move on, a room that is a massive hallway
>Whispering coming from the walls
>Soldiers are weary and losing morale
>Door
>Soldier goes to open it, gets eaten by a million mouths
>Slaad goes up and takes a few rakes at it
>Gets bits of him eaten and he gets scared
>EVEN THOUGH THE FAT FUCK REGENERATES HE SAYS NO MORE
>pic related
>Demi-god is too good to waste his arrows
>Ben goes up and starts mollywhoping this door
>Taking heavy damage
>backs off after a while
>Light is shining through
>AngeryGolem.scroll
>Throw apple at door
>Mouths start eating it
>It regenerates too fast
>All mouths are focused on eating fruit
>Ben finishes beating down the door
>Saurians, which cover every iteration of scaly folk
>Pech, which are halflings/hobbits
>Rootwalkers, which are ents/treants
>Unborn, which are everything from clay golems to clockwork robots
>Resting room
>Infinite food, drink, etc.
>Find some sweet smelling honey stuff
>Figure it's helpful and load it into mister
>Be a team febreeze sprayer
>put nine hundred bottles of absinthe in bag of holding
>Leave the room
>Combat room
>Paladin gets fucked up
>Run to him
>Craddle him gently
>Violently sputter honey liquid on him
>mfw it's acid
>Watching the hero melt and scream and die as I'm holding him like a princess
>Demi-god and paladin heal the paladin
>Ben apologises
>Move on
>A giant room filled with water
>Kraken in the water
>Ben jumps with his 20+ strength and lands on it
>More than a ton of iron slams into it's back
>Sinks it
>Starts punching it while it's down
>Damn near single handedly kills it
>Jumps up from the bottom
>doesn't make it
>LANDS SO FAST AND JUMPS AGAIN HE JUMPS THROUGH THE GAP OF AIR HE MADE WITH THE FIRST JUMP
>JESUS CHRIST
>Party is in awe
>Ben laughs silently
>Snow room
>Soldiers are scared but look to Ben as their true beacon of hope
>Marches out alone to middle of room
>Listens
>Something isn't right
>four feet of him is deep in snow
>Starts stomping with right foot melodically
>Keeps this up
>Ground begins to quake and churn
>Ben jumps up again
>A giant Remoraz burrows out from under him
>Front flips into an axe kick crushing its head
>Kills it in two blows
>DM gets mad and makes another
>Demi-god kills it in three arrows
>Next room
In actuality, there are quite a few familiar races you can play as.
Directly quoted from the Adventure Companion, pgs. 134-135.
>FANTASY CRAFT SUB-SPECIES
The dozens of Species feats here and in the Fantasy
Craft Rulebook can simulate many classic fantasy
races and tropes. Here are some examples.
Aasimar: Angelic Heritage
Aquatic Elf: Elf Species + Dolphin Nation
Arctic Elf: Elf Species + Bear Nation
Black Dragon: Drake Species + Truescale (acid) +
Pathfinder Basics (swamp)
Blue Dragon: Drake Species + Truescale
(electricity) + Pathfinder Basics (desert)
Cloud Giant: Giant Species + Elemental Heritage
(air) + Larger than Life
Cyclops: Ogre Species + Steel Brave
Deep Dwarf: Dwarf Species + Deep-Born
Dragonman: Draconic Heritage + Draconic
Legacy
Drow: Elf Species + Spider Nation + Abide in
Darkness + The Gift
Drider: Elf Species + Spider Nation + Spider Noble
+ Abide in Darkness
Duergar/Grey Dwarf: Dwarf Species + Deep-Born
+ Abide in Darkness
Ent: Rootwalker Species + Larger than Life
Ettin: Giant Species + Two-Headed
Feytouched: Faerie Heritage
Fire Giant: Giant Species + Elemental Heritage
(fire or lava)
Frost Giant: Giant Species + Elemental Heritage
(ice)
Genasi: Elemental Heritage
Gatorman: Saurian Species + River Clutch + River
Crest
Gobber: Goblin Species + Southern Horde
Gold Dwarf: Dwarf Species + Jewel-Born
Green Dragon: Drake Species + Truescale (acid) +
Greater Breath (cone) + Pathfinder Basics (forest)
Grey Elf: Elf Species + Owl Nation
Half-Dragon: Draconic Heritage
Half-Dwarf/Mul: Dwarf Blood
Half-Elf: Elf Blood
Half-Giant: Giant Blood
Half-Orc: Orc Blood
Hobbit: Pech Species + Farstride Folk
Hobgoblin: Goblin Species + Western Horde
Hydra: Drake Species + Ebonscale
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>FANTASY CRAFT SUB-SPECIES (CONT.)
Mountain Dwarf: Dwarf Species + Mountain-
Born
Naga: Saurian Species + Desert Clutch + Dragon-
Tailed
Night Elf: Elf Species + Raven Nation
Nyss: Elf Species + Bear Nation + Bear Noble
Ogre Mage: Ogre Species + Fire Brave + Fire Elder
Oni: Ogre Species + Fire Brave
Oriental Dragon: Drake Species + Goldscale + The
Gift (Spells: Create Water, Detect Alignment, Endure
Elements)
Painted Elf: Elf Species + Bison Nation
Red Dragon: Drake Species + Draconic Heritage +
Greater Breath (cone) + Truescale (fire)
Sea Serpent: Drake Species + Azurescale
Stone Giant: Giant Species + Elemental Heritage
(earth)
Storm Giant: Giant Species + Elemental Heritage
(lightning) + Larger than Life
Svirfneblin: Pech Species + Dark-Earth Folk +
Abide in Darkness
Tiefling: Infernal Heritage
Tinker Gnome: Pech Species + Quick-Finger Folk
Titan: Giant Species + Larger than Life
Troll: Ogre Species + Stone Brave + Stone Elder
Trollkin: Ogre Species + Stone Brave
Uruk-Hai: Orc Species or Orc Blood + Eastern
Horde
Wendigo/Yeti: Ogre Species + Winter Brave
Whisper Gnome: Pech Species + Ghost-Eye Folk
White Dragon: Drake Species + Truescale (cold) +
Greater Breath (cone) + Pathfinder Basics (arctic)
Wild Elf: Elf Species + Wolf Nation
Winged Elf: Elf Species + Swan Nation
Wood Elf: Elf Species + Hart Nation
Yuan-Ti Hybrid: Saurian Blood
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Rules of Creation has a system for homebrewing your own races as a large step of character creation.
>More fuckery happens
>Meet a djinn
>Demi-god demands he wishes first as wishes are the domain of gods
>And he is a god, blah blah blah
>Wishes for knowledge
>Turns into an old man
>Wishes to revert back
>Claims the djinn is shit
>Slaad died in the kraken room
>Picked up a few more freaks in this room
>Not important, only power players are Edge-god and Ben
>Ben wishes to speak
>Djinn lets him speak in common and goblin
>Ben words his next wish so perfectly there are no downsides
>He becomes sentient morphous metal that he can control and manipulate perfectly
>Becomes black iron which is magically resistant
>Literally busted
>Move on to second to last room
>Insert big fucking elder red dragon
>Ben goes and talks to it
>Present to me great treasure and I shall let you pass
>Ben thinks about his journey
>The paladin is here to stop a great evil, something to save the world
>Offers his soul crystal up
>Dragon says it's almost good enough
>Demi-god refuses to part with even a single silver piece
>"All that is in this world belongs to me, Mongrels."
>Ben looks at the old tired drake and offers him.
>"What of an honorable duel? One to mercy and then my crystal. Me and you."
>The dragon laughs happily and after a good minute he accepts he appreciates Ben Dover
>Ben shifts blades onto the backs of his hands for more punching damage
>Bows
>May the best man win
>Lightning bolt fires off as one of the new pc's a farie with natural invisibility fires off.
>Demi-god fires like eight arrows
>the dragon roars out in rage
>Ben is greatly dishonoured and unwillingly helps them fight the dragon
>Faerie dies to dragon fire
>Paladin falls under dragon
>Ben rushes over him, stands between him and the dragon
>Tanks a full dragons bout of flame and then climbs into its mouth
>Breaks his skull open by punching it repeatedly and skewers the brain
>Can't find faerie to save it since invisible
>Benjamin couldn't care less
One off the top of my head, one extreme example that that I know of is Low Life.
Be warned, if unfamiliar with the setting, it's... different. You might describe it as _very_ post apocalyptic.(Which apocalypse? Take your pick. The history of Low Life involves nukular war, Egglantis rising and falling and rising and falling again, portals opening and horcs and smelves coming through, etc etc...)
Among other things, you can play a sentient twinkie (or similar snack cake). Or you can play a "pile", or various other things.
>Final room
>Evil bbeg is all cocky as Paladin and Demi-god enter with barely any soldiers left
>"Ready to get fucked up kids? I'm the super bad super powerful bad guy" speech
>Meanwhile Benjamin hasn't come through yet
>Soldiers look to Xazel for help
>"BBEG you make a fair point, if you weren't so tacky I'd join you."
>Lots a' morale there huh?
>Paladin pledges to kill bbeg
>Benjamin meanwhile has descaled the dragon, detoothed, and declawed and absorbed all said pieces including wings.
>Walks through the door
>Weighs five tons
>Stands 12' something
>Exhaling absinthe mist
>"Who are you!?" bbeg cries
>"Ben... Dover..." Flies at him in a flury of blows fucking half healths him
>BBEG is so scared he runs away and the dungeon is over
>Demi-god didn't fire a single shot
>Paladin is crestfallen
>"Do not worry human, you will catch him"
>"You're a disgrace you mongrel" Xazel says to hero
>Ben has had enough
>grabs him from behind
>"Mongrel! UNHAND ME!"
>You can't escape this you piece of shit
>Push Dragon teeth into his back
>All of them
>Spitting up blood, dying
>Fucking Hercules hugs the demi-god crushing his body
>Absorbs the teeth back
>"That was for my friend, Dragon's Name"
>Everyone is in shock
>Real Life Demi-god player is furious
>I feel no remorse
>Ben goes off to find his Dwarven artifact
>This whole time
>The artifact was a big piston dong
>So he could cuck his creator
>That is the legend of Ben Dover
Currently playing a Warforged surrounded by Lion-men, Bird-men, and Lizard-men. At least the Tiefling that's joining the party will be relatively normal. All of this in 5e. Just use races other people have made that seem relatively balanced to you/your GM.
not sure if that counts, but i played an awakened house cat (rogue) in pf and a wizard resurrected in her own familiar in 3.5, that was fun
fun stuff
One of my more favorite characters. High fantasy is bonkers. Sounds like you had a time too. A Cat??
yeah, a big awakened housecat (think Maine Coon, because fuck being tiny size) who ran away from a noble house and ended up on adventures with the other PCs
it was really fun (even if i don't have any epic greentexts to write), and failing intimidation rolls was pretty much pic related
Heeelllllllllllll yeeaaaahhhhhhh
Legendary story faggot
2e Planescape did have a lot of monsterous options. Including one that let you play a rogue modron
10/10 would hunt down and deliver justice.
Depends on how you define "Monster". I played a lizardfolk but he died after two sessions (as well as the rest of the party aside from our traumatized cleric). The character I've played the longest was a ghoul for most of the time (barring a magical body swap and the time at the end when he died and needed true resurrection which made him human again). That was a fun character to play.