How many different flavors of furry are in D&D 5?

[Nathaniel3W]

The other day I read something about the new official anthropomorphic bunny race. I already thought Wizards of the Coast had gone overboard with all the furry roleplaying, and now you can roleplay as a bunny girl in addition to all of the other possible furries D&D 5 offers you. What is the deal with all of the different anthropomorphic animal races in D&D 5? There are dog people, cat people, bunny people, bird people, frog people, turtle people, ant people, dragon people. Who am I missing? I know I'm missing someone. Is this a result of WotC marketing to those people or is this proliferation the natural result of content bloat? If D&D 5 really is just getting bloated as it ages, then why didn't previous bloated editions fill up with furries?

 

[Vlajdermen]

In my experience, the best furries are deer, bears, and snow leopards, while the worst are rabbits and mice. Around the bunny, watch your money.

 

[Falksi]

Furreal?

 

[Vlajdermen]

Bunny people would work well as an npc race. Cowardly, two-faced men and unsatisfied, but easily tamed women, for those who wanna roleplay final solution enactors and pimps, respectively.

Spoiler

 

[Dadd]

Spoiler

Disgusting.

 

[NecroLord]

Anything post 3.5E, basically.
There are so many demihuman trash abominations that it is really hard to keep track.
Gary Gygax had an anthropocentric philosophy in his works, as it should be. Elven and dwarven kingdoms were more secluded and really not easily accessible. Orcs are barely humanoid, resembling savage animals, barely possessing conscience and reason.

 

[Vlajdermen]

Orcs are barely humanoid, resembling savage animals, barely possessing conscience and reason.

That's the right way to do it. Animals should be animals.
Also hate these people who try to make dragons anything else than evil.

 

[skaraher]

First editions orcs are pig furry, kobolds are dog furry and gnolls are hyena furry I guess

 

[Kabas]

"If everyone is a furry - nobody is!"
- that pixar cartoon

 

[Maxwell's Demon]

Bunny people would work well as an npc race. Cowardly, two-faced men and unsatisfied, but easily tamed women, for those who wanna roleplay final solution enactors and pimps, respectively.

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Isn't this the plot to Gate: Thus the Japanese Self-Defense Force Fought in Their Land.

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

Furries have money. Any artist who decides to cater to their kinks can tell you that. WOTC realized this and gave them that stuff.

 

[ADULF HITLOR FAN KLUB]

Furry (5e Class)

The hunters approach the wood, brandishing their spears and longbows. This is the location of the beast they've been tracking. All their hard work is about to pay off. Rustling. A figure emerges from the bush. The hunters raise their weapons instinctively. The figure comes into sight: A Furry. An average-height humanoid dressed in a cyan-pelt suit with clawed paws for hands, pads of hot pink.

You have got to be shitting me.

 

[Kabas]

Isn't this the plot to Gate: Thus the Japanese Self-Defense Force Fought in Their Land.

Never watched a single episode o the anime or read the manga. I want to fuck Rori Mercury

On a slightly more serious note.

Is this a result of WotC marketing to those people or is this proliferation the natural result of content bloat?

All these new races seems to be presented as a premium cosmetic skins for you character rather than a new mechanical option. Unnecessary but i can understand why people would like to have them.

 

[Hagashager]

Orcs are barely humanoid, resembling savage animals, barely possessing conscience and reason.

That's the right way to do it. Animals should be animals.
Also hate these people who try to make dragons anything else than evil.

The treatment of dragons is like superheroes. Everyone's done the subversion of superheroes are actually damaged psychopaths schtick that having an honest-to-God boy scout is the exception and avant-garde.

No matter how much Nu-Fantasy fans desparately want the fire-breathing, animal eating, razor-toothed flying monster to be some misunderstood teddie-bear, their roots in European Folklore are as personifications of greed. They're one of the oldest (and arguably least "problematic") metaphors for the rich and powerful. There's a reason most tyrants of history are described as dragons and most dragons in folktales live in isolated holes fills with treasure and hostages.

 

[Vlajdermen]

Orcs are barely humanoid, resembling savage animals, barely possessing conscience and reason.

That's the right way to do it. Animals should be animals.
Also hate these people who try to make dragons anything else than evil.

The treatment of dragons is like superheroes. Everyone's done the subversion of superheroes are actually damaged psychopaths schtick that having an honest-to-God boy scout is the exception and avant-garde.

No matter how much Nu-Fantasy fans desparately want the fire-breathing, animal eating, razor-toothed flying monster to be some misunderstood teddie-bear, their roots in European Folklore are as personifications of greed. They're one of the oldest (and arguably least "problematic") metaphors for the rich and powerful. There's a reason most tyrants of history are described as dragons and most dragons in folktales live in isolated holes fills with treasure and hostages.

Yep. And you can't get away from the inherently bestial, grotesque design of the creature. I was surprised at how Warcraft 2 treated dragons when I first played it, them being the evil faction's flying unit. Not even a dragon rider or a dark dragon, just a plain and simple dragon.

And nevermind the misunderstood teddy bears. The worst kind of dragons are the ''beautiful, wise, ancient creatures of nature''. Anyone who writes them like that is a flaming homo.

 

[Vlajdermen]

St. George did nothing wrong.

 

[Peachcurl]

There are dog people, cat people, bunny people, bird people, frog people, turtle people, ant people, dragon people. Who am I missing?

Pointless to list them all. Too many.

https://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/Rhinokin_(5e_Race)

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

Can I be a gelatinous cube though?

 

[Peachcurl]

Can I be a gelatinous cube though?

https://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/5e_Ooze_Races

more or less

 

[Tyranicon]

Isn't this the plot to Gate: Thus the Japanese Self-Defense Force Fought in Their Land.

Never watched a single episode o the anime or read the manga. I want to fuck Rori Mercury

On a slightly more serious note.

Is this a result of WotC marketing to those people or is this proliferation the natural result of content bloat?

All these new races seems to be presented as a premium cosmetic skins for you character rather than a new mechanical option. Unnecessary but i can understand why people would like to have them.

Some of the "furry" races are actually mechanically very strong. For example, the aforementioned bunny people get a free bonus action jump they can use to jump out of combat, and it doesn't proc opportunity attack. They also get +2/+1 to their stats.

And then you have the lulzworthy goatpeople (Satyrs) and snekpeople (Yuan-ti) who get shit like magic resistance.

 

[Erebus]

The other day I read something about the new official anthropomorphic bunny race. I already thought Wizards of the Coast had gone overboard with all the furry roleplaying, and now you can roleplay as a bunny girl in addition to all of the other possible furries D&D 5 offers you. What is the deal with all of the different anthropomorphic animal races in D&D 5? There are dog people, cat people, bunny people, bird people, frog people, turtle people, ant people, dragon people. Who am I missing? I know I'm missing someone. Is this a result of WotC marketing to those people or is this proliferation the natural result of content bloat? If D&D 5 really is just getting bloated as it ages, then why didn't previous bloated editions fill up with furries?

2nd Edition already had its share of furries/scalies. "The complete book of humanoids" allowed you to play lizardmen, gnolls (hyena people), centaurs, minotaurs and wemics (feline centaurs). "Council of wyrms" introduced half-dragons. And in Planescape, the Beastlands would literally turn you into a furry if you visited them.

Granted, all that wasn't quite as popular as it seems to be now.

 

[Kabas]

Some of the "furry" races are actually mechanically very strong. For example, the aforementioned bunny people get a free bonus action jump they can use to jump out of combat, and it doesn't proc opportunity attack. They also get +2/+1 to their stats.

And then you have the lulzworthy goatpeople (Satyrs) and snekpeople (Yuan-ti) who get shit like magic resistance.

I stand corrected
They still feel like an unnecessary DLC addition tho

 

[Delterius]

is this why D&D is a global brand and the future cinematic universe? furries?

 

[Squidhead]

I noticed this the other day too. Could have something to do with dnd being relaunched in Japan recently.

Sword World (the fantasy trpg of choice over there) has a main race called Tabbits.

https://swordworld.fandom.com/wiki/Sword_World_2.5_Playable_Races_Introduction#Tabbits

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

Somewhere, David W Bradley takes a sip from his glass of wine and smiles. "My job here is done..."