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Re: Kenku appreciation thread

Post by Cybren » Tue Dec 01, 2020 11:20 am

Irongron wrote:
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While I very much like the model and plan to use them extensively for NPCs and hostile mobs I'm reluctant to add them as a PC race.

I find anthropomorphic races the epitome of lazy design and that they lend themselves to crass, unimaginative roleplay. I've wanted to move gnolls away from a normal race for this very reason, and I really wish kobolds looked less like adorable puppies.

I've no doubt Kenku roleplay would quickly dissolve into a 'let's pretend to be birds' club, because really? That's all the race is in most people's eyes.
I feel like the problem with Gnolls would not exist for Kenku because of... a lot of reasons.

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Re: Kenku appreciation thread

Post by Kuma » Tue Dec 01, 2020 11:39 am

same

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Re: Kenku appreciation thread

Post by Irongron » Tue Dec 01, 2020 12:44 pm

I am almost convinced that shortly after adding them as a player race I would encounter a Kenku hen sitting on her egg, not far from the Cordor frontier.

And that shortly after that I'd do something regrettable to them.

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Re: Kenku appreciation thread

Post by The GrumpyCat » Tue Dec 01, 2020 12:52 pm

*Irongron appears with a giant fryingpan* Do you like your eggs over easy then?

Would that even count as a pregnancy rp?

Does Kenku taste like chicken?

These are the important questions.
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Re: Kenku appreciation thread

Post by Cybren » Tue Dec 01, 2020 1:05 pm

I mean humans taste like pork so why not...

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Re: Kenku appreciation thread

Post by Ninjimmy » Tue Dec 01, 2020 1:11 pm

DnD - the only game where it's essential to work out at what point in sentience does it qualify as cannibalism.

Also, I'd 100% go for Warforged before Kenku. If nothing else, there's less chance of pregnancy RP.
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Re: Kenku appreciation thread

Post by -XXX- » Tue Dec 01, 2020 1:36 pm

Ninjimmy wrote:
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I'd 100% go for Warforged before Kenku. If nothing else, there's less chance of pregnancy RP.
Wouldn't be so sure about that

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Re: Kenku appreciation thread

Post by Ninjimmy » Tue Dec 01, 2020 1:51 pm

-XXX- wrote:
Tue Dec 01, 2020 1:36 pm
Ninjimmy wrote:
Tue Dec 01, 2020 1:11 pm
I'd 100% go for Warforged before Kenku. If nothing else, there's less chance of pregnancy RP.
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Re: Kenku appreciation thread

Post by Dalenger » Tue Dec 01, 2020 3:01 pm

I. Declare. PLAYABLE RACE.

I didn't say it, I declared it.
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Re: Kenku appreciation thread

Post by Irongron » Tue Dec 01, 2020 4:12 pm

Dalenger wrote:
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I. Declare. PLAYABLE RACE.

I didn't say it, I declared it.
You need to 'hereby' declare things I'm afraid.

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Re: Kenku appreciation thread

Post by Ninjimmy » Tue Dec 01, 2020 6:40 pm

I hereby declare Warforged to be a playable race?

((Sorry Kenku, you're just too fun as NPCs))
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Re: Kenku appreciation thread

Post by Flower Power » Tue Dec 01, 2020 9:44 pm

If people RPing egglaying is a problem, can we get gnolls removed, pls?

I can't play a gnoll because everytime I try someone says "Yiff, yiff!" at me, or makes really obnoxiously overt advances that include explicit references to certain knotted objects.

And I hate rope.
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Re: Kenku appreciation thread

Post by Drowboy » Tue Dec 01, 2020 9:47 pm

R-
Rope?

Also Arelith should just make it so gnolls only reproduce through the hyena method:
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Re: Kenku appreciation thread

Post by garrbear758 » Wed Dec 02, 2020 6:27 am

It's a shame because gnoll lore is awesome.
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Re: Kenku appreciation thread

Post by Dalenger » Wed Dec 02, 2020 3:33 pm

Is this actually a thing that happens often? Maybe I'm just an innocent child, but I've never seen gnolls running around the hub yelling "OWO whats this". I'm a huge fan of monster races on arelith, and honestly hoped that with the addition of haks we might be seeing more customization (or at least armor/clothing options) for our playable monster races. Gnoll and Kobold lore is awesome and goblin clans really add to the aesthetic.
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Re: Kenku appreciation thread

Post by Party in the forest at midnight » Wed Dec 02, 2020 4:24 pm

Dalenger wrote:
Wed Dec 02, 2020 3:33 pm
Is this actually a thing that happens often? Maybe I'm just an innocent child, but I've never seen gnolls running around the hub yelling "OWO whats this". I'm a huge fan of monster races on arelith, and honestly hoped that with the addition of haks we might be seeing more customization (or at least armor/clothing options) for our playable monster races. Gnoll and Kobold lore is awesome and goblin clans really add to the aesthetic.
I don't even play underdark and it is so bad, screenshots of it have made their way to me. I've personally seen gnoll/elf combos in Sibayad twice, from two different characters.


If kenku are added, how long until the word "cloaca" is banned. :(

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Re: Kenku appreciation thread

Post by WaldoT » Wed Dec 02, 2020 7:55 pm

Party in the forest at midnight wrote:
Wed Dec 02, 2020 4:24 pm
I don't even play underdark and it is so bad, screenshots of it have made their way to me. I've personally seen gnoll/elf combos in Sibayad twice, from two different characters.
I've run a kobold group for about ten or so months and honestly find that statement a bad faith representation of other peoples roleplay. Sure you occasionally have your bad actors but you really don't see it at a rate higher than other races. At least this has been my experience on a kobold for the past year. Before that I mostly played hins or humans and experienced about the same rate of odd people on the surface as you do in the underdark. I've met a lot of great roleplayers on the Underdark as well as on the Surface and hope to continue having fun with everyone on the server.

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Re: Kenku appreciation thread

Post by Aniel » Wed Dec 02, 2020 8:56 pm

It's not bad faith.

Gnolls have a really, really disproportionate amount of fetish sexy elven fun times.

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Re: Kenku appreciation thread

Post by DangerDolphin » Wed Dec 02, 2020 9:14 pm

Furries ruin everything

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Re: Kenku appreciation thread

Post by garrbear758 » Thu Dec 03, 2020 4:12 am

Lets get back on subject here yall. This is about bird-people not hyena-people. Anyways, this is how I imagine RP with a kenku (Language warning): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkYh2dvoeN8
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Re: Kenku appreciation thread

Post by hmm » Sat Dec 19, 2020 12:37 pm

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They're soo cute, i just had to draw one! ❤️

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Re: Kenku appreciation thread

Post by Dalenger » Wed Dec 23, 2020 4:23 pm

Bumping this thread to say I still want to play a bird pirate
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Re: Kenku appreciation thread

Post by Kuma » Thu Dec 24, 2020 11:11 am

Irongron wrote:
Tue Dec 01, 2020 12:44 pm
I am almost convinced that shortly after adding them as a player race I would encounter a Kenku hen sitting on her egg, not far from the Cordor frontier.

And that shortly after that I'd do something regrettable to them.
i just re-read this thread and just about died at this post

god i love kenku

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Re: Kenku appreciation thread

Post by Ninjimmy » Thu Dec 24, 2020 12:53 pm

Has anyone made a CORVID-19 joke yet?
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Re: Kenku appreciation thread

Post by mirvv » Wed Jan 20, 2021 7:45 am

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Oh yeah! Epic lich KENKUs !
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