Arelith

Irongron wrote: Wed Nov 25, 2020 7:10 pm 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.

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.

-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.

Dalenger wrote: Tue Dec 01, 2020 3:01 pm I. Declare. PLAYABLE RACE.

I didn't say it, I declared it.

Gnolls celebrate their victories by performing demonic Rituals and making blood offerings to Yeenoghu. Sometimes the demon lord Rewards his worshipers by allowing one of them to be possessed by a demonic spirit. Marked as Yeenoghu’s favorite, the lucky recipient becomes a fang of Yeenoghu, the chosen of the Gnoll Lord. In much the same way Yeenoghu created the first Gnolls, a hyena that feasts on a fang’s slain foe undergoes a horrible transformation, becoming a full-grown adult gnoll. Depending on the number of Hyenas in a region, a fang of Yeenoghu can lead to a startling increase in the gnoll population.

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.

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.

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.