The Beastfolk in Them
The BBeaeaeaeastfolk stfolk Anthropomorphic races for the d20 system s ’ Dungeons & Dragons 3.5 and 4e4e4e By Gideon Kalve Jarvis Author’s notes Dungeons & Dragons and related material is copyright Wizards of the Coast, Incorporated. This work is copyright Gideon Kalve Jarvis and may be distributed (and this author encourages it), so long as the author’s name is retained. Whether through the machinations of wizards or the meddling of the gods or simply the quirks of fate, a world can quickly become awash in sentient species, each one trying in its own fashion to find and defend a niche, however small and specialized. Of these many sentient spspecies,ecies, a great many take traits from the nonsentient animals, or are related to them directly. The races below are a collection of several of the more common of these beastfolk. Unless otherwise noted, the races below use the human charts for aging. For those players wishing to add even more variety to their games, the official Wizards of the Coast work, Savage Species , can be invaluable in turning monster races into playable characters, though the rules in that volume sometimes requires a little tweaking for perfection in a given campaign. Later writings in this vein may (if there is any interest shown) include a listing of these races, as well as their statistical information. Also, the various “Races” books (Races of Stone , Races of the Wild , Races of Destiny , Races of the Dragon , etcetera) are also very useful resources for playing a variety of new and interesting species, some of which only require the lightest tweaking in order to turn them more “furry” in nature, if they are not already so (as I do with Raptorans and Catfolk, from Races of the Wild , in making the birdfolk and the urban catfolk, presented below).
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