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RPG races

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 04:32:39 No.20778443 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>20778494 >>20778523 >>20778585 >>20778776 >>20779211 >>20780235 >>20780369

>orcs
>elves
>dwarfs
>Humans

INVENT SOME NEW INTERESTING CREATURES GOD DAMNIT. TOLKIEN YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE LOOK AT WHAT YOU'VE DONE.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 04:35:17 No.20778477 Report

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Hi.

Fuck you.

Have a nice day.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 04:35:30 No.20778480 Report

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>orcs
>elves
>dwarfs
>Humans
>Invented by Tolkien
Are you a barbarian? because your illiteracy is the size of mount olympus.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 04:36:51 No.20778493 Report

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The four you posted I have seen done a dozen times, why don't you bring up something new?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 04:36:51 No.20778494 Report

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>>20778443
>Hawkman or eagleman
>full armor
>the best idea for a flying creature
Don't say... -4 int?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 04:37:05 No.20778495 Report

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>Bird person
>Moth person
>Lizard person
>Spider person

I hope those aren't supposed to be examples of new and interesting creatures.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 04:38:56 No.20778515 Report

Quoted By: >>20778622 >>20778664 >>20778839

>not adventuring in vana'diel
>mfw
The "player races" are terrible but the beastmen are great.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 04:39:05 No.20778518 Report

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>humans
>invented

what?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 04:39:39 No.20778523 Report

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>>20778443
Well...i like Aasimar and Tieflings

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 04:40:23 No.20778534 Report

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Magakaguk
They are dog sized crabs that are filled with intense anxiety unless they remain in constant contact with another of their species. While in this anxious state, they'll trust nobody, and lash out aggressively at any non-Magakaguk that approaches.
Familial units are obviously very strongly bonded. Families or clans often form large migrating rings, with the strongest males on the outside and the youngest/pregnant deep on the inside.
They eat kelp and sometimes small fish, and will scavenge any rotting meat found on the seafloor.
Key note: inside of their pincers are human-like hands (with opposable thumbs and all that) that can hide within their chitin, or extend out far enough to be completely unobstructed by their pincers.
They favor phalanx tactics, using spears and shields in a "porcupine" formation while underwater. On land, the inner crabs will use bow and arrow, firing over the protective outside ring.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 04:40:29 No.20778536 Report

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>>20778518
OP is a religiusfag

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 04:42:27 No.20778563 Report

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>>20778536
and apparently Tolkien is his god.

but not in a good way?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 04:43:32 No.20778577 Report

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How about

Turtle person

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 04:44:13 No.20778585 Report

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>>20778443
>let's take an animal...
>... and make it anthropomorphic!

OP for inventive race designer of the year.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 04:45:19 No.20778598 Report

Quoted By: >>20778620 >>20778630

We need some crustacean inspired playable characters.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 04:46:40 No.20778610 Report

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Anyone else think the Turian race from Mass Effect could make a decent fantasy race crossover?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 04:47:19 No.20778620 Report

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>>20778598
Lucky for you... >>20778534

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 04:47:27 No.20778622 Report

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>>20778515

I liked the ideas behind Galka.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 04:48:03 No.20778630 Report

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>>20778598
Is there a Dark Tower RPG, and if so can I play as a Lobstosity?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 04:50:39 No.20778647 Report

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The Ameldra

A race of slender humanoids with covered in tiny smooth dark blue scales. On their foreheads both male and females have a ridge of shiny black horns. The shape of these horns varies greatly between individuals.

Mages are born with black scales and develop a ring of very short brown horns around their head during adolescence.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 04:51:25 No.20778657 Report

Quoted By: >>20778685 >>20778795

>>20778585
Better then
>Taking a human
>give them pointy ears
or
>Make them short and stout
or
>Color them green

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 04:51:30 No.20778658 Report

Quoted By: >>20779496 >>20779535

How about instead of trying to be a special snowflake and making a 'unique' race that's inevitably just beastmen or some lovecraftian horror you flesh out existing races in an interesting way. You could even give your races multiple cultures, if that's not too crazy of a though.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 04:52:29 No.20778664 Report

Quoted By: >>20778672 >>20778691

>>20778515
Get out of here, turtle-back scum.
Yagudo are best beastmen.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 04:53:36 No.20778672 Report

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>>20778664
Actually it's Goblins you stupid piece of shit.
>dem packs

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 04:53:52 No.20778674 Report

Quoted By: >>20778682

Kren are large lobster-like tauric creatures, or “lobstaurs,” often standing up to even 10 feet tall and weighing over 400 pounds. They have two pairs of arms, one thick and ending in a pair of large pincers, sprouting from the Kren’s wide shoulders, and the other are smaller, three segmented limbs, ending in more dexterous, three fingered hands. They walk on six legs, each ending in a small pincer, lining the underside of their thick lobster-like tails. Their bodies are covered in thick, rough carapace that can be a variety of colors ranging from bright red, to dark brown, and even blue. Their heads are wide and end in an insect-like mandible. They have two large compound eyes on either side of their head and two smaller, retractable eyes located on the top of their head. Near the edges of their mouth two long antennae extend and usually fold back, over the head. Males have one large claw on their upper pair of limbs, which can be on either side, and females tend to have smaller claws, and a larger tail section.

Young Kren hatch from eggs and begin life in an aquatic larval state. They are watched over by one of the parents until they develop enough to emerge onto land. Their carapace hardens and they are ready to set out to work by the age of 12, this is considered “maturity” by Kren standards, as they have been observed to be extremely long lived, if not effectively immortal, barring outside interference.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 04:54:28 No.20778679 Report

Quoted By: >>20780163

They'd just reflect the archetypes anyway, OP.

The Man, the High, The Stout, The Fairy, The Cute, the Brute.

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Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 04:54:49 No.20778682 Report

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>>20778674
Kren may seem outwardly intimidating due to their size, thick carapace, and natural weapons, but are actually well known as charismatic and friendly, if not aggressive, merchants. Not all Kren are merchants, but most of them are. Kren can be quite talkative if the mood strikes them, frequently drawing people in with their large claws and not letting them go. Kren treat others with the utmost respect, as everyone is a potential customer, referring to others by name rather than pronouns, and always referring to themselves as “this one” or “it.” Most Kren answer to the Kren Merchant Guild and follow their laws of neutrality. Merchants of the guild are forbidden from intervening in conflicts between patrons or potential patrons, as taking sides limits revenue options. Some Kren, however, disobey this rule and choose to take sides or stand up for “good” if something they care about is threatened or they feel they have reason not to remain neutral. If a Kren has abandoned its neutrality, it will defend itself and those it travels with to the death.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 04:54:52 No.20778685 Report

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>>20778657
Literally this, standard fantasy races are the laziest fucking character idea ever.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 04:55:13 No.20778690 Report

Quoted By: >>20778706 >>20778729

How about these fuckers.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 04:55:17 No.20778691 Report

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>>20778664
Fuck that, dude. No, dude.
As a Mithra in Windurst? Fuck. That.
Seriously. Fuck that.
Yagudo are fucking horrors and they exist only to destroy me.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 04:55:28 No.20778693 Report

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>Pistol Shrimp/Mantis Shrimp race from current homebrew.

Tak'tek.

Their strength is their life, each one is a dedicated monk on the path of Renak'tai "The Exploding claw".

Boystrus and very dashing, Tak'tek are always keen to help out someone if it will exert some form of physical prowess, ever seeking to both improve and show off their physical capabilities.

Cat stuck in a tree? a Tek'tak monk will do it as flashy and as show-offy as possible.

Tek'tak also have a liking to technology, they have nary the time nor patience to effectively use it, they admire the craftmentship of the work and the complicated workings of such things.

Tek'tak can change the colours of their "plumage" and this acts as a secondary way of communication besides the clicking and rasping voices they have.

When in battle Tek'tak engage in formations by wearing heavy armour over their hard carapace and favour aggresive tactics.

It's quite famous that Tek'tak have a unique way of dealing with typical Phalanx formations.

Just as their charge hits home, the front rank will clamp down with all their strength, creating a rippling shockwave that will usually scatter or even shatter pikes and shield walls before them.

in other words.
>Kung Fu Monk kamina Mantis/Pistol Shrimp armies who haduken Phalanxes down.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 04:56:43 No.20778706 Report

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>>20778690
They even come in varying appearance.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 04:58:00 No.20778722 Report

Quoted By: >>20778811 >>20778855

>>20778672
Fuck yes, you are the best Goblins ever.
So glad they're one of the designs carried over to XIV. Delicious HD Goblins.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 04:58:22 No.20778729 Report

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>>20778690
Damn it.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 04:59:56 No.20778747 Report

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Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 05:01:48 No.20778771 Report

Quoted By: >>20778782

These alternate races are the DM equivalent of Mary Sues. Your races don't need to be special snowflakes.

Your story is interesting, and game is fun, or they aren't.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 05:02:11 No.20778774 Report

Quoted By: >>20778810

Most of the so called "interesting" races wind up just being animal people using unconventional animal choices.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 05:02:32 No.20778776 Report

Quoted By: >>20778796

>>20778443
You what, no. You almost got me. You almost got me to rage at your ignorance.

8/10

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 05:03:22 No.20778782 Report

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>>20778771
>Mary Sues
Stop using terms you clearly don't understand.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 05:05:02 No.20778795 Report

Quoted By: >>20778831 >>20778835 >>20778846 >>20778858 >>20778877 >>20778882 >>20779266

>>20778657
yes because it's so much better to have a race where the musculature doesn't fucking because so you can't even imagine how they move.

>eagleman
where are the muscles to move those wings.
Don't give me "it's fantasy", i want to be able to picture how a race moves at all

>Drider
Even if I allow you that spiders can be scaled up that much, how the fuck do they hold up the human body. The muscles on the torso have nothing to connect to.

>mothman
Limbs getting in the way of each other. Balancing on those two legs with all wings and abdomen behind them

>bottom left
basically a recolored human with funny ears. No no better than an orc.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 05:05:08 No.20778796 Report

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>>20778776
I'm enjoying the fact that the only way to relevantly post that image is to completely ignore its instructions.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 05:05:24 No.20778799 Report

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Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 05:06:12 No.20778810 Report

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>>20778774
I'd pay good money to play a duck, but most games don't scale up that high.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 05:06:15 No.20778811 Report

Quoted By: >>20778878

>>20778722
Ahh, Valkurm Dunes. Fun times. Choo choo, motherfuckers!

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 05:06:43 No.20778817 Report

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>>20778810
Shit, forgot my pic.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 05:08:07 No.20778831 Report

Quoted By: >>20778848 >>20778867

>>20778795
>Bangaa
>recolored human
>same as an orc

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 05:08:34 No.20778835 Report

Quoted By: >>20778848 >>20778867

>>20778795
>bottom left
>basically a recolored human with funny ears.
u wot m8?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 05:08:58 No.20778839 Report

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>>20778515
Quadavs were the coolest shit in FFXI

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 05:09:38 No.20778846 Report

Quoted By: >>20778883

>>20778795
By that logic dwarves shouldn't be considered viable either. Someone with such a tiny reach would never stand up to a human in combat.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 05:10:02 No.20778848 Report

Quoted By: >>20778889 >>20778896

>>20778835
>>20778831
Ignore it, he most have never played FF12

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 05:10:54 No.20778855 Report

Quoted By: >>20778983

>>20778722
>So glad they're one of the designs carried over to XIV.
Nothing about 14 made sense. If they wanted to reuse 11's designs, JUST MAKE ANOTHER GAME IN VANA'DIEL. Fuckin' CHRIST.

You could even make the game look more realistic, like it does in the intro, instead of looking like every other MMO.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 05:11:05 No.20778858 Report

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>>20778795
>I want my fictional universes to abide by real anatomical conventions

When was the last time you had fun, anon?

>captcha: surely owleagle

Owleagles are my homebrew monster, how'd you know captcha?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 05:11:38 No.20778867 Report

Quoted By: >>20778889 >>20778901

>>20778831
>>20778835

please point out how the physiology of the "bangaa" differs significantly from a humans
So far I see
>skin color
>ears
>mouth shape

where orcs differ from humans in
>ears
>skin color
>mouth shape

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 05:11:47 No.20778868 Report

Quoted By: >>20778911

Because games would be vastly improved if we had all manners of crazy "original" character races, like fruit-fly-men or is-a-snail-from-the-waist-down-people.

There is a reason why elves and etc have stuck around. That reason is they are easy to work with and already universally established in the Western gaming world. I'm not saying they're the most interesting - I am saying that they make life easier. Thrikreen, minotaurs, and kenku are neat - but they can seriously complicate an already overly complicated game.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 05:11:55 No.20778871 Report

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>implying anything other than tolkienesque races aren't furries

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 05:12:13 No.20778877 Report

Quoted By: >>20778928

>>20778795
Realism in a game, where you're playing something other than a human, is usually thrown out the window in the first 20 pages. Typically when magic is first brought up, or actual mathematical stat bonuses.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 05:12:21 No.20778878 Report

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>>20778811
>dat censorship
lol'd. guess the original does kinda look like a dick with a spiked cock-ring if you squint a little bit.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 05:12:46 No.20778882 Report

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>>20778795
Because magic and evolutionary patterns you couldn't possible comprehend.

The end

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 05:12:51 No.20778883 Report

Quoted By: >>20778899

>>20778846
where was I talking about combat.
I didn't see a damn word about combat.
I said MOVE. as in stand, walk, sit, hold a tool.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 05:13:45 No.20778889 Report

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>>20778867
see
>>20778848
They are VERY different.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 05:14:14 No.20778896 Report

Quoted By: >>20778931

>>20778848
oh I see it now, they do that stupid thing where they have a two legged species stand on constantly on the balls of their feet.
Completely ignoring how that fucks up a two legged creatures gate.

No seriously look at the walk animation of anything with legs like that, it doesn't work

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 05:14:19 No.20778899 Report

Quoted By: >>20778950

>>20778883
>muscles muscles muscles muscles

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 05:14:27 No.20778901 Report

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>>20778867
It's hunched over and it's neck is bent forward, it has three-fingered hands and wide, reptilian feet, and it looks like a bend at the knees is the natural pose.

Pic related in that I don't care.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 05:15:26 No.20778911 Report

Quoted By: >>20779621

>>20778868
That's a funny thing to say (by "funny" I mean "stupid") when sci-fi as a genre introduces new aliens all the time and it gets along fine. In fact, it's absolutely UNTHINKABLE for a sci-fi series to steal the designs from another - for fantasy, it's expected.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 05:16:56 No.20778928 Report

Quoted By: >>20778942 >>20778952

>>20778877
I don't need realism.
I'll accept that spiders can be giants, when I know the biology doesn't work.

But I need to be able to think imagine the limbs actually moving, because I am a highly visual person. And for driders and mothmen I just see them falling over themselves, and I can't imagine the hawk actually using those wings to fly

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 05:17:03 No.20778931 Report

Quoted By: >>20778973

>>20778896
It worked for small dinosaurs.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 05:18:08 No.20778942 Report

Quoted By: >>20778985

>>20778928
Play some WoW, you'll quickly see weirder shit than that running around.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 05:18:37 No.20778950 Report

Quoted By: >>20778986

>>20778899
muscles, which are used for movement, by a large number of things that aren't involved in combat.

A corgi could never win in combat vs. a rottweiler but a corgis muscles allow it to move

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 05:18:49 No.20778952 Report

Quoted By: >>20778967 >>20778994 >>20779028

>>20778928
>I am a highly visual person.
Oh.. I get...conversation over, I guess.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 05:20:16 No.20778967 Report

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>>20778952
Wait, that picture's actually really sad, don't use that in relation to someone sperging about moth bodies or whatever.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 05:21:06 No.20778973 Report

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>>20778931
point.
But that said whenever they do it in games, they never managed to get to hips and other joints right.
No they just have then stand on their toes and then move their legs like a human.

So dumb

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 05:21:28 No.20778983 Report

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>>20778855
Only like 3 monster designs were carried over from XI, barring the expected FF staples. The only "original" player races from XI were changed, too.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 05:21:30 No.20778985 Report

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>>20778942

They even have cat-taurs of all things. Of course, they aren't mary sue in the least bit, no discernable features to tell them between male and female, a good chunk of them are stone anyways, and you get to kill swathes of them even if you hate them still!

I think Blizzard is the only company that managed to make them... actually cool, in a way.

(They're called the Tol'vir, if you're curious.)

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 05:21:41 No.20778986 Report

Quoted By: >>20779047

>>20778950
Corgis are a herding dog, the not-too-dissimilar Dachshund kills Badgers, the way a creature looks can very easily deceive you, if you don't know what you are dealing with.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 05:22:05 No.20778994 Report

Quoted By: >>20779038 >>20779045

>>20778952
Is it autistic that I'm mostly bothered by the lack of question mark in that picture?

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Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 05:23:15 No.20779007 Report

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The Yrr.
Protozoan deep sea dwellers that form a swarm consciousness when linked to form one grand organism.
They can also form separate neural networks within larger animals and take them over.
They are Yrr, they are the true lords of the deep and if you make them angry, have fun never getting near the sea ever again or dying horribly.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 05:23:57 No.20779011 Report

Quoted By: >>20779024

Angler-men

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 05:24:53 No.20779024 Report

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>>20779011
Captcha eat my picture.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 05:25:14 No.20779028 Report

Quoted By: >>20779050

>>20778952
so you're totally okay with creature design where limbs and joint are just stuck on willy nilly?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 05:25:57 No.20779038 Report

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>>20778994
Is it autistic that I'm wondering if there have ever been any studies done on picket sign design and typography, and that maybe most people react more strongly to a sign without punctuation or something and the kid was autistic enough to research that before making his sign?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 05:26:32 No.20779045 Report

Quoted By: >>20779063 >>20779253

>>20778994
Are you not bothered by the misspelling of 'autism'?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 05:26:37 No.20779047 Report

Quoted By: >>20779083

>>20778986
and again your twisting my words
Able to move about and function =/= can beat something else in combat
would lose to something else in combat =/= there is no point to its physiology

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 05:26:51 No.20779050 Report

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>>20779028
Yes.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 05:27:43 No.20779063 Report

Quoted By: >>20779085

>>20779045
How did I not notice that?

I am around 80% sure you are a wizard and used magic to change the picture.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 05:29:44 No.20779083 Report

Quoted By: >>20779103 >>20779134

>>20779047
No, I'm stating that shit that doesn't look like it can move, usually can, and if it can move, then it's probably dangerous in some manner. Maybe not to a human, but all of creation is built to survive, so it needs some method of protecting itself.

Neither the Dachschund nor the Corgi look like they are particularly nimble, but both can perform feats of truly impressive agility.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 05:29:59 No.20779085 Report

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>>20779063
That is worrying. I'm still seven years from wizardhood.
Then again, when does one achieve timelord status?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 05:31:17 No.20779103 Report

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>>20779083
>all of the animals in creation are built to survive
Wow... I murdered that sentence.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 05:33:43 No.20779134 Report

Quoted By: >>20779154

>>20779083
really, because they both look pretty nimble to me.
Because I have at least a basic understanding of how muscles work.

Now look again at the hawkman. Where could their possible be muscles to pull those wings down to allow for flight?

Yes I'll admit it's pet peave, but I'd like to be make a head movie of any action I hear described in a game or novel actually happening.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 05:35:19 No.20779154 Report

Quoted By: >>20779194

>>20779134
Behind his back and all throughout his massive torso. He probably also has magic in the armor keeping it from weighing anything.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 05:37:26 No.20779178 Report

Quoted By: >>20779269

>>20778622
>Galka

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 05:38:28 No.20779194 Report

Quoted By: >>20779217 >>20779247

>>20779154
>massive torso
Close so close, because that's how it works for actual bird.
But actual bird to have arms in the way. For those muscles to work they would have to either be passing through the shoulder, or bunched up behind it.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 05:40:07 No.20779211 Report

Quoted By:

>>20778443

say what?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 05:40:32 No.20779217 Report

Quoted By: >>20779334

>>20779194
Look at how it's arms are positioned, notice how much wider they are than it would be on a human.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 05:40:36 No.20779219 Report

Quoted By:

>>20778630

There would be, but Stephen King would have it copyrighted to hell in back and have a 1300 page novel done about it by the time it was published.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 05:42:58 No.20779247 Report

Quoted By: >>20779334

>>20779194
Look near the ribcage.

Looks like a large tendon attached right through from the shoulder to the torso itself.

That would provide enough anchorage for the wings anyway.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 05:43:27 No.20779253 Report

Quoted By:

>>20779045
honestly, the question mark thing bothered me so much, I didn't even notice.
Hell, someone could have photoshopped a dick in place of the cop's face and I would have missed that too.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 05:44:27 No.20779266 Report

Quoted By: >>20779404

>>20778795

Obviously the spider looks a lot different on the inside than a normal spider? Maybe because it's a drider? Lloth created driders with her divine magics?

It's a game. Magic is also not real.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 05:44:50 No.20779269 Report

Quoted By: >>20779306

>>20779178
So that's how their reincarnation works! The Mandragora pilot ditches his mech and moves to a new model. Brilliant!

Also, Mandies are the best FF monster species in the series.
I particularly like how many sub-species there are.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 05:46:30 No.20779282 Report

Quoted By: >>20779307 >>20779333 >>20779361

Maybe a more humanoid looking insect-hybrid would work for the realismfag.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 05:49:01 No.20779306 Report

Quoted By: >>20779377

>>20779269
Is it ever mentioned where the fuck they get those damned jackets from?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 05:49:06 No.20779307 Report

Quoted By:

>>20779282
He'll probably bitch that they are too big.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 05:51:25 No.20779333 Report

Quoted By:

>>20779282
That's a lot of junk in the trunk. What's keeping her from falling backwards?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 05:51:50 No.20779334 Report

Quoted By: >>20779366

>>20779247
>>20779217
nope.
The 'tendon down around the sides" would a) not pull in the right direction, and b) interfer with muscles leading from the arms to the back that allow those to be pulled down.

Also, while were at it, in addition to the arms getting in the way of the wing muscles, the wings would get in the way of the wing muscles.

And "wider arms" how would that help?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 05:53:42 No.20779361 Report

Quoted By: >>20780626

>>20779282
cut off the massive abdomen and it would be fine.
Seriously, do no artist who draw these things think about weight balance.
You can't just stick a massive weight hanging off the back without at least having to lean.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 05:53:56 No.20779366 Report

Quoted By: >>20779415

>>20779334
Wider arm placement= more room for muscles used to make the wings go.

Christ, how hard was that.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 05:54:41 No.20779377 Report

Quoted By: >>20779467

>>20779306
I don't think it's ever addressed in XI, but in XII's bestiary entry for them it mentions that they're actually vines that act as an air filtration system that it grew in response to the increasing use of pesticides against them.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 05:57:01 No.20779404 Report

Quoted By:

>>20779266
maybe this could work, if you know and artist ever bothered to think about how those two parts should connect.
OPs pic is a particularly good example of how bad this can get.
>fairly correct spider anatomy
>okay human anatomy from the chest up
>connection area
Oh fuck it all just draw some vague lines

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 05:58:07 No.20779415 Report

Quoted By: >>20779425

>>20779366
right, but the muscles have no way to get to the chest, because.... The arms are between the wings and the chest.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 05:59:26 No.20779425 Report

Quoted By: >>20779463

>>20779415
Except underneath the arms, or maybe in the space opened up by making the ribcage larger

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 06:01:25 No.20779449 Report

Quoted By: >>20779477

>the most plebeian of plebeians bitching about moth-people
Fuck you, I'mma put slake moths in my next game and not even give a fuck.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 06:02:56 No.20779463 Report

Quoted By: >>20779491

>>20779425
which would pull the wing towards its feet, not towards it chest.

I know you want it to work, but it doesn't. Maybe you'll be able to convince yourself to ignore the fact that it doesn't work, like I finally managed to do with riding dogs (because riding dogs are cool), but you can't fit both wings and arms on a human torso and have muscles for them all.

Well you could if you made the torso really long and had one set of wings above the other, but not one in front of the other.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 06:03:19 No.20779467 Report

Quoted By: >>20779567

>>20779377
Ah, that's cool. Thanks.
Never played 12 before, but I keep hearing that it had really in-depth information about the world and it's history.
Think it's worth putting up with the apparently terrible story just for that?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 06:04:42 No.20779477 Report

Quoted By:

>>20779449

Huh, I keep forgetting these are from Perdido Street Station.

Also now I know that the Non-alien Creature Wiki is a thing. Might be some cool races there to jack.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 06:06:10 No.20779491 Report

Quoted By: >>20779566

>>20779463
....Yeah, that's kind of the fucking point. You want them pulling toward the feet so that it can fly properly.

Side note: what keeps them from pulling toward the chest? If the wings are in the center of the back, then the muscles would pull them toward the creature's "front".

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 06:06:34 No.20779496 Report

Quoted By:

>>20778658

You, you mean that, entire races of creatures wou-wouldn't have monolithic, one dimensional cultures based on a single known aspect of an 'exotic' real world culture?

But, but that doesn't seem like it'd be fun at all.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 06:07:15 No.20779501 Report

Quoted By:

>>20778796
You could use it to reply to someone who clearly wasn't following it's message

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 06:08:46 No.20779513 Report

Quoted By: >>20779526 >>20779544

WHY HUMANOID?

Why not some race that walks on fours and uses the tail to hold objects, or the Hanar from Mass Effect?

Is it so hard to think outside the human-with-bird-or-some-little-quirk?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 06:10:03 No.20779526 Report

Quoted By:

>>20779513
Armor and shit.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 06:11:05 No.20779535 Report

Quoted By: >>20779607

>>20778658
agreed. Let's see more brachiating elves, autocthonic dwarves, and orcs that aren't retarded raiders. But there's a tipping point where a race isn't really worth giving an iconic name, and you might as well create something original.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 06:11:50 No.20779542 Report

Quoted By:

>pathfinder
garbage

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 06:12:04 No.20779544 Report

Quoted By:

>>20779513
No.

But considering it's a roleplaying game, it helps if the race you're playing has human-like physiology and psychology.

You idiots complain all the time about aliens not being 'alien' enough, and that's fine, but could you please keep your faggotry out of our fantasy games? thx.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 06:15:13 No.20779566 Report

Quoted By: >>20779589

>>20779491
because they have to go from the wing down, to go beneath the arm, then around to the chest.

Also, I notice how artist cleverly keeps the place joint where the wing connects to the body out of the image. That's because on an actual bird the wing connect to the body at the shoulder. Not how you don't have second shoulder in the middle of your back, and having that would look really really weird.

again, that combination of joints and muscles just can't work, because wings and arms uses the same set of muscles. Putting them both on top of each other means they get in each others way.

If that doesn't bother you, GOOD FOR YOU. but it still doesn't fucking work

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 06:15:14 No.20779567 Report

Quoted By: >>20779651 >>20779684

>>20779467
To be honest, the story isn't as bad as everyone makes it out to be. It's certainly no masterpiece, but it's an FF game we're talking about here; what did you expect? And while, yes, the marketing department made a mess trying to shoehorn Vaan and Penelo in, I feel that badasses like Balthier and Reddas more than make up for it.
Besides that, the battle system was pretty fun for a JRPG, and there were so many side-quests and rare monsters to hunt that I'd consider that the real meat of the game rather than the main storyline.
Then, of course, there's the detailed history and lore of the world as you already mentioned.
Overall, I say you should give it a try; it's really quite a fun game.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 06:17:07 No.20779582 Report

Quoted By: >>20779629

For a mostly original race, all you really need to do is think of a gimmick for them, and build around that. That's how I'm doing it anyway, although it doesn't do much for culture

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 06:17:35 No.20779589 Report

Quoted By: >>20779631

>>20779566
It works in a universe where people can throw fireballs.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 06:20:04 No.20779607 Report

Quoted By:

>>20779535

What would be interesting or new about autocthonic dwarves? Aren't they already from underground?

Underground dudes still underground. Err?
Or is there another definition/ academic use of 'autocthonic' I am not aware of?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 06:21:31 No.20779621 Report

Quoted By: >>20779710 >>20779959

>>20778911
>by "funny" I mean "stupid"

Do you even GM? If you'd pay attention, the same archetypes exist all throughout every setting ever. Even settings where fantasy species exist.

Asari/eldar/chozo = elves, volus = dwarves, forerunners/protheans = primordials, Tau = blue japanese, Covenant/Space Marines = The Papal State, Inquisition & most "intellectual" villainous races = nazis, ad nauseum.

There is no originality. When you break the mold of the standard array (regular/wise/conservative/mirthful/war-culture) you lose people's interest because they have to learn something.

The same goes for a story's plot. www ipl org/div/farq/plotFARQ html
Find a plot that doesn't fit into the seven basic plots. You won't.

Deal with it. Or don't. Most of /tg/ doesn't bother to actually learn from their peers. I try to, but you've nothing to offer.

>and fyi, fantasy encircles all games that are non-fiction

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 06:22:36 No.20779629 Report

Quoted By: >>20779896

>>20779582

Though I wouldn't quite use gimmick, one the more interesting things about race building to me is exploring the quirks of the new race that would make them very different from people: a race of stone men with no need to eat, breathe, or sleep, an insectoid race composed of mini queens with partial hiveminds, a plant race who's attitudes and appearance change based on the season. I love to see how these kinds of things would play out into their societies.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 06:22:55 No.20779631 Report

Quoted By: >>20779642

>>20779589
if there flight was explained as magical, it wouldn't be a problem.
that's why angles have never bugged me.

But bird-people are suppose to fly by flapping their wings, and when I try to picture that it just brakes down.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 06:24:12 No.20779642 Report

Quoted By:

>>20779631
It's explained by the universe having different physics you OCD twit. Biology, therefore, wouldn't work the same there.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 06:24:58 No.20779651 Report

Quoted By:

>>20779567
Thanks, I'll give it a shot.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 06:27:56 No.20779684 Report

Quoted By: >>20779696 >>20779751

>>20779567
>shoehorn Vaan and Penelo in
>not making a conscious and amazing design decision that most people are too pleb to get
I posted this in a stereotypical condescending 4chan way but I'm dead serious. Having Vaan be the player character but not the main character was a brilliant choice that sadly went over a lot of people's heads.
I wish more JRPGs did shit like that.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 06:29:24 No.20779696 Report

Quoted By:

>>20779684
It would help if the player character weren't an effeminate cocksuck.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 06:30:06 No.20779705 Report

Quoted By: >>20779750

okay, finally found an anology for why really bad anatomy bugs me.

So your playing a fantasy computer game with fairly modern graphics and you see this bad guy with massive spiky armor, but when they move the spikes keep clipping through his body all over the place.
Eventually it's painfully obvious he should not be able to move at all with those metal spikes, because they keep clipping all the way through his arms, chest and even head.

Do you think "it's magic, there no reason this clearly solid armor should just pass through everything", or do you think "fuck that is some lazy and awful design there"?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 06:30:33 No.20779710 Report

Quoted By:

>>20779621
>Deal with it. Or don't. Most of /tg/ doesn't bother to actually learn from their peers. I try to, but you've nothing to offer.

Then why are you still here? Go cry to someone who cares.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 06:35:24 No.20779750 Report

Quoted By: >>20779754 >>20779763 >>20779809

>>20779705
okay, finally found an anology for why people who complain about bad anatomy bug me.

Please draw a venn diagram of "People who have a working knowledge of human muscular anatomy VS. People who design tabletop roleplaying games"
Please draw a venn diagram of "People who complain about bad anatomy in tabletop roleplaying games VS. People who design tabletop roleplaying games.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 06:35:26 No.20779751 Report

Quoted By: >>20779786

>>20779684
>pretending it wasn't specifically done to appeal to the standard japanese fanbase
It's confirmed, idiot. Also, the rest of the team consists of relatively hardened veterans. Where do "literal children" fit in?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 06:36:17 No.20779754 Report

Quoted By: >>20779765 >>20779789

>>20779750
Draw a venn diagram of "people who are intelligent VS. people who design tabletop roleplaying games" oh wait there's no overlap

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 06:37:03 No.20779763 Report

Quoted By:

>>20779750
I got 4 circles, is this normal??

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 06:37:20 No.20779765 Report

Quoted By: >>20779789

>>20779754
Depends on your standard for "intelligent".

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 06:39:31 No.20779786 Report

Quoted By: >>20779801 >>20779806

>>20779751

I thought the point of them being young and relatively unskilled was to emphasize them being swept up into something much bigger than them.

Plus they double as exposition delivery tools, so as they learn we learn.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 06:39:45 No.20779789 Report

Quoted By: >>20779809

>>20779754
>>20779765
Doesn't matter. If you think all RPG designers are stupid, and you somehow expect them to magically pull a working muscular system for bird-people out of their asses, your expectations are way too high.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 06:40:58 No.20779801 Report

Quoted By: >>20779837

>>20779786
>Plus they double as exposition delivery tools, so as they learn we learn.
Uh, no they don't. They live in the world and know the politics way better than we do, and there's not a huge amount of exposition that exists to begin with. Most of the exposition is about stuff like the Ancient Conspiracy that the rest of the cast didn't know about either.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 06:41:12 No.20779806 Report

Quoted By:

>>20779786
>Plus they double as exposition delivery tools, so as they learn we learn.
Hey, he gets it? Hey, dude. High five. You're great!

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 06:41:25 No.20779809 Report

Quoted By: >>20779856

>>20779750
>>20779789
inb4 bell curves as implemented by FATAL

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 06:44:22 No.20779837 Report

Quoted By: >>20779878 >>20779886

>>20779801
Okay, basically, here is how it goes:
In JRPGs, you normally play as some character, and then he drives the plot completely independent of what you want, and you go "well, this isn't how I'd roleplay this character!" (mostly if you're more used to WRPGs)
In FFXII, you have Vaan, who you play as, but doesn't drive the plot. They make your character irrelevant to plot progression so that you don't feel "out of character", because you, like the character you control, have no control over the plot.
FFXII is the better way of doing it because it at least masks, or justifies the lack of control present in JRPGs.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 06:46:48 No.20779856 Report

Quoted By:

>>20779809
Oh god please don't. I'll be good, I swear.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 06:48:57 No.20779878 Report

Quoted By:

>>20779837
>In FFXII, you have Vaan, who you play as, but doesn't drive the plot.
Except you totally do, because for some reason you're a respected member of the team that's actively influencing things, and you're equally as strong as the rest of those veteran combatants are.

Nevermind the fact that you can, in fact, change who your character is as you wander around the world map, so you're not even required to BE Vaan.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 06:49:52 No.20779886 Report

Quoted By: >>20779901

>>20779837
>FFXII is the better way of doing it because it at least masks, or justifies the lack of control present in JRPGs.
You people are absolutely the worst. "Hey, look, we did the same shitty thing as everyone else, but it's okay because we vaguely justified it". Pull the other one and tell me Bioshock or SpecOps is a triumphant masterpiece of game design.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 06:51:18 No.20779896 Report

Quoted By:

>>20779629
Yeah, figuring out how a different species' society would work is most of the fun in race-building. I mostly just think of gimmicks for them because it helps me get something onto paper that I can build upon

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 06:51:58 No.20779901 Report

Quoted By: >>20779989

>>20779886
Never played either of those, but FFXII is an acknowledgement of the flaw in JRPGs and an attempt to advance the genre.
It IS better than the alternative, which is complete stagnation of an incestuous and generally awful genre.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 06:55:51 No.20779942 Report

Quoted By:

Guild Wars and Final Fantasy Tactics Advance are my two favorites for on-traditional fantasy races.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 06:58:10 No.20779959 Report

Quoted By:

>>20779621

Er John Scalzi has these aliens in Old Man's War that struck me as original. They come down and perform religious ceremonies then fight, then leave. I was all like alright honorable fighter culture, but then he introduced the notion of the aliens were baptizing the planet for some future nefarity My socks were knocked off.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 07:01:37 No.20779989 Report

Quoted By: >>20780006

>>20779901
>FFXII is an acknowledgement of the flaw in JRPGs and an attempt to advance the genre.
No it isn't, because it would have actually avoided the WORST jrpg things by excluding the child protagonists, and the only thing it actually accomplished with them is that stupid, convoluted bullshit about "well you're not in control now", which isn't even accurate.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 07:03:41 No.20780006 Report

Quoted By:

>>20779989
>Child protagonists
>worst thing in JRPGs
>not most of the things FFXII DID fix
Oh. Okay, so this conversation is done. Seeya!

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 07:13:14 No.20780074 Report

Quoted By:

This Final Fantasy derailment is quite upsetting. I would be all for discussing the various races in the game, but this FF discussion is quite dumb
>>>/v/
polite sage

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 07:16:28 No.20780107 Report

Quoted By:

I think that looking for inspiration in Science fiction for fantasy races is quite a good idea. Larry Niven has a few races that are animal-like at first glance, but he develops them quite well. I'd like to see some Pathfinder stats for the Moties

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 07:22:55 No.20780163 Report

Quoted By:

>>20778679

This. Slapping a new coat of paint on an old concept is nice, but really doesn't change much in the end

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 07:30:03 No.20780235 Report

Quoted By: >>20780324

>>20778443
You have obviously never read the Black Company saga... You should look at reading the books of the North, part two.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 07:37:26 No.20780324 Report

Quoted By: >>20780401 >>20780405

>>20780235
That is to say the second and third books in the series. I believe the third is where the really weird shit starts appearing. The stuff like the menhirs, the mantas (think the mantas from Demons Souls, only they fire lighting bolts instead of spears), and the reverse centaurs.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 07:40:35 No.20780369 Report

Quoted By: >>20780400

>>20778443
Actually on a setting im trying to build we have a heavy emphasis on lizardmen and insectoids

Sir Derpington of Herpglen

Sir Derpington of Herpglen Wed 19 Sep 2012 07:43:27 No.20780400 Report

Quoted By: >>20781082

>>20780369
You should also throw in a few silicoids (being with silicon based biology as opposed to carbon, basically computers that have the ability to reproduce)

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 07:43:29 No.20780401 Report

Quoted By: >>20780548

>>20780324
Great books those are, the ones on the north are the ones I enjoyed the most

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 07:43:38 No.20780405 Report

Quoted By: >>20780470 >>20780548

>>20780324
>reverse centaur

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 07:49:25 No.20780470 Report

Quoted By: >>20780565

>>20780405
And the closest you can get to airship battles without having wizards everywere because the flying carpets versus the winwhales and mantas was always awesome

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 07:57:13 No.20780548 Report

Quoted By: >>20780861

>>20780405
Yes, just like this. The main character in the band of eponymous mercenaries use their females for 'a good time'. I shit you not.

>>20780401
HOLY SHIT, FLYING-CARPET JET-FIGHTER! ALL OF MY WANT! HNNG!

That's a cool picture by the way. Where did you get it, it looks like it's an actual illustration of The Black Company carpets.

This is the only image macro for want I have right now, so you'll have to excuse me.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 07:58:50 No.20780565 Report

Quoted By:

>>20780470
I can't believe I lost all of my images on my old hard drive. I used to have a dozen images to describe how hard I came when I saw this image. Sigh...

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 08:04:59 No.20780626 Report

Quoted By: >>20780863 >>20781117

>>20779361

>anthromorphic spider-woman
>worried about weight ratios
>in a FANTASY creation

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 08:26:07 No.20780861 Report

Quoted By:

>>20780548
Oops, I meant to say: "The main character in the band of eponymous mercenaries says that some of them use their females for 'a good time'." Whatever.

I seriously want to play like, a menhir or something...

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 08:26:27 No.20780863 Report

Quoted By:

>>20780626
>it's magic
it's lazy and bad design.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 08:41:56 No.20781033 Report

Quoted By:

>Snow Whales, Dirt Birds, Ice Vampires, Whatever the fuck you want to call the Sload, xenophobic crabmen, 20something sub-species of Khajit based on the cycle of the moons, Argonians and the Hist

I dunno, guys, TES is pretty popular.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 08:45:59 No.20781082 Report

Quoted By:

>>20780400
Yeah except they'd need entirely different environmental conditions as all the carbonoids.
Also carbonoids are just called carbon-based life, stop trying to sound smarter than you are by making up the word silicoid and then acting as if it has a readily agreed upon meaning.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 08:51:10 No.20781117 Report

Quoted By:

>>20780626
No, you're being intellectually lazy.

A fantasy setting with magic doesn't automatically imply the laws of gravity apply differently to different objects sometimes but sometimes not.

This is exactly the reason we have cookie-cutter races. Because people/designers/artists have an idea for something and they bash through all reality and all considerations to see it happen.

If people gave more thought to the anatomy and functioning of the creatures they imagine, we'd have a lot more interesting creatures.

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Anonymous Wed 19 Sep 2012 12:43:03 No.20782798 Report

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Tolkien had more races in his lore than people give him credit. What about all the celestials, the dire wolves, the half-elves, the stone giants, the trolls, the goblins, the hobgoblins, the draugr and you fucking forgot hobbits you daft ass.

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