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Skirmisher Publishing tells you how to play noble animals for the Pathfinder RPG!

When I was a kid, I was in love with the movie Doctor Doolittle. "If I could talk to the animals, learn their languages...." My mind created worlds full of intelligent animals that would talk back to me and be my friends. Ahhhh, the days of youth! Now, Skirmisher Publishing is bringing this same idea to the Pathfinder RPG table with The Noble Wild: An Animal Player's Handbook. Move aside, Doolittle!

The Noble Wild introduces comprehensive rules for playing intelligent animals. Living secretly alongside the humans, elves, dwarves, and even orcs, Noble Animals are descended from god-touched bloodlines, capable of accomplishing amazing things. The Pathfinder Roleplaying Game edition of this ENnie Award–nominated book grants players and game masters alike a new element to an ongoing campaign, or perhaps the foundation for an all-new campaign.

Features include more than 60 playable species of Noble Animal; adjustments to basic character classes, skills, feats, and magic to allow for animal characters; a new Basic Class, the Greater Familiar; new prestige classes, from the Alpha to the Man-Eater to the War Mount; and a new concept, Deeds, that gives characters the opportunity to acquire magical abilities by performing heroic actions and paying an experience point cost.

The Noble Wild will appeal to everyone, from groups that want to try all-animal or mixed animal-humanoid parties, to players who want to expand their animal companions and familiars, to game masters who wish to spring interesting and unexpected foes against their players.

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This is officially available in print?

Yeah, me too -- when I was really small! Wasn't there also a run-in with pirates in the original book?
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Dr. Double Honors, Ph.D. wrote:
Yeah, me too -- when I was really small! Wasn't there also a run-in with pirates in the original book?

The one I remember from my childhood was the musical with Rex Harrison and his sort of sing-song singing. My best friend Tina and I would sit in her bedroom and listen to the Dr. Doolittle soundtrack followed by the Beatles Abbey Road and then repeat. We especially liked Octopus's Garden from Abbey Road. In any case, I never read the book. Yeah, I know, but I was in kindergarten at the time. :)

-Lisa
Dr. Double Honors, Ph.D. wrote:
Yeah, me too -- when I was really small! Wasn't there also a run-in with pirates in the original book?

There were several books in the series. I don't recall which had pirates in it, as they all started to mush together in my mind, but I do recall that I didn't read many more after that part. I think my reading experience was tainted by the totally awesome movie, though, so take my recollections with a grain (or more) of salt.

Lol furries.
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Hmm... I'm giving this some serious thought. It would allow for a campaign setting very much like the Chronicles of Narnia, and that would be cool. It also brings to mind that one island in the Al~Qadim boxed set "Golden Voyages" which had intelligent, talking animals as the inhabitants. It sounds awesome.

Dean; the_Minstrel_Wyrm
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Neck Romancer wrote:
Lol furries.

...not as such...

Furries (er, I'm told) are anthropomorphic. These are just animals. Thumbs cost extra.

But if you're into that kinda thing, I suppose you can have that in your game. Just, please, don't post about it.

I've got no idea about which book, or how many books there were. I just remember having at least one DD book, and I was pretty sure there were pirates in it. I was probably about the same age, Lisa--definitely no older than 6 or just turned 7, because of my memory of where I was. Chances are, if it was a favorite movie of mine (Robin Hood, DD, Treasure Island), I had the books to go along with them.

a Friend of mine has a PDF under the same name written by the same people but a completely different cover. Is there a difference in what this one contains compared to the other?
UpSbLiViOn wrote:
a Friend of mine has a PDF under the same name written by the same people but a completely different cover. Is there a difference in what this one contains compared to the other?

One is written for 3.X this one for Pathfinder.

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Well, I have purchased the book and just received it today... and although I've only skimmed it... I really like what I see. (In a odd sort of idea... the night before I got several of my friends together and they created 1st level characters for "KINGMAKER" (are you listening Neil... you were right... and I'm going to be GM-ing it now)... anyway... now after skimming the surface of this fine PFRPG compatible book... I was thinking how cool it might be to do "Kingmaker; the Animal Kingdom!"

Hmm... maybe some "reincarnates" go wrong... could happen.

Dean; The_Minstrel_Wyrm
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