Anthro character

[Tarvesh]

I have a new player who's interested in playing a fox character (not a lycanthrope or and actual fox, an anthromorph... or furry if you will).

Does anyone have a source for character races I could reference or a suggestion for stats and race abilities that I could use for the character?

[Alex Draconis]

Cool. I always use Savage Species from 3.5.

Tarvesh wrote:

I have a new player who's interested in playing a fox character (not a lycanthrope or and actual fox, an anthromorph... or furry if you will).

Does anyone have a source for character races I could reference or a suggestion for stats and race abilities that I could use for the character?

[Steven Purcell]

Alex Draconis wrote:

Cool. I always use Savage Species from 3.5.

Tarvesh wrote:

I have a new player who's interested in playing a fox character (not a lycanthrope or and actual fox, an anthromorph... or furry if you will).

Does anyone have a source for character races I could reference or a suggestion for stats and race abilities that I could use for the character?

To expand on that there is a chart with anthropomorphic animals in the back of Savage Species and Wizards has it on their website as well: download from here.

[erian_7]

Try Remarkable Races—Pathway to Adventure: The Anumus for Pathfinder-ready material. If you want to see the mechanics, check the character sheet in my profile. It contains the OGC mechanics for the race (which is actually a collection of anthro races). The material could easily be tweaked to support a fox-based humanoid.

[sozin]

Kobold Quarterly #9 the kitsune fox playable PC race

[W E Ray]

Isn't there a Pathfinder Compatable book by a 3rd party publisher that has race-builds exclusively for animal-headed people, the Book of Anthropoids or somesuch? Check the Paizo store.

[Lilith]

Manimal template from Advanced Bestiary.

[Rezdave]

Alex Draconis wrote:

I always use Savage Species from 3.5.

Species was actually 3.0 and, to my knowledge, never updated. It was a great concept, but has many issues that were unfortunately never cleared up. Transferring it directly to PF may only compound these issues.

That said, it's still a cool book. I've used the basic concept many times to scale monsters up and down, allowing low-level PCs to fight juvenile ogre hooligans and such.

FWIW,

Rez

[LilithsThrall]

Wants to play a furry? Your player wants to play a character who dresses up in cartoon animal outfits and rubs his/her body against other characters dressed up in cartoon animal outfits?

[Nether Saxon]

In such instances, I'd just adjust one of the base races a bit and tell him they look like the thing he wants.
For a foxman, I could see the halfling or elf as a basis ability-wise, replacing some of the racial abilities with ones more suited to the "fox-feel", so to speak.

Instead of the bonus to Spellcraft checks and immunity to magic sleep spells and such, give it a weak bite attack (1d4 or 1d6) and call it the Vulpon or whatever you like. Add in a little background story about the people and voilá - new race, ready to play.

[erian_7]

W E Ray wrote:

Isn't there a Pathfinder Compatable book by a 3rd party publisher that has race-builds exclusively for animal-headed people, the Book of Anthropoids or somesuch? Check the Paizo store.

That would be the Anumus book I mentioned above, from Alluria Publishing...

[Alex Draconis]

Nether Saxon wrote:

In such instances, I'd just adjust one of the base races a bit and tell him they look like the thing he wants.

For a foxman, I could see the halfling or elf as a basis ability-wise, replacing some of the racial abilities with ones more suited to the "fox-feel", so to speak.

Instead of the bonus to Spellcraft checks and immunity to magic sleep spells and such, give it a weak bite attack (1d4 or 1d6) and call it the Vulpon or whatever you like. Add in a little background story about the people and voilá - new race, ready to play.

Yep that's your best bet and the way I do it myself lately. Just take a base class and run with cosmetic changes or tweak the mechanics a tiny bit. That way you're sure to get something balanced.