To quote myself:
While it makes a certain "sense," I don't see why tengu (and nagaji and lizardfolk) have to be oviparous or monotremes. They seem to be descended from avians, but there are significant physiological differences between ravens/crows and tengu that may not have occurred via natural evolution, especially in settings with demonstrable magic and deities. If placental viviparious tengu (and the others) breaks the GM's and players' immersion, perhaps they could be ovoviviparous instead?
'S a lot of long words, we're naught but humble gamers... ;)
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I don't actually think every possible sapient species should be available as a romance/sex option. There is a lot greater potential story potential when you do showcase the odd couple, and also I just prefer to keep races that are further from the human norm a bit more alien in psychology and outlook. Otherwise you reduce nonhuman races to just people with different hats, and at that point you might as well just have used humans for the role.
Also...the further you get from the human baseline...the weirder it gets for me, crossing into the "What the..." territory. Elves and LaShunta...sure...most people could agree there are possibilities for both sides being attracted to one another, physically and probably Psychology. When you are driving by the side of the road, and see a crow perched on a telephone wire, how often do you think "yeah, I would hit that". I don't think that would change if the crow was human-sized, had hands and could speak.
You are treading into territory best left unwalked, there.
I see no problem having a tengu/human pair, or tengu/orc pair, etc.
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And frankly, there are already people attracted to that kind of thing, even if they are an extreme minority. I imagine there would be an equally minority group of the other race that would have an unusual for their kind attraction to something about humans. Rare, but certainly not impossible.
And frankly, there are already people attracted to that kind of thing, even if they are an extreme minority.
*Whistles innocently*
To each their own. Everyone has some sort of trope or something that breaks their immersion. And ANYTHING dealing with sex is a potential landmine of triggers and zones of discomfort for players and GM. I think that we can all agree that one should be very careful how you incorporate such information into a game or setting.
That I agree with pretty strongly, yeah. Sexual situations do not usually come up in my games - I'm looking at this purely from a worldbuilding standpoint.
Since I've already drawn the line with my own setting of "unless you're an innately magical being (outsider, dragon, fey [includes elves and gnomes]) you can't breed across species lines without powerful magical aid", anything beyond that is more a personal issue that I really don't care much about.
Heh, I tend to miss the cues, presuming they're there. Being uninterested myself makes that a little less noticeable for me >_> (Read: Near totally oblivious <_< )
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Birds often just regurgitate the stomach contents of the parents down the gullet of their spawn.
Once I got in trouble on these forums when I quite seriously and naively talked about a character concept of a Summoner/eidolon as husband/wife. I was kind of shocked that a couple people were honestly shocked and offended. The fact that I mentioned the concept of children really blew their minds.
I am currently playing one of those couples. In a lot of ways she (the eidolon) is more the main character
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And frankly, there are already people attracted to that kind of thing, even if they are an extreme minority. I imagine there would be an equally minority group of the other race that would have an unusual for their kind attraction to something about humans. Rare, but certainly not impossible.
Yes but there are also people that get off on rubbing on wagons (as there are with cars irl) It would be rare for the two oddballs to ever find each other to the point of uniqueness.
Or rather easy to find each other. It's a fake world, and there's really no reason for a human or elf or dwarf character (or whatever) to not find the "object" of his or her desire (be it a wagon, a tengu, a dragon, or another non-same race) other than the GM saying "it doesn't make me feel right". While that's a perfectly acceptable excuse, letting the character find their soul mate or such, no matter the differences, is not a bad thing either. So long as everyone agrees that anything that makes another uncomfortable gets relegated to not being brought up.
So many things are possible in this game that would be impossible in the real world. So many fetishes that are completely looked down upon in our world could be completely fine in this make believe fantasy world. I won't go into detail about them, as that may or may not be going into thread-lock territory, but I don't wanna take the chance.
I just don't see why it would be a bad thing to have a human attracted to orcs and an orc attracted to humans to find each other and live in happiness.
I just don't see why it would be a bad thing to have a human attracted to orcs and an orc attracted to humans to find each other and live in happiness."Try growing up with it." -- Therkla, Order of the Stick #555
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I am currently playing one of those couples. In a lot of ways she (the eidolon) is more the main characterBirds often just regurgitate the stomach contents of the parents down the gullet of their spawn.
Once I got in trouble on these forums when I quite seriously and naively talked about a character concept of a Summoner/eidolon as husband/wife. I was kind of shocked that a couple people were honestly shocked and offended. The fact that I mentioned the concept of children really blew their minds.
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in case you are interested in playing their offspring, nifty stats found on link.I am currently playing one of those couples. In a lot of ways she (the eidolon) is more the main characterBirds often just regurgitate the stomach contents of the parents down the gullet of their spawn.
Once I got in trouble on these forums when I quite seriously and naively talked about a character concept of a Summoner/eidolon as husband/wife. I was kind of shocked that a couple people were honestly shocked and offended. The fact that I mentioned the concept of children really blew their minds.
Character is PFS so I can't use third party, however, one I have enough prestige I plan to
So far I haven't seen anyone make the connection to interbreeding with dragon and dragon...Statistics-wise, how would that be? Say between a Song Dragon and a Shen Lung, or Song Dragon and Steel Dragon, so on and so forth. Would I use a half-dragon template or what? I can't seem to find anything anywhere on the subject.
Maybe I'll make a world where all the dominant humanoids are plants. They plant their seeds in the ground to create offspring. Different plantpeeps fill all the niches of humans, elves, dwarves, etc...
They will run into mammalian humanoids from another plane and be totally confused and horrified.
In my campaign, gnomes are androgynous and intersex by nature.
Cool, it's actually the same way in my campaign, and partly for the same reason (first worlders etc)! Though in my games gnomes actually reproduce asexually (though generally not aromantically; basically two or more gnomes fall in love and should they wish the offspring is magically created).
The other day I was re-playing Mass Effect and I thought a bit about some gender-race jokes in a Fantasy setting. The Asari is an all-female race in Mass Effect.
Dwarves are stereotypically male. Over the years there have been jokes about whether or not female Dwarves even exist. Apparently part of the courting process is to determine what gender the other Dwarf really is.
Elves could also stereotypically be female. The male Elves often look female enough to pass for one. :)
What if we were to make those stereotypes become truths? All Elves are female, and all Dwarves really are male.
In Mass Effect the Asari do some sort of psychic joining with their partner (whose gender does not matter). I could see Elves being grown like a fruit from a tree, and I could see Dwarves growing up from a rock.
These ideas are along the lines of some of the legends of Earth mythology and not out of place for the Fantasy genre. Does anyone else have any ideas that would work better?
I recall seeing one thing where Elves and Dwarves were actually the female and male respectively of one species, in the vein of Lashunta, and the only time the two "races" weren't at war was during the mating season where they competed more internally - Elves vs Elves and Dwarves vs Dwarves - for mating opportunities. Once the offspring had been born, weaned, and divvied up by gender, the two groups resumed fighting one another again.
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So I have some thoughts...
First, Tengu and other anthromorphic races are humanized. There are some games that have only those races, called Furries, that are well known to have the "proper" equipment. (I have seen drawings)
I would maintain that the humanized bird would have something to interact with when it comes to being intimate with others that are not exactly other Tengu. Would it be the mentioned part in the OP? Or perhaps an appendage that is a morphic extension of what normally would be under the feathers? Would the Female have an extended area that show the intimate area for the male to connect with?
Eggs would still be laid, young hatched. Perhaps the breastmilk is squirted in instead of the hatchling pecking at it.
So, dragonborn. I would think they are much like Aasimar and Tieflings, born from unusual backgrounds. It is known that dragons have taken human forms and has been with ladies around the world. Of course, the one dragon PF doesn't have that is the most lecherous is the Mercury dragon. Must be why there are no Dragonkin in Golorian.
finally, all dwarves have beards. It makes courtship a little more interesting when you have to figure out who is what gender. Dwarven names doesn't help there.