What sort of setting are you looking for, besides the whole furry angle? Kobold Press makes some great books on world building.
Id start off considering the following paizo races:
Catfolk, Ratfolk, and Lizardfolk are obvious.
Tengu: Birdfolk
Kitsune: Foxfolk
Gnoll: Hyenafolk
Vanara: Monkeyfolk
I am running a campaign with an all anthropomorphic party: a kitsune, catfolk, ifrit resembling a foodog, wolf guy that uses a race I homebrewed, and an original aquatic race created by the player that I homebrewed a PF race for.
I'll be honest with you. There really isn't a whole lot to making an anthropomorphic race. Most furry characters from the fandom are basically humans that look funny. Most such characters don't even have claws. So unless you're making particularly monstrous or feral-looking creatures, an anthropomorphic race will likely have nothing complicated except a natural attack, some enhanced senses, and a skill bonus or two. As a result, you can easily reskin existing races (including elves and dwarves) or make a set of simple races. I can do the latter if you want.
If you want to do something special beyond that, it would depend heavily on what makes the anthros in your campaign setting so special.
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Lost city of the Troodons. Put the manimal template on the Troodons from Beastiary 5. Now put them in a lost valley. Have the party go with an archiologist(a Kitsune version of Molly Dod from Tailspin will work) to seek her missing father, also an explorer. They find the valley and find while some dinos are "scaleys" they took him captive while they discuss weather the more evolved creatures are a threat or possible allies. Lots of fighting raptors and or T-rexes.
I'd say the World Building Exercise thread could be a good place to look for ideas.. rife with non-standard anthro race settings.
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I wouldn't be too attached to races. Fur is fluff.
Is a fox a kitsune, a reskinned catfolk, or a reskinned toothy half-orc with his or her floating stat bonus in intelligence? Who really cares?
See, this is the kind of crap that gets people turned off to the word "fluff."
Dandelion blossoms are fluff.
Marshmallow topping is fluff.
Ragdoll cats are fluff (and gods bless them for it!).
There is no "fluff" in RPGS - that which you identify as such, you simply do not understand.
Admittedly, the word may indeed have more meaning than I am even aware of in an all-furries game. ^_^
Furries: The blessedly bizarre diamond in the rough of 21st-Century Western Civilization.
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I wouldn't be too attached to races. Fur is fluff.
Is a fox a kitsune, a reskinned catfolk, or a reskinned toothy half-orc with his or her floating stat bonus in intelligence? Who really cares?
See, this is the kind of crap that gets people turned off to the word "fluff."
Dandelion blossoms are fluff.
Marshmallow topping is fluff.
Ragdoll cats are fluff (and gods bless them for it!).
There is no "fluff" in RPGS - that which you identify as such, you simply do not understand.
Fluff is that which doesn't matter. And it really doesn't. It doesn't harm the GM for the player who wants to be a fox to use half-orc stats instead of kitsune stats, nor does it hurt any of the other players. It doesn't even hurt anyone if two players want foxes and want to use different mechanical races to model them.
There are good reasons to not want the race builder in play, but the non-monstrous non-planetouched races other than duergar and smirfneblin are balanced and adequate for representing almost any furry. Toothy half-orcs with different stat bonuses will cover a lot. Catfolk will cover a number of more animalistic concepts, not just cats. Merfolk can cover pinnipeds. I think vanara might be needed to cover animals with prehensile tails, and strix to handle bats, and tengu or kobolds for flying squirrels. There are a few animals that don't anthropomorphize well because they have the wrong number or configuration of limbs (flighted birds have forelimbs for mobility and hindlimbs for grasping, flightless have only vestigial forelimbs, snakes have no limbs at all, and arthropods tend to have too many) but everything else just takes reskinning existing balanced race material.
Id start off considering the following paizo races:
Catfolk, Ratfolk, and Lizardfolk are obvious.
Tengu: Birdfolk
Kitsune: Foxfolk
Gnoll: Hyenafolk
Vanara: Monkeyfolk
Here's some ideas to expand the breadth of races in the game.
Ratfolk:
Mouselings: If no non-anthro mice, give Halfing Luck or Cornered Fury)
Ratlikes: Make them medium, base of 30ft, (+2 Dex, +2 Con, -4 Cha), Darkvision 120 ft., Light Sensitivity. If no non-anthro rats, give Ratfolk alternate Skulk.
Hareborn: Medium, base 30 ft., no Darkvision, Swarming, or Tinker. Give Run as bonus feat, Lowlight-Vision as well as Keen Senses (+2 Con, +2 Cha, -2 Wis), No rodent empathy.
Tengu:
Ravenborn: Loses Sneaky, Gains Keen Senses, Base Speed of 20 ft. (+2 Con, +2 Int)
Sparrowling: Small Size, no natural attack, Glide instead of Gifted Linguist(+2 Dex, +2 Cha, -2 Str)
Jayborn: Claw Attack instead of Swordtrained, no low-light vision, Sneaky is +2 Disguise and Stealth, no Perception bonus. Gains Glide, retains Gifted Linguist)
More forthcoming soon, probably. Items in spoilers are intended as modifications as changes to the existing race associated with it. The racial modifiers on stats are intended to replace the existing racial modifiers.
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Without the fluff you are just running the combats. That's just roll playing without role playing. If there were point awards for role playing the 'fluff' characters who lost levels could catch back up.
Okay, I do want to use the Kitsune, but the Human shape is pretty useless to me. So instead I'll trade it in for Fox Shape, which means I'll probably make non-anthro animals a thing.
Fox Shape is a pretty strong ability. What I usually do in a setting that has kitsune but no humans is just give them their choice of a single alternate form- some might have a tengu form, others might have a catfolk form, and so on. It lets them keep their ability to blend in with others.
Why are you insisting on using Pathfinder / d20? The system, great though it may be, is built around a combat chassis. If you want an RP-focused game, I suggest looking at other products, such as Savage Worlds, GURPS, etc.
I couldn't get a seat at the table at the local 5th edition game. I've created a character for Pathfinder PBP that I can change for whatever game is available. GURPS just isn't what I want. I might look at other games for ideas.
This post might get removed along with all the anti fluff agenda. It might be better brought up in a topic about expanding the non combat aspect of the game. I don't feel I'm threatening your style of gaming.
Google "SHARD rpg", it's designed for this sort of thing according to a friend of mine.
So JC just vanished like Arowen(sp).
My only question is have you eliminated baldness? lol...
Poor Panthro.
A buddy of mine has made a whole host of races that he is happy to share with the public. Every single one is 15 RP
https://www.rpgcrossing.com/showthread.php?p=6123057#post6123057
Anthropomorphic Animals include:
Boarmen (pigs)
Canis (dogs)
Catfolk (cat)
- Leonin (lion)
- Tigra (tiger)
- Cheetara (cheeta)
- Panthor (panther)
- Pardus (leopard)
- Unica (snow leopard)
Charau-ka (ape)
Drider (spider)
Gnoll (hyena)
Grippli (frog)
Half Dragon (dragon)
Kitsune (fox)
Kobold (lesser dragon)
Lamia (lamb)
Lizardfolk (lizard)
Lycanthropes (no alternate forms)
- Werealligator (alligator)
- Werebear (bear)
- Wereboar (boar)
- Wererat (rat)
- Weretiger (tiger)
- Wereshark (shark)
- Werewolf (wolf)
Naga (snake)
Ratfolk (rat)
Satyr (goat)
Tanuki (raccoon)
Tengu (bird)
Thri-kreen (insect)
Usagi (rabbit)
I did something similar for a Japanese themed setting. The people of the island worshipped Momotaro who brought them there to live as people. They were made up of the animal friends he made on his adventures. These were made up of;
Henge (From Rite Publishing's In the Company of Henge although the Tengu, Kitsune, Ningyo and Nagaji are also considered Henge in setting, although the Tengu are thought to have been there before in a different form)
Tengu
Kitsune
Ningyo (Merfolk)
Nagaji
They are also accompanied by other races from a different source.
Mazoku (The Wyrd, From Rite Publishing's In the Company of Monsters,)
Wayang
Personally I would say, find a legend or myth that has a lot of talking animals and build a mythology from it. I would also not make the list that's too long of races to use. It gets taxing when it comes to worldbuilding.
It would be hilarious if regular humans plane shifted there and everyone ran screaming cause they looked like the alternate form of lycanthropes. :)
Either that or under the full moon lycanthropes turn into dire versions of themselves. Bigger, stronger, and more damage from their natural weapons.
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Shard. has about 30 races. If you can find a PDF, they are all easily converted. They are pretty in depth. Like vultures, canaries, eagles. Each animal has 4 or 5 different versions.
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