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Since Alien Archives 2 released and brought us the glorious Uplifted Bear as a playable race, I've been thinking what other animals would be fun to uplift?
Reflecting on all the playable alien races that have released in only the past 2 years I noticed how other than the Strix there aren't a lot of feathered species to point out.
Which leads to my vote for next big uplifted animal on the docket
*drum roll*
THE UPLIFTED PENGUIN!!!
Ability Adjustments: +2 Int, -2 Wis
Hit Points: 2
Darkvision: 60 feet
Dense Feathers: Uplifted penguins feathers help insulate their temperature giving them a 5 resistance against cold damage.
Innate Toughness: Uplifted penguins are made for harsh long journeys and the cold weather they get a +4 bonus for Constitution checks against forced marches and a +4 bonus to Fortitude checks against taking damage in cold environments. (These bonuses don't stack with the Toughness feat)
Limited Augmentation: The only augmentation that can be installed into an uplifted penguin's brain are datajacks and the mechanic's custom rig.
Limited Telepathy: Uplifted penguins have limited telepathy with a range of 30 feet.
Modified Lungs: Uplifted penguins can hold their breathe for up to 30 mins underwater.
Natural Survivor: Uplifted penguins have a +2 racial bonus to Life Science and Survival skill checks.
Variant Sizes: You can choose to be a small size uplifted penguin or a medium size uplifted penguin. If you go with a small species you gain a + 2 to Dex, while medium penguins have a + 2 to Con. An uplifted penguin is no taller than 4 feet tall.
Webbed feet: Uplifted penguins have a land speed of 20 feet, and a swim speed of 60 feet.
As you can see I have reused some of the racial traits from the uplifted bear in my design but I thought that would make sense seeing that they are both augmented animals.
What are your thoughts, what animals would you like to see?
Racoons
Dolphins
And ostriches
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'Domestic' cats. Someone's sure to have made that mistake at some point.
Velociraptors.
How do you uplift something thats already at the top?
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My top picks would be Moose, gecko, honey badger, bat, sloth... all of these have exellent role playing potential.
I would have the bat fly and have blindsense sound but give it really good range.the gecko would have a decent climb speed, a scent ability and other goodies.Moose would be large have natural weapons reach and perhaps a charge attack or bull rush bonus.Sloth has climb speed and is SLOW but very hard to spook and dosent eat as often as other races.Honey badger is very scary, super difficult to intimidate, with a natural weapon, and several bonuses to different saves.. I hope something happens with all of these suggestions we all have.
If thwy do bat i would want them to be a tiny race ;)
Rabbit and Raccoon because those were my childhood favorite animals. Yasoki just isn't right.
Also Tiger, because Tiger
Gorillas, chimps, bonobos, orangutans, gigantapithicus, megaprimatus.
Put them together with kech, charu-ka, derhii, baregara, and various other ape-based monsters for a full Angazhan-worshiping Planet of the Apes ap.
But of course the bat is small with like 2HP. I love the idea of a climb speed for the bat and gecko, but I want the gecko to be really fast as well so a climb speed of 40 for them and 20ish for bats.
Rhinoceros.
Dolphins don't have to be uplifted, they are fully sapient already.
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Dolphins, kangaroos, lions and eagles so we can have a full party from Brute Force.
I’m not the first person to say this, but I really hope we get an uplifted, if for no other reason than we can incorporate all these excellent ideas into games on the fly. But also, I’d super love to have places in-setting that look like Star Fox or Beyond Good & Evil or Treasure Planet. BG&E especially - I really like their lore explanation for the proliferation of intelligent animal species, and it really seems like something that could work in Starfinder.
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Its weird to me that they have so many races that are humanoid earth animals. Why would space otters even exist? It would be more concise if they just had an uplifted template and stopped making anthropomorphic versions of everything to add to their race quota.
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Its weird to me that they have so many races that are humanoid earth animals. Why would space otters even exist? It would be more concise if they just had an uplifted template and stopped making anthropomorphic versions of everything to add to their race quota.
“Convergent evolution” seems to be the in-canon explanation. Imagine being from Aballon and seeing an off-color Sharpwing in the Nejeor system (Dead Suns #4), which is supposed to have had no prior contact with Pact Worlds space. Redundancy is a weird phenomenon happening with every planet’s native species. Side effect of having to populate an entire galaxy of near infinite planets and stars and other celestial objects, many with their own unique ecosystems, with 160-page books of about a hundred aliens each. :p
That’s probably the best possible solution to this problem, honestly.
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My desire for a planet of the apes AP to exist not withstanding, I'm actually not a huge fan of uplifted animals or animal-themed races in general. But I will say I'm curious to see how Paizo could expand on the concept of uplifted animals in a few ways.
First off, contrasting uplifted animals with fantasy/sci-fi races that just happen to, by coincidence of convergent evolution/guiding hand of a creator deity, look like earth animals.
I mean, what are the practical and social/cultural differences between, say, an uplifted lion/tiger and catfolk, pahtra, and cat-related skin-changers? What's the difference between an uplifted bovine & a nuar or a minotaur? How does an uplifted wolf differ from a vlaka or a rougarou?
Secondly, I'd like to see them make uplifted versions of some non-realworld animals they've made for the game. Surely someone put some alien animals through the whole, Island of Doctor Moreaux, process.
Those are just a couple ideas I'd like to see them tackle with this. First one, at least would probably require a longer-form race entry than the Alien Archives have allowed so far so maybe when they get around to making an Advanced Race Guide/Inner Sea Races type book.
But at the same
Hyena
Goat
Wyvern
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I feel like dogs would be the first animals to get uplifted. We already selectively breed them for intelligence and our ability to train them. Tweaking them so they can talk doesn't seem like much of a stretch.
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Still asking for Uplifted Owl Bears
'Domestic' cats. Someone's sure to have made that mistake at some point.
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Convergent Evolution & Intelligent Design make for strange bedfellows but the resulting bastard offspring is named Convenience.
Uplifted Labradors would be fun ^^
Oh sure, it's all fun and games until you don't throw the ball...
Uplifted Labradors would be fun ^^Oh sure, it's all fun and games until you don't throw the ball...
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Convergent Evolution & Intelligent Design make for strange bedfellows but the resulting bastard offspring is named Convenience.
I just feel like if I wanted to play Iron Claw, I would have picked up that game system. These options are more appealing to my players because they have some familiarity. I mostly just feel disappointed because my players keep thinking earth exists because "where did all the humans and animals come from" It makes it harder for my group to get immersed in the Pact Worlds. I bought the interface zero for them to give them a game world with more of these themes. That's just my group though. They are expert contrarians
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Also, since I haven't said it already: uplifted crows. Because if we don't uplift them first, they will uplift themselves. And they will remember the slight.
*caw!* :)
Wouldn't be better to insert Tengu into the setting than to uplift crows?
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For home game use, i remain a big fan of creating any uplifted animal i want with this product (written by Alex Augunas and published in conjunction with my company, Rogue Genius Games) - https://paizo.com/products/btq01xdb?Star-LogDeluxe-Uplifted-Animals
For official Paizo creatures, I'd love to see something *very* different, like uplifted tashtari!
I would love to see a template of some type for uplifted animals.
For official Paizo creatures, I'd love to see something *very* different, like uplifted tashtari!
the locomotion issue alone..
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"Crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimps, prawns, krill, woodlice, and barnacles".
Badgers, otherwise I'm not really interested in more "uplifted" anything.
*edit*
Then he remembered Kitsune from pathfinder. Facepalm.
K, so kitsune and badgers, and THEN my interest wanes.
I'm on the fence with this one, because at some points, we'll be getting unique animal-like aliens. No need for uplifted animals, when there's an alien race that looks like one ;)