Beastkin vs Hengeyokai

[Morridyn]

I love the new beastkin, but their lore surrounds lycanthropy origins. I loved the hengeyokai from the old Oriental Adventures during 3.5. I am going to adapt and add feats to reflect the hengeyokai. They would fit in greatly to a more Oriental campaign. They were less bestial and more magical in origins. Giving the innate spell feats and diplomacy and trickery based feats would be cool.

[The Raven Black]

Actually, animals that can somehow turn into humanoids is described as one of the potential (though rarer) origin of Beastkin.

I was ecstatic to read this because I loved my Eagle hengeyokai from the original OA.

I will follow this thread with great interest :-)

[YuriP]

Morridyn wrote:

I love the new beastkin, but their lore surrounds lycanthropy origins. I loved the hengeyokai from the old Oriental Adventures during 3.5. I am going to adapt and add feats to reflect the hengeyokai. They would fit in greatly to a more Oriental campaign. They were less bestial and more magical in origins. Giving the innate spell feats and diplomacy and trickery based feats would be cool.

If you want house rule a hengeyokai maybe is better to take base more on kitsunes then beastkin. Because beastkin is a versatile heritage, an hibrid variation of other ancestry, while the kitsunes are an ancestry by itself.

[Morridyn]

YuriP wrote:

Morridyn wrote:

I love the new beastkin, but their lore surrounds lycanthropy origins. I loved the hengeyokai from the old Oriental Adventures during 3.5. I am going to adapt and add feats to reflect the hengeyokai. They would fit in greatly to a more Oriental campaign. They were less bestial and more magical in origins. Giving the innate spell feats and diplomacy and trickery based feats would be cool.

If you want house rule a hengeyokai maybe is better to take base more on kitsunes then beastkin. Because beastkin is a versatile heritage, an hibrid variation of other ancestry, while the kitsunes are an ancestry by itself.

Kitsune were always a separate race from hengeyokai. The shapechange of the beastkin more accurately represent the hengeyokai. Plus even in 3.5 their humanoid form was listed as being able to be almost any race similar to a versatile heritage. It was the animal that differentiated them (crane, raccoon dog, dog, cat, badger, carp, crab, fox, hare, monkey, rat sparrow and weasel). The vanara (sun goku reference) monkey folk and the spiritfolk should be separate ancestries. Vanara will be easy to make based on the catfolk and the like. The spiritfolk I see being made like the fetchlings, but kinda like fae touched humanoids (blood of dryads, nyads, satyrs and nymphs).