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Does the setting have a ready one to fall back on? And no, the anadi don’t count :)
There's always the thriae, though I'm not sure how well that fits in to a lot of PF2 ancestry design.
Maybe not exactly what you're looking for but there are the Girtabilu. Other than that, the thriae mentioned above and maybe formians from Castrovel.
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There’s also insectile BEASTKIN (I love that for whatever reason autocorrect always capitalizes that so I’m leaving it).
There’s Shirren from Starfinder.
Could also have a breakaway from The Hive or whatever they are. The xenomorph thingies in Nidal.
Thriae would be my best bet though.
I want a moff/butterfly though.
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Do Melixie count?
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Do Melixie count?
I have a player making a Melixie bard who looks like a bee, and uses their buzzing, chirruping, and inhuman vocalization to play dubstep. They're a dubstep bee.
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If they want to get real wild, there are the D'ziriak.
It would be cool if there were a race like the Phraints from Arduin (an old, amazing D&D setting that was in many respects way ahead of its time), or the Tri-keen, which were similar in some ways to 4 armed Phraints.
The schtick people liked about Phraints was that they would jump over you while throwning a javelin, and then land behind you, quick draw a greatsword, and hit you in the back.
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I want a moff/butterfly though.
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Reflavor a sprite. They are tiny!
Formians and Lashunta would make me very happy :)
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I want moth people.
I didn't know I wanted moth people before reading this thread, but now I very much want moth people.
I want moth people.
I didn't know I wanted moth people before reading this thread, but now I very much want moth people.
As mentioned Melixie can resonably include moth people.
Toss my vote in for if we ever get a Golden Road book like the Mwangi one a humanoid scarab race would be pretty sweet imo. Would want them to be small sized.
Toss my vote in for if we ever get a Golden Road book like the Mwangi one a humanoid scarab race would be pretty sweet imo. Would want them to be small sized.
Not Small or scarabs, but the wiki says that there’s Formians living in Katapesh’s mountains.
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It would be cool if there were a race like the Phraints from Arduin (an old, amazing D&D setting that was in many respects way ahead of its time), or the Tri-keen, which were similar in some ways to 4 armed Phraints.
The schtick people liked about Phraints was that they would jump over you while throwning a javelin, and then land behind you, quick draw a greatsword, and hit you in the back.
Phraints, and other bug-folk like the Aspis and Xixchil and Rastipedes, were always faves. Some non-arachnid bug-peeps could be cool.
But yeah, some sort of Osiriani scarab-beetle types could be cool and more distinctive than yet another ant or mantis folk. (And not have the bother of wings, or ties to Desna or Calistria, that a butterfly or wasp person would have.)
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A shout out for cockroach people! It could be so very fun to play a cockroach person, and the general toughness, stealth, and creepiness of the species would make for some great abilities.
To be fair,formians are quadruped and still have arms
Really, since "number of arms" no longer really matters like it used to, you can have as many as you want and it's no longer imbalancing.
Like how many arms can a Conrasu have? A Cecaelia technically has 10 arms, they're just walking on 8 of them.
Really, since "number of arms" no longer really matters like it used to, you can have as many as you want and it's no longer imbalancing.
Like how many arms can a Conrasu have? A Cecaelia technically has 10 arms, they're just walking on 8 of them.
Has me real worried about the eventual Kasatha return, though.
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Sorry to necro this thread, but a friend just pointed out the Bog Striders in Bestiary 2; they're Aberrations, but Neutral-aligned, Medium-sized, only have two arms, and forbid eating the flesh of sapient beings. They even have their own name - they refer to themselves as Seshes! Whoever put them together definitely wants them to be reasonable and friendly, and they could be a lot of fun to play as.
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Bog Striders are dope. I'd be totally cool with them being stated up as an ancestry
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I want moth people.
I didn't know I wanted moth people before reading this thread, but now I very much want moth people.
For what it's worth, I'm actually working on a bee/wasp race and a moth race right now.
Bog Striders are dope. I'd be totally cool with them being stated up as an ancestry
Swamp bugs, hmm? My desire for a moth ancestry is truly being tested.
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For what it's worth, I'm actually working on a bee/wasp race and a moth race right now.I want moth people.
I didn't know I wanted moth people before reading this thread, but now I very much want moth people.
I have enough friends who are diehard fans of moths that I have to endorse this… but specially with the Mothra vs Godzilla watch party we’re doing in a few days.
For what it's worth, I'm actually working on a bee/wasp race and a moth race right now.I want moth people.
I didn't know I wanted moth people before reading this thread, but now I very much want moth people.
Putting it on Infinite (or related) or personal use only?
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Yeah, I'm hoping to publish it, if I can get my impostor syndrome in check. :P
The concepts are a sort of "fallen Thriae" ancestry with heritages for honeybee, paper wasp and yellowjacket, and an ancestry of moth/butterfly people whose wings are constantly "leaking" illusion magic.
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Yeah, I'm hoping to publish it, if I can get my impostor syndrome in check. :P
The concepts are a sort of "fallen Thriae" ancestry with heritages for honeybee, paper wasp and yellowjacket, and an ancestry of moth/butterfly people whose wings are constantly "leaking" illusion magic.
KC, everyone has imposter syndrome.
Owen KC Stephens has written that even sometimes suffers from it. So... write the thing. It will be awesome, and someone out there will love to play it.
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Okay, back to the main topic. I want Starfinder's Bolida in PF2. I want to burrow, and be able to curl up into a ball and roll into enemies. CHAAAARGE!
As much as I love shirren, we should not have shirren in Pathfinder 2e unless they came through a time rift. Shirren were born in the Swarm. They and klikharps broke off from the swarm in the time of confusion when the Gap ended, so about 0AG on the Starfinder calendar. They are one of the youngest races in Starfinder.
Hmm
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Personally, I'm still a diopsid fangirl. And a dvati fangirl. Honestly, we've already basically got tibbits, so we're already started on the Dragon Compendium reunion tour.
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I definitely wouldn't mind seeing 2e Trox, and their extra arms being kind of weak and vestigial gets around the designer worries about having multiple sets of functional hands.
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And The Hive feel like one of those species that are really intended to be monsters. It's hard to be a good guy when your only way of reproduction is to infest someone with worms and then erupt out of their cocooned body. I could see them being a corruption though, if we get corruption rules in PF2E, which I'm personally hoping for.
It's an underrated series, but Andromeda had Rev Bem who was amazing and totally this. (*note the magog were not insectoid, but that is their mean of propogation)
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Recently in the Arcadia section of the Guns & Gears book it was mentioned on page 221 that there are a "insectile race called klinkois". Perhaps we'll see these sooner rather than later?
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Recently in the Arcadia section of the Guns & Gears book it was mentioned on page 221 that there are a "insectile race called klinkois". Perhaps we'll see these sooner rather than later?
I can’t help but think of how the conrasu, goloma, and shisk were teased before the Mwangi book - or the two new ancestries mentioned in that Vudra backmatter article. Fingers crossed!
Recently in the Arcadia section of the Guns & Gears book it was mentioned on page 221 that there are a "insectile race called klinkois". Perhaps we'll see these sooner rather than later?I can’t help but think of how the conrasu, goloma, and shisk were teased before the Mwangi book - or the two new ancestries mentioned in that Vudra backmatter article. Fingers crossed!
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What were the vudra ancestries?
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Recently in the Arcadia section of the Guns & Gears book it was mentioned on page 221 that there are a "insectile race called klinkois". Perhaps we'll see these sooner rather than later?I can’t help but think of how the conrasu, goloma, and shisk were teased before the Mwangi book - or the two new ancestries mentioned in that Vudra backmatter article. Fingers crossed!.
What were the vudra ancestries?
Other ancestries uncommon in the Inner Sea are more widely known in Vudra, including simian vanaras, ophidian vishkanyas, clever ratfolk, rhino-headed kashrishis, and cunning but curse‑twisted ratajins.
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I kind of hope we get playable Rakshasa and we recontextualize them away from the D&D version and towards the Ramayana/Mahabharata version.
As in they were fierced, fanged people who specialized in illusion magic, shapeshifting who fought for both good and evil causes. Like Ghatotkacha and Vibhishana were good guys in the epics!
What happened to our friendly spiders, the Anadi? Has everyone forgotten about them?
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Spiders are arachnids, not insects.