So ... this is going to sound stupid: I hate tabaxi - but I need to know everything I can learn about them. Not primarily the stuff I can just look up online, because ... I can look that up online. And obviously also not all the stuff I need to pay for access to.
What I'm after is everyone's impression of them. What do you use them for, how and where do they live, what's their society like, all that good stuff.
Thing is: Since I hate tabaxi, they're a total blank for me. And now I happen to actually need on. It's my own fault, really. But when you have a place called The Land of the Beast-Headed Men (and Women), they can't all be dogs*, right? So I kinda dug my own grave on that one.
Maybe I should add that ... I'm not going to have any tabaxi. But I will have a race called Pantherans. Which, if you look closely, is essentially the same thing. With a better name.
* and bulls and snakes and crocodiles and .. eventually, you'll need a cat, or it just starts to look strange.
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Blanket disclaimer: I only ever state opinion. But I can sound terribly dogmatic - so if you feel I'm trying to tell you what to think, I'm really not, I swear. I'm telling you what I think, that's all.
In times long past, refugees from future earth arrived on the world. They called it N'earth. Most of them retreated to a city they called Heaven, but some, having become separated from their compatriots, settled elsewhere. They built a city of the future--complete with AI controlled arcologies--and life was good. Then, they tried to call home. The city of the future became a haunted graveyard in a single moment, as the entire population was translated into incorporeal undead at the press of a button. Why am I telling you this history? Because years later, the leftover concrete jungle became the abode of tabaxi. Probably they migrated from the desert outside the city. Unable to enter the city's buildings on account of hostile algorithms and wraiths, they made their homes on roofs and in sewers. From there, they spread out into the world through nautical voyages. Once, humans from elsewhere in the world knew them as The Enemy from Across the Waves; now, they are the piratical menace who hound the dreams of sailors. Their society is something like what I imagine the Iroquois Confederation to have been. Also, one group is lead by a dread pirate who is the spirit of a deep dragon inhabiting the undead corpse of a former tabaxi buccaneer. She goes by "M."
P. S. I find Tabaxi to be a better moniker if you pronounce the "x" as if it were pinyin, making an aspirated "sh" sound...
In times long past, refugees from future earth arrived on the world. They called it N'earth. Most of them retreated to a city they called Heaven, but some, having become separated from their compatriots, settled elsewhere. They built a city of the future--complete with AI controlled arcologies--and life was good. Then, they tried to call home. The city of the future became a haunted graveyard in a single moment, as the entire population was translated into incorporeal undead at the press of a button. Why am I telling you this history? Because years later, the leftover concrete jungle became the abode of tabaxi. Probably they migrated from the desert outside the city. Unable to enter the city's buildings on account of hostile algorithms and wraiths, they made their homes on roofs and in sewers. From there, they spread out into the world through nautical voyages. Once, humans from elsewhere in the world knew them as The Enemy from Across the Waves; now, they are the piratical menace who hound the dreams of sailors. Their society is something like what I imagine the Iroquois Confederation to have been. Also, one group is lead by a dread pirate who is the spirit of a deep dragon inhabiting the undead corpse of a former tabaxi buccaneer. She goes by "M."
P. S. I find Tabaxi to be a better moniker if you pronounce the "x" as if it were pinyin, making an aspirated "sh" sound...
Huh - interesting. I'm guessing that's not the ... official dogma?
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Blanket disclaimer: I only ever state opinion. But I can sound terribly dogmatic - so if you feel I'm trying to tell you what to think, I'm really not, I swear. I'm telling you what I think, that's all.
Basically cats. They are humanoids with the personality of house cats. Personality wise, think the Khajite from Elderscrolls.
They are interested in exploring and finding good stories, but might get bord with an object once they get it. They mostly look like big jungle cats, but nothing says you can't have them also take after the ones that are desert or plains dwelling, or look like humanoid house cats (make it a monk-Celestial Warlock Multi Class, and now you can play Beerus).
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So ... this is going to sound stupid: I hate tabaxi - but I need to know everything I can learn about them. Not primarily the stuff I can just look up online, because ... I can look that up online. And obviously also not all the stuff I need to pay for access to.
What I'm after is everyone's impression of them. What do you use them for, how and where do they live, what's their society like, all that good stuff.
Thing is: Since I hate tabaxi, they're a total blank for me. And now I happen to actually need on. It's my own fault, really. But when you have a place called The Land of the Beast-Headed Men (and Women), they can't all be dogs*, right? So I kinda dug my own grave on that one.
Maybe I should add that ... I'm not going to have any tabaxi. But I will have a race called Pantherans. Which, if you look closely, is essentially the same thing. With a better name.
* and bulls and snakes and crocodiles and .. eventually, you'll need a cat, or it just starts to look strange.
Blanket disclaimer: I only ever state opinion. But I can sound terribly dogmatic - so if you feel I'm trying to tell you what to think, I'm really not, I swear. I'm telling you what I think, that's all.
In times long past, refugees from future earth arrived on the world. They called it N'earth. Most of them retreated to a city they called Heaven, but some, having become separated from their compatriots, settled elsewhere. They built a city of the future--complete with AI controlled arcologies--and life was good. Then, they tried to call home. The city of the future became a haunted graveyard in a single moment, as the entire population was translated into incorporeal undead at the press of a button. Why am I telling you this history? Because years later, the leftover concrete jungle became the abode of tabaxi. Probably they migrated from the desert outside the city. Unable to enter the city's buildings on account of hostile algorithms and wraiths, they made their homes on roofs and in sewers. From there, they spread out into the world through nautical voyages. Once, humans from elsewhere in the world knew them as The Enemy from Across the Waves; now, they are the piratical menace who hound the dreams of sailors. Their society is something like what I imagine the Iroquois Confederation to have been. Also, one group is lead by a dread pirate who is the spirit of a deep dragon inhabiting the undead corpse of a former tabaxi buccaneer. She goes by "M."
P. S. I find Tabaxi to be a better moniker if you pronounce the "x" as if it were pinyin, making an aspirated "sh" sound...
Huh - interesting. I'm guessing that's not the ... official dogma?
Blanket disclaimer: I only ever state opinion. But I can sound terribly dogmatic - so if you feel I'm trying to tell you what to think, I'm really not, I swear. I'm telling you what I think, that's all.
Basically cats. They are humanoids with the personality of house cats. Personality wise, think the Khajite from Elderscrolls.
They are interested in exploring and finding good stories, but might get bord with an object once they get it. They mostly look like big jungle cats, but nothing says you can't have them also take after the ones that are desert or plains dwelling, or look like humanoid house cats (make it a monk-Celestial Warlock Multi Class, and now you can play Beerus).