All right, perhaps I am showing my true colours but I like my characters to resemble a humanoid. I mean I don't mind the thought of looking like an elf, but a rabbit ....
Can you play a Harengon without looking like Peter?
Well on the 5e server I run on, we have a player who used a halfling for their race to play a bunny person. So yeah. You can do whatever as long as your DM doesn't veto it.
I mean, if the appearance of the species makes you uncomfortable, you know Hare is the leading root word to the species, right? But if your DM's fine with it, you can articulate yourself as a humanoid who never skips leg day, sure.
Appearance is cosmetic. If you want to say that your character looks like an elf, a human, or a turtle despite being a Harengon, knock yourself out. It doesn't have an effect on the game.
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Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
RAW? No. That's what a Harengon is. It would be like a human looking like a tiger.
In reality? If the DM is happy, you could just reskin them. Have the stats of a Harengon but look human. You'd probably want to invent a reason why a human has the jumping abilities of a rabbit, but you're there to have fun...so why not?
As for reasons why:
- Maybe you're really a Harengon but someone cast polymorph and it went wrong. You're still Harengon, but you look human.
- Same, but a real rabbit.
- Same, but in reverse.
- You have some Harengon ancestry.
- You were teleporting when a rabbit ran upto to you last second and you had a teleporter accident.
- You were bitten by a Wererabbit.
You get the idea.
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Only your DM could tell. As a DM, i'd let you be a half-harengon, meaning you'd generally look human with some disticnt features. Perhaps big hears, legs, front teeth and harelip.
All right, perhaps I am showing my true colours but I like my characters to resemble a humanoid. I mean I don't mind the thought of looking like an elf, but a rabbit ....
Can you play a Harengon without looking like Peter?
Well, I doubt you would get the "Rabbit Hop" racial ability if you didn't look like a rabbit.
They're, fey they follow magic rules not logic they can look humanoid and you can work around the abilities easily. Some examples:
You can do the thing like the tv show grimm where they appear human to most but appear rabbit like to certain people who can see "true forms".
They can be almost entirely human and the abilities can be magical, like they astral project rabbit legs to jump.
you can go for a saytr deal where they have rabbit ears and maybe rabbit legs
It can be really subtle magic where they have like a rabbit tattoo that gives them rabbit powers.
you can be a bunny person with just rabbit ears
They are all very fey appearances to me and something like a harengon could easily look like any of those. Id actually be surprised if all harengons looked the same because chaos is what fey are all about.
I like a lot of the creativity on this thread, but there's a big point being missed here, the OP doesn't seem to like rabbits. At. All.
Now Elmer Fudd issues aside, you don't have to "rabbit" a haregon reskin at all it at all. There's plenty of ways, conceits, through which a fey creature could have leaping, furtive alertness, etc ability without having to claim rabbit, or kangaroo, or frog lineage (though you could, or even goats and have a satyr). They could just be a very athletically balletic lineage of Fey. Reskinning does not require vestigial traces of the aspect of the original that made the player cringe.
For example, you could take Drow, and just use their features but have the whole race look like Admiral Trench in the Star Wars Clone Wars show (forget species, and I lean on my Star Wars lore through my head not wookiepedia).
Of course, as almost everyone has been careful to point out, this isn't the player's call so much as an opportunity to pitch an idea to the DM. You can always ask.
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If it were my table I'd tell you to break down the race to its mechanical pieces, build up new flavor around those abilities (preferably with an eye towards the campaign world), and present it to me. You'd probably have to do a pretty bad job for me to say no.
On the other hand, it's a pretty strong race. I could see a point of view that might accuse you of just wanting to play a human but snag the abilities of a stronger race*, which although it doesn't technically hurt anything, speaks to a particular approach to the game that some DMs want to discourage. It's not my point of view, but I get it.
*I'm not interested in arguing whether harengon is actually a stronger choice than human, it's more about perceived intent here.
I mean, D&D is all about making your own character, right? It doesn't have to look like a hare to be a Harengon. Besides, they're Fey creatures. They can look how they choose to. But just in case, be sure to ask your DM.
If you use the OneD&D hybrid race rules you can make a half-Harengon that has all the harengon traits but looks more like something else. Like you could make a half-orc with leporine legs that twitches his nose :)
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All right, perhaps I am showing my true colours but I like my characters to resemble a humanoid. I mean I don't mind the thought of looking like an elf, but a rabbit ....
Can you play a Harengon without looking like Peter?
Well on the 5e server I run on, we have a player who used a halfling for their race to play a bunny person. So yeah. You can do whatever as long as your DM doesn't veto it.
Er ek geng, þat er í þeim skóm er ek valda.
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I mean, if the appearance of the species makes you uncomfortable, you know Hare is the leading root word to the species, right? But if your DM's fine with it, you can articulate yourself as a humanoid who never skips leg day, sure.
Jander Sunstar is the thinking person's Drizzt, fight me.
Talk to your DM. None of us can answer that for you.
Appearance is cosmetic. If you want to say that your character looks like an elf, a human, or a turtle despite being a Harengon, knock yourself out. It doesn't have an effect on the game.
Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
RAW? No. That's what a Harengon is. It would be like a human looking like a tiger.
In reality? If the DM is happy, you could just reskin them. Have the stats of a Harengon but look human. You'd probably want to invent a reason why a human has the jumping abilities of a rabbit, but you're there to have fun...so why not?
As for reasons why:
- Maybe you're really a Harengon but someone cast polymorph and it went wrong. You're still Harengon, but you look human.
- Same, but a real rabbit.
- Same, but in reverse.
- You have some Harengon ancestry.
- You were teleporting when a rabbit ran upto to you last second and you had a teleporter accident.
- You were bitten by a Wererabbit.
You get the idea.
If you're not willing or able to to discuss in good faith, then don't be surprised if I don't respond, there are better things in life for me to do than humour you. This signature is that response.
Only your DM could tell. As a DM, i'd let you be a half-harengon, meaning you'd generally look human with some disticnt features. Perhaps big hears, legs, front teeth and harelip.
Well, I doubt you would get the "Rabbit Hop" racial ability if you didn't look like a rabbit.
Rename the ability or just call it something like a totemic connection to rabbits and it still works.
Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
Never skips leg day, and leg day is box jumps.
Jander Sunstar is the thinking person's Drizzt, fight me.
They're, fey they follow magic rules not logic they can look humanoid and you can work around the abilities easily. Some examples:
They are all very fey appearances to me and something like a harengon could easily look like any of those. Id actually be surprised if all harengons looked the same because chaos is what fey are all about.
I like a lot of the creativity on this thread, but there's a big point being missed here, the OP doesn't seem to like rabbits. At. All.
Now Elmer Fudd issues aside, you don't have to "rabbit" a haregon reskin at all it at all. There's plenty of ways, conceits, through which a fey creature could have leaping, furtive alertness, etc ability without having to claim rabbit, or kangaroo, or frog lineage (though you could, or even goats and have a satyr). They could just be a very athletically balletic lineage of Fey. Reskinning does not require vestigial traces of the aspect of the original that made the player cringe.
For example, you could take Drow, and just use their features but have the whole race look like Admiral Trench in the Star Wars Clone Wars show (forget species, and I lean on my Star Wars lore through my head not wookiepedia).
Of course, as almost everyone has been careful to point out, this isn't the player's call so much as an opportunity to pitch an idea to the DM. You can always ask.
Jander Sunstar is the thinking person's Drizzt, fight me.
If it were my table I'd tell you to break down the race to its mechanical pieces, build up new flavor around those abilities (preferably with an eye towards the campaign world), and present it to me. You'd probably have to do a pretty bad job for me to say no.
On the other hand, it's a pretty strong race. I could see a point of view that might accuse you of just wanting to play a human but snag the abilities of a stronger race*, which although it doesn't technically hurt anything, speaks to a particular approach to the game that some DMs want to discourage. It's not my point of view, but I get it.
*I'm not interested in arguing whether harengon is actually a stronger choice than human, it's more about perceived intent here.
My homebrew subclasses (full list here)
(Artificer) Swordmage | Glasswright | (Barbarian) Path of the Savage Embrace
(Bard) College of Dance | (Fighter) Warlord | Cannoneer
(Monk) Way of the Elements | (Ranger) Blade Dancer
(Rogue) DaggerMaster | Inquisitor | (Sorcerer) Riftwalker | Spellfist
(Warlock) The Swarm
Yes. You can look like Bugs or Roger instead.
Or if you favor a more chartreuse approach, there's Bucky, Jaxxon, and Jazz.
I mean, D&D is all about making your own character, right? It doesn't have to look like a hare to be a Harengon. Besides, they're Fey creatures. They can look how they choose to. But just in case, be sure to ask your DM.
Ask your DM.
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The direction of that D&D is going is such that you can make your character whatever the hell you want it to be and no one can tell you otherwise.
I for one am looking forward to getting people to reconcile that my elf is in fact a perpetually burning humanoid tire fire.
At my table no my sister litrally played as carrot from that pirate anime one piece and she was a Harengon .
If you use the OneD&D hybrid race rules you can make a half-Harengon that has all the harengon traits but looks more like something else. Like you could make a half-orc with leporine legs that twitches his nose :)