Most mythical races often have a mostly humanoid figure. Because of this, custom-made furniture isn't very much of a concern unless it comes to height and size (a half-ogre's chair will be different in size than a sprite's, but most likely not shape). However, more unusual races, like Driders and Centaurs, probably need their own unique furniture.
This led me to some interesting questions: What accommodations would an Arachne's house have to have? Or a Centaur's? A Merfolk's? Let's start with Driders (or Arachne, it's two names for the same creature.)
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Former Spider Queen of the Spider Guild, and friendly neighborhood scheming creature.
"Made by spiders, for spiders, of spiders."
My pronouns are she/her.
Web Weaver of Everlasting Narrative! (title bestowed by Drummer)
I'm thinking there's no need for places to sit/rest for a Drider, just tables and shelves.
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I mean, webs would seem to be an elegant solution. Form and function in one package. Hanging upside down takes as much stress off your joints as sitting.
I mean, webs would seem to be an elegant solution. Form and function in one package. Hanging upside down takes as much stress off your joints as sitting.
Maybe even better since sitting is derided for all sorts of bad effects on hips, glutes, etc. And quadrupeds have twice as many hips to worry about and drivers have four times as many points of articulation without even looking at the rest of the leg.
I don't know if this is fair of me, but frankly I always assumed a top/bottom chimerical fantasy mix like a centaur or a dryder would have the same interest in furniture as the origin species of the bottom half. So a dryder would likely prefer either a web or a dark crevice structure to fold up into. A centaur would like just want something matted to curl its legs under or just stand. Minotaurs and centaurs have more anthropomorphic interests in furniture as they present a more humanoid form.
Spiders, horses, lions, and other wildlife need no chairs or beds.
Driders being both spider and elf never sleep.
Healthy quadruped have no problems laying on their sides if they wanna. The humanoid half of such creatures should have no problem. For sitting up, healthy quadrupeds have no problem on their haunches or with their arms (what many call their "front legs") folded under to be shorter.
I think they would find it insulting for some other culture to try to alter their natural state by trying to make them use furniture for sitting and sleeping.
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Human. Male. Possibly. Don't be a divider. My characters' backgrounds are written like instruction manuals rather than stories. My opinion and preferences don't mean you're wrong. I am 99.7603% convinced that the digital dice are messing with me. I roll high when nobody's looking and low when anyone else can see.🎲 “It's a bit early to be thinking about an epitaph. No?” will be my epitaph.
Spiders, horses, lions, and other wildlife need no chairs or beds.
Driders being both spider and elf never sleep.
Healthy quadruped have no problems laying on their sides if they wanna. The humanoid half of such creatures should have no problem. For sitting up, healthy quadrupeds have no problem on their haunches or with their arms (what many call their "front legs") folded under to be shorter.
I think they would find it insulting for some other culture to try to alter their natural state by trying to make them use furniture for sitting and sleeping.
That makes sense.
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Former Spider Queen of the Spider Guild, and friendly neighborhood scheming creature.
"Made by spiders, for spiders, of spiders."
My pronouns are she/her.
Web Weaver of Everlasting Narrative! (title bestowed by Drummer)
Spiders, horses, lions, and other wildlife need no chairs or beds.
Nor do humans...but yet we have them.
Nor do dogs...but mine insist on a variety to match their current whim.
...and I think many animals would pick a bed vs. nothing when you give them a choice...including horses, pigs, cow and deer (just based on my own experience with them - give a horse an option to lay down on a flat bare barn floor or in an area covered with 6 inches of hay (a bed), it'll usually pick the hay).
If I were a spider, especially a non-webbing type, i'd say its the same piece of furniture (chair/bed)...basically a tall mattress I can rest my torso on.
That is incorrect. Humans do need chairs in community situations.
Human sitting on the ground complicates using a shelf such as a table, even a small one. Community furniture such as a table requires seating for Humanoids. Sitting on the ground with low tables requires scooting back and forth on legs. Unlike equine, canine, feline etc. which rest on the ankles and wrists, Humanoid legs usually do not handle resting on the knees for long. Spiders rest on their bodies.
The configuration of hybrids such as driders, centaurs, lamias and the like already present the proper position for community tables, and seating furniture complicates that instead.
The most you'll like find are rugs as decorations rather than utility.
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Human. Male. Possibly. Don't be a divider. My characters' backgrounds are written like instruction manuals rather than stories. My opinion and preferences don't mean you're wrong. I am 99.7603% convinced that the digital dice are messing with me. I roll high when nobody's looking and low when anyone else can see.🎲 “It's a bit early to be thinking about an epitaph. No?” will be my epitaph.
That is incorrect. Humans do need chairs in community situations.
Human sitting on the ground complicates using a shelf such as a table, even a small one. Community furniture such as a table requires seating for Humanoids.
Chairs were introduced to humanoid civilizations by the Ravenqueen (because in another thread she's everywhere) to weaken their glutes and all around posterior chains, and hips, thereby making them weaker when they must defend themselves from whatever designs she'll unleash as part of her grand plan.
This is another reason why in the Harengon reskin thread I insisted characters in D&D should never skip leg day.
Most mythical races often have a mostly humanoid figure. Because of this, custom-made furniture isn't very much of a concern unless it comes to height and size (a half-ogre's chair will be different in size than a sprite's, but most likely not shape). However, more unusual races, like Driders and Centaurs, probably need their own unique furniture.
This led me to some interesting questions: What accommodations would an Arachne's house have to have? Or a Centaur's? A Merfolk's? Let's start with Driders (or Arachne, it's two names for the same creature.)
Former Spider Queen of the Spider Guild, and friendly neighborhood scheming creature.
"Made by spiders, for spiders, of spiders."
My pronouns are she/her.
Web Weaver of Everlasting Narrative! (title bestowed by Drummer)
I'm thinking there's no need for places to sit/rest for a Drider, just tables and shelves.
Human. Male. Possibly. Don't be a divider.
My characters' backgrounds are written like instruction manuals rather than stories. My opinion and preferences don't mean you're wrong.
I am 99.7603% convinced that the digital dice are messing with me. I roll high when nobody's looking and low when anyone else can see.🎲
“It's a bit early to be thinking about an epitaph. No?” will be my epitaph.
Well, they’d need a place to sleep. They can’t just lie down on the floor (Wait, is it possible for a drider to lay down?)
Former Spider Queen of the Spider Guild, and friendly neighborhood scheming creature.
"Made by spiders, for spiders, of spiders."
My pronouns are she/her.
Web Weaver of Everlasting Narrative! (title bestowed by Drummer)
Maybe a hammock?
Former Spider Queen of the Spider Guild, and friendly neighborhood scheming creature.
"Made by spiders, for spiders, of spiders."
My pronouns are she/her.
Web Weaver of Everlasting Narrative! (title bestowed by Drummer)
Call me crazy but you seem to have a thing with spiders...
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I mean, webs would seem to be an elegant solution. Form and function in one package. Hanging upside down takes as much stress off your joints as sitting.
Maybe even better since sitting is derided for all sorts of bad effects on hips, glutes, etc. And quadrupeds have twice as many hips to worry about and drivers have four times as many points of articulation without even looking at the rest of the leg.
I don't know if this is fair of me, but frankly I always assumed a top/bottom chimerical fantasy mix like a centaur or a dryder would have the same interest in furniture as the origin species of the bottom half. So a dryder would likely prefer either a web or a dark crevice structure to fold up into. A centaur would like just want something matted to curl its legs under or just stand. Minotaurs and centaurs have more anthropomorphic interests in furniture as they present a more humanoid form.
Jander Sunstar is the thinking person's Drizzt, fight me.
Spiders, horses, lions, and other wildlife need no chairs or beds.
Driders being both spider and elf never sleep.
Healthy quadruped have no problems laying on their sides if they wanna. The humanoid half of such creatures should have no problem. For sitting up, healthy quadrupeds have no problem on their haunches or with their arms (what many call their "front legs") folded under to be shorter.
I think they would find it insulting for some other culture to try to alter their natural state by trying to make them use furniture for sitting and sleeping.
Human. Male. Possibly. Don't be a divider.
My characters' backgrounds are written like instruction manuals rather than stories. My opinion and preferences don't mean you're wrong.
I am 99.7603% convinced that the digital dice are messing with me. I roll high when nobody's looking and low when anyone else can see.🎲
“It's a bit early to be thinking about an epitaph. No?” will be my epitaph.
That makes sense.
Former Spider Queen of the Spider Guild, and friendly neighborhood scheming creature.
"Made by spiders, for spiders, of spiders."
My pronouns are she/her.
Web Weaver of Everlasting Narrative! (title bestowed by Drummer)
Nor do humans...but yet we have them.
Nor do dogs...but mine insist on a variety to match their current whim.
...and I think many animals would pick a bed vs. nothing when you give them a choice...including horses, pigs, cow and deer (just based on my own experience with them - give a horse an option to lay down on a flat bare barn floor or in an area covered with 6 inches of hay (a bed), it'll usually pick the hay).
If I were a spider, especially a non-webbing type, i'd say its the same piece of furniture (chair/bed)...basically a tall mattress I can rest my torso on.
Guide to the Five Factions (PWYW)
Deck of Decks
That is incorrect. Humans do need chairs in community situations.
Human sitting on the ground complicates using a shelf such as a table, even a small one. Community furniture such as a table requires seating for Humanoids. Sitting on the ground with low tables requires scooting back and forth on legs. Unlike equine, canine, feline etc. which rest on the ankles and wrists, Humanoid legs usually do not handle resting on the knees for long. Spiders rest on their bodies.
The configuration of hybrids such as driders, centaurs, lamias and the like already present the proper position for community tables, and seating furniture complicates that instead.
The most you'll like find are rugs as decorations rather than utility.
Human. Male. Possibly. Don't be a divider.
My characters' backgrounds are written like instruction manuals rather than stories. My opinion and preferences don't mean you're wrong.
I am 99.7603% convinced that the digital dice are messing with me. I roll high when nobody's looking and low when anyone else can see.🎲
“It's a bit early to be thinking about an epitaph. No?” will be my epitaph.
no it doesn't. you should get out more. go east (uh, or west). https://travelhabeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/seoul-food5.jpg
i'm also wildly guessing that humans developed communities prior to building chairs.
Guide to the Five Factions (PWYW)
Deck of Decks
Chairs were introduced to humanoid civilizations by the Ravenqueen (because in another thread she's everywhere) to weaken their glutes and all around posterior chains, and hips, thereby making them weaker when they must defend themselves from whatever designs she'll unleash as part of her grand plan.
This is another reason why in the Harengon reskin thread I insisted characters in D&D should never skip leg day.
Jander Sunstar is the thinking person's Drizzt, fight me.