I was thinking of various racial comparisons between humanoids and non-humanoid (for the purpose of this I'm considering humanoid to be roughly mammalian, not just four limbs, bipedal, and a head) and found myself wondering if dwarves has a non-humanoid equivalent such as gnomes to kobolds, lizard folk to goliaths, dragonborn to humans, etc. I did find the Saurials as a possible gap to cover a variety of other humanoid comparisons, but I'm not sure if one really fits as a counterpoint to dwarves. Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated. I had considered the frog and fish folk as a broader non humanoid category than strictly reptilian/dragonoid, but am still a bit torn.
Some sort of elemental folk? Constructs? What else? Mole people would be mammals, so that's off. Crab- or lobstermen?
Personally, I'd likely go with a remnant colony of ancient saurial people - maybe in hibernation since the fall of their long forgotten empire at the end of the crustacean period (and yes, I know it's not called that).
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It would be rather strange, but it could really be any small mammal. (About how dwarves are mammals).
Here is a list: Capybara, groundhog, mole, hedgehog, and a lowland streaked tenrec. Though all of these are mammals, they are not human-like at all. It could be some sort of ancestry, but evolving must have grown smaller.
In my opinion, any creature that states ancestry would probably make sense. So a ancient tribe in hiding or hibernation (maybe even migration) would most likely make sense.
Indeed. Some food for thought there. Since posting, I'd started thinking of making an Ant race with sort of a similar concept history to the Chimaera Ants from Hunter x Hunter. Maybe not a direct rip, but something in that direction to explain their growth and development plus societal tendencies. A custom Saurial subspecies could work also, but I'd really have to research Dinosaucers as it's been... I don't know, 30 years.
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I was thinking of various racial comparisons between humanoids and non-humanoid (for the purpose of this I'm considering humanoid to be roughly mammalian, not just four limbs, bipedal, and a head) and found myself wondering if dwarves has a non-humanoid equivalent such as gnomes to kobolds, lizard folk to goliaths, dragonborn to humans, etc. I did find the Saurials as a possible gap to cover a variety of other humanoid comparisons, but I'm not sure if one really fits as a counterpoint to dwarves. Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated. I had considered the frog and fish folk as a broader non humanoid category than strictly reptilian/dragonoid, but am still a bit torn.
Some sort of elemental folk? Constructs? What else? Mole people would be mammals, so that's off. Crab- or lobstermen?
Personally, I'd likely go with a remnant colony of ancient saurial people - maybe in hibernation since the fall of their long forgotten empire at the end of the crustacean period (and yes, I know it's not called that).
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.
It would be rather strange, but it could really be any small mammal. (About how dwarves are mammals).
Here is a list: Capybara, groundhog, mole, hedgehog, and a lowland streaked tenrec. Though all of these are mammals, they are not human-like at all. It could be some sort of ancestry, but evolving must have grown smaller.
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In my opinion, any creature that states ancestry would probably make sense. So a ancient tribe in hiding or hibernation (maybe even migration) would most likely make sense.
Indeed. Some food for thought there. Since posting, I'd started thinking of making an Ant race with sort of a similar concept history to the Chimaera Ants from Hunter x Hunter. Maybe not a direct rip, but something in that direction to explain their growth and development plus societal tendencies. A custom Saurial subspecies could work also, but I'd really have to research Dinosaucers as it's been... I don't know, 30 years.