Aumaua Suggestion: Giant bi-ped River Rats

[Durinax]

We've seen shark people in BG2 already when they boarded your ship. They were savage, but still sociable, I would like to see some seafaring race of shark people that is not barbaric savages and have own developed culture.

Sadly, when I tried to search for sharkmen pictures to see how they may look like, most results were...porn. Makes me lose faith in humanity.

hilarious! gave me a good chuckle

[Jasede]

Philistines.

[.Leif.]

Rat-men have been done before, I am a huge warhammer fan and the skaven are cool and all, but I don't really want to see another rat-man race and I would rather the anthropomorphic animal races be kept to a minimum because well... like Leif said, furries ruin everything.

TBH I'd rather have a legion of Beastmen deep in the woods than the ratlings but I would settle for both.

[Rosveen]

I think this would lead to some very interesting romance threads.

 

This would be interesting. I don't think I'd like to play as a giant rat, then again this is what I once said about Argonians and now my character in Daggerfall is an Argonian assassin.

I'd rather see a humanoid otter, though. Otters are adorable and deadly.

[Greydragon]

Who else thought of 'Wind in the Willows' when they read the thread title? 

 

Seriously though, ratmen and other common anthropomorphs have been used far too regularly, particularly in D&D. Although almost exclusively as enemies. I could live with playable intelligent rats, but there are plenty of interesting alternatives.

Primitive Bear-men barely able to talk?

Evolved dinosaurs? 

How about an advanced insectoid race? 

Beings of living crystal?

Shapeless beings?

Living souls in inanimate bodies (like a golem/quasi-elemental race)

etc. 

[Macbeth]

You say bi-ped rat and I think Lands of Lore

That is more than enough to give the idea a resounding +1

 

[Lephys]

Rat-men have been done before, I am a huge warhammer fan and the skaven are cool and all, but I don't really want to see another rat-man race and I would rather the anthropomorphic animal races be kept to a minimum because well... like Leif said, furries ruin everything.

Hell hath no... ... Furry? ... Like a woman scorned by the genetic splicing of animal DNA?

[AGX-17]

Who else thought of 'Wind in the Willows' when they read the thread title? 

 

Seriously though, ratmen and other common anthropomorphs have been used far too regularly, particularly in D&D. Although almost exclusively as enemies. I could live with playable intelligent rats, but there are plenty of interesting alternatives.

Primitive Bear-men barely able to talk?

Evolved dinosaurs? 

How about an advanced insectoid race? 

Beings of living crystal?

Shapeless beings?

Living souls in inanimate bodies (like a golem/quasi-elemental race)

etc.

 

...You lose. Race already designed.

http://eternitywiki.com/File:AumauaWizard.jpg

Edited February 22, 2013 by AGX-17

[Lephys]

...You lose. Race already designed.

http://eternitywiki.com/File:AumauaWizard.jpg

If creatively brainstorming potential physiologies for video game races is losing, I'm not sure I want to win.

[Greydragon]

 

Who else thought of 'Wind in the Willows' when they read the thread title? 

 

Seriously though, ratmen and other common anthropomorphs have been used far too regularly, particularly in D&D. Although almost exclusively as enemies. I could live with playable intelligent rats, but there are plenty of interesting alternatives.

Primitive Bear-men barely able to talk?

Evolved dinosaurs? 

How about an advanced insectoid race? 

Beings of living crystal?

Shapeless beings?

Living souls in inanimate bodies (like a golem/quasi-elemental race)

etc.

 

...You lose. Race already designed.

http://eternitywiki.com/File:AumauaWizard.jpg

Didn't you even read the post? I did say that I was fine with it. So how did I lose exactly? The ideas I threw out were just random ideas and nothing more. I wasn't attempting to design the race. If I were you can be sure they would be far more detailed. A couple of lines? I write sagas for fun, friend.

 

Besides I'm busy imagining the reaction of a rat-man being asked as an intro quest to kill rats in a basement. 

I can see potential for some great one liners, taunts and actions.