Turning D&D Tabaxi into catgirls (and catboys)
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- Опубликовано: 20 авг 2024
- I never really got into Tabaxi that much before making that video, but as soon as I did the catgirl catboy catperson twist was obvious. Anyway I apologize for nothing in this video. I am cringe, but I am free. And yes, I love Miqo'te, why you ask?
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Thanks to Maeve for providing her amazing voice! Go check out her incredible art here: / drawmaevedraw
Video Editing by the amazing Bia: / bnazf
Writing, Illustration, and Narration by me: / antodemico
*glomps u* >w< nya :3
no.
Kawaiiiiiii~
Glomps!
Just wanted to throw this fun combo out there for anyone who wants to go absurdly fast. I call it *"The Psionic Bullet"*
Play a Tabaxi Psi Warrior, multiclassed with Bladesinger, take the Mobile feat, and get them some Boots of Speed.
Mobile + Bladesong gives you a 50ft Walking speed (or just preemptively cast Longstrider on yourself if you don't wanna take the feat).
Activate the Boots of Speed to double that, giving you a 100ft speed.
Cast Haste on yourself to double your speed again, 200ft.
Use Feline Agility to double your speed once more, 400ft.
And finally use Psi Powered Leap to give yourself a Flying speed equal to twice your Walking speed, giving you an 800ft Fly speed.
At max that's 800ft for your movement + 800ft for your Haste action + 800ft for your Dash action + 800ft for you Action Surge action = 3,200ft of Flight in a single turn.
(throws out arms into a semi crushing embrace) HUGS ARE ALWAYS ACCEPTED!
My favorite DMing trick I've ever pulled the players found a Tabaxi village in the midst of a prepping for a celebration. The players learned that they were performing a ritual that would allow the reincarnation spell to force the resurrected into a young Tabaxi body, and there was a ball to pick who would be reborn. They are slowly introduced to various characters, and each time things get just a bit more musical. I had to make sure that no one asked about names, and to just not mention any since that would give away the game. I just referred to them as "The lazy teacher, or the cat about town." Eventually the tuxedo cat was performing some stage magic one of the players finally asks his name. When I said it was Mr. Mistoffelees, the light finally clicked and they realized the entire game had just been CATS the musical.
LMAOOO what was their reaction
It took me half way through this comment to figure it out. I’m disappointed in myself
I hadn't seen any version of CATS, so I thought it was a slow burn reveal for them being a cult sacrificing non tabaxi to increase there numbers.
@@joseda3rd354 I figured it out at 'reborn.' What does that say about me?
I figured it out fairly early in the description, but then my spawn is a huge fan of the musical. (She's an adult now and one of her cats is named Mr. Mistoffelees)
I had a child tabaxi npc. Party instantly fell in love with him. I enjoyed playing into making him the mixture of a naive kid and a kitten. Like he would bring the party dead mice and bats.
I just love the visual of this cat with the size and proportions of a human 9 year old. A really excitable child talking like a normal kid and then immediately doing some stupid cat shit. One time he started loafing like a cat would. Which makes no sense given him having human proportions .
its all fun and games untill the child got killed and the party is faced with the moral consequences of bringing a child into mortal danger
@@sumdude5172 9 lives babeyyyyy!
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Fortunately for them, my players never brought him on any of their adventures out in dangerous territory. There was a long debate about it though, where they eventually decided it would be a bad idea to bring the cat child to a country of vampires haha
@@MJ-zl3vo Need to be careful about bat country.
🥺🥺🥺
One of my favorite tabaxi characters is Coco, A Shadow Monk who became a monk and adventurer for the sole reason of being able to eat chocolate without getting sick. (Cause chocolate is poison for cats, but higher level monks get poison immunity)
So when their monk friend mentioned that being a monk made them immune to poison, they immediately joined the closest Dojo.
omg that's amazing lmao
Tabaxi paladin- oath of vengeance against the god that made them unable yo eat chocolate
You can't stop me from calling the Felis' secret cat language Thieves' Cat
YES YES YES YES!
lol
the +1 charisma is clearly because they are adorable kitties :3
"And the horse is also a furry." That killed me right there!
"Why does your horse start breathing heavily when you ride it?"
"...If I told you, you wouldn't believe me."
The "you sit around with other nerds and dare say tabaxi/furries are cringe" part made me laugh so hard. And you're so right!!
"It is a great shame to depend on anyone but themselves" dude, that's one of the defining characteristics of a house cat
For anyone that cares, the cat lord is one of the Animal Lords, there is one for every type of animal, they live in the beastlands and are at the level of demigods outside the beastlands but inside they are as powerful as greater deities, the great minds of the forgotten realms arent sure what are they, some say they are living fragments of the beastlands, but who knows
Is there an elephant lord that loxodon worship?
cool
This is literally the most fascinating piece of D&D lore I've ever heard. Why the hell has this never come up in any campaign I've ever played!?
@@theman6422 there is an animal lord for evry family of animals, for examplr, the cat lord is also the lord of tigers, so yeah, there is an elephant lord
@@0Fyrebrand0 its very niche lore
The Cat lord is a part of a broad collection of animal-themed paragons who represent idealized forms of animals at their peak, called the "beast lords" or the "animal lords", native to the Beastlands (the CG/NG outer-plane)
IIRC, the Cat Lord appeared in the "Gord the Rogue" Greyhawk books, one of the first novel series to be written expressly for the D&D game. I don't recall much about the CL's role though, as lead character Gord was such a Marty Stu edgelord jerk that I barely managed to finish them once.
Now the picture of a cat in a wizard's hat selling potions makes sense. I need Tabaxi to be my potion seller
My potions are too strong for you, traveler.
Khajiit has wares, if, you have coin...
@@sev1120 Aww man, all I have is this Skooma.
It is I! Garfield! The deals warlock!
ther is a series doofus about mostly a cat in th waku anothr great eries, world, that has a shop and adventure and is about telling stories. Didnt know thats probaly where it comes from.
Honestly not a surprise as like wakfu is very dnd ajecent if vey un its own right, and from a vido game mmo. with word puns.
Even the more a member of a antasyrace resembles their virtues, the closer they look to the god.
You are like a breath of fresh air in the Dungeons and Dragons community. Its been a while since I fell in love with the work of a content creator like this. Thank you!
Tabaxi monks and rogues are powerhouses. The video and humor are awesome! I’d love to see your take on an Canine based race, weird that we have so many animal based races on 5e but no dogs
Just like in skyrim. Sigh, looks like the world never changed
could play a lycanthrope or a wolf-flavored shifter
@@seguaye fair enough, I tried shifter once but some thing felt off-ish , I’d just like some love from WOTC
Well, technically there are the Khenra introduced in Amokhet, they have stats and traits, but so far aren't in any official book.
The kobolds could be dog-like. They were when first conceived and lack the draconic stuff in non-D&D stuff so it won't come off as weird to someone who doesn't know about D&D.
These videos are stupid fun and I've been enjoying them for a while now.
That's it. End of story. Take the dry compliment and run!
Dashes away +4800ft in 6 second with the Tabaxi maximum Speed build.
@@derigel9783 just don't run into wall of force with a pot at the top, or you'll have to roll a will save to not stop and bat it down.
@@kinosaga21 Is that a refferenz? I don't get it...
I play a lot of monster hunter, so when I DM tabaxis are all small instead of medium to make them closer to being palicos, who are basically just bipedal cats and I love them so much.
The Cat Lord title-passing thing sounds an awful lot like the folk story "The King of the Cats."
Thank you for that little tidbit I can't believe I didn't know about that
My wife’s first character was a Tabaxi and my favorite race in Elder Scrolls are the Khajiit. Which we both find funny cause neither of us like cats, she deathly allergic and I have had some… bad experiences. This is a cool video, gonna have to use this soon.
And I love cats but I never play cat-themed races in any game. Odd thing that.
@@RialuCaos right? People are odd.
@@RialuCaos meanwhile I surround myself with cats online be it profile pictures or cat related memes, so much so that people might mistakenly think I actually own a cat lmao
I really love how you made the felis as an Actual race instead of shoehorning in the bland no context catgirl into a setting with no actual lore.
But where are the 'cats knocking shit off counters' memes??
That's just The Cat Lord whenever something chaotic happens.
@@LupineShadowOmega The Cat Lord knocks all...!
...The warlock in my group keeps leaving goblets and mugs on the edge of tables to try to bait my tabaxi swashbuckler into pushing them off the table...
Sometimes, it works.
This gave me the idea of a tabaxi shopkeep that has a line of bouncy balls or quills set up on their counter specifically to knock them down whenever the urge strikes. Naturally they'd do this at random intervals while your players are bartering with them.
They'll show up at 3 AM, just like this comment.
A month later but while watching your video I got the inspiration to make a fat, orange and lazy tabaxi ranger that never attacks directly and instead has his animal companion (yellow dog) do all the fighting.
On the surface he hates the dog and just uses him but deep inside he cares for him.
This tabaxi also uses miscellaneous magic to get free food or just laze around, mainly using disguise self to take the appearance of a prince to never pay a single coin in a restaurant.....
I made Garfield in dnd, specifically, Garfield from A tail of two kitties
I love this
I assume he was adopted by a elf bard who posses a gaudy sense of fashion, horrible dating skills, and attends functions with dance moves literally generations out of date.
The fact the person who voiced the female part is called Maeve amuses me. Why? Because in Paladins, there is an assassin called Maeve, that just so tends to be a Half-Tigron, with Tigrons being literally Tabaxis, and Half-Tigron being, well, humans with cat ears and tails. This might actually be a good take on how to make cat-people without making a new race or make them have fur.
That she's working at Blizzard makes it so much weirder, as Paladins was THE F2P competitor to Overwatch on release. Did I mention she was my main? These were fun times back in 2018.
Also: can the cat lord choose a cat as the next cat lord? And if so, would that mean the cat get's to transform into a human?
You very much missed an opportunity when you went, Catboy, Catgirl, Catperson, to make a Nyan-binary joke.
He may have missed….BUT I WON’T! *furriously writes it down for later*
Well now I need to make a Nyanbinary Tabaxi. Probably the traveling merchant I've been fiddling with.
Oh good cat lord...
I was thinking about my long time idea of a barbaric princess, based on dexterity, burst of feral violence and obession for looking pretty. I have this project for years now, cause i like to explore via dnd things that are true to me in real life, I love the idea that a barbarian is not always a smelly hairy nordic in underwear, but a cute looking diva, a queer queen that don't get no for an answer.
I like the idea of being a delicate thing, a precious one, but not fragile. Like an unpinned grenade, it's delicate because it's dangerous.
And because the years have passed, I started questionning about "non binarity".
I identify as male but I almot always played either non binary folk or female characters. Strong women mostly. The dad joke you just made was all it take for this character to suddenly being a reality, with a joke based name (it's a tradition).
Nyan Bihn Al'rhi
Barbarian, noble cat of the desert
Sir... This is a joint weeb and nerd comment section. The queer isle is 5 rows further 😂
@@scardecorps1708 I'm glad I could crack that egg open for you
I fucking love the flavor you gave to the felis people. A culture of independence and curiosity really speaks to the way we understand cats themselves. Really good work!! I wanna make a tight knit cat quarter in my next city!!
lol of all people I least expected a resident Blizzard concept artist and leader of the frog army, Maeve, to make an appearance in a Pointy Hat video AS A CATGIRL omg
I had never heard of a race being banned but I guess I've just been blessed with DMs who put up with my nonsense. I played a tabaxi ranger/gloomstalker in curse of strahd named Vinager Tom, a former witch familiar given new form and sentience. I like the idea behind this race I shall put them as an option in my next campaign.
It's because in some D&D play circles people "do to much" so some races get banned as a red flag to keep problematic players away. Basically Tabaxi, Tieflings and Dragonborn are the big three suspect of "freak shit players"
To be fair I used to be like this... I grew up playing 2e and when they started to add all these new races I was like "This cannot stand" until one of my players asked me point blank why I was trying to detract from other people having fun. I thought on that and agreed that it wasn't my place so long as they weren't being disruptive. I haven't regretted it since.
@@paulallen8304 the problem there is that your tolerance for being disruptive is different from others. Especially when people are clearly being so nice they don't want to tell that problem player off.
@@ExeErdna been there. It sucks to have that situation but I learned it is better to have a smaller group that gets along than a larger one with one or more problematic players.
As far as the reference to the 80's 'you're the nerdy punching bag for every 80's high school/college movie' warning, I have to say, 'yep, spot on'. I played 1e (had both 'basic' and 'advanced' boxed sets, then the first round of hardback books), starting in about 1981 as a tween girl. The bullying associated with liking these things was bad enough, but it was double if one was female. I don't really get the whole 'hatred of furries'; it's all fantasy and there ought to be room for everyone under the geek umbrella.
That intro hit me like a truck going top speed.
Edit:
Great video btw. I've basically binged all of your videos lol.
But did you wake up in a different reality? Because that means you got hit by truck-kun.
Same.
A Felis character could definitely have some interesting rp value with their self-reliant personalities clashing with those that are well-meaning but unaware of that cultural significance.
Just wanted to throw this fun combo out there for anyone who wants to go absurdly fast. I call it *"The Psionic Bullet"*
Play a Tabaxi Psi Warrior, multiclassed with Bladesinger, take the Mobile feat, and get them some Boots of Speed.
Mobile + Bladesong gives you a 50ft Walking speed (or just preemptively cast Longstrider on yourself if you don't wanna take the feat).
Activate the Boots of Speed to double that, giving you a 100ft speed.
Cast Haste on yourself to double your speed again, 200ft.
Use Feline Agility to double your speed once more, 400ft.
And finally use Psi Powered Leap to give yourself a Flying speed equal to twice your Walking speed, giving you an 800ft Fly speed.
At max that's 800ft for your movement + 800ft for your Haste action + 800ft for your Dash action + 800ft for you Action Surge action = 3,200ft of Flight in a single turn.
If I math'd right, that's 363 miles per hour.
@@andrewspears8891 Yep, faster than the world's fastest supercar if I'm not mistaken. That's one speedy catboi. 😂
@@jacobyullman5005 Now what's the speed they can maintain perpetually? (Since at least some of those effects are temporary boosts)
@@andrewspears8891 Except for the Mobile feat, these are all temporary boosts, and Feline Agility is the only one of those temporary boosts that isn't resource dependent.
It's just a sudden burst thing that you *can* do.
I think this would not work because the Double Speedo effect affects only your default Speed:
This:30 feet × 2 = 60 feet × 2 = 120 feet
Raw: 30 feet × 2= 60 feet × 2 = 90 feet
Ive always handled tabaxi and leonin as subraces of "cat-folk". Kinda like lizardfolk are every kind of scaly like crocodile, alligator, iguana, ect. Tabaxi are small cats and leonin are big cats. Basicly tabby tabaxi and tiger leonin for example. I just find it makes both easier to explain and lore cleaner imo. Love to know other peoples thoughts.
Same thought here. I made the Leonin a sorta elite guard group specifically bred to be strong that formed their own tribes when the Tabaxi kingdom in my setting fell and the felines spread out in a diaspora. Also made it easy to distinguish their groups culturally since the fixation on the Leonin-alikes being stronger led to a might-makes-right outlook in their tribes, whereas the Tabaxi-alikes that kept together formed hierarchies around their wise maternal figures. There's a connection that allows them to form truces to occasionally fend off common foes (like lizardfolk), but time really built up a divide.
The Cat Lord is Garfeild... This is PERFECT! Yooooo!
:Y
Ok, this is my fanon now.
3:11
in 5e tabaxi adventurers are described as naturally curious and love either telling or hearing stories
i suspect this is where that +1 charisma comes from
That and irl cats are among the 2 most popular pets (cats and dogs)
so bit of game design logic there too
I'm so torn between wanting to tell my party about your content because it's SO GOOD, and not wanting them to see anything you post, because I'm totally going to use different things you have done.
As I think, sooner or later you will make a video about the rethinking of the Druid class. So I thought about it and decided to propose an idea for an unusual subclass. How about an insect/hive themed Druid?
I've just been thinking about this idea for a long time and would love to see a functioning D&D class based on it.)
I think a midway point between Swamkeeper Ranger and Circle of Spores Druid would be the way to go designwise.
@@LupineShadowOmega Like a hivemind kind of druid? Yeah, that could be cool. I was thinking of a druid that focuses on communicating with elementals, or a druid that focuses on the undead (think of a swamp druid or something, someone who harvests the souls taken by nature).
@@TheTiredBard Technically that second one is Spores, though only Undead and not the soul bit. I have a friend that loves that class and most of his zombies get reanimated as walking swamps, just covered in lichen and mushrooms, even some that are just bloated with water.
Sure, all of that is just flavor, but it is flavor that lines up with the class descriptions and abilities.
As for the hivemind bit yep mostly anyway. Like I'd be worried about a druid just having a flock of familiars, but the Swarmkeeper did a good job of making the swarm both useful and flavorful without it being too mechanically powerful and that just feels like something that it would be cool to give a druid access to.
The elemental druid is also a cool idea and not really that far from The Wildfire druid, so that too feels like it would be a good place to start designwise.
I never knew how much i needed this lore about tabaxi and the more appropriate name for catpeople
The tabaxi are very similar to the rakasta from Mystara, so now you gotta do the lupin.
Can't have catgirls without dogbros.
Not that similar, rakasta are a lot more militant and tribal. I doubt you'll find many tabaxi riding sabertooths into battle.
I've only been playing for 9 months, so your videos have helped me learn so much about what I can do with character creation. If my character dies I'm definitely doing something combining concepts from this and your barb video.
I knew they were going to be more or less miqote but my god this is so cool
I love how fleshed out their lore is and how easily it could be slotted into any campaign to give it a little extra spice. Great work!
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My mans, idk why I chose to comment in this video specifically, but I really like the content you put out, keep up the good work. Love from Egypt.
Now we need a Cat Lord warlock.
Ethereal sight: people think you stare at walls but really you are watching Ghost push against the veil.
Antipotion: anytime an enemy goes for a potion you are there to knock it over.
Startling: you can randomly dash in one direction, turn around and dash back.
I can now play my WoL in D&D!!! You are a gem!!!
Brah thank you for blessing me with this knowledge, my next character will aim to become the new cat lord! The kitten lord!
AND I can be a cat boy while doing it? You are the gift that keeps on giving
This is the second video my husband and I found of yours and we just love it! Thank you for doing the Tabaxi!
Hanekawa Tsubasa and Felix Argyle are among the best catpeeps (and also have the same voice actor), so thank you for including them in this video. (holy shit that "self-reliance" bit is actually so appropriate for Hanekawa)
The Maeve voice lines had me rolling. XD
Hanekawa Tsubasa among other well endowed long brunette hair glasses girls is a trope I have in my campaign. Plus that Hanekawa can be a cat girl is just icing on the cake.
How could you do this to me.
But for real I love all of this, even the nyans.
Love this series. Really hope you do lizardfolk as a comparison to the tabaxi. They're potentially one of my favorite races, but they have... interesting... yeah, let's say *interesting* lore. Stuff that I've been trying to grapple with for a long time. Would love to hear your take.
THIS, I NEED THIS
@@antuanyammine1537 stay strong friend... we're in this together 🥺
The one tabaxi I have played has to be one of if not my favorite characters I have ever played. He was a wild magic sorcerer, obsessed with the effects of wild magic. He was insane and every time a spell when wild he started hysterically laughing
I REALLY enjoyed this, even though I didn't understand the non-D&D parts, lmao. For once, D&D was the: "Oh, thank goodness--I at least get this!"
I didn't know a cat-race existed or that people didn't like them. With that dexterity and charisma, I don't get why they wouldn't. AND they make natural swashbucklers? I want to play one in whatever D&D campaign I stumble into next. I like the Tabaxi-alternates you created and I want to do more research on the Cat Lord. I wonder if he could be a (neutral) patron to someone, and they'd be like his (neutral) cleric/warlock/whatevs?
A Cat Paladin?
Damn, and I'm not even really a cat person! But this was so interesting--CAT LORD! I'd play a Cat Lord-warlock!
So informative, hilarious, well-edited and scripted, and exactly what I needed to start my day today. Once again, thank you, and I look forward to more :-)
I really liked the inclusion of the cat lord, really cool lore uwu
I love this! Thank you for telling us about the cat-lord, especially! And of course, for the amazing subclass!
When you mentioned the trait about them being independent but expressing their sociality in a different way it just screamed cats to me. Thats a great way to make them cat-like without making it weird!
As one of the D&D "old guard" as you say, this video made me appreciate the tabaxi a whole lot more. I did see them as kind of cringe, even in older versions, but I really like your version and I'm definitely using some of this for my campaign
As a DM with some regular players who will love to get to play catpeople, I thank you!
This feels to me like a case where they would work better as a modifier on any existing race instead of being one on their own. You can keep the stat block for practicality of course, i just mean lorewise. There are a few other races like tiefling which i think would also benefit from that treatment.
Rakshasa tieflings would be neko-people.
I love the lore you’ve written for the sub race! It’s creative and this looks like a very fun race to play.
I’m almost mad how much I love this. I admit I’ve become stuck in how I expand my world but you have such a refreshing blend of mechanics and role playing finding the sweet spot between both that I cannot wait for more!
Good to see Nyanta. He is a true gentleman.
Such a nice surprise
You did such a good job creating an enjoyable race to play! I asked around with my friends and they said that they would love to do something like this in our next campaign!
Thank you for literally becoming my favorite D&D youtuber in just a handful of months.
In my universe, the beast folk (which includes catfolk) are basically thundercats 2011 in design, so furry elves I guess? (Havent decided if theyll have animal ears but they do have the eyes and fur) Their pelts are incredibly valuable not unlike tiger skins, which creates a big ethical dilemma in the setting.
that fancam was embarrassingly fun to edit
the fancams are the highlights of every video
Maeve's uwu voice is so dreamy. Also as someone who plays final fantasy 14, this has helped with ideas to incorporate my ff14 miqote into d&d.
Thank you for straight up just adding Miqo'te to D&D, it was everything I've ever wanted
A more humanoid beastfolk option could be shifters. From eberron. Since lore wise the swiftstride can be feline. But this was a cool video!
2:03 "Like everything under the sun in dnd"
I guess cats are becoming more and more of a joke.
Dragon born sub-race: people with parts dragons
Warforged sub-race: people with parts of robots
Tabaxi sub-race: people with parts of cats
I start to see a pattern here
I like this idea of a god reaching out and changing those he finds worthy into something closer to their client race.
It might be a little outside the scope of Dnd with a twist, but I'd love to see your take on a dog-based race to balance out the tabaxi in dnd
i am ashamed that this video made me instantly subscribe to this channel, keep up the good work.
In first campaign as a DM at university, I used the Cat Lord in one series of adventures. Players loved it. He/She is definitely one of my favorites and I'm thrilled to see you represent.
The wife and I both play Miqo'tes in FFXIV.
One D&D Miqo'te "hack" we will try in the future is Tiefling. The catlike features were taken from a Rakshasa which fits the Fiend ancestor requirement. Mechanically, you can use Dispater, Glasya, or maybe even Fierna abilities.
1:41 I feel personally attacked my first dnd character was blue tabaxi
A Final Fantasy X enthusiast?
I've always been kinda bugged by the lack of a canine race in dnd. One of my favorite archetypes to play is the earnest, loyal goof that tries to help everyone. Basically a human running dog software. It'd be nice to have a race to use that I don't have to justify to the very anti homebrew DMs I usually get
i don't know where you're at but everything you said about their culture seemed perfect for that charisma bonus, a race of travelers that love exchanging stories?
also, idea, travelling tabaxi market, "the antique roadshow"
thank you, Antonio Demico, for making a Contrapoints reference happen in a D&D video
You have no idea what you did to my teammates, friend
All your videos are great. I love to watch them.)
finally a dnd with a twist about something antonio really likes and enjoys and defends intensly
Your content is so well made and fun, you're becoming one of my favorite DND related creators! Keep up the good work! 💕🌹
Your content is amazing
I think a Dragonborn twist would be cool
I love all your videos but the "cold" (weebhat) was the pièce de résistance for me here. Thankyou for the constant inspiration for me as a DM as well as the high brow entertainment, keep 'em comin'!
I like to think of the "Turned into Feliz as punishment" as a cat with a human head
Something like the medieval painting cats maybe, it just makes more sense than making them into a person with extra steps
I love this video. I might make a shop keeper that is a 16 year old felis after seeing this ^^ keep up the good work.
I do wonder though..what are your thoughts on Minotaurs and wouldn't it be neat to have options to play as a Yak that is based more on Mongolia or a Huge Bison from the Americas and are inspired by the plains indigenous clans?
I don’t play D&D but I do messenger-RP in my partner’s D&D setting with a half-tabaxi that runs errands for the townspeople. No combat, just deliveries and stuff.
My cats aren’t independent at all lmao they’re big needy teddy bears and they don’t care who knows it, and that’s how I play this character.
Honestly, the Felis race here puts me more in mind of Shifters (Swiftstride, specifically) than Tabaxi...
Not that I'm complaining or anything, just noting the "feel" is more like the Eberron species...
When I tried to make a ‘Catra’ inspired character (anime catperson, but covered in fur), I went half-tabaxi and half-shifter.
They’re a non-combat player character who just runs errands for the townspeople. Lil brown tabby with white streaks. Wholesome cuddle monster.
@@Densoro I likey.
"As you step out of the shop, you hear loud purring in your ear, before you see a small, brown-and-wite fluffy streak speeding past you with a parcel."
This start of the video does actual mental damage. Who knew a voice could cause so much pain TwT
"Come, come, come" called the girl out like every evening, watching the cats collect around her, giving them scraps of meat. "Hello miss stripe, is your feet better?" she asked petting the older striped cat. "Miss white how are your kittens?", she asked while inspecting the ears of a young black cat. Her father said once "healthy cats makes a healthy community." so she started to care about them. Looking for injuries and illnesses and beside that it was fun, a nice relaxed time after a hard day of work. It made her giggle feeling their noses pressed against her palms begging to be petted. They listen to her when she was sad or happy, to her rants or stories. They didn't judge, didn't asks, didn't argue, didn't hit, didn't laugh, didn't belittle her. They where just there, listening.
After the cats left she noticed a new big gray cat sitting on a wall near by. It was more a feeling being watched and when she looked at the cat, it's green eyes seem to glow in the beginning darkness.
"You care for them, feed them, heal them." said a voice deep and warm.
She turned around to see who spoke, but there was no one.
"And they talk well of you." the voice continued. "They are worried about you."
Now she was looking around with fear creeping up her spine. "Who is talking?"
The voice gave a chuckle. "Who indeed. I'm the greatest between the great, the oldest between the old, the first between all the others, the most powerful and the most wise."
While the voice was talking the gray cat jumped off the wall, walked toward her with it's tail up and a fearless in it's stride. It hopped on her lap and laid down.
"I'm the lord of cats. And now pet me!"
As somebody who plays a tabaxi swashbuckler, I feel very targeted by this video. The fact that I know many of the artists used here as well as having known Stalking Cat personally while he was alive, makes it even moreso. >.>
Stalking Cat? Now, that's a name I've not heard in a long time.
@@LexYeen There's a bit of footage of him in the video. :)
One of my two favorite DnD characters is a genderfluid tabaxi anthropologist (and yeah, the term in DnD is weird and makes little sense, blame Tomb of Annihilation!) named Subtle Flame, who mechanically is an arcane trickster rogue. They are a delight, very erratic in terms of their interests and mood, but loyal and curious to a fault.
The lore to tabaxi is just fantastic, at least the general stuff, not the Forgotten Realms specifics, and the felis do match this a lot, I like them!
Anthropo can also mean humanoid or human-like, so the term could still exist albeit a bit speciesist.
Very fun channel that I’m proud to have added to my D&D RUclips pool! I look forward to the very creative content that is sure to follow. It will also be VERY exciting to see how Pointy Hat will continue to grow due to this rather quality content.
I have a tabaxi character, a fathomless warlock. Being a catty cat guy who mage hands things off shelves with a sassy attitude has been a lot of fun. Feline agility extremely good and when combined with warlock slowing and push effects, you end up being a very difficult character for melees to get ahold of without being an outright broken flying race.
You: let's make the furry race more human!
Me, a furry: No! We have SO LITTLE! D;
Also, lions are panthers. Panthera is a genus, not a species. Not mountain lions, though, those are pumas. [Nerd furry shows himself the door]
I've always been scared to make a tabaxi character, since i just know one of my friends is going to ruin it by referencing furry garbage every five seconds.
Furries ruin everything.
Wait a second...
oh i need a felis that was once a halfling and got turned into a catperson and now its just a smol funny little orange catguy following the party
frankly ad a kid I saw a tv edited version of "The Cat People" maybe a year before getting into D&D, so I always saw the cat lord as a play on that movie.
obligatory 'first' comment. now, CATBOYS...
Thanks, I hate it. Just because of the first 20 seconds
I’m a normie, allergic to cats, 100% doggo guy, Tabaxi archer-assassin player & am very appreciative of your work here. This earned my sub. Thank you for sharing your awesome ideas with us! Whoever this video pissed off; your loss.
Great video! My players would probably kill me if I ever introduced this into their world but that just makes me want to do it even more