Adventure Idea; a village of tabaxi is haunted by red glowing will-o-wisp. Everynight they go mad and chase it, destroying everthing in their way, but never catching it.
I played a Tabaxi ranger in a one shot. We had to capture a large creature and my PC decided to sing it to sleep with a traditional tabaxi lullaby. "Muurrraaaaoowww."
One of my FAVORITE party members in CoS is an apathetic tabaxi monk. She went in Castle Ravenloft for the dinner scene and looked Strahd dead in the eyes as she knocked a goblet of blood onto his nice carpet.
Reminds me of my game world, in which the royalty (rani) sit around sit around in the sun and the serfs work these brutal plantations basically as slaves.
When I hear Tabaxi I think of the Jaguar warriors from the old Aztec Empire. So if I ever play one it will be an honorable fighter or more likely a Barbarian.
Or, for that matter, a Cleric or Warlock devoted to Tezcatlipoca ("The Smoking Mirror"), Aztec god of the night sky, war, storms, sorcery, and (naturally) Jaguars.
lol no fighting fire with fire comes from setting a control fire that would use all the resources so the other fire can't spread and will die not from putting gas on a fire kinda the opposite xD
Man talking about back alley streetfighting tabaxi reminds me of my cat Smokey who went outdoors sometimes and came back covered in scratches and when he took him to the vet the vet basically told us that judging from the placement of the wounds Smokey didn't run away and probably won the fight.
I wanted to make a Tabaxi based on my cat Sushi. Ranger class, only eats what they catch, loves affection but only on their terms, & loves sleeping on roof tops/high up.
Vegas242 I had a cat that would look both ways before crossing the street to go to our neighbors and eat out of their compost pile and waddle back engorged and go into a mini coma.
Khajiit should be honored, not offended. Tabaxi move like cats. Khajiit just plod along like humans... can't climb, can't pounce... So, a khajiit mistaken for a tabaxi must be a very skilled khajiit. It's a compliment.
8:55 I played a halfling druid that was only 19 years old. Part of her description was that she was inexperienced, on her first adventure, and asked a lot of questions. When staying in character, I was told to shut up quite a bit. I loved playing her, though, no matter how much it annoyed some of the group and the DM.
Honestly, I don't see the issues people have with Tabaxi. The skill proficiencies aren't any better than the two free picks Half Elves and Lizardfolk get. Most people will pick Stealth and Perception on those races anyway. They can climb a little bit, always have a weapon that deals the same damage as most improvised weapons, and they can run fast every other round. Seems fine, especially if half the party is variant human.
In my experience as a DM, it's not so much the race as the players that play one. I have had very bad experiences with Tabaxi in my campaigns. Most of them focus on the "Oh, I'm so chaotic, going to go off and do my own stuff, can't keep my attention on anything for longer than 5 seconds" aspect of the race. Eventually both myself and the other players are ready to frag the character. I pretty much banned them at my table without a very good backstory and discussion of how the character will be played. Discriminatory? Yup. I'm OK with it.
DJ, yeah that sucks, but it's a "chaotic stupid" player issue more than a mechanics issue. That's the kind of thing that should be addressed and ironed out in a session zero. Kid, Okay, but that only happens every other round and it requires a very specific multiclass or feat build. I don't know if you used the Monk movement bonus at levels 18-20 to come up with that number but assuming 18Monk/2Rogue moving 300ft. in round requires double dashing with Action & Bonus Action plus being level 20. I don't know about you but being able to move 300 feet and do nothing else at level 20 is not overpowered in my book. Especially when doing it again requires no movement the next round. At that point the player has sunk way too many resources into making it so their character can run from one patch of cover in a dragon's lair to another piece of cover 250-300 ft. away. 300 feet of movement is nothing at high levels. It should be expected. Hell, all the casters and one or two of the battlers who found a fancy magic item should be Misty Stepping all over the damn place from level 5 onward.
Our Tabaxi had the Far Traveler background, the one where you're always drawing attention from others due to your exotic features. He was a hairless Sun Soul Monk.
When I was a kid, I had a cat that took his Long Walk for six months. My parents tried to convince me that he was dead. I refused to believe them. Everyone thought I was just in denial, until he showed back up one day. He had loads of battle scars. Notched ears, a broken claw, scars across various parts of his body, a open hole in his throat (later healed, but his meow was slightly off after). Everyone was completely flabbergasted on how he could have survived. He stuck around for another few years after that, until the time came for him to take another Long Walk. Its been ten years. He's probably dead by this point, but part of me believes that he could just show back up one day. "Bruce The Unbroken" lives on in Tabaxi Legend. He's like their King Arthur figure, returning when the world needs him most.
I can't think of a better example of a Tabaxi in existing fiction than Nyanta from Log Horizon. Dude oozes style and flare while stabbing you a bunch of times with his absurd swashbuckling skills (and he's a master in the kitchen, too!). I totally agree we need Good Boys in the game too.
Nobody else watched Samurai Jack vs the Imakandi?? Noble hunters, traveling the stars, hiring themselves out to anyone who can promise the thrill of a good hunt.
I just had a idea for a home brew action for tabxi called "Cat's Comfort" basically the Tabxi walks over to a target gets on all fours then purs and rubs itself over the target helping them calm down or using it as seduction it would be labeled under charisma
would love to see an episode on the races of eberron while on the role of looking at the more unusual races especially changeling, would enjoy seeing Jim's take on them as their shapechange ability is often seen as OP similar to the aarakocra's flying and the tabaxi's abilities which have already been covered by Jim on how they aren't or how to deal with them
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I love the thought of having a stray Tabaxi that wandered into the party a while ago and has been with them for a long time, and everyone just assumes someone else brought him.
For me the most fascinating part of tabaxi is the entire idea that they are "born" with a specific personality trait or way of behaving by the cat god, i think this is RP gold to try and explore what would that mean in a society where we believe in the freedom of good and evil, and how they act to punishing those who they believe are just "born evil"
I really like the semi-nomadic approach to the Tabaxi, especially since unlike many of the other nomadic peoples in D&D 5e, they aren't overtly savage or even evil. It fits into a lot of historical niches that I think are really helpful for fleshing out a world, and there are so many historical examples to draw on for nomads, not to mention fantasy inspirations, and the ability to draw on the actual tendencies of large cats. You could add in the suspicion and racism that has often been directed towards such people, but you certainly don't need to if that's not the type of game you run.
In case you wanted a character idea... I had a Lizardfolk character named Blue that was a nature cleric of a savage, survival of the fittest type of god, and he liked to collect fingers from his kills, so he would have snacks for later on. He believed that the weak should be subjugated, farmed, and devoured. He learned however, that sometimes strength comes in small packages. He doesn't fuck with gnomes, specifically, because the gnome sorcerer in my party could (and did, twice) match and overcome him in spell-battle.
I can imagine a campaign where all PCs are "Tabaxi", but are challenged to use any race stats/features that make sense. You guys already mentioned bugbear, but orc would work well too. I can see halflings and elves being reskinned as Tabaxi as well.
14:00 maybe they are the only ones who dependably come out to these remote communities, and they depend on them and value them, because they can't get basics like salt and specific metal implements, etc. etc.
I'm glad someone else sees feline characteristics in the Bugbear. I always RP my Bugbears with very feline body language an mannerisms because when I read the race description I couldn't help but imagine large, surly house cats(it didn't help that official art suggests Bugbear have limited facial expressions).
I like the idea of a Lore Bard inspired by Indiana Jones, basically a badass treasure hunter that retrieves historical artifacts to be studied and shared with the world.
Basically the type of character I want to do. Although my character's personality is going to be somewhat more in line with Nathan Drake then Indiana Jones.
Are there any plans to do a dive into the Genasi player race? Or playing as a Monstrous race? Because, let’s be honest...we wanna see the thumbnail for that conversation!
Currently running a Tabaxi Draco Sorcerer. High AC/HP, caster with stealth and a touch of rogue due to Urchin background. She is flavored to be mostly rogue like until she gets angry and the claws and fireballs come out.
As someone currently palying a Tabaxi Battlemaster, it's really good and a lot of fun. Getting up in the face of your foe and then just making their day miserable is great.
I would love to make a subrace of tabaxi like a lion and just call it Pride Tabaxi. Plus 2 to strength and +1 Cha and have a race ability where they are proficient with intimidation and maybe have adv on intimidation checks. That would be awesome. I can think of a chultan paladin who wants to gather up a clergy to worship the lost god of chult to bring him back from absence.
I'm a cat and a dog person and I can definitively say that it hurts so much more to think of a dog getting hurt. Cats are known to take care of themselves, but good good doggos don't deserve any adversity.
A Tabaxi Bard. Out in the world to explore and learn about the world around him. Does not play an instrument but does tell stories and sometimes sings them in native tongue. Loves to meet other bards in inns and taverns, will curl up at their feet and listen while they sing and play. They appear as if they're asleep, but are quite aware of their surroundings. Build with a high Dex and Charisma, tertiary stat being wisdom for perception. They aren't great investigators, but notice things around them.
I have 3 cats and 2 ferrets. When I put my ferrets into their playpen they will sometimes do a ninja poop in one spot. I am used to it so I usually have a paper towel ready to clean it up. But I have had times were I needed to run to the kitchen and get one. And without fail my cat blue will always jump into the pen and start scratching at the plastic to cover the poop. LMAO she's either trying to teach them how it should be done. Or shes just being a good kitty and keeping things covered and clean. I have cracked up every single time I have seen this. And of course the ferrets are completely all about trying to play with her when she hops in.
I always had a thing about a Tabaxi Death Domain Cleric. Take the concept of those “omen of death” cats in nursing homes who lay down next to people just before they die, and really lean into it. And you have this balancing act, where there god is willing to heal them and their friends because this Tabaxi goes to see people who are suffering in life and offer them peace, and it’ll lay down next to them until they cross to the other side.
One of my favorite characters I've played recently was a Tabaxi Artificer (1st UA version, gun variant) with the Inheritor background. Carried around a bag of bird skulls that were what he imbued spells into. It was an absolute blast.
2e Mystara setting had lupins(dogmen) and rakasta(catmen) as PC races. Both got big articles with lots of charts and flavor text in Dragon #237 & #247, respectively. Just in case anyone is interested in playing a little, yapping, halfling sized Chihuahua-man.
Anyone else have a cat that walks into a room, assuming that it’s in a room by itself but when it sees it’s not alone, if freaks the eff out and runs off?
I love the Khatta from the Quest for Glory series. I also love the fact that you have reference this classic Sierra PC game a few times. I've designed my campaign around these games as I'm a relatively new DM and chose to design my first campaign around something I'm familiar with instead of completely starting from scratch.
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Currently playing a Tabaxi Wild Sorcerer named Shroedinger. Will he Surge? Will he not? We don’t know until the dice are rolled, so we can accept that he has and hasn’t until it occurs.
I'm currently playing a Tabaxi Storm Sorcerer, who has a quirk where he only wears non-static producing fabrics, such as leather and cotton. But he also wears a lot of conductive jewelry so his lightning magic arcs across it for show. He's been a lot of fun.
Adventure idea- there has been an uptake in “feline ferocity” (tabaxi/weretigers/displacer beasts etc.) on the roads recently. The party’s been tasked with taking care of it. They find an attack is going on now. The party engages and the attackers flee. They follow the group until they disappear into a worn down house on a cliff. There’s some movement inside the house. So they knock on the door. When an old woman with a cane opens the door 2 things are immediately evident 1) there’s enough cats inside to make the beastmaster ranger want to change their favored enemy to cats for no other reason than number of xp he’d get from slaying all these cats 2) it smells like the house is on a mountain of cat poop When they go inside the door slams shut and several tabaxi and 2 Rakshashas come out of the shadows. Mother blackcat dispels her mass polymorph. And you have yourself a purrfect encounter with a murderous psychotic cat lady.
Following canon tip for playing non-cartoonish "down-to-earth" tabaxi: Volo's says the hyper-curious, obsessive, silly tabaxi are the ones sent abroad to gather information. However, there's a whole continent of them that do not travel abroad... which indicates that this is not normal for the species. So... just play one of the regular ones, not one of the oddly hyper-curious ones, and find a different reason why they'd be out in the world.
I kind of wish Wizards would put animal people under one race banner and then give you bonuses based off of the genus or family you’re in. Idk, maybe it’s just me or they tried that already. I’m newish to the hobby.
You know they can't do that. With that kind efficient solution there is no bottom of the barrel animal races to fill up space in Monster Manual 6 and 7.
Another idea for the concept of "Nomadic" tabaxi is to look for Native Americans of the Great Plains or the cultures of the Asian Great Steppe. These cultures were nomadic, but not in the "Romani/Gypsy" style, but more in a "following the herds" type of concept.
@@mandisaw Another awesome example! Actually a Berber analog might just be what was missing from one of the games I'm working on. Thanks for the mention!
Tabaxi cleric of Bast/Sharess. Not sure which type of cleric though. I can see a life cleric, using the mobility to move between PCs in combat like a field medic, but dex doesn't work too well with this since it's a heavy armor subclass. Of course, the somatic component for cure light wounds has got to be sensuously rubbing up against the PC you're mending, making the entire healing experience awkward for everyone except the Tabaxi...
I did that and slept in a ball, but i did it while my character was stuck in a room until they figured out the puzzle outside the room. I only did it once.
It is funny that your first thought is trying to mitigate the house cat tropes, since personally maybe I grew up watching too much ThunderCats, but my first thought and tropes for a cat person always stems out of big cats... I'm much more likely to build a tabaxi barbarian or fighter than to initially think about a sneaking Rogue... actually, the first time I really incorporated tabaxi into a Homebrew world, I pretty much pulled the aesthetic straight out of the Gerudo in Legends of Zelda, particularly Ocarina of Time. Always thought the concept of the one male born every hundred years fit in with kind of a concept of a Lion's Pride. A society based around they're only really being one mail at a time who was the de-facto ruler of the group, and then adventurers could have seeds like being a male who was born too early in the previous males Lifetime and so had to flee The Pride before he was killed, or a female tabaxi who wanted to see what life outside of the rigid Pride tribe was like... I mean, obviously that's very specific example, but it's just one of the many ways in which my brain goes to how big cats act in nature more than domesticated house cats when I start trying to incorporate tabaxi into my worlds....
I made a Tabaxi Bard/Monk build, get a bonus to Dex and Chars right off the bat, plus the claws allow you to turn the monks unarmed strike from blunt to slash damage.
Adventure Idea; a village of tabaxi is haunted by red glowing will-o-wisp. Everynight they go mad and chase it, destroying everthing in their way, but never catching it.
I'm using this.
😂😂😂 Genius!
Meanwhile there's an extraplanar war over some god's laser pointer XD
Glowing ball of yarn
Aaaaaaaaa
I can only imagine a Tabaxi killing a kenku and bringing it to the party wizard as a present.
... ... ... YES!
My Kenku Battlemaster welcomes this challenge. CAW!
I imagine the tabaxi just being tired of clisches and bringing dead cats to the kenku
Cats do that because they pitty your lack of hunting skills and are trying to teach you how hunt, no joke
The tabaxi bard at 3 am: “Allow me to sing the song of my people.” *Strums lute.* “MRrroooOOOOoooow!”
Vulnerable to thrown shoes...
I played a Tabaxi ranger in a one shot. We had to capture a large creature and my PC decided to sing it to sleep with a traditional tabaxi lullaby. "Muurrraaaaoowww."
I lol’d out loud 👍🏽
One of my FAVORITE party members in CoS is an apathetic tabaxi monk. She went in Castle Ravenloft for the dinner scene and looked Strahd dead in the eyes as she knocked a goblet of blood onto his nice carpet.
Ok that’s amazing
Cleric of Light Tabaxi, casts Daylight and just rolls on the ground. Might heal you, might not.
12/10 goodest cat
Reminds me of my game world, in which the royalty (rani) sit around sit around in the sun and the serfs work these brutal plantations basically as slaves.
They worship Pelor, too, because they like the sun.
A Tabaxi conjurer that, instead of hacking up hairballs, hacks up random useful items?
That is the hardest I have laughed at a RUclips comment in my whole life.
Gross lol
That is a truly inspired concept!
AWESOME!!!!
Like the Russian cat in Cats Vs Dogs
My tabaxi swashbuckler rogue with a rapier and a poor Antonio Banderas accent approves of this.
I love him already.
*cornered by a bunch of guards*
*stuns everyone of them with kitty eyes*
*takes out his rapier and growls* Grrrrr-En Garde!
“Fear me, if you dare!”
"Pray for mercy from, Pussy! In boots!"
When I hear Tabaxi I think of the Jaguar warriors from the old Aztec Empire. So if I ever play one it will be an honorable fighter or more likely a Barbarian.
Or, for that matter, a Cleric or Warlock devoted to Tezcatlipoca ("The Smoking Mirror"), Aztec god of the night sky, war, storms, sorcery, and (naturally) Jaguars.
Yes! I play a Tabaxi wizard. Inspired by a jaguar that studied ancient esoteric magic and martial fighting. Not so squishy now.
This is one of the funniest episodes, because Jim is having so much fun theorizing about the cat memes taking shape as characters! hahahahaha!!
Ceiling Tabaxi watches you concoct evil plans.
Today on WebDM we're PUTTING OUT FIRE WITH GASOLINE!
That's what they mean by fighting fire with fire, right?
lol no fighting fire with fire comes from setting a control fire that would use all the resources so the other fire can't spread and will die not from putting gas on a fire kinda the opposite xD
@Luke Griffiths ah I don't get it, but it'll be alright.
RED LIKE JUNGLE BURNING BRIGHT
Can you stare for a thousand years?
Man talking about back alley streetfighting tabaxi reminds me of my cat Smokey who went outdoors sometimes and came back covered in scratches and when he took him to the vet the vet basically told us that judging from the placement of the wounds Smokey didn't run away and probably won the fight.
I wanted to make a Tabaxi based on my cat Sushi. Ranger class, only eats what they catch, loves affection but only on their terms, & loves sleeping on roof tops/high up.
Vegas242 I had a cat that would look both ways before crossing the street to go to our neighbors and eat out of their compost pile and waddle back engorged and go into a mini coma.
@@chasebalcziunas4289 Lol love them already.
My childhood tortoiseshell often came home with fur of a color that didn't match her own stuck to her claws.
I hope this thumbnail doesn't awaken anything in me.
I hope so too.
For your own good.
What about your persona?
Khajit is offended you call him Tabaxi
Tabaxi rogue with the Guild Merchant background. Well, now I know my next character!
Khajiit should be honored, not offended.
Tabaxi move like cats. Khajiit just plod along like humans... can't climb, can't pounce...
So, a khajiit mistaken for a tabaxi must be a very skilled khajiit. It's a compliment.
Yeah backstory is very different aside from that people treat them like animals.
Maiq approves...
@@zpardus that's not true,in elder scrolls there's a lot of different breeds of khajiit,some are more cet-like and some are more human/elf-like...
"Too much magic can be dangerous. M'aiq once had two spells and burned his sweetroll."
Tabaxi zealot barbarian for the nine lives. Or as many as you need, but, for flavor purposes, you should retire the character after nine.
that's really clever
@@Straven93 Thank you. I'd be tempted to try it if I'm ever in a 5e game as a player.
@@kyleward3914 I almost want to set up a skype to run it...
Do it for the memes
8:55 I played a halfling druid that was only 19 years old. Part of her description was that she was inexperienced, on her first adventure, and asked a lot of questions. When staying in character, I was told to shut up quite a bit. I loved playing her, though, no matter how much it annoyed some of the group and the DM.
Ah, the rare Jim Davis Garfield reference. Thank you Web DM, that look into the abyss was a long time coming.
original joke thought: I want to play an anime cat girl
outcome: 11 pages of lore for my half tabaxi nature cleric who I take 100% seriously
I applaud you
So, is the character still going strong?
Honestly, I don't see the issues people have with Tabaxi. The skill proficiencies aren't any better than the two free picks Half Elves and Lizardfolk get. Most people will pick Stealth and Perception on those races anyway. They can climb a little bit, always have a weapon that deals the same damage as most improvised weapons, and they can run fast every other round. Seems fine, especially if half the party is variant human.
It's more if the movement abilities. A tabaxi multicass monk/rogue can move 300+ Feet in a round
In my experience as a DM, it's not so much the race as the players that play one. I have had very bad experiences with Tabaxi in my campaigns. Most of them focus on the "Oh, I'm so chaotic, going to go off and do my own stuff, can't keep my attention on anything for longer than 5 seconds" aspect of the race. Eventually both myself and the other players are ready to frag the character. I pretty much banned them at my table without a very good backstory and discussion of how the character will be played. Discriminatory? Yup. I'm OK with it.
DJ, yeah that sucks, but it's a "chaotic stupid" player issue more than a mechanics issue. That's the kind of thing that should be addressed and ironed out in a session zero.
Kid, Okay, but that only happens every other round and it requires a very specific multiclass or feat build.
I don't know if you used the Monk movement bonus at levels 18-20 to come up with that number but assuming 18Monk/2Rogue moving 300ft. in round requires double dashing with Action & Bonus Action plus being level 20.
I don't know about you but being able to move 300 feet and do nothing else at level 20 is not overpowered in my book. Especially when doing it again requires no movement the next round. At that point the player has sunk way too many resources into making it so their character can run from one patch of cover in a dragon's lair to another piece of cover 250-300 ft. away.
300 feet of movement is nothing at high levels. It should be expected. Hell, all the casters and one or two of the battlers who found a fancy magic item should be Misty Stepping all over the damn place from level 5 onward.
You shouldn't forget that tabaxi are really good for your murder hobo assassins that were abandoned in the streets as children concept.
I have been trying to play a tabaxi way of the long death monk named Nine who looks like an old rough alley cat that just will not die.
Our Tabaxi had the Far Traveler background, the one where you're always drawing attention from others due to your exotic features. He was a hairless Sun Soul Monk.
Was his skin pink, like a real hairless, or was it bronzed, because Sun Soul Tan?
@@GrassPokeKing Pink and wrinkly
AgentGreen13 Very nice
When I was a kid, I had a cat that took his Long Walk for six months. My parents tried to convince me that he was dead. I refused to believe them. Everyone thought I was just in denial, until he showed back up one day. He had loads of battle scars. Notched ears, a broken claw, scars across various parts of his body, a open hole in his throat (later healed, but his meow was slightly off after). Everyone was completely flabbergasted on how he could have survived. He stuck around for another few years after that, until the time came for him to take another Long Walk. Its been ten years. He's probably dead by this point, but part of me believes that he could just show back up one day.
"Bruce The Unbroken" lives on in Tabaxi Legend. He's like their King Arthur figure, returning when the world needs him most.
I can't think of a better example of a Tabaxi in existing fiction than Nyanta from Log Horizon. Dude oozes style and flare while stabbing you a bunch of times with his absurd swashbuckling skills (and he's a master in the kitchen, too!).
I totally agree we need Good Boys in the game too.
I loved this show when it was new, and I thought the dub was horrible EXCEPT Nyanta. That shit was solid gold. Love it. Thanks for reminding me of it.
Nobody else watched Samurai Jack vs the Imakandi?? Noble hunters, traveling the stars, hiring themselves out to anyone who can promise the thrill of a good hunt.
Legit forgot about them and am sincerely thrilled you reminded me
The tabaxi divination wizard that in the morning does hurl hairballs to flavor "Portent" to read the future is everything
18:04 *Cries in missing textures everywhere*
I just had a idea for a home brew action for tabxi called "Cat's Comfort" basically the Tabxi walks over to a target gets on all fours then purs and rubs itself over the target helping them calm down or using it as seduction it would be labeled under charisma
would love to see an episode on the races of eberron while on the role of looking at the more unusual races
especially changeling,
would enjoy seeing Jim's take on them as their shapechange ability is often seen as OP similar to the aarakocra's flying and the tabaxi's abilities which have already been covered by Jim on how they aren't or how to deal with them
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I love the thought of having a stray Tabaxi that wandered into the party a while ago and has been with them for a long time, and everyone just assumes someone else brought him.
Plot twist: None of the people they're currently adventuring with were there when the tabaxi originally joined.
For me the most fascinating part of tabaxi is the entire idea that they are "born" with a specific personality trait or way of behaving by the cat god, i think this is RP gold to try and explore what would that mean in a society where we believe in the freedom of good and evil, and how they act to punishing those who they believe are just "born evil"
I really like the semi-nomadic approach to the Tabaxi, especially since unlike many of the other nomadic peoples in D&D 5e, they aren't overtly savage or even evil. It fits into a lot of historical niches that I think are really helpful for fleshing out a world, and there are so many historical examples to draw on for nomads, not to mention fantasy inspirations, and the ability to draw on the actual tendencies of large cats. You could add in the suspicion and racism that has often been directed towards such people, but you certainly don't need to if that's not the type of game you run.
Sooooo. . . . . Is a show on lizard/reptile people coming next!?
Yes we need this
Agreed
Just gonna say that I've heard more Lizardfolk OP complaints than Tabaxi...
I hope so!
In case you wanted a character idea...
I had a Lizardfolk character named Blue that was a nature cleric of a savage, survival of the fittest type of god, and he liked to collect fingers from his kills, so he would have snacks for later on. He believed that the weak should be subjugated, farmed, and devoured. He learned however, that sometimes strength comes in small packages. He doesn't fuck with gnomes, specifically, because the gnome sorcerer in my party could (and did, twice) match and overcome him in spell-battle.
I can imagine a campaign where all PCs are "Tabaxi", but are challenged to use any race stats/features that make sense. You guys already mentioned bugbear, but orc would work well too. I can see halflings and elves being reskinned as Tabaxi as well.
Halfling would be house cats
Sorry for the necro but all I can picture is the old Top Cat cartoons
14:00 maybe they are the only ones who dependably come out to these remote communities, and they depend on them and value them, because they can't get basics like salt and specific metal implements, etc. etc.
I'm glad someone else sees feline characteristics in the Bugbear.
I always RP my Bugbears with very feline body language an mannerisms because when I read the race description I couldn't help but imagine large, surly house cats(it didn't help that official art suggests Bugbear have limited facial expressions).
When he said tabaxi bard that detects lies, I immediately thought of how cats seem to just stare into your soul lol.
I like the idea of a Lore Bard inspired by Indiana Jones, basically a badass treasure hunter that retrieves historical artifacts to be studied and shared with the world.
"It belongs in a museum!"
So do you! Haha
Basically the type of character I want to do. Although my character's personality is going to be somewhat more in line with Nathan Drake then Indiana Jones.
Between The Sword shirts and this blue new one, Pruitt's t shirt game is on point 🤘
Are there any plans to do a dive into the Genasi player race? Or playing as a Monstrous race?
Because, let’s be honest...we wanna see the thumbnail for that conversation!
I never thought my brother would become a neko-neko
You knew. You all knew.
That thumbnail. 10/10
The Catfolk of Pathfinder are a DEX/CHA race with access to d6 claw natural attacks. Great stuff.
Oh wow... this thumb is just gold.
Is... is that Jim in Lasagne Cat?
Currently running a Tabaxi Draco Sorcerer. High AC/HP, caster with stealth and a touch of rogue due to Urchin background. She is flavored to be mostly rogue like until she gets angry and the claws and fireballs come out.
As someone currently palying a Tabaxi Battlemaster, it's really good and a lot of fun. Getting up in the face of your foe and then just making their day miserable is great.
I would love to make a subrace of tabaxi like a lion and just call it Pride Tabaxi. Plus 2 to strength and +1 Cha and have a race ability where they are proficient with intimidation and maybe have adv on intimidation checks. That would be awesome. I can think of a chultan paladin who wants to gather up a clergy to worship the lost god of chult to bring him back from absence.
Awesome! I love it!
Toll! Ich liebe es!
I'm a cat and a dog person and I can definitively say that it hurts so much more to think of a dog getting hurt. Cats are known to take care of themselves, but good good doggos don't deserve any adversity.
A Tabaxi Bard. Out in the world to explore and learn about the world around him. Does not play an instrument but does tell stories and sometimes sings them in native tongue. Loves to meet other bards in inns and taverns, will curl up at their feet and listen while they sing and play. They appear as if they're asleep, but are quite aware of their surroundings.
Build with a high Dex and Charisma, tertiary stat being wisdom for perception. They aren't great investigators, but notice things around them.
I have 3 cats and 2 ferrets. When I put my ferrets into their playpen they will sometimes do a ninja poop in one spot. I am used to it so I usually have a paper towel ready to clean it up. But I have had times were I needed to run to the kitchen and get one. And without fail my cat blue will always jump into the pen and start scratching at the plastic to cover the poop. LMAO she's either trying to teach them how it should be done. Or shes just being a good kitty and keeping things covered and clean. I have cracked up every single time I have seen this. And of course the ferrets are completely all about trying to play with her when she hops in.
I always had a thing about a Tabaxi Death Domain Cleric. Take the concept of those “omen of death” cats in nursing homes who lay down next to people just before they die, and really lean into it. And you have this balancing act, where there god is willing to heal them and their friends because this Tabaxi goes to see people who are suffering in life and offer them peace, and it’ll lay down next to them until they cross to the other side.
One of my favorite characters I've played recently was a Tabaxi Artificer (1st UA version, gun variant) with the Inheritor background. Carried around a bag of bird skulls that were what he imbued spells into. It was an absolute blast.
2e Mystara setting had lupins(dogmen) and rakasta(catmen) as PC races. Both got big articles with lots of charts and flavor text in Dragon #237 & #247, respectively. Just in case anyone is interested in playing a little, yapping, halfling sized Chihuahua-man.
Hitting it out of the park recently WebDM, such great content
Thank you!!
Are y'all planning on doing any of the monstrous races? I'm especially interested in the hobgoblins, a race that doesn't get enough love.
More are planned yes!!
Can't wait for the "Lizard people" and "Elemental people" episodes!
An older cat of mine loved stealing D&D miniatures and Lego men and running into the cellar. I think it was just for the attention.
I needed some joy, thanks for uploading!
FINALLY AN EPISODE FOR MEEEE LMFAO! Always loved a tabaxi great old one tomelock
I want to make a Lion tabaxi and play as the cowardly lion! My mission is to find Courage!
Anyone else have a cat that walks into a room, assuming that it’s in a room by itself but when it sees it’s not alone, if freaks the eff out and runs off?
I love the Khatta from the Quest for Glory series. I also love the fact that you have reference this classic Sierra PC game a few times. I've designed my campaign around these games as I'm a relatively new DM and chose to design my first campaign around something I'm familiar with instead of completely starting from scratch.
Heads up; novel comin' in hot.
First time commenting on one of your vids, Web DM. I discovered you earlier this year and have since binge-watch all of your videos (don't judge me, everyone has a hobby) including the Coven Razel-Sin (good stuff, by the way).
I was taught D&D around 8 years old by my parents, who were still using 1st Edition AD&D. I played that and only that for 20 years until last May when I got a group of Randos together to play 5E, thanks in part to the Angry GM and his ramblings about the system. I'd been DMing since my parents conned me into it at the age of 14 ("I get to be GOD? Of COURSE I'll do it!"); Needless to say, my 14-year-old brain was not the best at DMing, but I've gotten better. Since my discovery of Web DM I moved forward in leaps and bounds in my DMing for 5E, so thank you thank you for that!
Absolutely love your content, and look forward to following you both (and the crew!) for a good while. Keep up the post show bloopers/tangent reel. I love the times you guys bring up something from a past game and Pruitt immediately sighs, hangs his head, rubs his temples, asks God for strength, and then gives Jim a good ol' "f*ck you, Jim". Some of the best moments. That, and hairball reading tabaxi diviners.
Your shows are the perfect backdrop to listen to as I vomit out whatever "creative" stuff strikes my fancy on World Anvil; keep up the rambling spontaneous conceptual discussions.
Keep up the quality content, and add another avid support to your ever-growing list!
Thank you so much for the kind words Michael!!
And here I just made a Thundercats race... with each subrace modeled after each thundercat, Lion, Tiger, Cheetah, Panther and Lynx.
"pick your favorite meme and make a character out of that".... literally did a few campaigns ago... I present to you, MAGI-CAT i.imgur.com/2AXUkKR.jpg
Pruett bout to get the spray bottle
Currently playing a Tabaxi Wild Sorcerer named Shroedinger. Will he Surge? Will he not? We don’t know until the dice are rolled, so we can accept that he has and hasn’t until it occurs.
I'm currently playing a Tabaxi Storm Sorcerer, who has a quirk where he only wears non-static producing fabrics, such as leather and cotton. But he also wears a lot of conductive jewelry so his lightning magic arcs across it for show. He's been a lot of fun.
Adventure idea- there has been an uptake in “feline ferocity” (tabaxi/weretigers/displacer beasts etc.) on the roads recently. The party’s been tasked with taking care of it.
They find an attack is going on now. The party engages and the attackers flee. They follow the group until they disappear into a worn down house on a cliff. There’s some movement inside the house. So they knock on the door. When an old woman with a cane opens the door 2 things are immediately evident
1) there’s enough cats inside to make the beastmaster ranger want to change their favored enemy to cats for no other reason than number of xp he’d get from slaying all these cats
2) it smells like the house is on a mountain of cat poop
When they go inside the door slams shut and several tabaxi and 2 Rakshashas come out of the shadows. Mother blackcat dispels her mass polymorph.
And you have yourself a purrfect encounter with a murderous psychotic cat lady.
Does this mean a Kobold People video is in the works?!
No kolbiods are dragon folk
I love using races that just work for certain classes. My favorite Character is my Changeling Bard. Those two go hand in hand in my opinion.
Hairball Divination nearly made Jim Davis die laughing
Dog people have werewolves. Also, Halfling Beastmasters riding on mastiffs!
THUNDER! THUNDER! THUNDER! THUNDER! tabaxi? Ho no 😂
Tabaxi are just awakened cats, change my mind.
Lmao. The ball of yarn that calls to them!
Following canon tip for playing non-cartoonish "down-to-earth" tabaxi:
Volo's says the hyper-curious, obsessive, silly tabaxi are the ones sent abroad to gather information.
However, there's a whole continent of them that do not travel abroad... which indicates that this is not normal for the species.
So... just play one of the regular ones, not one of the oddly hyper-curious ones, and find a different reason why they'd be out in the world.
So I was hoping that the opening would include a pun about how sometimes the Muse descends, but this time it was the *mews*.
I feel compelled to make dark Jaguar in plate mail named armor king from Tekken.
Or Hungatron from the Brian Jaques novels lol
Did you just reference Quest for Glory?! I knew I liked you guys for a reason.
Heck yes!
I kind of wish Wizards would put animal people under one race banner and then give you bonuses based off of the genus or family you’re in. Idk, maybe it’s just me or they tried that already. I’m newish to the hobby.
You know they can't do that. With that kind efficient solution there is no bottom of the barrel animal races to fill up space in Monster Manual 6 and 7.
I play a Tabaxi wizard. A quiet, stealthy jaguar with martial training. Like a Tibetan monk with magic and fighting skills. Loving it.
Another idea for the concept of "Nomadic" tabaxi is to look for Native Americans of the Great Plains or the cultures of the Asian Great Steppe. These cultures were nomadic, but not in the "Romani/Gypsy" style, but more in a "following the herds" type of concept.
I thought of the Berber people of North Africa. Plenty of non-European cultures live in relative harmony with nomadic peoples.
@@mandisaw Another awesome example! Actually a Berber analog might just be what was missing from one of the games I'm working on. Thanks for the mention!
@@Kajaklombrefaucon No prob :)
You guys rock Quest for Glory amazing reference!!! Some of my fav old school games!
Tabaxi cleric of Bast/Sharess. Not sure which type of cleric though. I can see a life cleric, using the mobility to move between PCs in combat like a field medic, but dex doesn't work too well with this since it's a heavy armor subclass. Of course, the somatic component for cure light wounds has got to be sensuously rubbing up against the PC you're mending, making the entire healing experience awkward for everyone except the Tabaxi...
I did that and slept in a ball, but i did it while my character was stuck in a room until they figured out the puzzle outside the room. I only did it once.
We have a tabaxi Barbarian\Rogue Multiclass and by Odin's Beard is he an awesome DPS.
btw another good episode of info and stuff for me to learn keep it up webdm i like the discussing and diving into these topics
OMG, Tunsis the bad luck mage. That's amazing!
Tabaxi make for excellent monks. PUNCHCAT!
I allowed my Tabaxii Monk's attacks to be Slashing instead of Bludgeoning
My next character will be a catnip addict that was thrown out of the school of divination. His name shall be Kit.
If you want dogs use Pugmire the races are applicable to dnd if you tweet them lightly.
Stop this right meow.
Aaaand now I'm playing Catwoman in my next campaign. Thanks, guys!
When I get back into D&D I'm considering playing a Tabaxi cause they seem like a cool race.
Exactly ! My Tabaxii (tiger) Barbarian is a BLAST to play and I explain misses as dodging
It is funny that your first thought is trying to mitigate the house cat tropes, since personally maybe I grew up watching too much ThunderCats, but my first thought and tropes for a cat person always stems out of big cats... I'm much more likely to build a tabaxi barbarian or fighter than to initially think about a sneaking Rogue... actually, the first time I really incorporated tabaxi into a Homebrew world, I pretty much pulled the aesthetic straight out of the Gerudo in Legends of Zelda, particularly Ocarina of Time. Always thought the concept of the one male born every hundred years fit in with kind of a concept of a Lion's Pride. A society based around they're only really being one mail at a time who was the de-facto ruler of the group, and then adventurers could have seeds like being a male who was born too early in the previous males Lifetime and so had to flee The Pride before he was killed, or a female tabaxi who wanted to see what life outside of the rigid Pride tribe was like... I mean, obviously that's very specific example, but it's just one of the many ways in which my brain goes to how big cats act in nature more than domesticated house cats when I start trying to incorporate tabaxi into my worlds....
Jim, where can someone find that t-shirt you are wearing in this episode?
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I made a Tabaxi Bard/Monk build, get a bonus to Dex and Chars right off the bat, plus the claws allow you to turn the monks unarmed strike from blunt to slash damage.