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Title: Caturday? Really?
Post by: Shawn Driscoll on August 06, 2017, 08:38:44 PM
http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/218201

I suppose a better RPG name title would mean far less sales. See geeks.
Title: Caturday? Really?
Post by: Dumarest on August 06, 2017, 09:17:06 PM
Sounds no worse than any other D&D offshoot/setting.
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Post by: Justin Alexander on August 06, 2017, 11:59:30 PM
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Post by: darthfozzywig on August 07, 2017, 12:08:48 AM
Better than a furry LARP adaptation of Dog Day Afternoon.
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Post by: Kyle Aaron on August 07, 2017, 12:10:08 AM
You don't like pussy?
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Post by: Voros on August 07, 2017, 12:36:25 AM
Battling hobgoblins seems like a failure of imagination to me.
Title: Caturday? Really?
Post by: Xavier Onassiss on August 07, 2017, 01:05:03 AM
I guess some of us just weren't all that excited about Pugmire?
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Post by: Spinachcat on August 07, 2017, 04:26:40 AM
I am surprised we don't see more anthropomorphic fantasy stuff.

And really, no different than being an elf, dwarf, whatever.


Quote from: darthfozzywig;980951Better than a furry LARP adaptation of Dog Day Afternoon.

I would totally watch that...with a lot of weed.
Title: Caturday? Really?
Post by: Voros on August 07, 2017, 05:27:29 AM
Quote from: Spinachcat;980987I am surprised we don't see more anthropomorphic fantasy stuff.

And really, no different than being an elf, dwarf, whatever.




I would totally watch that...with a lot of weed.

Well there's no real mythological stories of cat people are there? Seems to lack the resonance to me, but in terms of overall silliness no there's not much daylight between them.

James V. West made an OSR talking animals hack. (http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/191133/Rabbits--Rangers?sb=1)

Dog Day Afternoon with dogs in all the parts is an inspired idea I think. Someone make it happen.
Title: Caturday? Really?
Post by: jeff37923 on August 07, 2017, 07:08:33 AM
Quote from: Shawn Driscoll;980918http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/218201

I suppose a better RPG name title would mean far less sales. See geeks.

Aslan in Traveller. Nuff Said.

Quote from: Voros;981000Well there's no real mythological stories of cat people are there?

You know, if you Googled "mythological stories of cat people", you would find out that there are plenty of them.

But, this goes back to you not knowing how to do basic grade school level research.
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Post by: Whitewings on August 07, 2017, 09:56:57 AM
One of the earliest RPGs was Bunnies and Burrows; it came out in 1978, the same year as AD&D.
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Post by: san dee jota on August 07, 2017, 10:41:51 AM
Quote from: Whitewings;981033One of the earliest RPGs was Bunnies and Burrows; it came out in 1978, the same year as AD&D.

I always had the impression B&B was less furry/anthro and more "Watership Down: the Unlicensed RPG".

And there are several games out there with humanoid animals that don't entirely suck (e.g. Mutant: Genlab Alpha, Gamma World, TMNT, Atomic Highway's Irradiated Freaks... what is it with PA settings and humanoid animals?)  Aliens Unlimited for Heroes Unlimited should pretty well kill any and all interest in such an enterprise ever though; it went the Star Trek route of "this alien looks -slightly- different from -that- alien, so we'll make them entirely different species with no relation" only with humanoid animals.  The end result of which should make any normal person think "wow, this is dumb".
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Post by: Whitewings on August 07, 2017, 10:58:15 AM
Quite right. My only point was that RPGs centred around characters who aren't humans or very similar to humans goes back a very long way.
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Post by: Willie the Duck on August 07, 2017, 12:46:35 PM
Quote from: san dee jota;981041I always had the impression B&B was less furry/anthro and more "Watership Down: the Unlicensed RPG".

I don't anyone suggested otherwise. Anthros/furry vs. general talking animals, elves, dwarves, klingons, my-little-ponies, what does it matter?

We got a whole bunch of subtext going on here, but I think it boils down to the impression that the OP was rolling their eyes at this product in particular and saying, 'would you look at this' in a mocking tone and everyone else looking them in the eye and saying, 'yes, and?'
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Post by: David Johansen on August 07, 2017, 12:56:47 PM
Speaking of funny animals and Aliens Unlimited, just with the core book we got an aquatic ape cyborg.
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Post by: Dumarest on August 07, 2017, 01:08:13 PM
Quote from: Willie the Duck;981056...the OP was rolling their eyes at this product in particular and saying, 'would you look at this' in a mocking tone and everyone else looking them in the eye and saying, 'yes, and?'

Of course he was. I'm waiting for his comments about "real roleplayers" and how this is just a war game not a "real RPG."
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Post by: DavetheLost on August 07, 2017, 01:13:11 PM
This is no sillier than Tieflings and Dragonborn for D&D. In fact I find it less silly.

But then I am a Mark Rogers fan.
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Post by: Dumarest on August 07, 2017, 03:48:38 PM
Quote from: DavetheLost;981066This is no sillier than Tieflings and Dragonborn for D&D. In fact I find it less silly.

I'm happily ignorant of what exactly those are.
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Post by: Manic Modron on August 07, 2017, 04:02:35 PM
Fiend blooded and draconic humanoids.
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Post by: Narmer on August 07, 2017, 04:17:57 PM
Quote from: Voros;981000Well there's no real mythological stories of cat people are there?

See Nastassja Kinski.
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Post by: Dave 2 on August 07, 2017, 05:29:51 PM
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Post by: Manic Modron on August 07, 2017, 06:13:47 PM
So... It isn't just the name of the book, but the actual name of the race itself?  I'm alright with cat people in rpgs, but naming them after an internet reference...  That seems odd.  Might as well make an organization sourcebook called "The Redditors."
Title: Caturday? Really?
Post by: Dumarest on August 07, 2017, 06:57:51 PM
Quote from: Manic Modron;981141Fiend blooded and draconic humanoids.

Means absolutely nothing to me...thankfully. :)
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Post by: Manic Modron on August 07, 2017, 07:55:16 PM
Folk with lower planar ancestry and folk that are dragonish?
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Post by: Dumarest on August 07, 2017, 08:41:25 PM
Quote from: Manic Modron;981196Folk with lower planar ancestry and folk that are dragonish?

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Post by: Manic Modron on August 07, 2017, 08:58:58 PM
IN more recent editions, horn 'n tail people without scales and horn 'n tail people with scales?  :D
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Post by: DavetheLost on August 07, 2017, 09:30:19 PM
I only know them because one showed up as a miniature in a Kickstarter I backed.
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Post by: Dumarest on August 07, 2017, 09:39:55 PM
Quote from: Manic Modron;981209IN more recent editions, horn 'n tail people without scales and horn 'n tail people with scales?  :D

The phrase that pays is "more recent editions." I haven't played AD&D since around 1992, discounting a one-off here and there, and those games were with the original edition...I'm not really into D&D. I've probably seen drawings of these creatures from the 2000s but if they are what I think they are, I found them to be up that whole "edgy dark elf" alley.
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Post by: kosmos1214 on August 07, 2017, 10:03:07 PM
Quote from: Voros;981000Well there's no real mythological stories of cat people are there? Seems to lack the resonance to me, but in terms of overall silliness no there's not much daylight between them.

James V. West made an OSR talking animals hack. (http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/191133/Rabbits--Rangers?sb=1)

Dog Day Afternoon with dogs in all the parts is an inspired idea I think. Someone make it happen.
So I take it you lack even the most basic knowledge of Japanese mythological creatures then????? Seems to me the Koreans have some story's as well.
Title: Caturday? Really?
Post by: Voros on August 08, 2017, 12:00:38 AM
Oh yeah good point about the Fox stories. Seems to me that Golden Sky Stories is a better way to play Henge that this though.

A Cat People rpg would be interesting, set in the 40s or 80s to reflect the original and the remake.
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Post by: Dave 2 on August 12, 2017, 09:19:40 PM
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Post by: Dumarest on August 13, 2017, 10:58:17 PM
I love D&D cats...

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Post by: Krimson on August 14, 2017, 01:14:10 AM
Quote from: Voros;981232Oh yeah good point about the Fox stories. Seems to me that Golden Sky Stories is a better way to play Henge that this though.

A Cat People rpg would be interesting, set in the 40s or 80s to reflect the original and the remake.

I have to disagree. My oldest character that I still play from time to time is a 1e Hengeyokai, and yes I know that not all Youkai are Henge. I backed GSS.

It looks a little giimmicky to me and I don't think I really need something like that to bring Youkai into 5e since I already have. And by Youkai I mean the whole spectrum, not just the furry animals, including spirits that have become Youkai, humans that have become Youkai and even animated objects that have become Youkai. Though I kind of loosely base my mythology on Koshinto which is kind of a reconstruction of Shinto without influences of outside religions that focuses on the nature of Kami, which are kind of related to Youkai. Sort of. It's complicated. :D

If I saw it in print at Sentry Box I'd probably pick it up.
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Post by: RPGPundit on August 23, 2017, 08:46:03 PM
In my DCC game there are animals that talk and animals that don't. Some of the animals that talk also have societies, like the narco-trafficking sloths, while others don't and just live in the woods.

There doesn't appear to be any reasoning behind it, though of course there is.