The forgotten realms, pathfinder, and a bunch of other things, have just become a big furry convention where lots of people don't want to play humans and just use different races/species as player characters to show how "quirky and unique" they are while yiffing all over your furniture.
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*Laughing* Yiffing on your furniture! Yeah, Banjo, I suspect you are quite right. Some kind of "Furry" influence for sure! I've seen myself in public gaming groups this kind of driven obsession with playing the weirdest, "edgiest" characters and races available. Whoring vampires, half demons, big-titted cat girls, Goblins,--anything but Humans. Even Elves have seem to become discarded. Halflings and Gnomes are also much reduced, as well as Dwarves.
Oh, and it isn't just the guys wanting to play perverted, weird freaks, either. The women *lead* the way! They almost always want to not just play some weird, freak race, but they of course load the character up with as much depravity and debauchery as the DM allows. Yeah, the women do this, whether they are 18 or 50.
Furry Conventions indeed!
Semper Fidelis,
SHARK