I run a Star Wars (Fantasy Flight narrative system rules) campaign, instead of D&D, but totally run it as furries.

Furries and Sci-fi, kickass! Are you the DM, then?

Yep!

My first session was a chaotic mess honestly, but mismanaging from the DM and players aside it was enjoyable for the time that it was being run. c: Everyone learned really quickly about banning a Deck of Many Things as a starter item for a character because it fit them thematically, almost every start of a session was someone saying, "I want to pull from the deck!" and then proceeded to milk luck off the deck and get insane things.

When I took a shot and took the helm of my own short campaigns between DnD and Star Wars I went a bit more on the fly than I'd like to admit but it made for more interesting encounters and decisions from the players. I splash between some horror themes, to campy, to fun outcomes in DnD, Star Wars had a bit more focus but when I wasn't able to make or attend sessions I had someone else take up the reigns and well, sadly they drove it into the ground by pandering to two people in the group. x'D

I do want to try a small group again through Discord one day and learn 5th Edition DnD, I only really know 3.5E, or restart the Star Wars RPG in the same fashion. But getting a good time for myself and everyone is a bit of a challenge, until then though I just write down some ideas for campaigns or hold onto them until when/if I can get a group going. c:

Also, initially I don't recall anyone really doing furry characters, mostly humans, elves/half-elves, half-dragon, and orc were common between high school and college, but there was one time someone did pick technical furry race, I believe it was called Catfolk but it may have had a different name. c:

I knew some about this, but I love hearing more! Sad about the Pandering though, a far too common story. v_v

Well, I never played myself, but my sister does occassionally and shares the shenanigans that happened.

She always told me the best sessions are those that aren't taken too seriously. Have fun, try things out and if something doesn't work out you can always try a new character.

As for furries... Well, I guess that would only really work with homebrew, no? As in, there have to be stats and traits for the different species? Never really thought about it^^ However, there are of course some playable furry-like species in the DnD lore - not to forget about all of the were-creatures possible.

Homebrew indeed! My campaign has every aspect down to the last molecule hand crafted, and its a GEM.

There are definitely fur-adjacent races, and I've played a couple. My temporarily retired bunny rogue, and my current running cleric/artificer owlybirb girl

Those are perfect classes for those species!

Hehe, they are, aren't they? I've started getting art of them lately too!

I do my own "D&D" campaigns, typically dropped into my messily, improvised world for interested buddies with extremely simplified rules and interactions, it's all just for fun, so the rule of cool is nr1 over all other logic.

Containing crazy stuff like some sort of Bunny that sings with her band of loyal goons, handsome lizard men, some crazy wolf with a gas mask, a bunny that is much nicer than the singing one...maybe even related? and...another bunny! Seemingly being strung along by the singing one to become just as vile, hopefully a rootin'tootin puppy stops them, unless there's a tribal bull in the way...

Buddies are mostly playing their OC furries, with a splash of elves here and there.
And mostly everything has a lewd slant to it, obviously, there's a much more fun alternative to Death saving throws, that's a lot less death.

Had everything from a seasoned warrior tripping into the arms of the weakest goon guarding the entrance, to the terrified librarian laying low the elite of the underground criminals and running away embarrassed from the scene.

Ohhhhhhhhh you WOULD run your own. We do a world of our own as well, so I vibe with that! I had no idea any of your characters could be D&D related, how fuckin cool is that? With all those gems, it's got to be a treasure trove, just a playground. Thanks for sharing!

Playing Tensa in a sort of home made thing with friends. Set in the Warcraft universe. There's a private server you can join that gives you admin powers, you can create entire zones/towns, spawn and control NPCs and stuff. So our DM is constantly creating and modifying stuff to build a fleshed out world.

This is such a cool idea! I love the idea of it being sort of material like that.

I've been playing since the 3.5 days back in 2005. It's a great time to hang out with friends. Yes, I typically choose the furry races, it's actually how this bird came about. She was a kenku gunslinger in Pathfinder. Loved her to death and made her my main character years ago.

A couple of tips! Your time with friends is the best part, so try and be cooperative. The best way to do that is using "Yes, and..." Basically, let them do their things and you do your things.
Another good tip is to pick a character trait or personality point and take it pretty far, but only if it doesn't hurt others in the party. Ezera, my wizard, would write books constantly. Like, she'd have a full book written in about two weeks. Most of the books were either her experiments on elementals or the parties adventures. It went on for months until a party member actually read one of her books before they realized in her books she was the leader of the party and all the rest of the party were her minions in the book. Absolutely not the actual party dynamic, but it was hilarious when this small, frail wizard successfully arm wrestled the hulking barbarian in the book because she exemplified a Napoleon complex.

Wow, thanks so much for the first-timer tips! This is very useful and a great personal spin from a real veteran! I can so see becoming bonded deeply with a character like that, very special origin story. And on a side note, the Kenku were the first D&D race I saw that really intrigued me, so all the more fun to hear about it!

Have a blast! Haven't played it since the 80s myself.

I had a lot of fun with it for a few years back then. Probably the funniest thing was when I thought it would be cool to play as a female character, and my cruel DM decided to make sure I got pregnant.

You were there when the old lore was written! But I have to ask... How did that even happen? ...Was the baby born during campaign? Did you have to roll the baby's stats???

Man, that was a fuck of a long time ago, but it was during our group's adventuring, and was an ongoing thing that played out.

It was completely a devilish idea that was generated exclusively by our DM. I had to deal with it, because the idea had never occurred to me when I chose to be a female character.

He, of course, didn't do this to any of the other female characters, who were actually played by women.

I took it in stride and found it challenging and amusing. I decided to keep the kid, which was certainly a challenge in itself. I suppose I could have called on the talents of our cleric for an abortion, but WTH. Our games were pretty wild and lighthearted.

She was a half elf thief, BTW. I played other types of characters in other campaigns. I always tried different things for the hell of it.

Don't recall having to roll the baby's stats, though that should have been a thing...

That's hilarious, I love it!

IRC, he also had me get raped during one of our dungeon encounters, and all of the outcomes were rolled on. These were pretty much "Yes, and" games.

Most of my favorites were brief one sitting games.

*IIRC

I started with "the dark eye" a german ttrpg system.
Later i played dnd (mainly as my tiefling monk entropie) and did some short dives into other systems like blades in the dark (very cool) or beyond the wall (also not bad at all) and fate (my least fav of the bunch)

Now I play with a little group of one in a silly lil world i built and my player is the BEST you can imagine :D

I'm in far too many campaigns for my own good O~O

I play a furry character in at least three of them though. A deer boy who's the little mecha pilot that could, a bombastic horse who dresses in his renaissance faire best and wields a bow in the middle of a sci fi setting, and another mecha pilot mare who takes a lot of inspiration from Gordon Freeman as he's depicted in Freeman's Mind. Imagine if someone acted like they were in a Russianbadger video, except they're doing so in the middle of actual, real-ass war.