Any Furry RPGs out there?
7 years ago
I used to RP quite a lot, and have been missing it, lately. But I always did feral animal RPs, and I've been wondering if there are any active furry RPs that are mostly SFW? Anyone have any suggestions?
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For videogames most of the ones i enjoy are single player.
For tabletop the most i can suggest is finding a pathfinder or dnd group who run homebrew stuff.
Text based ones i'm just you can find anywhere online.
but table top
there's iron claw (have players book)
and there's patooie's strange lands.
(have game and map books both)
furry from core up.
oh and there's that endless realms thing of jo carra's, which i don't know enough about,
other then the lovely illustrations. posted here on f.a.
oh heck, now that i think about it, there's l.o.a.
and another one that slips my mind right now,
projects that have participants or creators here on f.a.
might be video or mmo's, not sure.
and i'm sure that's not anywhere near a complete list either.
(i haven't actually PLAYED any, but the materials are very inspiring for references and concepts)
It was originally an offshoot of their TMNT and Other Strangeness series, which are no longer in print because Palladium's license with TMNT expired some years ago. If you can happen to find old copies of the TMNT books, they're really fantastic, and the setting is as mutant animal characters living in hiding among the modern human world. You could also recreate the modern setting by getting the After the Bomb books, and their Heroes Unlimited core book.
https://palladium-store.com/1001/ca.....-the-Bomb.html
OH! Blue Planet (you can play dolphins and Orca).
hm, Cyberpunk2020 mentions furry mods. I wonder how the renovated version will look like. Shadowrun isn't exactly easy on beastmen and were-people. we still have some in our group. :)
ooh, cute and deadly!
Here's the official website if you want it, complete with active Discord server link and such. I think there's some playtest sessions up on their streaming channel to boot, so you can watch a game in progress!
http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product.....-Noir-RolePlay
Anything from Sanguine is great (Ironclaw, Jadeclaw, Urban Jungle, Albedo) but you'll need to patch the rules yourself. The editing on the books is really bad, with things like whole sections copy-pasted and then only partially edited (you don't need white magic trappings for thaumaturgy, despite what all revisions of the rules say), and asking them about discrepancies always gets the same "fix it however you think is appropriate" response. BUT, whiny warning aside, I love their games.
There are also some great small-publisher games like Furry Pirates. It's already been mentioned here but it's worth another mention despite the lazy title, as it's one of the best pirate RPGs out there, furry or otherwise. Lots of non-furries use its ship combat rules 'cause they're great. Has magic in it, but easy to ignore if you want. It's also a decent primer on pirate history, except for the conspiracy theory and magic stuff, but you don't have to use the setting if you don't want. The same people also released Furry Outlaws, which I think is supposed to have a Robin Hood vibe, but I haven't had a chance to check it out.
Other indie games I can think of are Pugmire (Be a Good Dog), Mouse Guard (also worth the second mention), and an old favorite is a fan-made Redwall game called Sword of Martin, made years ago for a 24-hour game jam. It's very basic, just character creation and super basic resolution rules, but it's a serviceable start if your group is okay with writing (and sticking to) new rules as you go. Not really furry, but the same author also made a Jedi/Sith RPG called The Great Hyperspace War that was also a 24-hour game jam project, so it's similarly barebones, but is notable for having lightsaber styles, and a cool lightsaber construction system borrowed from Knights of the Old Republic II.
There's also good ol' DnD/Pathfinder (and many games based on them), with 5th Edition DnD being particularly fun, and crammed full of furry options of varying canonicity. D20 Modern has the D20 Future supplement, which adds rules for non-human races (and has a tacticool anthro cat dude on the cover). D20 Steampunk, D20 Final Fantasy, just so many games based on the d20 system that have or can easily accomodate furries (SpyCraft 2.0 is a favorite of the latter variety).
Other freeform systems like Big Eyes Small Mouth (anime), Mutants and Masterminds (superhero), GURPS (math), and others have rules for any non-human characters you can think of. And you can always just play a non-furry game and just say everyone is furry, I've done that with Call of Cthulhu before.
And there's always Changing Breeds from White Wolf's World of Darkness games (Vampire, Werewolf, etc.), which lets you play werewolves that are not the capital-W Werewolves from Werewolf, as well as a were-just-about-anything-else. Unlike the capital-W Werewolves, Changing Breeds werecreatures can take a form that's basically just an anthropomorphic animal instead of a hyoog scary werewhatever. Not technically furry, but werecorgis and whirrsneks make up for it, in my opinion.
I feel like I'm forgetting a particular game that I wanted to mention...but this wall of text is plenty big already, so I'll stop. :D
As for tabletop, people pretty much posted what I know about. If you can get an Iron Claw group, you are golden. Friendly people are drawn to that game with open minded interests.
I also know that there's some miniature customizable from HeroForge that can yield some pretty impressive results. I've made a couple myself and they work perfectly for D&D and table top models. You can choose different sizes to fit the game of choice you want.
Over all, I think Tooth and Tail is the most unique of the bunch. I've never seen a furry RTS game with Russian overtones. If you ever read Animal Farm, it's kind of like that.
also World Tree has a nice unusual setting and many animal people options.
the printed version i have has nice illustrations, by dirtirain, some of which are posted on her page on here.
i just wish they were labeled as to species and the species descriptions pointed to them.
strange lands is the map book. gene storm, is the game book, i had to go dig it out to remember then name.