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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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
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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.
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).
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.
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
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Shared this with my players immediately, with the subtext of "Please, please play something other than a khajit!" I love how Hexblade is so good it just replaces Warlock as the pronoun for the class. Sarcasm. But seriously it is too good.
Creative Tabaxi I've encountered: DM had a travelling window salesman who was based off a fluffy black and white housecat (my half orc got enough gold to upgrade her hut). Lynx Tabaxi mad doctor, who left their forest to find a cure for a disease (I'm DM for that campaign and I loved it when the Tabaxi teamed up with the Kenku to leap + glide and 'formed Voltron' some good dice rolls meant that between them they could jump the river between their combined abilities). Tabaxi lion paladin, ex-soldier does odd-jobs and dispenses justices - soldier background gave him a vehicular option, so he started out as a burly delivery driver making ends meet, and the party persuaded (paladin of Tritherion did not need much pursuading to help catch slavers) him into helping them with keeping justice and helping dangerous errands on behalf of the nation's ruling merchant guild; the party is based in a specific area of the kingdom, and each session is one quest, so if the Tabaxi's player can't make one session (irregular shit patterns at work) we just say he's gone off for a delivery
When I think about why Tabaxi are so fun to roleplay it's that most other standard race personalitys your dwarves and elves are based on narrower aspects of human personality where monstrous races like lizard folk, tabaxi and Kenku are based on the perceived personality of beings who are distinctly not human and Tabaxi are perhaps the best at this because we have more familiarity with the intricacies of their bizarre inhuman behaviour making them shine abouve narrower classic troupes.
Playing in a pirate themed campaign currently, my contribution is a Tabaxi rogue Inquisitive named Calico Jack. Playing into the idea of "curiosity killed the cat", with his backstory being he was accidentally bought by a drunk pirate in an attempt to procure a cat for the ship. Pirates sober up, realize they have a child and not a cat and in their swashbuckling way raise the kid into a extremely curious thief of the high seas.
This video got me to redesign my Celestial Warlock as a Tabaxi. Pact of the "Tome." His "tome" is a ball of knotted yarn, which he casts "rituals" from by playing with it for 10 minutes, rearranging the knot patterns.
I have this bard Tabaxi character that is a tuxedo cat who wears a Victorian style suit (with a top hat), has small round glasses, a cane, and a pipe. He is also a doctor, has a British accent, and is a true gentleman.
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 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.
A cool origin for tabaxi could be that the cat lord grants sentience to random cats transforming them into Tabaxi. If im not mistaken the wizard of Oz license is public domain, so technically anyone can make that sourcebook.
7:00 Pruitt: "What are cats? Cats are noble, they're majestic- at least that's how they see themselves." Me: "My cat is a whinny, needy b*tch that will endlessly scream at me 2 hours before I normally feed her EVERY DAY."
I literally built an entire campaign based on the work of a Tabaxi wizard who established a city, found a xorn, and used it to find 3 platinum mines, and subsequently started a high-magic city, set up teleportation circles across the land, and his wife is a freakishly tall barbarian, both of which are level 20, and they since there was no population of tabaxi on the continent, to avoid inbreeding, they trade magic education, resources, safety, etc. to get the youth from other tabaxi communities, and they have a complex bureaucracy for this, though no government, as feral kitty just has dozens of simulacrums as sentries, and all the warding spells are cast on his home, since he is like 300, because of the clone spell, as is his wife, who he makes clones for also. I did this in part because my previous DM hated cats, and though he liked my character, he disliked cats such that I never once ran into another tabaxi in my game, so I made my campaign in the same world, but with my character having made a truly massive population of tabaxi on the continent. Though, when I originally played, he was a ranger, and it was amazingly fun, and the few times I used that feline agility it was hugely useful, kept my archer safe, I continually kicked buttocks. I've since made dozens of tabaxi characters, because they are so darn versatile.
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
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 👍🏽
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
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.
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.
A Tabaxi conjurer that, instead of hacking up hairballs, hacks up random useful items?
That is the hardest I have laughed at a TH-cam 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!"
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?
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.
"Too much magic can be dangerous. M'aiq once had two spells and burned his sweetroll."
I hope this thumbnail doesn't awaken anything in me.
I hope so too.
For your own good.
What about your persona?
Ah, the rare Jim Davis Garfield reference. Thank you Web DM, that look into the abyss was a long time coming.
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...
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.
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?
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
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.
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.
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.
The tabaxi divination wizard that in the morning does hurl hairballs to flavor "Portent" to read the future is everything
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
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.
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
18:04 *Cries in missing textures everywhere*
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.
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 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.
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.
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
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That thumbnail. 10/10
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.
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).
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.
Between The Sword shirts and this blue new one, Pruitt's t shirt game is on point 🤘
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
When he said tabaxi bard that detects lies, I immediately thought of how cats seem to just stare into your soul lol.
I never thought my brother would become a neko-neko
You knew. You all knew.
Oh wow... this thumb is just gold.
Is... is that Jim in Lasagne Cat?
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 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
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.
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.
Can't wait for the "Lizard people" and "Elemental people" episodes!
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.
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!
THUNDER! THUNDER! THUNDER! THUNDER! tabaxi? Ho no 😂
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.
Hitting it out of the park recently WebDM, such great content
Thank you!!
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.
Hairball Divination nearly made Jim Davis die laughing
Pruett bout to get the spray bottle
I needed some joy, thanks for uploading!
The Catfolk of Pathfinder are a DEX/CHA race with access to d6 claw natural attacks. Great stuff.
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.
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 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!
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
Lmao. The ball of yarn that calls to them!
And here I just made a Thundercats race... with each subrace modeled after each thundercat, Lion, Tiger, Cheetah, Panther and Lynx.
Tabaxi are just awakened cats, change my mind.
FINALLY AN EPISODE FOR MEEEE LMFAO! Always loved a tabaxi great old one tomelock
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!!
"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
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.
My next character will be a catnip addict that was thrown out of the school of divination. His name shall be Kit.
I'm glad I'm not the only dork late to the party playing Skyrim after 7 years. I feel you Pruitt!
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.
Stop this right meow.
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.
Shared this with my players immediately, with the subtext of "Please, please play something other than a khajit!"
I love how Hexblade is so good it just replaces Warlock as the pronoun for the class. Sarcasm. But seriously it is too good.
Does this mean a Kobold People video is in the works?!
No kolbiods are dragon folk
So I was hoping that the opening would include a pun about how sometimes the Muse descends, but this time it was the *mews*.
Tabaxi make for excellent monks. PUNCHCAT!
I allowed my Tabaxii Monk's attacks to be Slashing instead of Bludgeoning
Dog people have werewolves. Also, Halfling Beastmasters riding on mastiffs!
I want to make a Lion tabaxi and play as the cowardly lion! My mission is to find Courage!
OMG, Tunsis the bad luck mage. That's amazing!
Creative Tabaxi I've encountered: DM had a travelling window salesman who was based off a fluffy black and white housecat (my half orc got enough gold to upgrade her hut). Lynx Tabaxi mad doctor, who left their forest to find a cure for a disease (I'm DM for that campaign and I loved it when the Tabaxi teamed up with the Kenku to leap + glide and 'formed Voltron' some good dice rolls meant that between them they could jump the river between their combined abilities). Tabaxi lion paladin, ex-soldier does odd-jobs and dispenses justices - soldier background gave him a vehicular option, so he started out as a burly delivery driver making ends meet, and the party persuaded (paladin of Tritherion did not need much pursuading to help catch slavers) him into helping them with keeping justice and helping dangerous errands on behalf of the nation's ruling merchant guild; the party is based in a specific area of the kingdom, and each session is one quest, so if the Tabaxi's player can't make one session (irregular shit patterns at work) we just say he's gone off for a delivery
When I think about why Tabaxi are so fun to roleplay it's that most other standard race personalitys your dwarves and elves are based on narrower aspects of human personality where monstrous races like lizard folk, tabaxi and Kenku are based on the perceived personality of beings who are distinctly not human and Tabaxi are perhaps the best at this because we have more familiarity with the intricacies of their bizarre inhuman behaviour making them shine abouve narrower classic troupes.
Playing in a pirate themed campaign currently, my contribution is a Tabaxi rogue Inquisitive named Calico Jack. Playing into the idea of "curiosity killed the cat", with his backstory being he was accidentally bought by a drunk pirate in an attempt to procure a cat for the ship. Pirates sober up, realize they have a child and not a cat and in their swashbuckling way raise the kid into a extremely curious thief of the high seas.
Jim, where can someone find that t-shirt you are wearing in this episode?
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This video got me to redesign my Celestial Warlock as a Tabaxi. Pact of the "Tome." His "tome" is a ball of knotted yarn, which he casts "rituals" from by playing with it for 10 minutes, rearranging the knot patterns.
Amazing
"I'm a monogamous gamer" I relate to this so much, lol
I have this bard Tabaxi character that is a tuxedo cat who wears a Victorian style suit (with a top hat), has small round glasses, a cane, and a pipe. He is also a doctor, has a British accent, and is a true gentleman.
I love the idea of a pride of lions acting as a mercenary group.
If you want dogs use Pugmire the races are applicable to dnd if you tweet them lightly.
The intros are always my favorite part
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 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.
A cool origin for tabaxi could be that the cat lord grants sentience to random cats transforming them into Tabaxi.
If im not mistaken the wizard of Oz license is public domain, so technically anyone can make that sourcebook.
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
Aaaand now I'm playing Catwoman in my next campaign. Thanks, guys!
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Pruitt: "What are cats? Cats are noble, they're majestic- at least that's how they see themselves."
Me: "My cat is a whinny, needy b*tch that will endlessly scream at me 2 hours before I normally feed her EVERY DAY."
I literally built an entire campaign based on the work of a Tabaxi wizard who established a city, found a xorn, and used it to find 3 platinum mines, and subsequently started a high-magic city, set up teleportation circles across the land, and his wife is a freakishly tall barbarian, both of which are level 20, and they since there was no population of tabaxi on the continent, to avoid inbreeding, they trade magic education, resources, safety, etc. to get the youth from other tabaxi communities, and they have a complex bureaucracy for this, though no government, as feral kitty just has dozens of simulacrums as sentries, and all the warding spells are cast on his home, since he is like 300, because of the clone spell, as is his wife, who he makes clones for also. I did this in part because my previous DM hated cats, and though he liked my character, he disliked cats such that I never once ran into another tabaxi in my game, so I made my campaign in the same world, but with my character having made a truly massive population of tabaxi on the continent. Though, when I originally played, he was a ranger, and it was amazingly fun, and the few times I used that feline agility it was hugely useful, kept my archer safe, I continually kicked buttocks. I've since made dozens of tabaxi characters, because they are so darn versatile.