Dungeons and Dragons Lore: Tabaxi
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- A tabaxi resembles a lithe, graceful, athletic human with a leopard or jaguar-like head and a tail. They have beautiful spotted fur pelts that range in color from light yellow to brownish red. They have sharp teeth and retractable claws, which are their primary weapons in combat. They are tall and slender, and have eyes of green or yellow.
Intro music: A Tribe Called Red - Electric Pow Wow Drum
Great music for a visit to a Tabaxi Hunt (Village): • A Tribe Called Red - L...
• Northern Cree - Red Sk...
• A Tribe Called Red - I...
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For those thinking Tabaxi are Khajiit, remember:
The Khajiit hail from Elsweyr whereas the Tabaxi hail from elsewhere.
Not a Dog No the khajiit adopted Elsweyr where as the Tabaxi where born in it xD
Khajiit has many wears if you've got coin
May your paths get you to warm sands, friend
Not a Dog And Tebaxi aren't known to occasionally be born as a fully sentient house cat, where as Kajiti are.
@@easycheese6409 For people who doubt, yes this is a real thing.
We let a Tabaxi into our party once... Then he just turned around and wanted to go out again..!
No wonder I got the Uncle travelling Matt reference. Am also a kiwi....
Fun idea for a tabaxi specific substance: Tabaxo. Basically smokeable catnip that makes tabaxi euphoric. Acts as a mild stimulent for other races...
Hexx Bombastus I'm terrified to use this idea in m6 group. So much potential for horrific puns... XP
Tab-hash or Tab-hashi comes to mind...
ultimateninjaboi
Wacky Tabaxi
Fun fact: the reaction cats have to catnip is because catnip is a aphrodisiac to them so tabaxo would make any feline character high and horny so be careful with it.
Christian Blanchard That’s just frikken lovely.
“So you’re half hobgoblin half Tabaxi?? How’d your parents meet?”
“Tobaxo...”
@@Im-Not-a-Dog Science can be fun!
Bow-chicka-wow-wow.
I like the Idea of being a Tabaxi (insert class here) that was bought by a Noble women from a slaver, not knowing of what she purchased and then subsequently raising him or her as their adopted child (thinking of a Noble aristocat "pun" swashbuckler type guy) later I realized that I had just made a PussNboots/Baron Humbert Von Gikkingen character...
When I decide to get back into DnD I was thinking of doing a Tabaxi who was gifted by the Cat Lord with a curiosity and love for history, folklore/legends, and various ancient civilizations but was raised for most of his or her life in a orphanage in one of the bigger cities in the Forgotten Realms that was ran by clerics so yeah he or she gets the Urchin background, anyway I had it due to his or her Tabaxi curiosity and love for history, folklore/legends, and ancient civilizations he or she spent most of his or her time alone in the library or in his or her room reading history books/books about Fae'run's ancient civilizations, and books about the various folklore/legends in the Forgotten Realms. And for class is was thinking since the Tabaxi get Perception, and Stealth as racial skills from the start I was thinking about doing Rouge X Fighter for dual Scout/Gunslinger build with the two extra skills that are granted from Expertise being Crossbow Expert and History. Yes I was thinking about doing a Nathan Drake/Lara Croft type character.
"Meow meow bad men meow meow"
And that is how the Tabaxi rogue shut down a game of D&D for an hour.
You talking like Mr.Roger's Daniel Tiger? 🐅 😆
Meow meow good morning meow meow...
Meow meow what a beautiful meow day meow meow.
Khajiit has wares if you have the coin
Indeed.... Khajiit does have Wares, but you don't have coin, Five-claw
I am running a Tabaxi Warlock. I think the endless search for knowledge goes well with Warlocks. the Cha and Dex bonus for the race works well with Warlock.
For sure.
If I get back into DnD I'm going to do a Tabaxi Rouge X Fighter because I was thinking about having my player-character be a duel Scout/Gunslinger. And since Tabaxi get Stealth as a racial skill the two skills I'll get with Expertise are Crossbow Expert, and History. And I was thinking about my character being blessed with curiosity concerning history, legends, and lore. So I was thinking my character as being a adventurous archaeologist/treasure hunter who goes looking for ancient ruins/mythical cities out of a love for history, and the various legends/folklore that has been around for centuries.
Try the Shadow Monk with this race. At the 7th level, they are truly special and can lead a party in the Underdark.
AJ:Tabaxi are like strays
Me:WE HAVE 2 TABAXI IN OUR PARTY
You're starting a rescue shelter.
I don't think my party could handle more than one. I got a fellow PC washed in a water elemental like a dishwasher and then shaken like a martini in vodka cause he was rude and needed his manners washed. It was hilarious. I've also cat eyes a fire giant into petting me and being our friend when the artificer failed persuasion and was kidnapped. I'm the most common pc to say hi to new PC s though the other party members recruit better. Also had an adoptive drow that we decided was one of us and we pay excess gold to who got trapped in the etheral plane saving this cute dwarfism tabaxi. I regularly steal bedrolls for their warmth when I wake someone for watch. It's pretty funny.
Made a lion Tabaxi for kicks and giggles, its literally a creature from a card game called chaotic. I was actually really surprised how well I was able to make the mini on heroforge.
Tangith Toborn? That's the one I can think of from what you said.
@@williamturner6192 lol yeah that's the one
So you made a Leonin
@@The_AuraMaster
The comment and by extension the character was made before mythic odysseys of theros came out. But yes, if I were to make the character today I would likely use Leonin as the race.
@@RPGFanboy14 Imma be honest, I am extremely new to D&D and still playing my first campaign. Though I am playing a Tabaxi like you did, and just recently hit level 3 so now I'm an eldritch knight.
Thundercats , basically.
Hmm...
Lion-O: Hexblade Warlock
Kinda works!
that's how I described it to my family
ThunderCats! Hooooooooo!
Glad I wasn't the only one who had that feeling
Now with the leonin yeah
just how many furry art sites are your exploring to get images for these animal folk races?
I don't go into the web sites 99% of the time, the images are just pulled up from keyword searching on Google. From what I gather in the comments though, Google probably had to get disinfected after this one....
AJ Pickett I was just wondering, would you be willing to put forth effort in making sure that the art you use is being used with permission, and giving proper reference to the individual artists?
The art I use is from Google image searches, this means that anyone can screen shot the video, enter the picture in google, and go directly to where the art is publically displayed. I do not claim any of the art as my own (that should be obvious to anyone) and the effort you describe would mean that instead of a couple of videos per week, I would be producing a video per month, or less.I don't think anyone, particularly any artist, seriously considers these videos to be an infringement, and I have never had any issues as such, not once.
actually i noticed most of the pictures were from magic the gathering
if he had to reference every artist that would take a long time Tristen :/
In my current campaign, my players met a Tabaxi village on the road north to the main city the were traveling to.
They were victim to the plot of an evil preist, who was trying to get them to kill the small Lupin settelment north of them(staging
fake Lycanthropy attacks)
There was also a small human village south, which had already fallen prey to the demonic priests plans, he got all the adults to
suicide themselves and orphan all their children.
My players foiled the priests plans and now there is an alliance between the 2 villages.
They also took in the orphaned human children from the village to the south, who knows.......maybe in a future campaign,
after a couple decades or so, there will be a new city with the primary inhabitants Tabaxi and Lupin, with a small samttering
of humans.
I love DnD 😅
You had me at Electric PowWow Drum. Great damned song. Much love to Halluci Nation.
Perhaps the human Tabaxi are the ones that pronounce it “Tabashee”. This could be used by a DM to distinguish between the two cultures in games where both come into play.
So basically what you're saying is they have a lot of curiosity
Now I don't feel so special about adapting these creatures as a playable race in my "7 Cities of Gold" campaign in the 90s.
If they are inspired by south american cultures I'd imagine the "x" in "Tabaxi" is pronounced like "ch".
actually, some Tabaxi clans pronounce it 'tabashee'
Ch and sh are interchangeable when you're dealing with less official transliteration.
I say Tabak-shi. Sounds cuter to me.
Tabaxis are mostly based on messoamerican culture. Their gods have like cropped names of other gods (Tezca, from Tezcatlipoca, Kukul from Kukulan, etc).
Given the Aztec's used the Nahuatl language, they pronounce all Xs as sh. Additional is if you pronounce it in Nahuatl, the accent/emphasis is on the 2nd last syllable. So Ta-bA-shee.
@@Fae2705 Would Fritz the Cat be a ta-Bakshi?
Another great vid. I started playing back in the AD&D 1e days but we never played in the Maztica setting when 2e came around, and I only really became aware of the race from VGTM. I feel much more informed now Thanks. :)
Most welcome!
Dude keep up the good work. Been watching your videos to give me some of the more esoteric/older lore that I haven't looked at in over 20 years lol.
I remember the old 1st and 2nd edition monster manuals and there wasn't a lot of depth to their entry but never read those other books that expand upon them. I just remember how much more versatile The Rakasta were made (from Mystara) in an issue of Dragon Magazine #247 and all new tables for making sub-races with unique abilities apart from the standard.
Toblin stonehill is a human, he owns the one tavern in Phandalin from The Lost Mines of
Phandelver adventure module.
volo's guide
Imagine a tabaxi with tiger lycanthropy. Cat squared lol, but how would others perceive it
Probably just them hulking out.
Thanks AJ, you just gave me some fun new ideas to play with in my campaign.
idk if anyone has noticed how good of a mood AJ was in, and how much energy he had but I love the idea of it.
Bruh, I'm so glad I've subscribed to this channel. I wouldn't have found good music for this race otherwise
I'm considering getting back into DnD with my PC's race being Tabaxi. And I was thinking for class a duel Rouge and Fighter mostly so I can if I'm lucky do a Scout/Gunslinger build. Basically use the fact Rouge's expertise gives off two free skills and I was thinking about going for skill choices Crossbow Expert, and History then get at least level 3 in Rouge to get the Scout archetype and then focus on the Fighter class to get the Gunslinger archetype and the abilities that come with it. And the reason why History would be the 2nd choice with Expertise cause I was thinking my character was blessed with curiosity about history, legends, and lore.
Nice powwow music at the beginning.
Unexpected surprise to hear A Tribe Called Red in a D&D video; cool
I know I am late to this one but your music is on point with the last few videos. Please make that a regular thing for the videos, it makes me feel what the creatures are and what it would be like to be around them. Hobgoblin is still the best but this one good since i play a Tabaxi.
Admits he's not all knowing about the D&d automatic like
I love how he uses the music from "A tribe called red"
yeah still great storytelling a.j.! thanks again man!
I'm very late, but at my school, there is a geek club, with D&D as the main big deal. I'm making a character that is a Tabaxi, it's nice to know more of the race!
a tribe called red?? awesome!
If I were to play one of these, I’d go with a hairless Tabaxi. Maybe, on the rare case, wherein Tabaxi are born hairless, they are left out in the jungle, to die?
I've met a few dms over the years who seem to have a weirdly fervent hatred for tabaxi, which is really frustrating because I'm quite fond of them myself
Yeah, great race!
It's because lots of the people that use them use them as an excuse to play as furries. It's an interesting because Leonin and Minotaur preferring players that I've had never have this problem.
@@alexbreeze4978 I mean there shouldn't be anything wrong with that. Let people play what they want, why they want. Nothing wrong with playing dope cat people.
@@remigusker6024 because I don't spend hours prepping a campaign for someone to oversexualize it with their fursona. Honestly of its someone I haven't had in a campaign before I would honestly rather they use some broken homebrew race than a tabaxi because every single time it's a furry doing the same shit
No matter what they are purrfect for any class or Ideas of players!
Nice work on the video!
I would give them a special ability to find magic, traps or secret doors. Curiosity....
Good video.
I know I'm 3 years late
But do you mean something like advantage in investigation checks???
Bc that would be very cool
Oh Boy! Love that intro song!
They are called 'A Tribe Called Red' the song is Electric Pow Wow Drum th-cam.com/video/cj3U0z64_m4/w-d-xo.html
@@AJPickett oh yes! Love the group! You should listen to Indotimable by DJ Snub!
Khajiit is very pleased with this video. Khajiit hopes to see more of them. May you walk on warm sands
*I see you're a man of culture as well*
Tribe Called Red!!!
Love your Deckard Cain impersonation. Hahaha.
The whole beginning section was me going like "that's really similar to- no that's exactly like- Nope that's literally south america at the time of the Spanish and other Europeans arriving"
It is
Subbed. Thanks for this video.
Most welcome, thanks for the sub :)
Dude that music was sick.
Currently playing as a tabaxi way of the open hand monk with mobile and slasher feat. Having a ball. Tabaxi plus any monk can be super fun in general.
The virgin tabaxi vs the chad leonin
Fucking love a tribe called red, my native friends from the res introduced them to me and can’t stop listening
How does a creature that cannot see color get obsessed over blue gems?
Love your videos BTW.
Tabaxi can see color, just not to the same extent that Humans do (and Humans can't see as many shades of green as ducks, fun fact). Here is an article showing just what cats see www.wired.com/2013/10/cats-eye-view/
I believe you. Thanks for not getting mad.
It was a good question :)
Wanna know a funny thing? Apparently, humans used to not be able to distinguish the color blue. Is was just a shade of green.
www.sciencealert.com/humans-couldn-t-even-see-the-colour-blue-until-modern-times-research-suggests
fascinating! I knew we had not invented Orange as separate from Red until relatively recently (hence why we call people 'red heads'), but didn't know that about blue.
I am using one as a Ranger who uses catnip to deal with humans. Whom goes by Snowflake on a mountain or just goes by Snowflake
Words cannot express the funny I got seeing Palicos in Tabaxi art
Random question:
Australian?
New Zealander :)
((I'm only like 2 minutes in and I'm sure this video will be great but first things first, thank you so much for introducing me to to Electric Pow Wow Drum I'm obsessed))
Jackson Eflin tribe called red = dope
Back in 2nd Edition, I loved the concept of Maztica, but I was disappointed that they did so little with it. The novels and the box set basically adapted the Spanish invasion of Central America in a simplified form. It was very incomplete. I wish they would have combined it together with the Savage Coast/Red Steel setting. There were so many concepts from both settings that could each expand on the other.
I have created a caracal based tabaxi thinking that they were more cheetah based and not leopard or jaguar.
I'm still sticking with the caracal...
Literally a couple of hours ago I was searching your channel for Tabaxi >.>
Don't search for Tieflings yet, that is the next vid i will be doing on playable races
Glen Yardley i did the same for hobgoblins last week! Share this channel bud, we know how great it is!
It was nice to hear some tribe called red with a dnd video
FYI, Toblen Stonehill is the innkeeper of the 'Stonehill Inn' in Phandalin (5e starter set)
Meerclar, of the Melnibonėan mythos, would work well as the 'cat lord', as she is the mistress of cats.
so, Tabaxi monk with way of the long death. You could actually have something akin to nine lives?
Thank you making this, its very helpful! About to play my first ever Tabaxi character in a new campaign.
Most welcome :)
thank you
I also like the idea of having a bit of variance in Tabaxi appearance. In my games I usually just allow Tabaxi to look like any of the large cats from our own world, Cheetahs, Leopards, Tigers, Lions, Panthers etc. One of my favorite characters when I'm not DMing is a Tabaxi who resembles a lioness and she is a totem Barbarian.
The most powerful class/race combo is Tabaxi Bard. A race obsessed with stories, with a class empowered by stories.
I just made my character for my first ever DnD campaign and this is my class/race combo :)
Razum-dar from eso could make a great tabaxi npc, damn that cat could talk anybody into anything
I'm planning to play a Tabaxi Oath of Vengeance Paladin who envies the sun, wants to give joy like the sun, but are driven by an oath to the ancient who saved their life from an abyssal cult. Sooo young All Might with a slight edge.
Ahhh the card art for Kukulkan in Smite 4:16 (:
What the heck did you pronounce that country's name as pissilac if i was from a country that sounded like piss in lake id claim to be from somewhere else
Ha ha ha , I heard you say it again a year later , and laughed not realising I'd already mis heard you a year before . Welcome to the land of pezelak.
What about lake Titicaca ?
That song in the intro is the hardest shit ive ever heard
Watching this to learn as much as I can for my Tabaxi Grave Cleric. Anyone experience with Tabaxi as Cleric? Feedback and input welcome
I play a tempest cleric tabaxi not tabashee. 😂 It is so fun. Just remember your chaotic and your trying to control those impulses. Pick about two or three cat species and watch till you narrow it down to the personality you want. So my character is kinda the face but kinda not. I am the night watch bedroll thief for the warmth of blankets and got a driftglobe to have do lazer lights to chase....but I mean over all I'm mostly still human but like I hide behind other PCs and hiss if I roll a Nat 1 on whether or not I'm afraid of something. I also purr and do cute cat face with big eyes when trying to charm. Annoyed my tail flicks and my ears go forwards and back and I wiggle in space. I also had a case of the zoomies when half the party was late to wake them up cause I was excited and I had already tried waking them earlier. Then did sad kitty when they're weren't thrilled. I was forgiven but they're not late anymore. 😂
Small point: From what I can see, Tabaxi, and Maztican culture generally, is most closely related to Central America, not South America. The Aztecs (central) and Incas (south) are often lumped together, but in my opinion they're as alien to each other as they are to early european civilisation. As someone who likes to make links between real history and fantasy, I've designed a human from Lopango, in the obscure south of Maztica, where the placenames indicate Inca influence (eg. Pichu Umu), to create a unique cultural backstory.
2:23 don't try to deceive us AS we all know u know everything about all races... the legends says xanathar guide to everything it's actually AJ Pickett guide to everything
Making Puss in Boots for a Pirate campaign me and my friends are running hahaha
Glad I found this video
Still kinda want to play a half-Rakshasa Tiefling that's pretending to be a Tabaxi - has little idea of Tabaxi history, but passes off errors as a result of his back story (constantly changing in small ways)... but sounds like I'll also have to figure out how to hide a love of riches, if Tabaxi only want what's useful in the immediate future...
Where did you get the image at 21 minutes? It would fit a character concept I have perfectly
so the difference between the Tabaxi and Catfolk? most of my knowledge is from 3.0 and 3.5
0:37 you're not fooling me, Bane from Batman!
Did you just reference Fraggle Rock? You’re awesome
This second commenter is laughing - your intro music sounds like home, here in Saskatchewan, Canada.
Indeed, I listened to a lot of native american and south american music while putting this together, and it all sounds great!
The music is Canadian its a tribe called red , I know becuse I am Canadian and have some native friends that turned me on to them .
They are excellent, I included some links in the video blahblah.
Kurt: Holy crap, someone else from Sask. This is a first, for me.
A tribe called red nice !
Great work. You should do something about yout audio quallity!! Its really hurting my ears when using headphones!
A.J. ive been in touch with the nerdarchists. Im a low level patreon with them. You guys should team up! They are great at ecology and different ways to bring in monsters to a campaign like yourself.
I'm always ready to team up and work with my friends.
Just playing that guy is a damn douche that takes offense at any comment. oh lord. Yeah he's one of the TH-camrs i wish i could block! He's in it for the game but has his new swords and had his whole house remodeled from his croneys!
Well I think anyone who gets into youtubing for just the money is not going to last, you really have to have a passion for it. I won't pretend to know the motivations of other tubers, but I feel safe in saying that you can tell why I do this if you just go through and see how much I enjoy the comments threads on all the videos, and that , as new people start to view the old vids and comment on vids from like, two years ago, all of these vids are a continuing, ever growing and complex conversation that always spurs me on to learn more and more. Without the input from people's comments, this channel would not exist. Simple as that.
Here is a fun Tabaxi story. In my "7 Cities of Gold" campaign, one of my players lost his character, a bard. That character died (decapitation). No chance to have someone end their round treating him to let him hover at death's door. The only return-from-dead magic the party had was the Reincarnation spell. He had a ring, a homebrew magic item, called Ring of Reincarnation. It was originally meant to be sold (got it in a level 1 mission), but he kept it because his custom priesthood class would get access to Reincarnation later. When you put that ring on and cast Reincarnation on a corpse, it reincarnates instantly at full health and at the original class with all memories of the dead character... in the new reincarnated race... at his current relative age level. The Half-Elf Bard became a Tabaxi Bard. He was annoyed returning to life that way but at least he stayed in the game. By the end of that very mission, he loved having his new body being Tabaxi and even wrote songs about it. Yes, that player wrote song lyrics for major events for that character. Thief. He was the DM to games I did that with my bard, well... one bard. But I was better at it... nevermind.
As a Tabaxi Bard, he was able to do lots of amazing things. His charismatic abilities even killed hostilities against the "weretiger kin" (Tabaxi) form he had once they got back to the mainland. He even charmed his human girlfriend into accepting his Tabaxi form (I applied a large penalty). He charmed The Patriarch (Blackthorne) into making him the liaison between "the savages" (many tribes and 3 empires in "The New World") and The Patriarchy (a religious organization based upon not a god but a good-aligned philosophy that is twisted into political intrigue and evil). In "The New World", the Tabaxi Bard is a welcome and friendly face. In The Patriarchy, he is a tolerated and useful asset... rumored to be evil by ley people. So many missions were spawned into creation from that Tabaxi. I had to create content every week (we met once a week) based upon that player. I also had to fully flesh-out every aspect of "The New World" in every detail because of him. That was decades before I read the Maztica books. I created the campaign based upon the "7 Cities of Gold" C64 computer game in the 80s.
So... when you added your little gaming thing with a little liberated guy from a clockwork outer plane and also ask your players if they are done with a certain boss, I smiled and nodded that I now know a DM similar to me. You are excellent at improv and you are proud of the stories your group had fun creating.
Gonna be playing my first ever tabaxi 👍
They are so fun!
I would play a charisma caster tabaxi cuz they do get a +1 to charisma which is overlooked by the +2 dexterity.
Also: doggo girls > cat girls
Time for remastered reupload
Hey how about a Loxodon. I would like to hear your ideas.
So The Thundercats are Tabaxi?
Lionen and Tabaxi and a Crag Cat with some sort of neurological illness.
I built a Tabaxi Rogue/WM Sorcerer that I'm hoping to play when my brother's campaign resumes/restarts. That speed burst looks amazing.
Khajiit has wares if you have GP
Thank you very much for the video. I personally am a fan of the Tabaxi due to the different culture and how their physiology can affect their mind set.
Do they use knives or just their claws as a for instance.
Do they see tail-less and "earless" creatures as having a speech impediment as the body language os vastly different?
From what I've recently read Tabaxi do use weapons like swords, and knives but if they get disarmed basically get said sword, or knife knocked out of their hand they're not entirely defenseless as they still have their claws as a sort of backup weapon that's suited for unarmed combat due to the fact that unlike humans or most humanoid races that do what's akin to either bludgeoning damage or crushing damage with only their bare hands, Tabaxi can use their claws as a way to deal slashing damage while technically being unarmed.
Any one got any good background and backstory ideas for a tabaxi
There's a Land of Flying Monkeys in southwestern Faerun?! My day off will now consist of sifting through AJ's videos/google for more information on this amazing place...
Would make a great monk!
It's a kitty!
What is the jaguar spirit mentioned at 6:18?
what is your suggestion for transferring over your character from 4th edition to 5th edition?
I simply remake the character following as closely as I can to the characters progression so far.
21:49 Ajani Mentor of Heroes is a Tabaxi? or are MagicTCG and D&D not allowed to touch?
Tabaxi do travel widely, wandering worlds and realms, so, I would not rule it out completely. ;)
Here are some questions about the Tabaxi.
1. Do they have a sort of language or naming system for their people, like how other races can give each other names?
2. Are Tabaxi species just limited to house cat-like versions or can ANY feline species be a Tabaxi (ex. lion/lioness, panther, tiger/tigress, lynx, cheetah etc.)
3. What sort of civilizations/leadership do they have? Do they live in cities ruled by royalty or are they more of a tribal race ruled by clan chieftains?