![]() Degree 5 - Cat: You’re an ordinary cat.Otherwise, she’s fully covered in fur, has a feline face, is digitigrade (meaning that her legs are jointed in a way that causes her to walk on her toes, bone-wise), and has a tail. At degree four, we’ve abandoned most human-like aspects of the character except for her shape: she is bipedal and has hands with opposable thumbs. Degree 4 - Advanced Race Guide: Now we’re really starting to pull away from humanity.That said, she also has a set of human-like feet and legs and a human-like face. For example, this character clearly has fur, cat-like claws and eyes, and a tail. Degree 3 - Shattered Star: You can also call this one the “Thundercats Catfolk.” Like the original 1980s Thundercats cartoon, this catfolk has more cat-like features, but it has clear anthropomorphic features as well.She’s basically a human girl with cat face paint on. Furthermore, her only real “cat” aspects are her ears, her eyes, and her tail. She doesn’t seem to have any fur or if she does, it’s so fine that it isn’t emphasized in the art. Degree 2 - Bestiary 2: Notice in the Bestiary 2 version of the catfolk, the character is mostly humanoid.Degree 1 - Human: You’re an ordinary human! Congratz.For this scale, we’ll be measuring how much of a cross between human and cat the character is. Let’s talk about the three distinct looks of catfolk. I mentioned my new buzzword, “degree of anthomorphization,” so I’m going to quickly apply it to the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. So, what’s the problem here? Read on to see. ![]() In nerd culture, “anthropomorphic” is often associated with the furry fandom because that fandom revolves around anthromorphized animals, or animals given human form and attributes. This term applies to a wide variety of topics for example, if I walk into a Catholic church and I see a painting of a buff, old man in a white robe with gray hair and think to myself, “this is an artist’s depiction of God,” then I’m looking at an anthromorphic depiction of God: human attributes given to a non-human being or entity. For a quick etymology lesson, “anthropomorphism” is the attribution of human form or characteristics to a non-human being or entity. See! Three completely different looks! We’re going to give this a technical term and call it “degrees of anthromorphization.” I’m almost 100% word that I just made that word up, so roll with it. The catfolk in the Shattered Star adventure path.The catfolk in the Advanced Race Guide.Have you ever noticed that there’s like three different “styles” of catfolk in the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game? If you haven’t, surprise! There are three different styles of catfolk in the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, and they’re all spread out between different sources and product lines. Okay, I’m going to warn you right now that this article is probably going to come off as even preacher than my Wednesday Raves tend to be. Today’s article is a Wednesday Rave the topic is anthropomorphic animals as humanoid creatures. Welcome to the Gibbering Mouth article for June 11th, 2014.
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