A Race Suggestion: Kitsune

[Gramul]

-SE seems to want to make "Cute" girl races in order to make the current races popular, hence the Au Ra girls looking the way they do.
-It might be difficult or impossible to make stuff like armor work with some of those suggestions
-incorporating something like that into the story in a way that continues with the lore might also prove difficult

realistic given the circumstances.

A challenge!

[Samcaesar]

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That sort of thought process isn't too constructive though, it doesn't challenge SE to actually try and appeal to those who want more Beast like races! If the community doesn't say "Okay we want a beast like race next time" and just accepts it won't ever happen, all we will ever get is "Hyur/Miqo'te/Elezen with (Insert mammal here)"

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The current beast tribes would be sorta neat, but body armor, a whole lot of story issues, and some player demands are acting as a pretty preventative factor to it. Plus I'd prefer additional races be something new, if not only to breath in something that feels unique and like care and thought was put into it.

[Felis]

Since we have to work with members of the beast tribes in various aspects of the games anyway, why not just let us play as them? Sure there would be a few hiccups here and there lore wise in the MSQ, but not really given how often we're made to work alongside them in the MSQ itself.

Having an Alma'jaa or Kobold tank would be really fun to watch

You would not be allowed to enter Ul'dah. It is forbidden for beastmen to enter Ul'dah.
A Sylph that glamoured herself as a midlander girl could work.

[Samcaesar]

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It really is working to both the community and SE's desires! Heck I'd love a more beastlike race, but if it's at the cost of sacrificing most armor in the game and making absolutely no sense with the lore of the game, it's kind of hard to want it then.

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Then again Au Ra should have issues fitting in Ishgard or the other City states, given the possibly draconic or voidsent origins of them

[Elazu]

Miqo'te should have been fox people in the first place, tbh!

[Samcaesar]

Miqo'te should have been fox people in the first place, tbh!

Not really, considering how much they were based off the Mithra :P

[Balipu]

Absolutely not. Playable Kitsune would be a disaster. I mean I finally settled down on a look for my future Au Ra and you want me to fantasia again?! Do you want to ruin me?!

[Nestama]

-SE seems to want to make "Cute" girl races in order to make the current races popular, hence the Au Ra girls looking the way they do.
-It might be difficult or impossible to make stuff like armor work with some of those suggestions
-incorporating something like that into the story in a way that continues with the lore might also prove difficult

-A new race is not supposed to be something majority of the XIV community flocks over to. It's to be something different (Au Ra females can easily be made to look like a Hyur Midlander). If SE continue to make new races based on what is popular, we're only going to have cute girls and cool boys that are 99% human. We need more strange/ugly/unique things to play as.
-Humanoid bodies (so that takes care of the clothing for the body, arms and legs), miscellaneous hands, feet and faces (so only the clothing for hands, feet and heads will require alterations).
-That's SE's own fault, however it could add some interesting NPC dialogue. Just make the beast-like races only be able to start in Limsa Lominsa and add an extra NPC for them to talk to when doing the Envoy quest.

And to repeat for those saying they want Viera: Change to a female Roegadyn Hellsguard, get the rabbit ears and claws from Gold Saucer and you're done (reminder, Viera do not have tails).

[Reokudo]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRqvrj2m_vk Make them like this, Miqo'te and Au Ra die out forever,

[saber_alter]

There is already an MMORPG with this sort of cutesy attire for players that want it. I keep forgetting the name, but it looks like one of those Korean MMOs. Why not start a fox girl in that instead of trying to cram it into FFXIV?

already exists

and foxgirl?
/shot

i'm all for diversity. the more character creation choices the better imo.

Not really, considering how much they were based off the Mithra :P

now only if they were closer to mithra...