Please add Kenku

[Gigadesu!]

I want to be a bird man who talks in MP3 soundclips.

[Dragon Master]

You want to be a race that can only communicate through imitating others?

Cool.

[Damashi The Kaotic]

I was actually thinking if Kenku was a playable race the tadpole would be a perfectly reasonable way to give your character the ability to speak common, and everyone's initial reaction would be "wtf you can speak!?"

[Damashi The Kaotic]

Originally posted by Cervix Puncher!:

Do they even intend to add beast races?

We don't know. They are focusing mainly on the player handbook, but its not out of the of possibility if they think it fits with the story they are trying to tell, and the time and have the resources (money, talent, and technology) to make it work.

[Kekis]

Originally posted by Wes:

Originally posted by GigaDesu!:

Please add Kenku

Larian please add Tabaxi OR Half-Tabaxi as well.

Make our Thundercat & Crow dreams come true. 😘 🐱 🐧

what is a half-tabaxi...?

[FuzzyDragon]

Originally posted by Wes:

Originally posted by GigaDesu!:

Please add Kenku

Larian please add Tabaxi OR Half-Tabaxi as well.

Make our Thundercat & Crow dreams come true. 😘 🐱 🐧

Sorry guy but Half-Tabaxi are not an actual thing in 5e at least not without jumping through some strange hoops in Tashas but Tabaxi is a race I would love to play, that double move speed is insane for your monks and rouges.

[War Maiden]

Originally posted by GigaDesu!:

Do they even intend to add beast races?

Yes, Minotar class has been seen in the files and there is a character creation form for it.

[War Maiden]

Originally posted by GrandMajora:

Originally posted by Wes:

Cheetara is the perfect example! (the old-school & 2011 version.) https://youtu.be/L5O1sEGwZ9E

What in the name of every dark god, goddess and demonic overlord that has ever existed is that abomination!?

https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Evil_domain_deities

Ask, and ye shall receive.

...You're Welcome.

[lindad7999]

Originally posted by GigaDesu!:

Do they even intend to add beast races?

As far as everything known at this point the only playable races are in the PHB. I really doubt they will be adding from other source materials except for the Gith because of the story line.

[lindad7999]

Originally posted by War Maiden:

Originally posted by GigaDesu!:

Do they even intend to add beast races?

Yes, Minotar class has been seen in the files and there is a character creation form for it.

Just saying not everything that the "Data Miner" find end up in the games just saying.

[NixAhmose]

As cool as it would be, the only way they would work is if they got rid of their mimic curse, which kinda defeats the point of being a Kenku

[War Maiden]

Originally posted by lindad7999:

Originally posted by War Maiden:

Yes, Minotar class has been seen in the files and there is a character creation form for it.

Just saying not everything that the "Data Miner" find end up in the games just saying.

That's not what I meant. I have visually seen the Minotaur class in character creation.

[CDI Mario]

Litterally almost imposible to play as a main character since you NEED to be able to talk. Maybe a Kenku party member.

[KaffeeRausch]

A kenku had great difficulty communicating.

Mimicry. You can mimic sounds you have heard, including voices. A creature that hears the sounds you make can tell they are imitations with a successful Wisdom (Insight) check opposed by your Charisma (Deception) check.

Languages. You can read and write Common and Auran, but you can speak only by using your Mimicry trait.

BUT!

Through the larva, the kenku could talk or at least tell his companions what he wanted.

[KaffeeRausch]

Now the Kenku are said to suffer from 3 curses because they betrayed their master.

First:
If their own voice has been taken from them, they have to imitate sounds.

Secondly:
If you were made uncreative, you don't get the idea to take the tones / words apart and with the individual e.g. "We" "are" "friends" to form a correct sentence.

Third:
Its wings have been taken away, and from the moment they hatch from the egg they have the need to be able to fly.

BUT!

If the mind flayer larva affects the gerin, the kenku could speak or at least telepathically say what it wants to its companions.


* Laugh *
It would be just a funny scene if the Kenku notices that he can speak and thinks he could fly away from the ship and * a shame ... you can not fly *


PS: Maybe Larian is considering making the Kenku playable, under an entry * Kenku * should * Real * stand, and * Real * stands for the characters for players.

[GameBearAdvanced]

No longer impossible. They can speak freely now.