Post by Hylocereus on Mar 24, 2015 21:18:01 GMT
Interested in making a cat to join us? Good! I'll give you a lowdown on things you can and cannot do.
Do NOT use hats, glasses, swords, shit like that. Basically, if you could not reasonably acquire it in a roleplay scenario, it's not ok.
DO use bone decorations, feathers, leaves, and war paints! Is it 100% realistic? No. Is it pretty awesome looking? Hells yeah!
You get a free pass on these items should you choose to use them - but remember with warpaints in particular you STILL can't have neon-bright colors. Think of the sort of thing you would be able to aqcuire in the wild - pigments from minerals, berries, that sort of thing. Woad-blue and Carmine-Red, those kind of things are ok as they come from plants and insects. This roleplay takes place in no particular continent, so for purposes of play we're going to assume we can get access to anything. This may change, but if you've already made a character with items/warpaint sourced from a distant land, it will be handwaved, so don't worry.
Do NOT have cats running around at the absolute bottom of the scales. Unless you are playing a newborn cub, even the smallest machirodonts were still bigger than a chihuahua. Some species of creature WERE small, but if you're playing for example, a Smilodon Fatalis, you should never dip below default size.
In addition to that, Fatalis and Populator were built like tanks! Use a high Weight and Width when making these. Gracilis was well, more gracile, but it still was more robustly build than say, a leopard. Unless your character is sick, starved, or both, refrain from making skinny smilodons.
DO try and keep scales in mind. It's a pain, especially with everyone having a different idea of what the sliders represent, but for the most part don't have unreasonably small or large characters running around. I won't give you trouble about this, but for immersion's sake try to keep it in mind.
Of note is that there is no significant sexual dimorphism in the smilodon species. This means, the males and the females were the same size and probably very similar in appearance.
DO have bobbed tails on all Smilodon and Homotherium species. Dinofelis, Machairodus, Nimravus and the like had full tails, so knock yourself out.
Do NOT flood the pride with pure-black or pure-white cats. There's no reason Melanistic, Leucustic or Anachromatic machirodonts couldn't have existed - but as with other big cats, we will assume it is a rare mutation.
DO have any combination of spots, stripes or plain coats you desire. Until fossil evidence crops up telling us what they looked like it's all up to you. If you want a literal saber-toothed tiger, go for it! Any color that occurs on big cats in nature is acceptable.
On a similar note, use whatever ears you like.
Do NOT use hats, glasses, swords, shit like that. Basically, if you could not reasonably acquire it in a roleplay scenario, it's not ok.
DO use bone decorations, feathers, leaves, and war paints! Is it 100% realistic? No. Is it pretty awesome looking? Hells yeah!
You get a free pass on these items should you choose to use them - but remember with warpaints in particular you STILL can't have neon-bright colors. Think of the sort of thing you would be able to aqcuire in the wild - pigments from minerals, berries, that sort of thing. Woad-blue and Carmine-Red, those kind of things are ok as they come from plants and insects. This roleplay takes place in no particular continent, so for purposes of play we're going to assume we can get access to anything. This may change, but if you've already made a character with items/warpaint sourced from a distant land, it will be handwaved, so don't worry.
Do NOT have cats running around at the absolute bottom of the scales. Unless you are playing a newborn cub, even the smallest machirodonts were still bigger than a chihuahua. Some species of creature WERE small, but if you're playing for example, a Smilodon Fatalis, you should never dip below default size.
In addition to that, Fatalis and Populator were built like tanks! Use a high Weight and Width when making these. Gracilis was well, more gracile, but it still was more robustly build than say, a leopard. Unless your character is sick, starved, or both, refrain from making skinny smilodons.
DO try and keep scales in mind. It's a pain, especially with everyone having a different idea of what the sliders represent, but for the most part don't have unreasonably small or large characters running around. I won't give you trouble about this, but for immersion's sake try to keep it in mind.
Of note is that there is no significant sexual dimorphism in the smilodon species. This means, the males and the females were the same size and probably very similar in appearance.
DO have bobbed tails on all Smilodon and Homotherium species. Dinofelis, Machairodus, Nimravus and the like had full tails, so knock yourself out.
Do NOT flood the pride with pure-black or pure-white cats. There's no reason Melanistic, Leucustic or Anachromatic machirodonts couldn't have existed - but as with other big cats, we will assume it is a rare mutation.
DO have any combination of spots, stripes or plain coats you desire. Until fossil evidence crops up telling us what they looked like it's all up to you. If you want a literal saber-toothed tiger, go for it! Any color that occurs on big cats in nature is acceptable.
On a similar note, use whatever ears you like.
I have left FH behind and nowadays I mainly play Valorant. I hope everyone is doing okay and you're having great lives! <3