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Who was this character from the Tomb of Annihilation adventure before they became a monster?
Was the Tomb of Horrors module representative of Gygaxian DMing?Party communication across languagesHow does the Necromancy wizard's Inured to Undeath feature work with the Death Curse in the Tomb of Annihilation adventure?What story arcs does the Tomb of Annihilation adventure (as written) fail to resolve?What does the in-game map in Tomb of Annihilation do in regard to navigation checks?Can you choose a dialect of a language instead of the whole language?In Tomb of Annihilation, why does Jobal's consort introduce the party to a certain pair of guides?How do I prevent a homebrew Grappling Hook feature from trivializing Tomb of Annihilation?Should the Death Curse affect an undead PC in the Tomb of Annihilation adventure?Can this NPC from the Tomb of Annihilation adventure change form willingly?
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I have found a lot of information that this character is a tabaxi and speaks tabaxi language.
Ras Nsi before he became yuan-ti
Who he is exactly? Was he tabaxi or human or something else?
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I have found a lot of information that this character is a tabaxi and speaks tabaxi language.
Ras Nsi before he became yuan-ti
Who he is exactly? Was he tabaxi or human or something else?
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edited 1 hour ago
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Can you cite where you've seen it stated that he's a tabaxi? Is it mentioned anywhere in the adventure?
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I have found a lot of information that this character is a tabaxi and speaks tabaxi language.
Ras Nsi before he became yuan-ti
Who he is exactly? Was he tabaxi or human or something else?
dnd-5e published-adventures races npc tomb-of-annihilation
edited 1 hour ago
doppelgreener♦
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asked 1 hour ago
OharOhar
463112
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I have found a lot of information that this character is a tabaxi and speaks tabaxi language.
Ras Nsi before he became yuan-ti
Who he is exactly? Was he tabaxi or human or something else?
dnd-5e published-adventures races npc tomb-of-annihilation
dnd-5e published-adventures races npc tomb-of-annihilation
edited 1 hour ago
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asked 1 hour ago
OharOhar
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doppelgreener♦
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OharOhar
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Can you cite where you've seen it stated that he's a tabaxi? Is it mentioned anywhere in the adventure?
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Can you cite where you've seen it stated that he's a tabaxi? Is it mentioned anywhere in the adventure?
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– V2Blast
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Can you cite where you've seen it stated that he's a tabaxi? Is it mentioned anywhere in the adventure?
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Can you cite where you've seen it stated that he's a tabaxi? Is it mentioned anywhere in the adventure?
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He was a human from the Tabaxi tribe
The book makes this all very confusing, but Ras Nsi is indeed a Tabaxi. Except... he's not a cat person. In ancient Chult, the people of Chult lived in various tribes, and the largest of these tribes was the Tabaxi tribe.
It's a bit uncertain in-universe if the tribe was named after the cat-like humanoids, or if the misunderstanding came from an explorer who asked about a cat-like humanoid from the Tabaxi tribe, was told they're a Tabaxi, and assumed that 'tabaxi' was the race of the creature instead of what tribe it belonged to.
To make matters even more confusing, the language he speaks (Tabaxi) is not the same language as the one the cat-people speak. In fact, if you look closely, the tabaxi species doesn't even speak Tabaxi, because Tabaxi is a human dialect from Chult. The language the furry friends spoke in earlier editions when they still had their own language by default is a dialect of Payit, completely unrelated to human Tabaxi.
This difference is properly explained in Dragon+ #11 in Matt Sernet's Lore You Should Know article, "Tabaxi vs. tabaxi".
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It'd help to support the statements in your answer by citing the source of the information. (I know the Forgotten Realms wiki has info that backs this up, and presumably most of it cites books from older editions.)
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– V2Blast
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Added a link to the dragon+ article that goes into developer discussion on the difference between tabaxi (species) and Tabaxi (tribe.), hope that helps.
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– Theik
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Looks good to me.
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He was a human from the Tabaxi tribe
The book makes this all very confusing, but Ras Nsi is indeed a Tabaxi. Except... he's not a cat person. In ancient Chult, the people of Chult lived in various tribes, and the largest of these tribes was the Tabaxi tribe.
It's a bit uncertain in-universe if the tribe was named after the cat-like humanoids, or if the misunderstanding came from an explorer who asked about a cat-like humanoid from the Tabaxi tribe, was told they're a Tabaxi, and assumed that 'tabaxi' was the race of the creature instead of what tribe it belonged to.
To make matters even more confusing, the language he speaks (Tabaxi) is not the same language as the one the cat-people speak. In fact, if you look closely, the tabaxi species doesn't even speak Tabaxi, because Tabaxi is a human dialect from Chult. The language the furry friends spoke in earlier editions when they still had their own language by default is a dialect of Payit, completely unrelated to human Tabaxi.
This difference is properly explained in Dragon+ #11 in Matt Sernet's Lore You Should Know article, "Tabaxi vs. tabaxi".
edited 32 mins ago
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It'd help to support the statements in your answer by citing the source of the information. (I know the Forgotten Realms wiki has info that backs this up, and presumably most of it cites books from older editions.)
$endgroup$
– V2Blast
40 mins ago
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Added a link to the dragon+ article that goes into developer discussion on the difference between tabaxi (species) and Tabaxi (tribe.), hope that helps.
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– Theik
34 mins ago
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Looks good to me.
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– V2Blast
31 mins ago
add a comment |
$begingroup$
He was a human from the Tabaxi tribe
The book makes this all very confusing, but Ras Nsi is indeed a Tabaxi. Except... he's not a cat person. In ancient Chult, the people of Chult lived in various tribes, and the largest of these tribes was the Tabaxi tribe.
It's a bit uncertain in-universe if the tribe was named after the cat-like humanoids, or if the misunderstanding came from an explorer who asked about a cat-like humanoid from the Tabaxi tribe, was told they're a Tabaxi, and assumed that 'tabaxi' was the race of the creature instead of what tribe it belonged to.
To make matters even more confusing, the language he speaks (Tabaxi) is not the same language as the one the cat-people speak. In fact, if you look closely, the tabaxi species doesn't even speak Tabaxi, because Tabaxi is a human dialect from Chult. The language the furry friends spoke in earlier editions when they still had their own language by default is a dialect of Payit, completely unrelated to human Tabaxi.
This difference is properly explained in Dragon+ #11 in Matt Sernet's Lore You Should Know article, "Tabaxi vs. tabaxi".
edited 32 mins ago
V2Blast
29.1k5105177
answered 1 hour ago
TheikTheik
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$begingroup$
It'd help to support the statements in your answer by citing the source of the information. (I know the Forgotten Realms wiki has info that backs this up, and presumably most of it cites books from older editions.)
$endgroup$
– V2Blast
40 mins ago
1
$begingroup$
Added a link to the dragon+ article that goes into developer discussion on the difference between tabaxi (species) and Tabaxi (tribe.), hope that helps.
$endgroup$
– Theik
34 mins ago
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Looks good to me.
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– V2Blast
31 mins ago
add a comment |
$begingroup$
He was a human from the Tabaxi tribe
The book makes this all very confusing, but Ras Nsi is indeed a Tabaxi. Except... he's not a cat person. In ancient Chult, the people of Chult lived in various tribes, and the largest of these tribes was the Tabaxi tribe.
It's a bit uncertain in-universe if the tribe was named after the cat-like humanoids, or if the misunderstanding came from an explorer who asked about a cat-like humanoid from the Tabaxi tribe, was told they're a Tabaxi, and assumed that 'tabaxi' was the race of the creature instead of what tribe it belonged to.
To make matters even more confusing, the language he speaks (Tabaxi) is not the same language as the one the cat-people speak. In fact, if you look closely, the tabaxi species doesn't even speak Tabaxi, because Tabaxi is a human dialect from Chult. The language the furry friends spoke in earlier editions when they still had their own language by default is a dialect of Payit, completely unrelated to human Tabaxi.
This difference is properly explained in Dragon+ #11 in Matt Sernet's Lore You Should Know article, "Tabaxi vs. tabaxi".
edited 32 mins ago
V2Blast
29.1k5105177
answered 1 hour ago
TheikTheik
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$endgroup$
He was a human from the Tabaxi tribe
The book makes this all very confusing, but Ras Nsi is indeed a Tabaxi. Except... he's not a cat person. In ancient Chult, the people of Chult lived in various tribes, and the largest of these tribes was the Tabaxi tribe.
It's a bit uncertain in-universe if the tribe was named after the cat-like humanoids, or if the misunderstanding came from an explorer who asked about a cat-like humanoid from the Tabaxi tribe, was told they're a Tabaxi, and assumed that 'tabaxi' was the race of the creature instead of what tribe it belonged to.
To make matters even more confusing, the language he speaks (Tabaxi) is not the same language as the one the cat-people speak. In fact, if you look closely, the tabaxi species doesn't even speak Tabaxi, because Tabaxi is a human dialect from Chult. The language the furry friends spoke in earlier editions when they still had their own language by default is a dialect of Payit, completely unrelated to human Tabaxi.
This difference is properly explained in Dragon+ #11 in Matt Sernet's Lore You Should Know article, "Tabaxi vs. tabaxi".
edited 32 mins ago
V2Blast
29.1k5105177
answered 1 hour ago
TheikTheik
15.1k6583
edited 32 mins ago
V2Blast
29.1k5105177
edited 32 mins ago
V2Blast
29.1k5105177
edited 32 mins ago
V2Blast
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29.1k5105177
answered 1 hour ago
TheikTheik
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answered 1 hour ago
TheikTheik
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answered 1 hour ago
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It'd help to support the statements in your answer by citing the source of the information. (I know the Forgotten Realms wiki has info that backs this up, and presumably most of it cites books from older editions.)
$endgroup$
– V2Blast
40 mins ago
1
$begingroup$
Added a link to the dragon+ article that goes into developer discussion on the difference between tabaxi (species) and Tabaxi (tribe.), hope that helps.
$endgroup$
– Theik
34 mins ago
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Looks good to me.
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– V2Blast
31 mins ago
add a comment |
$begingroup$
It'd help to support the statements in your answer by citing the source of the information. (I know the Forgotten Realms wiki has info that backs this up, and presumably most of it cites books from older editions.)
$endgroup$
– V2Blast
40 mins ago
1
$begingroup$
Added a link to the dragon+ article that goes into developer discussion on the difference between tabaxi (species) and Tabaxi (tribe.), hope that helps.
$endgroup$
– Theik
34 mins ago
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Looks good to me.
$endgroup$
– V2Blast
31 mins ago
$begingroup$
It'd help to support the statements in your answer by citing the source of the information. (I know the Forgotten Realms wiki has info that backs this up, and presumably most of it cites books from older editions.)
$endgroup$
– V2Blast
40 mins ago
$begingroup$
It'd help to support the statements in your answer by citing the source of the information. (I know the Forgotten Realms wiki has info that backs this up, and presumably most of it cites books from older editions.)
$endgroup$
– V2Blast
40 mins ago
1
1
$begingroup$
Added a link to the dragon+ article that goes into developer discussion on the difference between tabaxi (species) and Tabaxi (tribe.), hope that helps.
$endgroup$
– Theik
34 mins ago
$begingroup$
Added a link to the dragon+ article that goes into developer discussion on the difference between tabaxi (species) and Tabaxi (tribe.), hope that helps.
$endgroup$
– Theik
34 mins ago
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Looks good to me.
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– V2Blast
31 mins ago
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Looks good to me.
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– V2Blast
31 mins ago
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Can you cite where you've seen it stated that he's a tabaxi? Is it mentioned anywhere in the adventure?
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