Call for Playtesters: GURPS Furries

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Originally Posted by Phantasm

I was a little worried at first, as I usually encounter the term "Furry" as being "people who socialize (and go farther than that) wearing animal costumes (usually homemade) and generally honestly believe 'I am an $animal* stuck in a human skin, and the fursona is the true me'."

(1) I have met people in that subculture. They're part of the target market for this book, in the same way that otherkin who think they are really elves are part of the target market for GURPS Fantasy. Their kinkier interests are not part of its subject matter; GURPS isn't that kind of game. On the other hand, there are people like me, who follow some furry fiction, comics, and animation and own some furry art, and who might also be part of the target market for this book, who don't fit the stereotype you're referring to.

(2) It seems to me that most readers can figure out that human fans of furry material neither need as elaborate a set of rules and templates to be roleplayed as anthropomorphized animals, nor are as likely to have adventures that most people would be interested in roleplaying; so they would be less likely to be the subject of a GURPS supplement.