Would catnip affect catfolk?

[malloyd]

Originally Posted by Black Leviathan

It could be crafted to work as a poison, just like other herbal concoctions are used to affect other races. Chances are it would have an effect on Catfolk while other poisons might not.

Odds are catnip is biologically active in some way in most animals, it's just the exact details are basically unpredictable from species to species.

It does in humans too; anything with a significant flavor is having a pretty significant biochemical effect after all - it binds to taste receptors; and it's apparently a mild sedative. It's also an attractant to several kinds of pollenating butterflies, and repulsive to various other insects like cockroaches.

That 6,5 bicyclic ring, particularly with the fusion on the 2,3 positions relative to a major sidegroup or heteroatom in the 6 ring, is a really, really common element of all kinds of bioactive stuff. It's half the central structure of steroids for example. There's no shortage of biochemical paths it could act on. It's just guessing whether the net effect is interesting flavor, euphoria, stimulation, cancer, the most horrible smell you have ever encountered, or lethal collapse of blood pressure is a crapshoot.

[Anthony]

Originally Posted by malloyd

Odds are catnip is biologically active in some way in most animals, it's just the exact details are basically unpredictable from species to species.

Though in the case of catfolk, the reason catnip works on them is because the law of similarity says that creatures that resemble cats are affected by things that affect cats.

[Anders]

Yeah, DFRPG is the world where a barbarian can have more HP and DR than an Allosaurus. Science not included.

[SimonAce]

Since there probably isn't a canon answer I'll ask.

Do you want it too? Would it make the game more fun?

If you think so, go for it.

[roguebfl]

What kind of brewing could catnip be used would, would it be a Hops replacement for Catnip beer, or it More be Wine?

[Anthony]

Originally Posted by roguebfl

What kind of brewing could catnip be used would, would it be a Hops replacement for Catnip beer, or it More be Wine?

Probably something you add after brewing; it's an herb, not a fruit or grain.

[Anders]

Yeah, I picture a bowl of hot water. You pour the catnip flakes onto the water and inhale the fumes.

[Mark Skarr]

Originally Posted by Anders

What effect would catnip have on catfolk? I realize this is setting dependent, but what do you think?

Yes.

It would lead to humorous events happening "in town." And that's what town is for.