Arrakoa would be pretty interesting, although I always found the flying ones more interesting than the ground based ones. I don’t know why, but the grounded ones, perhaps because of how they dress, always seemed to me, to be all caster based classes, with the flying ones being your warrior aristocracy. I mean that is probably just down to how they are portrayed in WoD.
Harpies would be a hard ‘No’ for me. One for a reason that wouldn’t bother me personally but may well bother others, and Secondly for a reason that just makes them an absolute ‘Nope’ in my eyes.
The One that might bother some people is the fact that you can only play females. That doesn’t bother me. I already have female characters anyway, but can you imagine the delicate Reddit and Twitch fans getting told they have to play a female character in order to play that race? It would drive them mental! We know that you only get Female Harpies (Because of the Second Reason I think they would be incredibly -bad-), so it isn’t even like, say Ogres, or Gnolls or even Kobolds where we could very well be fighting female ones, but because they are a different species, we wouldn’t know. I mean for sure, Blizzard has the tendency to assume that you make the female of the race more slender and whack a bra on it. However, that design philosophy is just weird. I know Marsupials are a thing, but have you noticed that female Naga have lady bumps?
Why would that happen? They lay -Eggs-. Generally speaking, if a creature lays eggs, it does not have chest bumps, because they would fulfil no purpose!
Which does lead us onto the Second Reason why Harpies should never be playable…
Yeah. They’re all female. That’s not so bad at all in my eyes, but the reason -WHY- they’re all female, is not something I want to see in a game. Blizzard said (This may have been retconned, but I’ve never seen them formally do so, and they have referenced it as recently as Legion) That Harpies procreate by taking male prisoners. And those male prisoners are forced to …well, there is no easy way of saying it that won’t get a ban, but lets just say that the fathers, who get the Harpies pregnant, are not giving consent.
I can’t see that going into the game as a playable race. Nor bloody should it! I’m faintly annoyed that Blizzard even think that it was an acceptable concept to introduce in the first place, and even more that they doubled down on it in Legion.
Anybody think they’d have made ‘R’ jokes in Legion if it was a woman being violated? No. Of course they wouldn’t. And rightly so. But it’s fine when it is a man? According to Blizzard, apparently so.
Thats how Harpies Procreate. And thats why they should never, ever be playable…You’d literally be encouraging players to play a species that procreates via the means of violating other thinking human beings.
Which is why Harpies? Heck no.
Lets go back to more wholesome topics like cannibalistic Hyena people, stupid faced Skaven, and Brutes too stupid to not talk about themselves in the Third Person… Oh, and Arrakoa, lets throw them in there as well. 