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Author Topic: Species names for DF races and other sapient folk  (Read 2055 times)

Asin

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Species names for DF races and other sapient folk
« on: May 05, 2018, 09:59:59 pm »

Come up with a species name for the DF creatures that aren't real, and continue the chain until we run out.

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Common name (Genus species)


I'll start us off with...

Dwarves (Homo avarum)

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Re: Species names for DF races and other sapient folk
« Reply #1 on: May 05, 2018, 10:26:23 pm »

Elves (Homo philoarborum)
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Re: Species names for DF races and other sapient folk
« Reply #2 on: May 06, 2018, 11:58:03 am »

Plump helmet man (Anthropomyces purpureus)
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Re: Species names for DF races and other sapient folk
« Reply #3 on: May 06, 2018, 07:03:44 pm »

Goblins: Scrofulus babygrabulus
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Re: Species names for DF races and other sapient folk
« Reply #4 on: May 06, 2018, 09:08:14 pm »

Kobolds (stealifis cutus)
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Re: Species names for DF races and other sapient folk
« Reply #5 on: May 07, 2018, 09:45:54 am »

Gorlaks (Cephalothorax troglodytes)
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Re: Species names for DF races and other sapient folk
« Reply #6 on: May 07, 2018, 10:20:02 am »

Humanoid Demons


Homo  diablostemere
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Re: Species names for DF races and other sapient folk
« Reply #7 on: May 07, 2018, 10:31:14 am »

Giants (Homo colossus)
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Re: Species names for DF races and other sapient folk
« Reply #9 on: May 08, 2018, 12:50:27 pm »

(I thought we were only doing the sapient species)

Anyway, Minotaurs (Bosanthropus labyrinthus)
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Re: Species names for DF races and other sapient folk
« Reply #10 on: May 08, 2018, 04:02:24 pm »

(I thought we were only doing the sapient species)

Anyway, Minotaurs (Bosanthropus labyrinthus)
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Re: Species names for DF races and other sapient folk
« Reply #11 on: May 08, 2018, 06:38:50 pm »

(Don't know for sure, just what it says in the title)

Ettins (Homo dicephalus)
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Re: Species names for DF races and other sapient folk
« Reply #12 on: May 08, 2018, 10:12:30 pm »

Tiger Man (Pantheranthropus Tigris)
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Re: Species names for DF races and other sapient folk
« Reply #13 on: May 08, 2018, 10:40:13 pm »

Reptile men (Anthroposaurus subterrus)
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Re: Species names for DF races and other sapient folk
« Reply #14 on: May 14, 2018, 01:27:22 pm »

Sponge men (Poriferantha Krapatia)
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