I've been reading the fluff and looking around and I was curious, do you at any point plan on having separate morphs for the different kinds of Neo-Hominids (Chimps, Bonobos, Orangutans)? You already separated out gorillas, and as described in the fluff (and as species in general) it seems like there are enough distinctions between the different kinds of non Gorilla neo-Hominids to justify having a separate morph for each of them, and I was just wondering if that was in the cards, and also what other people thought of the possibility, and what ideas they might have for what sort of advantages or disadvantages each kind might have? Sorry if this has been brought up before, I tried looking around to find something like that and didn't have any luck...
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Separate Neo-Hominid Morphs?
Sun, 2014-07-20 00:54
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Separate Neo-Hominid Morphs?
Sun, 2014-07-20 01:21
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There is also the Hypergibbon
There is also the Hypergibbon pod (Panaopticon, p. 142, MRG, p. 49).
Sun, 2014-07-20 10:42
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Chimps and bonobos are
Chimps and bonobos are physiologically [i]very[/i] similar - main difference is that bonobos tend smaller. Everyone knows about their social differences. What you might not know is that chimps do a lot more tool use in the wild than bonobos do. (On the other hand, a lot of researchers think this is an artifact, for two reasons. First, researchers have spent a lot more time observing chimps than observing bonobos, because chimps are more common. Second, bonobos live in a much more resource-rich environment than chimps do; they have less need to use hammerstones to crack nuts, for example, because fruit is more plentiful).
Orangutans are somewhat larger on average than chimps, a lot more arboreal, and a lot more herbivorous.
I personally don't think the differences are big enough to be worth splitting Neo-Hominin into separate morphs. If you want to, I'd increase the Climb bonus for orangs to +15 or +20, and say that bonobos tend to put the flexible attribute bonus in SAV and chimps in COG.