Beastfolk
Beastfolk is a term in /tg/'s lexicon used to collectively refer to any race which can be defined as a humanoid animal, an unofficial kinsfolk to terms like demihuman and goblinoid.
Beastfolk vs. Furries
When they hear the definition of "beastfolk" as "anthropomorphic animals", a lot of newcomers will ask just why beastfolk are accepted when the anti-furry meme is promoted with such vehemence.
Firstly, beastfolk being no better than furries is itself part of the anti-furry meme, and the argument erupts pretty much whenever there's a slow day.
But, to take the topic seriously, /tg/'s own words on the subject are: "all furries are beastfolk, but not all beastfolk are furries".
What this means in real language is that, on /tg/, a furry is defined partially by its anthro aspects but predominantly by being a creepy little perv; what /tg/ defines as a "furry" is the kind of guy who engages in Magical Realmism and /d/Ming, but with anthro races instead of humanoids.
Having beastfolk in your setting, or playing a beastfolk character, isn't inherently bad. Even having some level of sexuality isn't bad - /tg/ can appreciate a musclegirl in a chainmail bikini even if she does have scales or fur. It's when you ramp up the sex level to the point the others at the table are creeped out that you've crossed into the /tg/ definition of "furry", and you are an asshole.
Mind you, there is a vocal minority on /tg/ who assert that the only "real" way to present beastfolk is as mindless ravening monsters who have no culture and exist only to be slain. Most ignore these people, and some consider them as bad as the furries.
List of Beastfolk
There are a lot of beastfolk races in /tg/ media, probably because "take an animal and make it humanoid" is as easy a way to come up with a distinctly "alien" race as any.
- Aarakocra (birds)
- Aranea (spiders)
- Asaatthi (snakes)
- Bariaur (bighorn sheep-taurs)
- Beastmen
- Bullywugs (toads)
- Burmecian (rats)
- Catfolk
- Cayma (caimans]]
- Centaurs
- Chitines (spiders)
- Draconians (dragons)
- Dragonborn
- Dray (dragons)
- Giff (hippos)
- Gnolls (hyenas]]
- Grippli (frogs)
- Grommam (gorillas)
- Gurrash (alligators)
- Hadozee (chimapanzees with gliding wings)
- Hengeyokai
- Hsiao (talking fae scholar owls)
- Hutaakans (jackals)
- Kenku (crows)
- Khenra (jackals)
- Kitsunes
- Kobolds (dragons)
- Lizardfolk
- Lupin (canids)
- Minotaurs (cattle)
- Nagaji (snakes)
- Nagpa (vultures)
- Phanaton (raccoon/monkey/flying squirrel hybrids)
- Pooka (fae animals)
- Pterafolk (pterodactyls)
- Pterrans (flightless, non-evil pterafolk)
- Raavasta (fiendish foxes/jackals)
- Rakshasas
- Ratfolk
- Rougarou (wolves)
- Saurials (dinosaurs)
- Skaven (rats)
- Serpentfolk
- Sphinxes
- Sutaks (horses)
- Taer (ape-men)
- Tengu
- Tanuki
- Thri-kreen (mantids)
- Tortles (turtles)
- Troglodyte (lizards)
- Wallara (lizards)
- Wemic (catfolk/lion-taur hybrids)
- Xixchil (mantids)
- Yuan-ti (snakes)