Everybody likes magic.
The average yinglet undergoes about 4 wake-sleep cycles in a 24-hour period. They require slightly less sleep per waking hour then many other species, but as a consequence they must “recharge” more often.
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Yinglets can be super adorable.
Is it weird that they make me want to play a kobold or the like in a D&D campaign?
Man, I hear you on that. Drawing this comic has given me all sorts of ideas on how they could get used in a tabletop setting; there have been several different conversion attempts, some of them pretty detailed! I get the feeling that I’ll have to release an official build or something at some point.
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I went back looking for the previous yinglet stat discussion but I couldn’t find it. I think it might have been on a side story page, and the comments for those seem to be lost once the page is moved to the extras section.
Luckily, I kept a copy of my personal attempt (for Pathfinder):
YINGLET
Ability Score Racial Traits: Yinglets are small and weak creatures, they also tend to be a bit slow. They gain -4 Strength, -2 Dexterity, -2 Intelligence, and -2 Wisdom.
Type: Yinglets are humanoids but count as vermin for the purposes of racial advancement. Common yinglets advance with racial hit die, but exceptional yinglets can take class levels instead.
Size: Yinglets are Small creatures and thus gain a +1 size bonus to their AC, a +1 size bonus on attack rolls, a -1 penalty on their combat maneuver checks, and to Combat Maneuver Defense, and a +4 size bonus on Stealth checks.
Base Speed: Yinglets have an base speed of 30 feet.
Low-light Vision: Yinglets can see twice as far as humans in conditions of dim light.
Armor: Yinglets fur and hardened lower limbs grants them a +1 natural armor bonus.
Shell-tooth: Yinglets possess a single large pointed tooth. They gain a bite attack that deals 1d3 points of damage.
Sprinter: Yinglets gain a 10-foot racial bonus to their speed when using the charge, run, or withdraw actions.
Weapon Familiarity: Yinglets are proficient with all simple and martial weapons from the the spear weapon group. They also treat any exotic spear weapons as martial weapons.
Keen Senses: Yinglets receive a +2 racial bonus on Perception checks
Mutable: Yinglets may take the mutant creature template during creation.
Languages: Half-dwarves begin play speaking Common and Dwarven. Half-dwarves with high Intelligence scores can choose any languages they want (except secret languages, such as Druidic).
Hah, replace “half-dwarves” with “yinglets”. That part was just copied from another custom race and I forgot to change it.
In that same sense, yinglets also don’t start off knowing dwarven.
OK my friend (Shortraptor) and I sat down and hammered out a “Yinglet touched” race for a transformed other species to Yinglet, using the advanced race guide we came up with:
Humanoid (0RP)
Small (0RP)
Greater weakness physical (-3RP) -4 STR -2 CON and +2 dex
Language standard (0RP) Common
Poison Resist (3RP) gains save vs poison equal to HD
Natural Armor (2RP) +1 natural armour for fur and scales
Sprinter (1RP) +10ft run, charge and withdrawl
Bite (1RP) 1d3 Bite
Swarming (1RP) 2 Yinglets can occupy the same space
Low light vision (1RP)
Skill Bonus Perception (Hearing) (2RP) +2 to perception checks cause of large ears
Quick Reactions (2RP) Gains Improved Initiative
For a total of 10RP which is enough for a standard starting race. Pretty much same as posted above but with some tweaks for a transformed individual.
Yinglet Lick – Yinglet Saliva acts as a coagulant on Yinglet wounds, acts as a mild poison on non yinglet wounds.
Type poison (injury); Save Fortitude DC 11
Frequency 1/round for 4 rounds
Effect 1 Dex damage; Cure 1 save
That would be fine for an individual from their race as well. The only difference are all the spear proficiencies, which don’t make much sense. As a simple culture, they are unlikely to have proficiency with anything more advanced than the shortspear and regular spear (never mind exotic variants) unless specially trained for it. Taking racial hit dice (uncommon for humanoid races, they usually take class levels, even if they’re NPC levels like Commoner) would give them proficiency with whatever weapon is in their monster description box.
Here’s a basic theoretical one for 5e:
Yinglet
Ability Scores: Str -2; Dex +2
Size: Small
Speed: 30 ft.
Age. ???
Alignment. Yinglets tend towards chaos, due to their relatively poor impulse control.
Size. Typically less than four feet tall, you count as Small.
Darkvision. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can’t discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.
Rally Call. When you are reduced to half hit points, all other yinglets within 30 ft gain a bonus to attack and damage rolls equal to your charisma modifier (minimum 1)
Unstable Genome. Yinglets are predisposed to genetic mutation. You may gain one additional Ability Score point, or one additional skill.
Pack Tactics. You have advantage on an attack roll against a creature if at least one of your allies is within 5 feet of the creature and the ally isn’t incapacitated.
Poison and Disease Immunity. Due to adaptations to toxic biomes, you are immune to the poisoned condition, diseases, and have resistance to poison damage.
Spear Affinity. Due to both physical and cultural reliance on spear weaponry and fast reactions, you gain proficiency in Spears, and can use them as if they had the Finesse property.
Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common.
I’m actually interested in what you would put for an official writeup on their stats for 5e if you haven’t already done so.
You should always want to play a kobold, kobolds are awesome. They’re my favorite race to play.
I have not played a human willingly in a d&d or pathfinder game for years. Kobolds and Gnolls are my favorite races, with a kobold gunslinger being one of my more resents, (shoot, hide under the tank!)
welp, just finished catching up with this comic and my impressions so far is I’ve got to second Kiko above; Yinglets have grown on me to become just the cutest species I have seen in quite some time.
amazing comic all around as well. The worldbuilding surrounding Yinglets especially is super well done and you’ve barely even scratched the surface. Will be following this closer from now on!
Well awesome! I’m glad you’re enjoying the setting, as like you said, I’m still just getting things set up; plenty more to come!
I like how it seems like there is always a yinglet peering around from behind someone.
They just… do that. See a crowd, wander over to see what’s going on. Possibly with that expression.
Hmm…
Call me crazy, but I think the art style changed between this page and the last (story-relevant) one.
I like it! Also, yinglets are the best audience for magic tricks.
It has slightly! I’ve changed to a flat-shaded style recently, which not only saves me a lot of time on the shading phase, but I also like the crisper look that it gives the characters.
Well, I stayed up way too late reading this entire comic. I must say, I like it. The little Yinglets at first just looked gangly, but I’ve quickly come to enjoy them. I’m looking forward to learning more about them, and find it funny as all heck that my iPad, notorious for autocorrecting anything from fantasy or sci-fi, didn’t even give a toss about Yinglets and accepted it as part of its vocabulary without anything further than typing it once.
Well I’m glad you’re enjoying it! And yeah, they definitely are awkward little things.
Also, your iPad clearly has a real eye for what’s really important.
Returning again for my yearly trip and damn. There is a comic which seems to be going somewhere? Much surprising!
Hey alpha! Yeah, this one’s definitely gonna keep going! And get this; there was a 4chan thread about the comic recently, and they managed to find the LL RPG.
I just hope /co/ doesn’t turn you bitter like it has with many other webcomic artists. Damn weirdos ruin everything.
As someone who actively avoids 4chan and doesn’t even use reddit… I’m curious what you all are talking about.
Valsalia visited /co/, the comics board of 4chan.
They’re -usually- pretty chill to comics artists who come talk to them.
They get excited at the scent of blood though and tend to tear into people who don’t or won’t take criticism well. This is given them a pretty bad reputation.
Oh, I totally know what to expect from those threads, which is one reason I was nicely surprised that the vast majority was so positive!
I imagine that it helps that I really don’t take offense to criticism; they beat the sensitivity right out of us with a rusty meat tenderizer at the art school I went to, which means it was a good art school.
I totally understand how an artist connects with the work they’ve created, and can feel personally attacked when it comes under criticism, but if one lashes out in response, the only thing that can follow is PAIN FOR EVERYONE.
Here’s a link to the archived thread, if anyone wants to read it, and/or look at ying porn. http://boards.4chan.org/co/thread/83478834/out-of-placers
My species with some similarities to yinglets, typically sleep 6 to 8 times in their 22 hour day. Their ‘sleeps’ is how they keep time through the day. Most of the tribe skips the two sleeps immediately around midnight, but some of them must stay awake during each sleep to guard the tribe, some will skip those day time sleeps and sleep when everyone else is working on the night time community projects in the cool of the night. Most of them live in a savannah type biome, most of the rest live in a jungle, so, working at night is easier.
In other news, since I’ve left FA, I am really glad you have this website so I can keep following your awesome comic.
Oh good! I get the feeling that at some point this website will be the main source of OOPs-related traffic, but as it’s still getting started up, the ease of exposure and tons of comments on FA/DA are really useful.
I just realized you know Korenav, who I did some editing for years and years ago.
I stumbled across this comic yesterday when a friend posted a page asking about it (thankfully another friend knew). I can already tell this is going to be a great and fun story.
Eyy, glad you found this little story, and glad you feel that way! There is indeed plenty more to come, so I hope it continues to hold your interest.
Since, I have not clue on how you report/ Flag a comment I am just going to hyperlink the comments in question.
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Now on to the comic, I started watching this site as soon as you got it up and running. I can say for a fact now this is one of the top 5 web-comics I am currently following. An I can say I am impressed with the site design to. Two things however, Added two tabs to the top “About” and “Related Comics” to help promote growth see if you can have some other authors link your page in and link to theirs.
Yeah, just noticed those and spammed ’em.
And that’s great to hear! I figured from the very beginning that this would definitely be a niche comic, but hopefully really appeal to some of the readers.
And I’ve been considering that for a while; at the moment, I’m letting the comic fly under the radar as I bulk up the archives and solidify the style I want to use for the rest of the comic, so I haven’t been making a lot of connections just yet.
That’ll definitely be happening in the future though!
Really, you only need consistent updates, and you got yourself a readership.
Val needs a large enough readership to justify consistent updates. For the time being having a regular income comes before the comic.
Valsalia is working on speed though, and is currently hopeful of achieving near-weekly updates
More or less, yeah! So until I can put in consistent work hours per week, I’m just continuing to bulk up the archives and tighten up the art style. Someday though, I’m sure!
your art style is really rather charming! And because I know how long it takes to draw an entire page of comic with full colors, a generous 1 week+ wait for a new page is worth the wait for me <3 Keep up the good work, I'm really starting to fall in love with this comic!
Hey, Valsalia, what do you identify as? My last post was pretty awkward to write without using pronouns.
People seem to assume you’re a guy, but I just realized I don’t really know.
Actually, the way you wrote that made it sound like the city of Val Salia itself busies itself with making its inhabitants to entertaining things.
Wait, that’s it: I identify as a city.
What is rent like?
Can I move to val? 0-0
Th-these are very personal questions
One has to be extremely wary of who he or she lets live inside him/her. I can only concur and agree with the motion.
Speaking of, how’s the weather in Valsalia? :^)
I have developed a crush on Vesaria. <3
Who?
The one with grey-white fur and blue outfit.
Fun fact: she was the first enclave female designed (aside from Kass and Vizlet), via a standalone commission a few months earlier.
With that one trick, he could become sorcerer God-king to their race. Not really a great enough position to do it, but an option all the same.
WHERE DID YOUR THUMB GO!!!
Oy. Yeah, Kass has been so preoccupied with the fallout of his transformation that he’s kinda… not really taken it in. Shit’s rough.
As someone with chronic sleep issues, I envy the yinglet sleep cycle.
As we all know, close up magic is the dessert of magics.