BARIAURSare quite essential for Planescape, given that they're one of the original player races and a common sight in Sigil. A description from the "Player's Guide to the Planes" (2nd edition Planescape Campaign Boxed Set):
"The bariaur is a centaurlike being of the Upper Planes, but it's hardly a centaur. In appearance, it's a combination of man and ram or woman and ewe. Roughly human sized, it has the body of a large goat and the torso and arms of a human. The head is a mixture of human and animal. Males have a pair of ram's horns, but females lack them.
Bariaurs tend to be fussy about their appearance. They usually wear shirts, jackets, blouses, vests, and leather girdles, but this is a matter of personal taste rather than decorum. They also dye, cut, and shave their pelts to make themselves look more attractive, at least to each other. The look is often finished with jewelry hung from horns or woven into their wooly hair."Additional description, found on the net:
"A bariaur, in the simplest terms possible, is a nomadic goat-like centaur. Of course, they are far more than that. Physically, bariaur share the features of a goat and a human, with a goat-like lower body, a humanoid upper torso, and a head that sports ram-like horns in males and subtle goat-like facial features. Unlike most prime centaur races, bariaur are extremely fussy about their appearance, often dressing in fine vests and girdles and dying or shaving their pelts in specific styles and designs.
They are also a carefree and nomadic race gifted with an insatiable wanderlust. Pastoral bariaur are often shepherds, though many of their race are wandering merchants. As a race, their wanderlust has carried bariaur settlements throughout the Upper Planes and even into the Outlands. As individuals, there are few places bariaurs haven't been. All bariaur are also herbivorous and even the thought of eating meat is revolting to these beings."The suggestion I posted at the ProjectQ forum was:
- Take the heads from the default satyr models for males, the default tiefling heads for females (they're both a perfect fit, IMO).
- Mount a human torso (male and female) onto the body of an appropriately scaled CEP goat or pony. My ideal would be a dynamic torso, so you could use different shirts, vests and jackets for it, but that may be asking too much, perhaps not even doable; so alternatively one could use the satyrs' naked torso, too (only for males though...), and/or use static human torsos that are already wearing shirts, vests or jackets. At that time Ben Harrison suggested to "use a scaled down DLA horse and the satyr torso, then add any shaggy fur & other details".
Then Phoenix said he was working on a model based on my suggestion and posted these screenshots of the model:
OneTwoThreeProvided he finishes the model and releases it to the community, we'd still need a female bariaur model, and maybe also some more variation so that they don't all look the same (Different heads? Elegantly clad torsos?).
Male Bariaur Gallery (note that a lot of pictures ignore their refined taste in fashion and show them with (half)naked torso nevertheless)
Sample 1Sample 2Sample 3Sample 4Sample 5Sample 6Sample 7NWN2 Model from Rogue Dao Studios?Bariaur model from Planescape Torment:
WalkingFidgetAttackFemale Bariaur Gallery
Sample 1Sample 2 (male & female]
Sample 3Miniatures (male & female)
My suggestion for a female bariaur model based on existing NWN models (just a badly manipulated screenshot from toolset experiments, sadly I'm no CC creator myself).
Modifié par olivier leroux, 25 juillet 2010 - 10:54 .
