Cats, Wolves, Foxes, as well as generic reptiles and birds seem to be pretty well represented. You’ve also got hyenas in the form of gnolls, as well as frogs. I don’t see a lot of insects borrowed wholesale, but plenty of pixie-esque creatures borrow some anatomy here and there like wings and antennae.
One thing I see very little of are domestic dogs. The above mentioned wolves and foxes seem to fill that niche. Shame IMO, as the staggering variety in appearance and behavior of dogs (I believe they’re the most phenotypically diverse species known) is excellent fodder for different cultures. Ironically, I myself ended up homogenizing my own diverse canine kobolds into the more vulpine (and less anthropomorphic) yinrih.
Admittedly I didn’t have much developed on them, but there were two subraces of kobolds based on corgis that filled the dwarf role (short, hardy, stubborn, and practical) but they were pastoralists as you’d expect of a herding breed.
Primates, even other hominins, would make a great foundation for fantasy races. My previous conworld, whence came the above kobolds, did this, with human subraces based on neanderthals.
Interesting. They have a South Asian flavor but they also have prehensile tails, which only new world monkeys have.
RPG creators are not known to be the most scientifically accurate. I used them in one of my campaigns. They were the native population on an island of Yuan-ti slavers whose slaves were mostly humans / half elves with drow characteristics. Neither spoke common so they used a hybrid draconic / under common / vanara language. It was fun
It’s a pretty tiny nitpick honestly, though mesoamerican-flavored monkey folk would be interesting.
I would love that. Especially as a small race