My campaign seems to be moving towards the Hepmonloand for an African jungle adventure. One of my players is an elf with lots of cultural knowledge about the elves of Flanaess and he will want to immerse himself in the local elven tribes. Are there any known elven variants that may be referred to as Jungle Elves - transposed Sylvan/Wood Elves? If so, could you please point me to a resource.
For that matter are there any other demi-human jungle equivalents? Pygmy halflings, cannablistic gnomes, or volcano dwarves? Yes, all very stereotypical, but you get the idea.
The 3e Nyambe setting had an elf-related race called the Wakyambi. Basically, they're druidic, vegetarian, tree-dwelling, jungle elves with long prehensile tails. From what I understand they're loosely based on Bantu mythology.
I'm no expert, but aren't there some kind of jungle dwarves in the Forgotten Realms? You could use those. Personally, I'd focus on non-traditional races (bullywugs, dakon, mongrelmen, yuan-ti, etc.), rather than transplanting familiar demi-human races to Hepmonaland.
The Wild Dwarves of Faerun do live in the jungles in hunting bands. Skech, I didn't notice you had asked about jungle equivalents of other races, but Nyambe covers those also. Although I like your volcano dwarves and cannibal gnomes ideas. Personally, I'm with DMPrata, but run with what you want. Oerth is a big world.
In Dragonlance, they have been called the Kagonesti. (If you've ever read DL novels with them, you know they could easily fit into a jungle.)
... they are also called Wild Elves.
... In GH, I would use Grugach.
BTW ... the Wakyambi are like arboreal, fuzzy, tailed, monkey-ish Elf-like humanoids. (Smillian's description wasn't off.) Personally, I've used adapted Nyambe material in my Hepmonaland sessions. I don't want to re-write a whole continent, or make up that much stuff ... but it is *easily* adaptable for Hepmonaland.
It's really great stuff ... and includes a lot of what the guys are saying here. Non-standard races to make it seem more interesting, not transplanting specific sub-races, variant "elves", many different human cultures that can be used to flesh out the Hepmonaland history that's already written ... it's well organized, pretty well illustrated, lots of setting-specific culture ...
I encourage you to take a look at Nyambe. It may well fit your needs. If your interested in it, and can't find what you'd like to know in wikis and such, I actually own the books, so I'd be happy to help you out with any Nyambe questions you might have.
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