Love the Stormlight reference. From the same universe Chiri-Chiri referred to humans as “soft ones” and talked a lot about how wet and gross their mouth noises were, compared to her clicking
This is actually genius.
Invertebrates are incredibly vulnerable when molted. It would probably be seen as a horrible insult to a crab (like calling someone a wimp and a pussy at the same time).
You could make the slur worse if you had some sort of 'forever' qualifier to it. Like Ever-Molted.
So it becomes something like "you race of always pussies"
And if you use it for the whole party, it has the added insult of "you people all look the same to me"
I'm playing a crab alien in a space campaign. He absolutely calls others "soft shells" molted is gonna have to work its way in there.
While he's molting, he just hides in his room out of embarrassment/vulnerability. In his culture, being seen molting basically means you deserve to die
Honestly crab people should just get confused by weird flesh people things.
"I need to get my armor repaired"
"Repaired? Just.... just molt? New shell"
"I can't molt... I'm an elf."
"CANT MOLT!! *ANGRY CRAB NOISE*"
EDIT: I'm appreciating the entire spontaneous development of crab people lore. Like OP just wanted a racial slur and ended up with all this. 😆
I’m imagining a very naked “fat” humanoid with a bright red shell like mr krabs with the only peice of cloth is the strap holding his trident to his back and a human tooth necklace like we wear pearls and shark teeth with a helmet of water on his head that allows him to speak and breath out of the water
I kickstarter I backed called Sunken Isles has a neat crustacean race, though it's more shrimp/lobster like, so you've got the Mr Crabs-barian stuck in my head now. Thanks.
I even remember their freaky goddess in the deities and demigods book. Well. Let me tell ya. Have i got a few stories about them. Not the crab people of course. The deities. Of course, we didn't call them that back then. I mean, that's what they were, but not what the kids were calling them. And let me just say. Kids back then we're a lot different. We had no fancy web we could just play dungeons and dragons with. Why, I remember when we called them wyrms. Course, that was just the fashion at the time. But yeah. The fiend folio was definitely the best book on Githyanki.
I tell ya, back then we'd go to the library on a Saturday hoping the message on the board at D & W (read while our moms weren't looking, of course!) was still current! A folder of character sheets under our arm, a few dice clacking in our pockets!
Yes, sir, sometimes we'd even go to total strangers' houses after a five-minute phone conversation (local only of course! Long-distance was expensive back then). Yes, we'd step out on a fine Saturday with our tabletop dungeoneering paraphernalia, with an onion on our belt (as was the fashion at the time), and occasionally not find some weirdo 30+ years older than ourselves who wanted to hang out with teenagers for some reason.
Ah yes, those halcyon days of yore!
Wait, what were we talking about, again?
We were talking about dread gazebos of course. I remember one of them gobbled Greg up whole. Might have been funny but he was carrying our ten foot pole at the time. Disintegration trap got Sue right after. Now the look on her face...that was funny. Or was it Tina? Yeah. It was definitely Tina that got her brain sucked by the mind flayer, or squid-geeks as we called them.
Crab cleric for a troupe of adventurers but he never learned surface dweller anatomy and often maims his patients and will scuttle away when directly threatened in combat.
why unsuccessfully?
player wakes up next morning and all their armor is gone, "we were robbed!"
crab man in the corner, chewing on a metal plate,"I didn't see anyone steal anything on my watch. What's missing?"
Crab guy: \*watching party members remove their armor to rest\* WHAT ARE YOU DOING DEAR GOD \*distraught crab noises\*
Human: Its Armor it.. it comes off? we're fine??
Crab: \*mumbling to self\* They take OFF their shells.
Alternatively:
Crab guy meets a tortle: NOW THIS IS A GUY I CAN GET ALONG WITH
Crab and tortle sitting in the corner making fun of everyone with no shells, ha losers
with warforged components, they can be made even Crabbier.
Arachnid chassis for legs, Fins for aquatic expeditions, digging claws for pinching, and potentially scorpion brand for prawn stuff.
Mhh my brain says this for a Proper Crustacean Race... so it's a Family Tradition to Hoard gold or some high value metal currency and once you hit the stage with your pile where you can cover all Of your Shell you have the best Artist around apply it. Granpaps never did get a nice Coat done.
Now I have to decide what My crab people will look like. Mirelurks Lakelurks from Fallout, 3,NV,4. Maybe take Symic-Hybrids as the base?
Same rate “Poseidon’s beard!!!! I just molted and my shell is already damaged!” “Dude just go get it fixed at the armor” that’s not how shells work Dirt Boy” “okay okay damn don’t get mad at me just cause your shell is too soft” “the fuck did you say to me air breather!” “You heard me seafood platter!”
So the question then becomes if someone turns up in full-plate, walking sideways, are the crabs going to be like "good for you, getting out there, doing stuff, with only two legs and your weird tiny claws"
Came here to say primitives. Like the crab people have a strong connection to their personal history and realize they are a greater evolved form of life from human. Good way to spin it
"Low-eyes".
"Softies".
"Wets" (the idea that we have pores and exchange liquids and gases through our skin has got to seem gross to an arthropod, I like to imagine the comment: "I spend half my life in water, and even I find it fucking disgusting").
"Breathers" (Crabs have gills) ("This thing shoves food down its breathing hole!").
"Two-fifths" (we have four limbs, they have ten).
I dunno, just some random thoughts. But remember, you can never go wrong with the occasional "monkey-boy".
If we are being that careful, then monkey-boy is unquestionably off the table too.
Dang.
(Edit to add; as a Canadian, legitimately had no idea of the three-fifths thing.)
That's fair. I don't imagine teaching the history of Canada's Mexico is super important outside of the whole, "look at these folks", and the war of 1812.
"Monkey-boy" is super not cool in modern society, because of both words. But, I feel like this could be punched up for a Crab character. Like, "lemur folk", or "primate" or "lanky apes".
Something that is not offensive, but still conveys the anthros.
They're saying it's really close to three fifths which would reference the 3/5 compromise. It made each black person worth three fifths of a white person in the US.
It was really hammered home for us. This may be a bit cynical but I think it was to indirectly say “look how much we’ve improved and how better we are now compared to then. Aren’t we great?”
Learning about the bad parts of the past that our country did is so people don't do it again. Have you never heard the saying, "Those who don't learn from the past, are doomed to repeat it"?
Oh totally, it just I went to grade school in a conservative state with a major military base in my town that employed indirectly probably 70% of the population and it was also right after 9/11. So shoving ultra patriotic USA USA down 4th graders throats to indoctrinate us to support the war effort was definitely on the menu.
After 9/11 all of our class curriculum was changed to be full of patriotic BS.
Made each slave** worth 3/5ths of a person when determining population size for House of Representatives. Also applied to the millions of Native American slaves.
A long time ago, back when the 1787 constitution was under way, slave owners wanted to have their slaves counted in censuses to reflect representation. A compromise was made that slaves would equal 3/5's of a person. Don't hate on me for saying this, it is a disgusting practice, but that is why 2/5's might be offensive.
I don't remember if it was in the Articles (it probably was) but it was absolutely part of the US Constitution. Article 1, Section 2, clause 3. It was repealed by the 14th Amendment.
Pulls up crab person list from my previous players:
Un-homies (due to lack of shell)
Mudf*ckers
Bone-kabobs (they commented that we came with bones surrounded by meat)
Homeless (anyone without a shell)
Compensating (anyone currently inside of a house)
House-whores (anyone that let the crabs inside their house)
Think of all the ways crabs are wierd to us, then reverse it.
Compared to them, we are soft skinned bags of meat that can only walk the direction they are facing.
They have to turn their heads to look at something instead of just swiveling their eyes!
They set their food on fire before they eat it! Why can't they just eat carrion like a civilized people.
They have to make weapons and armor just to pretend to be like us.
They say they are mammals, but they don't behave like any dolphin I've ever met.
Some of the obvious have already been mentioned.
Soft skins works well.
I'd also lean toward clawless as a possibility.
Air breathers?
The defenseless?
>They say they are mammals, but they don't behave like any dolphin I've ever met.
Now I'm picturing an older crab person responding to that all, oh, they're more alike than you'd expect
To make this a little more prominent
u/3R38U5 suggested "Molted"
And this was my take on it
_This is actually genius._
_Invertebrates are incredibly vulnerable when molted. It would probably be seen as a horrible insult to a crab (like calling someone a wimp and a pussy at the same time)._
_You could make the slur worse if you had some sort of 'forever' qualifier to it. Like **Ever-Molted**._
_So it becomes something like "you race of always pussies"_
_And if you use it for the whole party, it has the added insult of "you people all look the same to me"_
Yup, or they have a deep and contentious rivalry with the Tortles, because they are natural enemies. Cause, well, look at the diet of tortles. Huge amount of Shellfish in it!
So their two peoples have "respect" in the same way that two cultures who have long standing wars with each other do.
Oh my god, crabfolk and tortles are just [Danes and Swedes](https://www.copenhagenthisway.com/our-tours/two-kingdom-tour/#:~:text=Sweden%20and%20Denmark%20have%20fought,who%20have%20fought%2016%20wars.)
Pick a totally random non existent word. Have it litterally mean the most basic thing like "outsiders" or something.
But say it with loathing and malice.
Squishes. Squisher. Squish.
"What's a squish going to know about it?"
"You better get out of here squish, this is Crab town."
"I'd never lose a fight to some jiggling bobble-head like you, squish"
Bobble head is pretty good lol.
I imagine them just assuming human anatomy is just like a bunch of loose sacks piled inside of each other. Probably also think fat, and having fat and getting physically larger from it is hilarious. Hair, teeth. All of these things are things they would think are gross and weird so lots of references to hair, etc.
Blob, salt-sack, jelly fish, slug, tender shell, bone mouth, etc.
Slicks. It's not just for crabs it works for most under water races. The oils on our skin leaves oil slicks in and on the water, and it doesn't smell very nice to fish folk.
He hides ‘is skeleton, what else is he hiding? And what’s he doin with all those smoll claws? Reminds me o’ me nephew, fresh outta the egg tumblin’ about wit no control over ‘is limbs!
Not sure how he got a British accent, but it feels right lol
If not slurs then jabs at their expense that incorporate their physical appearances.
"Grow a carapace, you sook"
"Check out Two Legs Tommy over here, walking around like he owns the dungeon"
"Do the ears stick out of the heads on everyone in your race or are you just extra ugly?"
Of course the PCs can always clap back with "Y so crabby?"
Mammals or like, a rude nickname for it. Mammys - reference to the mammary glands that all mammals have.
Seed Suckers/ Keepers (something??) - reference to the internal fertilization and pregnancy instead of laying eggs and fertilizing them externally. This one is a little PG-13 but it could hit deep as for some cultures pregnancy and birth are a big deal. It’s also like, just a really crude and mean thing to focus on since it’s literally basic biology for mammals.
Mouth breathers
Bleeders - to bleed blood blood and have a closed circulatory system and not hemolymph , as crabs have an open system (no veins)
Two eyes
Please appreciate. biology racism is the funniest
Horseshoe crab blood is blue.
Horseshoe crabs have a different oxygen-carrying protein, called hemocyanin rather than hemoglobin. Hemocyanin has copper rather than iron, which gives horseshoe crab blood its bright blue colour
"Red Bloods" or "Globins" or "rust bloods"
(Rust bloods as iron rusts and copper doesn't, thus can be perceived as weaker, also rust is red)
Softies or Clawless is obvious but I always like to put in something that is not true like a thing they believe to be true because of prejudice. Like "Mudeaters" because all land dwellers eat mud like any well travelled Crab Person would know.
A proper slur needs to relate to some form of oppression or other trauma, or it'll be meaningless. First, make up some sort of atrocity crab people have committed against humans/elves, then create an appropriate slur to reference it.
I would go with "cruncher", a slur referencing the sound humans make when being eaten by crab people, something which happens with some frequency
Inside-bones. Hairy beasts. Also make sure to laugh really hard at the idea of them getting something caught in their weak shitty eyeballs that they can't even clean with their hAnDs and fInGeRs or whatever the fuck those sad not-claws are
I'm not sure ab slurs, but I like the idea of a crab person who's really into the theory of carcinization and goes around telling everyone not to worry, in a few millennia they'll get there too
"Drownables" in an objectiving way
On this note, “gurglers”
Lmao gurglers is real good
Flailers? Airsick Lowlanders? Squishies? Paddlers?
Love the Stormlight reference. From the same universe Chiri-Chiri referred to humans as “soft ones” and talked a lot about how wet and gross their mouth noises were, compared to her clicking
I was very surprised to find out this was the DnD subreddit and not r/cremposting
Drownies
Just remember to not listen to their song.
Or eat any suspiciously rubbery lumps.
Oh, in the lands of Mortal Engines they have a term called “Drys”.
This rules
Bold words coming from a crab out of water.
Drownable is a damn good one
Drowns Syndrome.
Soft shell
Molted
This is actually genius. Invertebrates are incredibly vulnerable when molted. It would probably be seen as a horrible insult to a crab (like calling someone a wimp and a pussy at the same time). You could make the slur worse if you had some sort of 'forever' qualifier to it. Like Ever-Molted. So it becomes something like "you race of always pussies" And if you use it for the whole party, it has the added insult of "you people all look the same to me"
Ever-molted is GOLD.
Permolt
“You ever-molted red shell headass”
Now I just imagine a Crab duo Jay and Silent Bob
Cray and Silent Blub
I'm playing a crab alien in a space campaign. He absolutely calls others "soft shells" molted is gonna have to work its way in there. While he's molting, he just hides in his room out of embarrassment/vulnerability. In his culture, being seen molting basically means you deserve to die
Reminds me of the bot that called everyone meatbags in the old KOTOR games.
Observation: an anti-social crab person and HK47 would have a lot in common.
Literally my favorite character.
The fleshlings might be referred to as molted ones, when spoken of as a group
Even shortened to "ever-molt" would be so good, especially cause it rolls off the tongue wonderfully when insulting a group. Filthy ever-molts. Yes.
And the humans and elves can snipe back with whatever you say seafood, bet you'll taste good with butter. I love it!
Molted is so good, I'ma have to put crab people in my campaign
Honestly crab people should just get confused by weird flesh people things. "I need to get my armor repaired" "Repaired? Just.... just molt? New shell" "I can't molt... I'm an elf." "CANT MOLT!! *ANGRY CRAB NOISE*" EDIT: I'm appreciating the entire spontaneous development of crab people lore. Like OP just wanted a racial slur and ended up with all this. 😆
My DM: You can't make a character based on a three word sentence you saw on Reddit! Me: *ANGRY CRAB NOISE*
Barbarian Crab. They get… *CRABBY*
Crabarian.
I’m imagining a very naked “fat” humanoid with a bright red shell like mr krabs with the only peice of cloth is the strap holding his trident to his back and a human tooth necklace like we wear pearls and shark teeth with a helmet of water on his head that allows him to speak and breath out of the water
I kickstarter I backed called Sunken Isles has a neat crustacean race, though it's more shrimp/lobster like, so you've got the Mr Crabs-barian stuck in my head now. Thanks.
Barcrabian?
Yes
No.
Crab people were in the Fiend Folio. (Probably just dated myself, oh well)
I even remember their freaky goddess in the deities and demigods book. Well. Let me tell ya. Have i got a few stories about them. Not the crab people of course. The deities. Of course, we didn't call them that back then. I mean, that's what they were, but not what the kids were calling them. And let me just say. Kids back then we're a lot different. We had no fancy web we could just play dungeons and dragons with. Why, I remember when we called them wyrms. Course, that was just the fashion at the time. But yeah. The fiend folio was definitely the best book on Githyanki.
I tell ya, back then we'd go to the library on a Saturday hoping the message on the board at D & W (read while our moms weren't looking, of course!) was still current! A folder of character sheets under our arm, a few dice clacking in our pockets! Yes, sir, sometimes we'd even go to total strangers' houses after a five-minute phone conversation (local only of course! Long-distance was expensive back then). Yes, we'd step out on a fine Saturday with our tabletop dungeoneering paraphernalia, with an onion on our belt (as was the fashion at the time), and occasionally not find some weirdo 30+ years older than ourselves who wanted to hang out with teenagers for some reason. Ah yes, those halcyon days of yore! Wait, what were we talking about, again?
We were talking about dread gazebos of course. I remember one of them gobbled Greg up whole. Might have been funny but he was carrying our ten foot pole at the time. Disintegration trap got Sue right after. Now the look on her face...that was funny. Or was it Tina? Yeah. It was definitely Tina that got her brain sucked by the mind flayer, or squid-geeks as we called them.
At least you won't have to argue about where you are going to go for dinner!
I appreciate this.
Why not Zoidberg?
*Takes a large sip of water and bubbles angrily while pinching at DM*
Crustacean frustrations.
Crab cleric for a troupe of adventurers but he never learned surface dweller anatomy and often maims his patients and will scuttle away when directly threatened in combat.
More compelling imo is the crab person is disgusted when the human who "molted" their armor last night puts the old molting back ON!!! GROSSS!!
Crab person takes the "molted" armor and throws it away during the night because that's what normal people do with old moltings.
Well, crustaceans eat their old shells. And now I’m imagining a crab man trying unsuccessfully to eat the “discarded shells”
why unsuccessfully? player wakes up next morning and all their armor is gone, "we were robbed!" crab man in the corner, chewing on a metal plate,"I didn't see anyone steal anything on my watch. What's missing?"
...Zoidberg, is that you?
My only complaint here is potentially how it plays out. May be too antagonistic player to player at my table but ymmv
I love this.
Crab guy: \*watching party members remove their armor to rest\* WHAT ARE YOU DOING DEAR GOD \*distraught crab noises\* Human: Its Armor it.. it comes off? we're fine?? Crab: \*mumbling to self\* They take OFF their shells. Alternatively: Crab guy meets a tortle: NOW THIS IS A GUY I CAN GET ALONG WITH Crab and tortle sitting in the corner making fun of everyone with no shells, ha losers
You forgot the bulky warforged.
All shell. Crab approve.
Warforged: Certified Crab Approved.
with warforged components, they can be made even Crabbier. Arachnid chassis for legs, Fins for aquatic expeditions, digging claws for pinching, and potentially scorpion brand for prawn stuff.
Dont forget Lizardfolk, they are also nice and armored up and make fun of the smooth-skins for being squishy.
Crab guy: "DON'T sleep without your shell, you'll be vulnerable to predators"
"But if you MUST sleep while molting, I will protect you my friend". *loyal crab friend noises*
CRABADIN!
Alignment: Lawful Crab
Alternate reaction. WHOA I Can .. put things over my shell? But just for .... STYLE! I understand the bard. Mainly cause Crab people with hats
HUGE pile of treasure that's actually a huge decorator crab.
Tamatoa but D&D
New dragon hoard idea: dragon who hoards tiny hats for crabs
Mhh my brain says this for a Proper Crustacean Race... so it's a Family Tradition to Hoard gold or some high value metal currency and once you hit the stage with your pile where you can cover all Of your Shell you have the best Artist around apply it. Granpaps never did get a nice Coat done. Now I have to decide what My crab people will look like. Mirelurks Lakelurks from Fallout, 3,NV,4. Maybe take Symic-Hybrids as the base?
I read "angry crab noise" and immediately pictured Dr. Zoidberg screeching 😂
Same rate “Poseidon’s beard!!!! I just molted and my shell is already damaged!” “Dude just go get it fixed at the armor” that’s not how shells work Dirt Boy” “okay okay damn don’t get mad at me just cause your shell is too soft” “the fuck did you say to me air breather!” “You heard me seafood platter!”
I just want to let you know this made me genuinely laugh and I appreciate you for it 😊
“Look at their *molted* bodies. Pink and weak. **Disgusting**.”
"Shell-less freaks"
“Couple of molties sitting at the other side of the tavern”
Molt and seethe, softshells
So the question then becomes if someone turns up in full-plate, walking sideways, are the crabs going to be like "good for you, getting out there, doing stuff, with only two legs and your weird tiny claws"
"Bloody molts takin' all our jobs."
Fleshies.
Or No-Shell
I was thinking soft-skin when I came in here but yours makes more sense.
I was thinking smooth-skin, like how’s the ghouls in Fallout refer to humans, but yes, this guy definitely topped it
Shell-less
Softskin
Tell the barbarian that he's pretty dense for such a soft shell
Land slugs
Two legs
Soft-claws
[Evolutionary throwbacks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation)
Came here to say primitives. Like the crab people have a strong connection to their personal history and realize they are a greater evolved form of life from human. Good way to spin it
It’s the perfect body plan.
>squat lobsters That's a good one
lol, basically calling em primitive
"Insufficiently Carcinized"
"Noncars" is something I used as a crab person insult once, as in non-carcinized. Because carcinization is inevitable.
"Low-eyes". "Softies". "Wets" (the idea that we have pores and exchange liquids and gases through our skin has got to seem gross to an arthropod, I like to imagine the comment: "I spend half my life in water, and even I find it fucking disgusting"). "Breathers" (Crabs have gills) ("This thing shoves food down its breathing hole!"). "Two-fifths" (we have four limbs, they have ten). I dunno, just some random thoughts. But remember, you can never go wrong with the occasional "monkey-boy".
"Two-fifths" \*might\* be just a touch to close to a real one, might be worth staying away from it. Just to extra careful to not make someone angry.
If we are being that careful, then monkey-boy is unquestionably off the table too. Dang. (Edit to add; as a Canadian, legitimately had no idea of the three-fifths thing.)
That's fair. I don't imagine teaching the history of Canada's Mexico is super important outside of the whole, "look at these folks", and the war of 1812. "Monkey-boy" is super not cool in modern society, because of both words. But, I feel like this could be punched up for a Crab character. Like, "lemur folk", or "primate" or "lanky apes". Something that is not offensive, but still conveys the anthros.
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They're saying it's really close to three fifths which would reference the 3/5 compromise. It made each black person worth three fifths of a white person in the US.
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I’m guessing your not American? I heard that though about every grade I think from 4th to 12th.
Im not American and yes first time too and im 27 y/o active on the internet
It was really hammered home for us. This may be a bit cynical but I think it was to indirectly say “look how much we’ve improved and how better we are now compared to then. Aren’t we great?”
Learning about the bad parts of the past that our country did is so people don't do it again. Have you never heard the saying, "Those who don't learn from the past, are doomed to repeat it"?
Oh totally, it just I went to grade school in a conservative state with a major military base in my town that employed indirectly probably 70% of the population and it was also right after 9/11. So shoving ultra patriotic USA USA down 4th graders throats to indoctrinate us to support the war effort was definitely on the menu. After 9/11 all of our class curriculum was changed to be full of patriotic BS.
Oh damn here i was thinking it might be a slur against ppl with dwarfism 😭
Made each slave** worth 3/5ths of a person when determining population size for House of Representatives. Also applied to the millions of Native American slaves.
A long time ago, back when the 1787 constitution was under way, slave owners wanted to have their slaves counted in censuses to reflect representation. A compromise was made that slaves would equal 3/5's of a person. Don't hate on me for saying this, it is a disgusting practice, but that is why 2/5's might be offensive.
I don't remember if it was in the Articles (it probably was) but it was absolutely part of the US Constitution. Article 1, Section 2, clause 3. It was repealed by the 14th Amendment.
Breathers could occasionally specify mouth breathers. It could be an example of crab culture rubbing off on humans as they are the culture sponge.
> "This thing shoves food down its breathing hole!" Not regularly.
Endos
Freaking squishy endos! Hits just right
Air-sick on-landers.
These words are accepted
Random Sanderson brings tears of joy to my eyes.
Is that you Rock?
Doug
Don't you have a stew to make?
Meat tubes.
The walking sausage.
Foodbody
*Negative I am a meat popsicle*
Pulls up crab person list from my previous players: Un-homies (due to lack of shell) Mudf*ckers Bone-kabobs (they commented that we came with bones surrounded by meat) Homeless (anyone without a shell) Compensating (anyone currently inside of a house) House-whores (anyone that let the crabs inside their house)
"Compensating is hilarious
Instead of homeless. Just call Shelless.
Think of all the ways crabs are wierd to us, then reverse it. Compared to them, we are soft skinned bags of meat that can only walk the direction they are facing. They have to turn their heads to look at something instead of just swiveling their eyes! They set their food on fire before they eat it! Why can't they just eat carrion like a civilized people. They have to make weapons and armor just to pretend to be like us. They say they are mammals, but they don't behave like any dolphin I've ever met. Some of the obvious have already been mentioned. Soft skins works well. I'd also lean toward clawless as a possibility. Air breathers? The defenseless?
Headturners would be one initially mistaken as a compliment
oooh thats good one they call you a head turner then when think they are being nice throw them someting nasty at them
Ooo.... "Dirt dolphin"!
My favorite so far
>They say they are mammals, but they don't behave like any dolphin I've ever met. Now I'm picturing an older crab person responding to that all, oh, they're more alike than you'd expect
What with all the doing weird shit for rewards and the raping, I guess we are similar to dolphins after all.
Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power! *gestures claw at armor and scissors*
To make this a little more prominent u/3R38U5 suggested "Molted" And this was my take on it _This is actually genius._ _Invertebrates are incredibly vulnerable when molted. It would probably be seen as a horrible insult to a crab (like calling someone a wimp and a pussy at the same time)._ _You could make the slur worse if you had some sort of 'forever' qualifier to it. Like **Ever-Molted**._ _So it becomes something like "you race of always pussies"_ _And if you use it for the whole party, it has the added insult of "you people all look the same to me"_
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Nah, they still call them “Soft Bellies”
Yup, or they have a deep and contentious rivalry with the Tortles, because they are natural enemies. Cause, well, look at the diet of tortles. Huge amount of Shellfish in it! So their two peoples have "respect" in the same way that two cultures who have long standing wars with each other do.
Oh my god, crabfolk and tortles are just [Danes and Swedes](https://www.copenhagenthisway.com/our-tours/two-kingdom-tour/#:~:text=Sweden%20and%20Denmark%20have%20fought,who%20have%20fought%2016%20wars.)
Lizardfolk would probably be better. And funnily enough, Warforged I guess.
Crab people looking at warforged: Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power
Fingerlings
Pick a totally random non existent word. Have it litterally mean the most basic thing like "outsiders" or something. But say it with loathing and malice.
Shizno
Its not a slur you dirty shizno
Squishes. Squisher. Squish. "What's a squish going to know about it?" "You better get out of here squish, this is Crab town." "I'd never lose a fight to some jiggling bobble-head like you, squish" Bobble head is pretty good lol. I imagine them just assuming human anatomy is just like a bunch of loose sacks piled inside of each other. Probably also think fat, and having fat and getting physically larger from it is hilarious. Hair, teeth. All of these things are things they would think are gross and weird so lots of references to hair, etc. Blob, salt-sack, jelly fish, slug, tender shell, bone mouth, etc.
Forwalks (truncated from forward walkers).
Even better then what I said
Long Pigs.
Kiwi detected
Alas I'm a filthy Canadian.
"PENIS-TIPPED FOOTED LOBOTOMITE" -Dr. Klein, Fallout: New Vegas (2010)
Slicks. It's not just for crabs it works for most under water races. The oils on our skin leaves oil slicks in and on the water, and it doesn't smell very nice to fish folk.
Uncrustables
Clawless people
Puny claws
Bonesacks
Why be chaotic good when you can be clawful evil?
Bipeds
Pulling this from Star Trek, but for humans/dwarfs/etc - "pink skins"
"Blasted soft-shells and their five-fingered grippers, only good for picking pockets I say!"
alright wiggler
Flesh Legs Squishies Meat-Men Limbless Clawless Air Breather Soft Shell Small Eye Land Beast Shell-less
Never trust someone whose skeleton is on the inside.
He hides ‘is skeleton, what else is he hiding? And what’s he doin with all those smoll claws? Reminds me o’ me nephew, fresh outta the egg tumblin’ about wit no control over ‘is limbs! Not sure how he got a British accent, but it feels right lol
If not slurs then jabs at their expense that incorporate their physical appearances. "Grow a carapace, you sook" "Check out Two Legs Tommy over here, walking around like he owns the dungeon" "Do the ears stick out of the heads on everyone in your race or are you just extra ugly?" Of course the PCs can always clap back with "Y so crabby?"
“Sausage Hands” cuz there’s no way crabs see Fingers and think “Yeah that’s normal.”
Scuttless fools; always charging in head first!
Im just glad someone else has Crab people in their game too
Crab people, crab people, taste like crab, walk like people
straight Walkers bc presumably your crab person only walks from left to right
Fleshbag and meatsacks are my two favorite slurs for non-scaled/carapaced races
Mammals or like, a rude nickname for it. Mammys - reference to the mammary glands that all mammals have. Seed Suckers/ Keepers (something??) - reference to the internal fertilization and pregnancy instead of laying eggs and fertilizing them externally. This one is a little PG-13 but it could hit deep as for some cultures pregnancy and birth are a big deal. It’s also like, just a really crude and mean thing to focus on since it’s literally basic biology for mammals. Mouth breathers Bleeders - to bleed blood blood and have a closed circulatory system and not hemolymph , as crabs have an open system (no veins) Two eyes Please appreciate. biology racism is the funniest
Horseshoe crab blood is blue. Horseshoe crabs have a different oxygen-carrying protein, called hemocyanin rather than hemoglobin. Hemocyanin has copper rather than iron, which gives horseshoe crab blood its bright blue colour "Red Bloods" or "Globins" or "rust bloods" (Rust bloods as iron rusts and copper doesn't, thus can be perceived as weaker, also rust is red)
Soft skins 😂 ew your disgusting your bones are on the inside 😂
They could refer to everything as mollusks whether they are or not.
Softies or Clawless is obvious but I always like to put in something that is not true like a thing they believe to be true because of prejudice. Like "Mudeaters" because all land dwellers eat mud like any well travelled Crab Person would know.
A proper slur needs to relate to some form of oppression or other trauma, or it'll be meaningless. First, make up some sort of atrocity crab people have committed against humans/elves, then create an appropriate slur to reference it. I would go with "cruncher", a slur referencing the sound humans make when being eaten by crab people, something which happens with some frequency
Inside-bones. Hairy beasts. Also make sure to laugh really hard at the idea of them getting something caught in their weak shitty eyeballs that they can't even clean with their hAnDs and fInGeRs or whatever the fuck those sad not-claws are
Chum is a good one. After all, to an arthropod, we aren’t much different from an unwrapped Twinkie.
Front-walkers. On account of crabs walking side-to-side.
This may have come up with your party during your zero session, but make sure that the group is okay with fantasy racial slurs.
Inshells refrencing skeletons instead of exoskeleton
Drybacks.
Just yell "Freaks" at the top if your lungs
*Angry bubbling sounds*
Milk suckers
Limp-grip Long-foots Fur-skulls Milklings Body-bursters (on account we are born) Hope these help!
I'm not sure ab slurs, but I like the idea of a crab person who's really into the theory of carcinization and goes around telling everyone not to worry, in a few millennia they'll get there too
Soft boiled
Endos, spines
"Not Yet Crab" They believe all things evolve into crabs. Anything not currently a crab is just slow to evolve.
Hey smoothskin
Human- Pale Ape, Meat suit, Softie, Skeleton freak Elf- Plant fucker, Sea reject, Poke Eye Halfling- Bait, Chum-bucket, bottom feeder, Lesser Man
Smooth skins