You can always trust a bear wearing a hat.
This is actually close to a no-fooling rule of thumb for me. If bears ever achieve sapience, they would be well advised to get a variety of hats and start wearing them while ostentatiously not eating people’s faces. Boom! Instant societal acceptance. Because who wouldn’t to be buddies with a nine foot ursine with a hat who won’t eat your face?
I feel that my logic is sound.
Well, Girl Genius says the trick worked for extra dimensional beings, and the Jaegers have a whole “thing” about their hats…
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Your logic is backed up by SCIENCE!
I’m sorry, but my first thought when presented with the idea of sapient bears and social acceptance was of Sir Bearington.
I say, old chap, a man can’t help it if he has to keep a deuced barber on his staff, what-what?
https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Sir_Bearington
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A guy made a bear rogue in D&D 3.5 and put every point he could into disguise, prestige classes as a spy to get even more disguise, and when the DM said he couldn’t speak English, maxed out bluff so that with growls and gestures, he could fake it.
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It took until the banquet celebrating his knighted as Sir Bearington that a guest finally made a perception check that could beat his disguise. Which got him thrown out by the guards, who apologized profusely.
Oh, I know the stories. 🙂
You wear a disguise to look like human guys, but you’re a bear-en Boo.
PS: I read that as “wait-what?”
They should also learn to speak and sing in a voice similar to Phil Harris.