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<blockquote data-quote="GreenTengu" data-source="post: 7249118" data-attributes="member: 6777454"><p>This is the kind of thing that is meant to be hand-waved away.</p><p></p><p>The designers for that book did a crap job across all the races within it. Probably out of the 9 contained in that book, maybe 2 are reasonably enough balanced to actually be worth it.</p><p></p><p>I guarantee you that 0 thought was put into how putting that wonky disability on the race would actually pertain to class abilities. It wasn't something that was supposed to affect class abilities! It was just meant to give players an excuse to talk in a very wonky manner when playing the race-- as though they had tourettes syndom or something.</p><p></p><p>But, hey, if we are to be honest... I have trouble imagining that any wizard could learn any spell without having it demonstrated to them by someone and, thus, having clearly heard the vocal components. I would also imagine that spells tend to share a lot of the same vocal components. Who knows-- perhaps a Kenku would be able to learn the spell easier than a normal person because they could more perfectly match the exact vocal patterns of the person who first demonstrated it to them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GreenTengu, post: 7249118, member: 6777454"] This is the kind of thing that is meant to be hand-waved away. The designers for that book did a crap job across all the races within it. Probably out of the 9 contained in that book, maybe 2 are reasonably enough balanced to actually be worth it. I guarantee you that 0 thought was put into how putting that wonky disability on the race would actually pertain to class abilities. It wasn't something that was supposed to affect class abilities! It was just meant to give players an excuse to talk in a very wonky manner when playing the race-- as though they had tourettes syndom or something. But, hey, if we are to be honest... I have trouble imagining that any wizard could learn any spell without having it demonstrated to them by someone and, thus, having clearly heard the vocal components. I would also imagine that spells tend to share a lot of the same vocal components. Who knows-- perhaps a Kenku would be able to learn the spell easier than a normal person because they could more perfectly match the exact vocal patterns of the person who first demonstrated it to them. [/QUOTE]
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