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Asians Represent: "Has WotC Fixed the D&D Monk?"
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<blockquote data-quote="Sacrosanct" data-source="post: 9067998" data-attributes="member: 15700"><p>No it's not. It's completely about the relationship. Only a few of the personalities in myth did much shapeshifting (like Loki, Egil, Skallagrim, and Andvari). For the typical regular person, the fylgja is almost all about an animal spirit guide that appears, not shapeshifting. A berserker is a good example. They don't actually shapeshift into the animal, but they adopt traits of the behavior, being imparted with the animal's spirit and powers. I don't want to hijack this thread, but FWIW, not only is this particular field something of my own ancestry that I've been involved in for decades, but more recently last year I spend A LOT of time researching animism and Norse mythology for a project I was working on, including but not limited to spending a lot of time analyzing the Eddas and absorbing hours of work by subject matter experts like Jackson Crawford. So this isn't just my opinion, it's the opinion of those who are experts on the subject.</p><p></p><p>There is nothing particular about the bard that ties to animism. The bard in D&D is a rock star wizard. If the bard was meant to represent animism, they'd have specific abilities and powers that called upon the spirits of everything around them, from rocks, to plants, to animals. The varying features of these things would impart specific benefits to the bard (wisdom for bear, youth for wolf, healing for deer and mandrake, to vision for mugwort, to removing curses for blackthorne, etc.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sacrosanct, post: 9067998, member: 15700"] No it's not. It's completely about the relationship. Only a few of the personalities in myth did much shapeshifting (like Loki, Egil, Skallagrim, and Andvari). For the typical regular person, the fylgja is almost all about an animal spirit guide that appears, not shapeshifting. A berserker is a good example. They don't actually shapeshift into the animal, but they adopt traits of the behavior, being imparted with the animal's spirit and powers. I don't want to hijack this thread, but FWIW, not only is this particular field something of my own ancestry that I've been involved in for decades, but more recently last year I spend A LOT of time researching animism and Norse mythology for a project I was working on, including but not limited to spending a lot of time analyzing the Eddas and absorbing hours of work by subject matter experts like Jackson Crawford. So this isn't just my opinion, it's the opinion of those who are experts on the subject. There is nothing particular about the bard that ties to animism. The bard in D&D is a rock star wizard. If the bard was meant to represent animism, they'd have specific abilities and powers that called upon the spirits of everything around them, from rocks, to plants, to animals. The varying features of these things would impart specific benefits to the bard (wisdom for bear, youth for wolf, healing for deer and mandrake, to vision for mugwort, to removing curses for blackthorne, etc.) [/QUOTE]
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