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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pax" data-source="post: 1075456" data-attributes="member: 6875">Do ALL samurai in your campaign begin with Fullblades instead of Katana/Wakizashi?The different options mentioned were for a non-japanese/rokugani setting.  A chinese equivalent to the samurai would use the jiann.  That doesn't mean a "generic" OA game (which would be set in a rokugan-like parallel to idealised feudal japan) allows each samurai to choose which weapon works.It's your campaign, you can play it how you like, but if I were a player ... I'd be highly dissatisfied.Simple, Savage Species page 111, "Adding a Template", subsection "When to Add":Now, Savage Species page 116, "Creating a Feral Creature":So feral is inherited, not acquired; you're not supposed to acqire an inherited template.Intelligence 3 is basically enough to understand, at best, such phrases as  "Me am hungry" and "Me am want food."  Not to compose a creditable haiku.  The players handbook ascribes Intelligence 3 as being he average score for a Hydra -- a big, scaley, generally-unthinking eating machine.  It ascribed 4-5 as the average for an Otyugh -- essentially a garbage-dwelling and -eating walking slug/cockroach crossbreed.And the real kicker here is, that Feral template.  An Intelligence 50 Feral Halfogre should still be whacked with the Ex-Samurai rule.  Feral != samurai material.  Feral = animal.  SMART animal maybe, but animal nonetheless.And animals aren't samurai."Basically" .. ?  Does that mean "actually" or "hey here's a good excuse" ... ?</blockquote>

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