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<blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 5711689" data-attributes="member: 2067">Mobility does seem a big theme! But warriors and guardians and protectors are in there flavor-wise (Badger Chanshi!) that aren't really rewarded mechanically (Badger Fighters or Crab Wardens or Dog Battleminds or Crane Swordmages aren't great choices mechanically, but flavor-wise they make a lot of sense!). I guess that's one of the tough balancing acts of making any very diverse race. Boil it down too much and you loose some of the interesting complexity. Don't boil it down enough and you keep some of the confusion. I guess that's why I look at Humans (and, to a lesser extent, Genasi) as great examples of very diverse races done quite well. FWIW, I think 95% of anyone who plays a hengeyokai will be quite satisfied. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> The corner cases of the more defensive oriented / &quot;tough&quot; archetype characters not being fully mechanically ideal is a pretty minor point. Besides, some of my bias against &quot;everyone loves strikers&quot; probably came in when I saw that their favored classes were ALL strikers. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> &quot;Great, yet another awesome race for rogues. No love for Defenders.&quot; That, and the fact that a quick, charismatic Badger or Crab or Carp is...a little hard to wrap my brain around...are the main reasons I bring it up. Thanks for the hard work!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="I'm A Banana, post: 5711689, member: 2067"] Mobility does seem a big theme! But warriors and guardians and protectors are in there flavor-wise (Badger Chanshi!) that aren't really rewarded mechanically (Badger Fighters or Crab Wardens or Dog Battleminds or Crane Swordmages aren't great choices mechanically, but flavor-wise they make a lot of sense!). I guess that's one of the tough balancing acts of making any very diverse race. Boil it down too much and you loose some of the interesting complexity. Don't boil it down enough and you keep some of the confusion. I guess that's why I look at Humans (and, to a lesser extent, Genasi) as great examples of very diverse races done quite well. FWIW, I think 95% of anyone who plays a hengeyokai will be quite satisfied. :) The corner cases of the more defensive oriented / "tough" archetype characters not being fully mechanically ideal is a pretty minor point. Besides, some of my bias against "everyone loves strikers" probably came in when I saw that their favored classes were ALL strikers. :p "Great, yet another awesome race for rogues. No love for Defenders." That, and the fact that a quick, charismatic Badger or Crab or Carp is...a little hard to wrap my brain around...are the main reasons I bring it up. Thanks for the hard work! [/QUOTE]

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