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<blockquote data-quote="Gardens &amp; Goblins" data-source="post: 7035501" data-attributes="member: 6846794"><p>The other one, not the wings.</p><p></p><p>I'm all for players gaining flight. I really don't like wings being stuck on things and that being used to explain how something flies. The wings are obviously fantastical, which gets me thinking, <em>''Well, if they are magical things, then what governs their dimensions? Size, shape and so on?''. And how is the character powering them? Ah yes, magic muscles/power! But they're.. not magical and.. argh.''</em></p><p><em></em></p><p></p><p>If they're a spell effect - great, fine. The wings can be the manifestation of whatever cliche divine mojo is making them do their thing. But as some natural system for conveying flight? Gah.. no thank you. I've already throw out the 6-limbed body pattern for dragons in the campaign and Pixies keep me up at night with worry. Granted, from a class POV, flying is generally more powerful than immunity to poison and disease.</p><p></p><p>But wings? Gah. Cliche. Overused. Not internally consistent.</p><p></p><p><em>Just my irrational 2p.</em></p><p><em><strong></strong></em></p><p><em><strong>And how many sets of lungs DOES a centaur have?!?!?!?!</strong></em> <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/worried.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":-S" title="Uhm :-S" data-shortname=":-S" /></p><p></p><p>[sblock] Saying all this, Engel was an interesting system, where the players took on the roles of angelic agents, sent by the church after the fall of civilization to do.. church.. stuff. They applied a semblance of real-world thinking to how a human with a 6 limbed body pattern could work. I believe they decided on the characters being (or having the morphology of) 11-12 year olds (or around that number), very thin, with lighter bones. The wings were rather large as I recall as well. Really interesting take on angelic/winged humanoids, with some lovely charcoal artwork.[/sblock]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gardens & Goblins, post: 7035501, member: 6846794"] The other one, not the wings. I'm all for players gaining flight. I really don't like wings being stuck on things and that being used to explain how something flies. The wings are obviously fantastical, which gets me thinking, [I]''Well, if they are magical things, then what governs their dimensions? Size, shape and so on?''. And how is the character powering them? Ah yes, magic muscles/power! But they're.. not magical and.. argh.'' [/I] If they're a spell effect - great, fine. The wings can be the manifestation of whatever cliche divine mojo is making them do their thing. But as some natural system for conveying flight? Gah.. no thank you. I've already throw out the 6-limbed body pattern for dragons in the campaign and Pixies keep me up at night with worry. Granted, from a class POV, flying is generally more powerful than immunity to poison and disease. But wings? Gah. Cliche. Overused. Not internally consistent. [I]Just my irrational 2p.[/I] [I][B] And how many sets of lungs DOES a centaur have?!?!?!?![/B][/I] :-S [sblock] Saying all this, Engel was an interesting system, where the players took on the roles of angelic agents, sent by the church after the fall of civilization to do.. church.. stuff. They applied a semblance of real-world thinking to how a human with a 6 limbed body pattern could work. I believe they decided on the characters being (or having the morphology of) 11-12 year olds (or around that number), very thin, with lighter bones. The wings were rather large as I recall as well. Really interesting take on angelic/winged humanoids, with some lovely charcoal artwork.[/sblock] [/QUOTE]
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