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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Qik" data-source="post: 5821325" data-attributes="member: 6673727">Right, so no swapping claws for bite.  Understandable.From a fluff standpoint, I'm just not a huge fan of the idea of having a bite attack, which is a definite part of my desire to swap it out.  From mechanical standpoint, I'm going to be taking the Master of Many Styles, and focusing on applying style feats to my claw attacks (right now I'm thinking Dragon and Boar - I definitely like the flavor of Boar for this character), which does make for a significant difference between claws and other forms of natural attacks.  I had been thinking that, at Synthesist 4, I'd take limbs (arms) and claws anyway, to get the 4 claws, and just "eat" the extraneous, unusable bite (i.e. not use it at all), but if that's not going to be allowed, then I may give serious consideration to going biped.  I really wanted pounce - great synergy with Dragon Style - but I really, really want those claw attacks.Sorry; I don't mean to clutter up the General Discussion thread with musings on my build.  I had thought about PM'ing you to discuss the build, SK, but this was on the heels of all my questions about Ni, and I didn't want to be greedy for Satin Knights Advice.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />At the risk of being reactionary: this bothers me.  It's fluff: I don't see how it affects you, since there's no mechanical, RAW benefit to how I conceptualize my eidolon-skin, so it bothers me that you would feel the need to voice a contrary opinion.  The only issue I can see is that of functional hands, which is fair enough, although in my personal opinion, not allowing my PC to have functioning hands just because I want pounce, basically, is far too hard-line an interpretation of the system for my tastes, and I would hope that that wouldn't be a universal opinion.  At the very least, I would hope we could acknowledge that, since this is indeed "a grey area," that any one opinion wouldn't be able to be made law.Not trying to pick a fight; I always respect your opinion, SK.  I just felt like that last comment was a bit to quick to dismiss my take on the character, without a lot to go on.</blockquote>

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