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Message: <blockquote data-quote="aco175" data-source="post: 9846769" data-attributes="member: 27385">Here is the 2024 wererat feature, not sure if this can be used for a base.  [ATTACH=full]428198[/ATTACH]I recall that the new rules tend to try and make things easier or simpler in the statblock.  You want a racial feature which seems kind of powerful.  You have a direct roll to determine the nature of the PC (Insight DC20) instead of an opposed roll.  This looks like something the new rules would do, not sure if the DC20 is too high and should be 15 like some of the other rules mention.  I always thought equipment should merge with you like older editions, but the new rules for the wererat show different.  I'm guessing this makes your ability more powerful.  Cannot see too many people using it is it does not merge.  Not sure how much of this steps on the druid class and wild shape.  It looks like this will not be used for fighting but can be used all day and not limited.  This makes it an excellent scout ability by having a dog walk down the street or a bird in the woods (of just flying ability).  It would slow things down to have each person try to Insight a random bird flying around, so it seems that people would need a reason to try and tell the difference.  It might be that this race is 50% of the people in the world so everyone is suspicious of everything, but if just one player want to play this, then it seems a bit overpowered.  Maybe limiting it to a few times per day, maybe number of proficiency bonuses per day.  Allows for a couple cool situations without being an everything use.  Maybe just 1/day, but that kind of makes it a why bother.  I would think that in hybrid form, someone can automatically tell, kind of like you are in the normal humanoid shape.</blockquote>

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