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Message: <blockquote data-quote="schnee" data-source="post: 7094767" data-attributes="member: 16728">I'd go for shapeshifter with a half-caster with unique spells that really 'go native' into being animalistic.Or, have the shapeshifting be a lot more granular and interesting and defined rather than the uneven strength, highly-bookkeeping driven way it's done now. Like, just adding faster speed, movement types, choices in amazing senses, etc. get unlocked like the 'claws as magic weapons' today - like a fighter's maneuvers. Constrict, blind sense, high jump, super fast speed, flying, etcetera - and you gain one new animal 'package' per level (as in 1 movement type, 1 attack type, 1 sense, 1 extraordinary ability score). The power increases steadily over time, so - like a Monk, your forms move faster, or get more extraordinary abilities.I would even like the shapeshifter to buy into the same Circles of the Land somehow, with either the animals you start with or the types of spell-like or extraordinary abilities you get are flavored by that. Like, Underdark gets blind sense. Plains gets long distance vision. Mountains gets advantage on athletics and fast climbing, so on.I'd play the hell out of that kind of shifter class.</blockquote>