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<blockquote data-quote="Harzel" data-source="post: 7396317" data-attributes="member: 6857506">Based on what you have written about their lore and physicality, the proficiencies with pole arms seem quite odd; seems like it would be more natural (and easier to remember) to go with &quot;simple weapons, longbow and longsword&quot;.I agree with [MENTION=20564]Blue[/MENTION] that you should remove halving magic damage.If you want them to be good at swimming and climbing, then just say &quot;advantage on ability checks for swimming or climbing&quot;.&nbsp; Saying that all STR checks are to be done with DEX is kind of hard to wrap my head around. STR is just not a universal substitute for DEX.&nbsp; If you wanted to constrain it to climbing, that would be absolutely fine, and swimming would be ok, I guess, but still makes me raise a skeptical eyebrow.I suggest rewording &quot;climb, crawl, and swim with no penalties&quot; to something more like &quot;climb, crawl, and swim at their current walking speed&quot;.&nbsp; Otherwise, someone will interpret it as meaning that, for instance, a slow spell would have no effect on their swimming speed.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Harzel, post: 7396317, member: 6857506"] Based on what you have written about their lore and physicality, the proficiencies with pole arms seem quite odd; seems like it would be more natural (and easier to remember) to go with "simple weapons, longbow and longsword". I agree with [MENTION=20564]Blue[/MENTION] that you should remove halving magic damage. If you want them to be good at swimming and climbing, then just say "advantage on ability checks for swimming or climbing". Saying that all STR checks are to be done with DEX is kind of hard to wrap my head around. STR is just not a universal substitute for DEX. If you wanted to constrain it to climbing, that would be absolutely fine, and swimming would be ok, I guess, but still makes me raise a skeptical eyebrow. I suggest rewording "[FONT=verdana]climb, crawl, and swim with no penalties" to something more like "climb, crawl, and swim at their current walking speed". Otherwise, someone will interpret it as meaning that, for instance, a [I]slow[/I] spell would have no effect on their swimming speed.[/FONT] [/QUOTE]

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