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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voss" data-source="post: 4156043" data-attributes="member: 57593">There really isn't enough to compare it too, balance-wise, but in general it seems to veer wildly between things that are over the top and things that are useless.  That generally doesn't balance out, by the way.Mechanically it comes across as a vehicle for exploiting pure speed and multiple actions.  None of the other features really matter that much.As others have said, this is actually a disadvantage in some ways, both defense wise and sharply limiting what classes the race is good for.This feels clumsy, and honestly, I don't know how many 'shift/slide someone else' powers there are.  This could honestly never come up over the life of a character.  Plus, being empathic with absolutely everyone seems odd, unless they are racial psychic or something.This is pure fluff.This, on the other hand, is likely to be easily exploitable.  In fact I think both the sample cleric and paladin can take advantage of this little gem.  Probably too strong.So, essentially they are never not running.  No, sir, I do not like it.Well, first off, this isn't 'at will' its an immediate reaction thing.Second... they can bite like this, but not normally?Third... its, well, to be blunt, its statistically irrelevant.  It may come up at some point, but probably not.</blockquote>