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<blockquote data-quote="ro" data-source="post: 7243290" data-attributes="member: 6890747">Dropping Giant options does make it more ordinary, but it definitely decreases options, which is less fun. Also, Giant creatures are normal in the D&amp;D world, so I don't think fellow adventurers and NPCs would look oddly at most Giant beasts.I would be ok with it at first level; however, it makes dipping Ranger much more attractive and makes 1st level that much more powerful. Half the people who would otherwise dip Fighter might dip Ranger instead. This could be a good or bad thing, depending on your perspective.I didn't realize it was from that spell. I like this better. Also, someone else commented about this being totally different form Primeval Awareness. Why not call this &quot;Animal Friendship&quot; or something like that, and also have &quot;Primeval Awareness&quot; which could be &quot;You can focus your attention to detect the presence of many types of creatures. Choose a creature type. Your magical connection to the world shows you information about the three closest individuals or groups of this creature type. After 1 minute of meditation, you learn the direction of each, the approximate numbers of each, and after 10 minutes of meditation you see in your mind a hazy image of their immediate surroundings.&quot;Yes, but the second choice could easily be the same as the first. In this case he would become much better at all terrain, but his favored terrain would still be, and become, definitively superior.Fair enough. I think capstones should be awesome. The Barbarian capstone, for example, is the equivalent of 4 ASIs.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ro, post: 7243290, member: 6890747"] Dropping Giant options does make it more ordinary, but it definitely decreases options, which is less fun. Also, Giant creatures are normal in the D&D world, so I don't think fellow adventurers and NPCs would look oddly at most Giant beasts. I would be ok with it at first level; however, it makes dipping Ranger much more attractive and makes 1st level that much more powerful. Half the people who would otherwise dip Fighter might dip Ranger instead. This could be a good or bad thing, depending on your perspective. I didn't realize it was from that spell. I like this better. Also, someone else commented about this being totally different form Primeval Awareness. Why not call this "Animal Friendship" or something like that, and also have "Primeval Awareness" which could be [I]"You can focus your attention to detect the presence of many types of creatures. Choose a creature type. Your magical connection to the world shows you information about the three closest individuals or groups of this creature type. After 1 minute of meditation, you learn the direction of each, the approximate numbers of each, and after 10 minutes of meditation you see in your mind a hazy image of their immediate surroundings."[/I] Yes, but the second choice could easily be the same as the first. In this case he would become much better at all terrain, but his favored terrain would still be, and become, definitively superior. Fair enough. I think capstones should be awesome. The Barbarian capstone, for example, is the equivalent of 4 ASIs. [/QUOTE]

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