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(11-27-2015, 09:25 AM)Nymeria Wrote: I've been thinking about this thread for a while...
What I find most difficult to understand is the "gliding-only" rule if your character can shapeshift into a flying creature and does not have wings. To be frank, it strikes me as a bit nonsensical—while I do presume it's based on the character not knowing how to fly, why can't they... learn to fly? I think one of the main reasons people choose bird-based shape shifting abilities for their land bound character is to offer them a unique method of travel/the chance to experience something new; and to have the gliding rules undermine that.
I agree completely. The gliding rules have always struck me as slightly illogical. I understand that pegasi have a magical component that allows them to fly, however when a uni/equine transforms into, say, a robin, they gain all the things that allow robins to fly - hollow bones etc. Not being able to fly because they haven't learnt makes no sense to me, because by that logic, a horse who shapeshifts into a lion shouldn't be able to extend and retract their claws because they've never learnt how, or a fish shouldn't be able to swim because they've never learnt how. Our characters can learn how to use magic, why not learn how to fly?
As Wanda says, the main reason for 'land-lubbing' charries to want to shift into a flying character is to experience flight, so the gliding rules really restrict that. I understand the restrictions on item-given flight, but shapeshifting flight just doesn't need to be restricted imo.
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