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11-28-2015, 12:46 PM
(11-28-2015, 09:57 AM)Volterra Wrote: 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.
This is basically exactly the reason.
There needs to be something unique about being a pegasus. And the thing which is unique, is the ability to fly. We didn't want magic or magical items to be able to circumvent what we took to be an integral part of one of the species here. If you could just give yourself magical wings, or be able to shapeshift into a flighted creature, the intrinsic 'specialness' of being a peg would be totally gone.
So this is one of those times where we've made the executive decision to forego a bit of realism, in order to save something that we take to be unique to one of the species.
If you want to fly, you have to be a peg. Period. Regardless of what form you take.
