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:[[Talk:Chocobos (3.5e Race)|Talk:Chocobos (3.5e Race)]] actually. See the scathing reviews for more. -- [[User:Eiji-kun|Eiji-kun]] 08:58, 22 July 2012 (UTC) | :[[Talk:Chocobos (3.5e Race)|Talk:Chocobos (3.5e Race)]] actually. See the scathing reviews for more. -- [[User:Eiji-kun|Eiji-kun]] 08:58, 22 July 2012 (UTC) | ||
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| + | It looks like this was written rather hastily. There's stuff that should be here, but isn't, elaboration mostly. I'm rather surprised at how much calling them "chickens" annoyed me. I realize that it's the easiest comparison, but it's a bit misleading in the simplicity of it. They've always reminded me a bit of cassowaries or oversized roadrunners, but with nobility and the capacity of intelligence of a parrot or dog (able to recognize individuals and communicate in some rough fashion). Chickens are scatterbrained and excitable, hardly traits you'd want in a reliable mount or work animal. | ||
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| + | I kinda wish you mentioned more biological information (their toe formation always felt like a defining trait worth mentioning) such as egg value and incubation time. Some detail on what the Wark language sounds like would be nice as well. | ||
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| + | As for the mechanics, I'm primarily troubled by the inclusion of natural attacks, three of them at that. At first level, that's three attacks on a full attack action. With the weird way natural attacks scale with level, that's just not cool. Easy work-arounds include simply having different parts of their body count as weapons they are always armed with and deal whatever damage and damage types with whatever critical modifier you want. If you want a fancier work-around, see [[Mythic Beast (3.5e Race)#Feral Strike Weapons]], which treats built-in weapons as closely as possible to manufactured weapons. | ||
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| + | Also, I've got a chocobo image I drew up for Valentine, but he didn't want to use it for whatever reason. If you're interested in that, let me know. There was probably some other stuff, but I got distracted reading my own article. --[[User:Ganteka Future|Ganteka Future]] 03:37, 23 July 2012 (UTC) | ||
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Awakened Ferret?
Was this inspired by my Awakened Ferret race? Just curious. The Dire Reverend 08:35, 22 July 2012 (UTC)
- Talk:Chocobos (3.5e Race) actually. See the scathing reviews for more. -- Eiji-kun 08:58, 22 July 2012 (UTC)
A Beef With This Poultry
It looks like this was written rather hastily. There's stuff that should be here, but isn't, elaboration mostly. I'm rather surprised at how much calling them "chickens" annoyed me. I realize that it's the easiest comparison, but it's a bit misleading in the simplicity of it. They've always reminded me a bit of cassowaries or oversized roadrunners, but with nobility and the capacity of intelligence of a parrot or dog (able to recognize individuals and communicate in some rough fashion). Chickens are scatterbrained and excitable, hardly traits you'd want in a reliable mount or work animal.
I kinda wish you mentioned more biological information (their toe formation always felt like a defining trait worth mentioning) such as egg value and incubation time. Some detail on what the Wark language sounds like would be nice as well.
As for the mechanics, I'm primarily troubled by the inclusion of natural attacks, three of them at that. At first level, that's three attacks on a full attack action. With the weird way natural attacks scale with level, that's just not cool. Easy work-arounds include simply having different parts of their body count as weapons they are always armed with and deal whatever damage and damage types with whatever critical modifier you want. If you want a fancier work-around, see Mythic Beast (3.5e Race)#Feral Strike Weapons, which treats built-in weapons as closely as possible to manufactured weapons.
Also, I've got a chocobo image I drew up for Valentine, but he didn't want to use it for whatever reason. If you're interested in that, let me know. There was probably some other stuff, but I got distracted reading my own article. --Ganteka Future 03:37, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
