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Wooly Rupert
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The blue box refers to the TARDIS, of Doctor Who fame. I don't know if the interior dimensions have ever been given, but it's a good ten or twenty feet from the door to the main control panel, and one would assume it has other rooms -- but it appears, externally, to be about the size of a phone booth.
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Razz
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I'm pondering a tiger hengeyokai, right now... It's not one of the listed animals, but the original Oriental Adventures does say other animals are possible. Or I could say he's a cat, and that cat type is a tiger.
Hengeyokai cats from OA are small cats, but I've seen tiger hengeyokai considered, and even described in some other sources (mostly unofficial, but I think I saw something in a Dragon Magazine). IIRC, they are also possible in japanese mythology.
Actually, (thanks to Kuje) I just found one in a Realms source: FR7 Hall of Heroes lists Masakado, a 9th-level bushi tiger hengeyokai. He is on pages 85-86 of that tome.
I actually remember reading about that NPC a long time back and thinking to myself how out of place that was from all the other hengeyokai.
The hengeyokai tiger poses a balance issue. All the hengeyokai have always been small animals with minimal balance issues but turning into a tiger as compared to a cat opens a host of problems at the gaming table. If one has a tiger hengeyokai, the other wants a dire ape hengeyokai...LOL |
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Barastir
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Posted - 12 May 2014 : 12:53:42
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I actually remember reading about that NPC a long time back and thinking to myself how out of place that was from all the other hengeyokai.
The hengeyokai tiger poses a balance issue. All the hengeyokai have always been small animals with minimal balance issues but turning into a tiger as compared to a cat opens a host of problems at the gaming table. If one has a tiger hengeyokai, the other wants a dire ape hengeyokai...LOL
That's true, specially if you consider a low-level hengeyokai transforming into a tiger, with the great cat's full attack capabilities. However, it seems that in eastern mythology all animals can be hengeyokai, although the ones you find normally in legends are smaller animals - probably because there are few big animals in Japan.
In my revised Oriental Adventures I've included a few "greater hengeyokai" - black bear, wolf, boar and tiger, among others, but I've made an adjustment based on the character's level. In the first levels, these yokai would assume a lesser animal form, more similar to its level in HD (for example, a 1st level wolf hengeyokai would have the animal stats of a fox hengeyokai, and a 2nd level he would have the stats of a dog yokai). |
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Barastir
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Posted - 21 May 2014 : 17:15:27
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| And some days ago I realized a great limitation a tiger hengeyokai would suffer, if he would be able to transform into a tiger since 1st level, accordingly with the old 1e OA rules: although he would be very strong in terms of damage, he would have a hard time having half of his human form HP and taking damage as a large creature (ok, some weapons are weaker against L, but most of the more popular weapons do a lot of damage vs. big critters). |
"Goodness is not a natural state, but must be
fought for to be attained and maintained.
Lead by example.
Let your deeds speak your intentions.
Goodness radiated from the heart."
The Paladin's Virtues, excerpt from the "Quentin's Monograph"
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