All Lunars have 2 forms, with some having a 3rd called the War Form. The first is their human form. The Second is their Spirit Shape (often called True Form). The Third optional form is the War Form, granted by “Deadly Beast Transformation.”
A Lunar character at the time of creation will be granted half their character creation charm as “native charms.” It is highly suggested the focus of these native charms be Knacks.
The other half will be considered “discovery charms.” They represent Charms that the character mastered as part of accustoming themselves to their new nature.
A Lunar can chose a totem shape from any shape his native charms allow him to take. This means a Lunar can theoretically be a species of ancient primordial monster as his True Form – but keep in mind Animal True Form is totemic to the character. It speaks volumes about a Lunar when his/her True Form is an alien monster beyond the realms of mortal men.
When a Lunar takes upon his normal 2 forms he gains the physical attribute of the form he takes. With Humans Form being his normal attributes and his Animal Form having the stats of that animal. When he raises his Human Form’s attribute beyond 5, his animal form’s physical attribute is similarly increased. E.g. when Mea-chan raised her Strength to 6 her Simhata animal form’s strength also raised by 1 to 8.
War Form, however, is a synergy of the 2 previous forms. Being as such it takes on the property of both. Normally it will use the higher physical attribute of the 2. This will be the baseline of the form’s attribute and then add in any modification via mutations and the +1/+2 dot from the War Form Knack.
This modification however does not override logic and reasonability. If the War Form of a Tyrant Lizard Lunar has is the size of a human child then he is not going to gain all 14 dots of his Animal Form’s Strength. By the same logic, if the War Form of the aforementioned Lunar is as large as a Tyrant Lizard then his Dexterity might suffer a 1-3 dot penalty.
Other qualities such as the ability to see at night, breath in water, armored skin, etc. are reflected via Mutations. They are not automatically gained. Kali’s War Form for example, cannot breath in water, even though her animal form is a Siaka.
This is the rule I gone by since beginning of the game. Since it never had relevence to you guys I never brought it up.
ReplyDeleteI posting it now incase you guys are courious on how Mea-chan's numbers are calculated.