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#1 the_ubbergeek Jun 16, 2008 18:52:59	Hey, I am curious about it.... Are the various Shifters 'tribes' mixed up much, or close and true to the werebeings ancestors? I means, is there a clear Werewolves-descended line, a Werebears one, Weretigers one, etc...
#2 kelvinaw273 Jun 17, 2008 11:58:24	It's never really clear, but given how a shifter can gain other shifter traits, I think they are all mixed in. Bloodlines may have dominant traits, but no more than a human family may have blonde hair, or white freckles etc.
#3 tiwaztyrsfist Jun 17, 2008 16:27:00	Yes, particularly if you use Eberron's red-headed stepchild, Races of Eberron, you definately have to work on the assumption that they are decended from intermingling lycanthropes. Swiftwing (Can glide while shifting) with [Feat] Second Shifter Trait: Gorebrute (you sprout horns usable for making a gore attack when you charge), definitively says that you have many very different ancestors.
#4 ChaoticGood Jun 21, 2008 3:03:18	Man. Bat. Bull. Manbatbull! You have given me the inspiration to make South Park-themed Eberron adventures! Darn you, you wicked little man!
#5 dsivis Jun 21, 2008 12:57:25	I LIKED Races of Eberron! Fussing aside, yes, the different shifter traits are generally intermixed in the Setting As Written. It's implied that the different traits sometimes get pushed or destined into different roles in society - Dreamsight shifters almost inevitably wind up druids, longstriders are often scouts, etc. Then again, that's kinda practical when your people are even more survival-conscious than the norm.
#6 tiwaztyrsfist Jun 21, 2008 14:36:42	I LIKED Races of Eberron! /Snip I like the Crunch in races of Eberron. But like many, I was bothered by the fact that much of the fluff was directly contradictory to the fluff supplied in the campaign setting.
#7 the_ubbergeek Jun 21, 2008 16:52:00	For what I saw, wasn't it also a book for DM to use the races in a generic, non-Eberron way?