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[jaunty kraken]

Wtf happened to the formatting?

[inland aurora]

When rightclicking a learned talent in the talent tree, Foundry asks you:

That sounds like you're permanently erasing something, when in reality (at least at character creation), you can just add the talent again.

[true finch]

That's a core Foundry dialog for deleting an item from an actor. I'm gonna guess that's a "haven't gotten around to customizing it for the system" thing

[inland aurora]

Figured as much. Thought I'd mention it anyways, just in case.

[placid nymph]

Definitely some food for thought on the original list. Biggest thing that stood out for me is that I don't think Crucible should use the "Broken" status to explain zero morale and damaged armor.

[ancient swallow]

"Demoralized" is the only thing I can think of that is clear on meaning, perhaps a bit boring though compared to broken. There's dispirited and shattered, but I think I prefer 'demoralized' to 'dispirited' and 'shattered' sounds more like a magical status effect or just equivalent to 'broken'.

[mystic dagger]

I fully agree on Toughness. It's one of the very first things that jumped out to me in the initial stream, is that it sounded a bit off and stood out as different than the other 5 abilities. I'd prefer to see it replaced with Resilience, Vigor, or Constitution. Edit: I think my personal preference would be to rename Toughness to "Fortitude" and change the Fortitude Defense to "Resilience".

I much prefer Presence to Charisma though, and I hope this wording is retained, as I think it better supports the idea of characters who might lean into intimidation or silent self-confidence. I've always felt that Charisma implies a greater social proficiency that often runs counter to how many "high charisma" characters are actually played.

[pastel night]

If anything I’d change Gnome to Gnomish.
It’s your ancestry not your race.

[somber sedge]

Yeah, I agree with Yenben. It makes it seem like it is your race if you do that. And the other ancestries don't all follow that form. The suffix "-kin" is effectively the same as "-ish".

[somber sedge]

I read the Kins in the same way as Human. I.e. They can be either.

[floral ridge]

There isn't necessarily a good alternative for giant anyway (it's either giant, on the same basis as human, or gigantic which isn't quite right IMO)

Could also just change them all to -kin (elfkin, dwarfkin all read fine to me, within the bounds of "weird fantasy words", orckin is ugly as a word though)

[pastel night]

Just hope that the little known Foo folk don't join the game world. 😉