![]() It greatly hurts their chances, yes, but it is still deal-able, especially if the species is intelligent. Species can still survive despite a severe lack of genetic diversity. Since there are valid arguments either way what it really comes down to is GM’s option. It would also be enough to allow you to play an awakened raccoon without having to total change the world. This could allow for a small group of intelligent raccoons that eventually dies off due to inbreeding and crossbreeding. The trait for being an awakened animal is probably a recessive trait so both parents would need to be awakened or the offspring would be a normal raccoon. Each casting of awaken could create a completely different species so that even other awakened animals of the same base species still cannot breed with each other.Īlso unless you awaken a lot more than 20 raccoons you are not going to have enough genetic diversity to avoid inbreeding. They have in effect become a whole new species. Even if the subject is not sterile their species may change to the point they can no longer breed with other animals. Changes on this level often render a subject sterile. Who is to say that an awakened animal can breed at all? If you are looking at this from a scientific point of view the change is a massive mutation of the animal. That, and I can imagine what kind of faith, philosophy, or religion that would spawn 2,000 years later about the 'origins' of the "Tanook" Peoples. (Besides the fact that anthropomorphic animal sets their Int at 3, so should be cast *before* awaken or else you just proved you need the spell for yourself) So a Raccoon, with tools sized for them and possibly either class levels in Druid or Skill ranks in UMD and some scrolls of Awaken would have better odds of making a sentient species than those who would need basically a facility that can spend the money and spellcasting to permanently anthropomorphize and awaken animals. Since Anthropomorphic animal is a lot more money to make a permanent thing per individual member of the awakened race. I was mostly curious because as far as animals go, those with hand-like appendages are most likely to not need something other than Awaken. It just so happened that I'm playing the party's gunslinger, and the rogue's sister, so he threw some cash my way and asked me to make him a musket sized for him. Followed the party around and occasionally gave the rogue shinies until he finally convinced the rest of the party to awaken him. Rogue rescued a raccoon that was being vivisected by one of the bad guys and got it healed and fed. Nah, we already have that in my Carrion Crown Campaign. Scythia wrote: Are you inquiring about an origin for a snarky raccoon gunslinger, by chance? Perhaps the beginning of the 'tanuki' race? (Albeit without oversized. Since raccoon have hands with digits and could operate properly sized tools, could it be possible to play an awakened raccoon? If they could breed true, could that be an example of how other animal playable races (Catfolk, vanaran, kitsune) eventually became their own species? And since the type change is permanent, it *should* be passed on if that creature breeds with another of it's type. I am leaning towards thinking they could, since it does explicitly state their type changes to Magical Beast which normally could be intelligent. Would awakened, intelligent raccoon be able to breed 'true'?Īs in their children would be awakened too, or would they come out as normal Raccoon? Then they built them a little society to live in a nearby forest to a large city. Say a party of adventurers, with their usual style of messing with everything they came across, decided that they were going to use awaken on like. ![]()
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