Question: How does your Bestial Nature Boon work when a character has boons from different Animals? Say Zack has 13 Boons in Animal (Dragonfly) and uses BN to get dragonfly eyes to boost, say, Magic. However, Zack also has 7 Boons of Animal (Cicada). Am I right in assuming that he would still only get his Dragonfly boons, or do his Cicada ones count as well?
You are correct: Zack only gets the bonus for his Animal (Dragonfly) boons, not the (Cicada) ones. Zack is taking on the physical aspects of the dragonfly, so he gains power from doing so; he's not doing anything with cicadas right now, so if he wants cicada powers, he'll need to get Bestial Nature for Animal (Cicada) in order to do so.
The same goes for all Animal boons, and we've talked about it before over here in regards to Animal Feature. As it says right at the top of the Animal page on the website, All powers refer to and affect only that animal unless otherwise specified.
How does Protean Understanding factor into such equations?
ReplyDeleteIt doesn't! Once you have Protean Understanding, you'll lose any extraneous Animal boons (that is, all the ones that aren't for the Animal you got high enough to buy Protean for) and be able to respend that XP on whatever you want. You'll still only have one tree of Animal boons to add to things like BN or AF.
DeleteWhile Protean Understanding is kind of like having Animal boons in every animal, in practice it doesn't work that way, because having an infinite number of Animal boons for purposes of BN or AF would be very obviously broken. :)
That's what I thought, had to ask though since it wasn't brought up. Thanks!
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