Tengu - 13 ?

[Morlaf]

I wanted to play sommat small but unusual. I like Kobolds.... loads of options.... costs only 5, too. Why are Tengus so expensive? They get nothing mind blowing! Even orcs cost 8 which sounds reasonable. Am I missing something major about Tengus?

[SheepishEidolon]

Tengu is listed at the examples at the end of ARG (emphasis mine):

ARG, page 246 wrote:

Tengus

Type
Humanoid (tengu) 0 RP
Size
Medium 0 RP
Base Speed
Normal 0 RP
Ability Score Modifiers
Standard (+2 Dex, –2 Con, +2 Wis) 0 RP
Languages
Linguist 1 RP
Racial Traits
Feat and Skill Racial Traits
Gifted linguist 2 RP
Skill bonus (Perception) 2 RP
Skill bonus (Stealth) 2 RP
Offense Racial Traits
Natural weapon 1 RP
Swordtrained 4 RP
Senses Racial Traits
Low-light vision 1 RP
Total 13 RP

So there are a lot of small bonuses - and swordtrained.

Swordtrained can be great, especially if you don't get proficiency with all martial weapons. Rogue comes to my mind, a class which gets a lot of support from tengu anyway.

But even if you are proficient with all martial weapons you still get proficiency with some exotic weapons. For example the elven curve blade or the option to use a bastardsword one-handed. Both weapons have their niche. And it doesn't hurt to be able to switch between weapons over the course of levels (big die first, dual-wield later, good crits around level 10).

[Morlaf]

i see..... thanks. They DO seem a bit better now. Still a bit overpriced in my opinion, no biggie, though. Also, they are not small, as I assumed..... so moving on....