d) Perhaps give us different saddle options for beasts of burden? I'm sure a group of gnomes isn't going to be mounted on an Elephant the same way a group of humans would be.
I'm suddenly imagining a bunch of gnomes in a howdah.
Like 3% of the people will know what they are (and I'm assuming half of the names suggested are in jokes or references to anime or something), and the other 97% will probably just go "huh?"Mine was pretty straightforward—adapted from a Greek word that means "cat." And "felini" is along the same lines, only Latin.
Mind you, I don't have anything against just calling them catfolk. They've probably long since decided that it's less offensive than the way humans usually can't put enough of a purr into the name they call themselves. (Which totally changes the meaning of the word—and to something nonsensical and silly, no less—you know...)
Heheheh
Well, since I personally don't believe I'll ever run into one of the catfolk, I think that what I choose to call them won't offend them. Ever :)
Then again, I'm not Proteus the Invincible. I bet he might run into catfolk, and would probably get knifed if he did.
Re: what to call catfolk; in my campaigns, I call them wookies.
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You know what would get me really interested in this book? If it had one of those alternate rules section for building traps that didn't suck for PCs.
Sean did you just say Catfolk in the ARG?
Because Cat Girls scare me. ;p
And where Cat Girls are, cat-eared tentacled aberrations are sure to follow...
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As for what else I'd like to see:Developed and unified rules for equipment feats. At the moment these feats seem to be all over the place, and it would be much easier to understand them and use them if they were united (much like the background traits system were in the APG).
Heirloom weapons - Guidelines and examples for creating magical items (doesn't have to just be weapons) that have a historical legacy that are balanced for a character to use them from level 1 to level 20. I'm imagining properties that become unlocked after certain conditions have been met (can be as mundane as reaching a certain level. Although for GM created heirloom weapons, they could be unlocked after a certain event has occurred).
Low-Magic Item Campaigns - It might seem an odd request for Ultimate Equipment, but guidelines for how to keep PCs balanced without needing magic items (perhaps they gain bonuses for attack, AC and Saving Throws as they reach certain levels).
I really like all of these suggestions. Especially the Low-Magic Item Campaigns would be very interesting to me.
I play and love Pathfinder, but with regards to equipment and magic items in the game, my philosophy has always been in line with with this quote from the Iron Heroes rpg:
"You are not your magic weapon and armor. You are not your spell buffs. You are not how much gold you have, or how many times you've been raised from the dead. When a Big Bad Demon snaps your sword in two, you do not cry because that was your holy avenger. You leap onto its back, climb up to its head, and punch it in the eye, then get a new damn sword off of the next humanoid you headbutt to death."
