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I am about to qualify for a skinwalker character boon, and wanted to raise a question that has been of concern to me.
In the base version of the skinwalker, not any of the newer more codified types, it says "a skinwalker gains a +2 racial bonus to either Strength, Dexterity, or Constitution." It also says you choose between the three available types of bonus (claws, darkvision, natural armor.) In my initial reading of that, I took that to mean that you could choose BOTH which type of stat bonus AND which type of other bonus you would choose each time you transformed. Accordingly, I was thinking strongly of a ranger-type character, with a focus on ranged attacks but, if the party composition or situation demanded, the ability to buff strength instead of dex, grow some claws, and make a reasonable melee striker.
Then I read all the various types of skinwalker kin that were released, and saw they had a very defined set of options and had to reconsider.
Rereading it, I still feel like it's not clearly worded; the ability to pick which stat to raise each time would feel like an awesome piece of utility to me, though I would understand the argument that it represents poor balancing. But oh, I would love that flexibility.
Is there any definitive ruling on this? I went looking, but didn't find such. Maybe I'm just the only one reading the rule this way in the first place.