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From what I've seen of the new Fleshwarp heritages, I'm pretty disappointed.

I feel like in general, Fleshwarps don't really have super impactful heritage choices, and I was hoping that the ones here would be a bit more exciting.

Instead, as I see it, it's :

"Nonscaling armor proficiency and an infamously useless skill feat"

"Improved saves vs a very narrow range of effects that a player may never even see"

"Training in one skill and a narrow skill feat"

I know not every heritage can be as good as "Get a multiclass dedication feat", but I can dream for something at least a little better!

So, I have been looking at the Magus class quite a bit, and something that has been a sticking point for me is the Raise a Tome feat and the subsequent feat Shielded Tome.

Raise a Tome looks like a worse option compared to just picking up a cheap wooden shield, plus it has the possibility of creating an utterly devastating new player experience when a first-time player uses this with their spellbook and turns off their spellcasting by accident.

Shielded Tome... I don't even see how it's useful at all. It staples a book to a shield so you can use the stats of the shield while holding the book.

But there aren't any books that have an effect while you are holding them to my knowledge, so it's a feat that lets you turn a book into a real shield... instead of just using a shield in the first place!

Raise a Tome lets you gain a +1 to Recall Knowledge checks while holding the book, but is it *really* worth two class feats to get a situational +1 boost to a skill known to have balance issues?

My read on these feats is that they are trinket-text feats that seem to be designed to be thematic with little to no actual function beyond providing an aesthetic.

Can anyone here provide examples of how either of these feats might be useful? They seem to be utterly awful, and I feel like there *has* to be something more to them...

What am I missing?