| Goodham |
Paizo recently announced a new book, the Lost Omens Ancestry Guide, and while all of the ancestries included seem interesting, something caught my attention in particular: the sprite.
As far as I know, they were confirmed to be tiny in size, which seems very intriguing!
If I understood the rules as they are now correctly, sprites would have zero base reach and need to enter their opponent's square to attack them. It seems like an interesting twist, but does this also mean that they can't flank? It would also mean that many creatures with Attack of Opportunity would get to strike them as they enter their square.
Tiny creatures also have severely diminished carrying capacity. This is partially offset by their ability to wear and wield tiny items, but stuff like coins are still going to weight them down.
I assume that resizing items would also have to be addressed, at least in the case of magic items. Maybe as a spell or an ability to shrink items when you invest them?
Do people think they are going to follow the standard rules for tiny creatures or are they going to include some changes? Giving tiny PCs the same 5 foot reach that others get would solve a lot of problems, but I think that's not a very interesting solution. Being 9 inches tall should completely change how you view and interact with the world!
I'm also not familiar with Pathfinder 1st Edition, did they have tiny ancestries there and if they did, how did they work there?