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I really don't care and honestly I think youre all being ridiculous. I was looking up the stats, came across this thread, there were no good answers. I provided one. Simple as that, use it or not.

So, that's a lot of work for a thread that's been done for 9 years. I assume you just found this by searching for something similar to what you were doing. In this case, it should be better start your own thread about your raccoon race.

I'd say the intelligence isn't that simple. It's not like there are genius raccoons that start with an intelligence above 2. Base intelligence simply is 2, no matter what.

Now if you wanted to go full designer and make a raccoon race that's as close to actual raccoons as possible, then that might be a fun exercise. I'm curious how it comes out of the race builder algorithm.

It took about 20 mins, and my way is simple and works within the confines of the system, the person just wants to be a base Raccoon with a higher Intelligence, there's no reason other than "the rules say animals can't have a higher than 2 Intelligence" which in and of itself is entirely contrived, for this to not work perfectly. Other than you being a rule monger and holding onto dear life to a single sentence, why would this not work, literally perfectly? This is a balanced Occam's Razor approach.

And moreover, you're kind of a hypocrite coming on here to talk trash on a forum that's been "done for 9 years" right? Smfh.

Here's a simple breakdown of the Raccoon's stats made into a playable creature. Hope you enjoy.

Raccoon:
Racial abilities
Size Tiny
20 ft Base Speed
20 ft Climb Speed
Scent
Low Light Vision
+2 Size Bonus to AC
+2 Size Bonus to Attack
-2 Size Penalty to CMB/CMD
+1 Natural AC
1d3 Bite (Primary)
+3 Racial Bonus on Sleight of Hand
+8 Racial Bonus on Climb
+4 Racial bonus on CMD checks
Abilities:
Strength -2
Dexterity +4
Intelligence -8
Wisdom +6
Charisma -4

As you can see, it being an animal gives it some major flaws, like it's terrible minuses to Intelligence and Charisma, it's Strength is actually high for a tiny sized creature. That said, it has a slew of abilities that more than make up for its drawbacks and honestly, it seems pretty viable. Climb Speed, natural armor bonus, natural bite attack, huge Bonus to Wisdom and Dex, you could make a very viable Wisdom based caster or Rogue from this.