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Oversight?

Also kinda weird in general. Warhorns are very Skald-y even without the archetype.

Discovered this while looking for good races for a Slayer and Cyber Warrior.

Pretty much every race with a dual bonus seems to be dex/int or int+another mental stat.

There are no regular races with both str/int or con/int. Instead we have two variant races (Jiang-Shi Dhampir and Scaleheart Skinwalkers) and one gender specific extra race (male lashunta) for str/int. Two of those are splat races.

Then on the other side.. there's absolutely nothing that gives constitution and intelligence.

Just unexplored design space or an intentional gap?

Can anyone give me a good reason as to why this feat chain needs to be slayer only?

On the surface it's a pretty cool way to flavor up an intimidate based character but... It requires slayer levels and I simply can't figure out why.

Granted, the idea is very fitting of a Slayer, it's thematic as hell... but it's just as apropos for a barbarian, inquisitor, antipaladin, several flavors of fighter and so on.

And I'm just not sure why Paizo made the decision to block the option off from the rest of those classes.

Is there something I'm missing here?

I mean. I get why they're in the heavy blade weapon group. They're basically greatswords (in fact the name is literally greatsword). Cool.

But why are they also polearms? Like. I don't see why they're in a group of weapons with Glaives and Halberds. At all.

Why is it that they're still reliant on the "stand still and full attack until something dies" paradigm? Why do Brawlers get pounce and they get jackall?

So we gave the Slayer Studied Combat too.

Twice.

-Paizuzu

This always struck me as a bit odd since in some respects Pathfinder exists as a way to spit in WoTC's eye for creating 4e.

Notably this seems to have changed over time: In the ARG the tiefling depicted looks much like a 3.5 tiefling, he's a human with a horn. If he wore a hat no one would even know he didn't get his bonus feat at level 1.

But in later publications, notably Bastards of Erebus since that contains many of the tiefling's ARFs the race is depicted much less subtly: Crimson skin, huge tails, giant horns, sometimes even wings or hooves too, bringing them much closer to 4e's significantly more monstrous version of the race, for better or for worse (generally I see this argued either as "Yay, less 'human with something stuck on' races" vs "Boo, monstrous b~$$%*%& to appeal to angsty teens", so pick your poison).

I've just always found that evolution a bit curious.