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The designer that wrote the original shaman incarnations has said numerous times that he'd intended for shamans to be able to apply the giant and/or young templates to animals for purposes of wildshaping into bigger or smaller versions.
Thus far, Paizo has failed to update things as such.
If you think Saurian Shamans have it bad how do you think Wolf, Lion, and Bear shamans feel?
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The designer that wrote the original shaman incarnations has said numerous times that he'd intended for shamans to be able to apply the giant and/or young templates to animals for purposes of wildshaping into bigger or smaller versions.
Thus far, Paizo has failed to update things as such.
If you think Saurian Shamans have it bad how do you think Wolf, Lion, and Bear shamans feel?
I'm playing a Lion Shaman and it is somewhere between balanced with a normal druid and overpowered (at level 6 and later, at least). That is with the limitation on shapes I can shift into. The ability to summon templated Felines in a standard action is very, very significant. ITs amazing how much damage D3+1 Augmented young tigers (Summon Natures Ally IV) can do to most encounters.
A Saurian Shaman is already insanely more powerful than a Lion Shaman. Ie, it is somewhere between very overpowered and grossly absurdly overpowered.
The last thing that Shamans (especially Saurian Shamans) need is to be made more powerful.
If the original author being quoted above created the wolf, lion and Saurian Shamans then I'm afraid that he really doesn't have a good grasp of what is balanced. The Saurians are very. very clearly the best Shamans. By a significant margin.
I guess I should also ask while I'm on here... If you turn into a, let's say, Allosaurus and GRAB someone with a grapple, they're in your mouth right? Allosaurus does not get SWALLOW WHOLE. So... If I wanted to swallow someone... Do they forget how to? I mean, it's as simple as -gulp-.
You don't have the ability to. If you wanted to eat them, you'd have to get them helpless and eat them normally, sorry.