Forbidden lore Adaptive species

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More questions!&#010;Forbidden lore allows you to pick a single branch of life to make it available for your faction. Now, if I pick for this branch to be the humanoid adaptive species branch, that means my faction can pick the T1 traits Adaptive Species, and Quick Reflexes.  Adaptive species gives adaptive mutation and says that for 1pt+the cost of the chosen trait, you can pick any trait from a branch of Environmental Adaptations to form a single trait.  If I do this, does that mean I just basically granted my faction the opportunity to pick from all the environmental adaptation traits (assuming they pick t1 and/or t2 adaptive species/flexibility to go along with it)...? It feels like this isn't -intended- to be the case, and that adaptive species is supposed to be a species trait? It currently isn't.

natfka · Accepted Answer

Not an error. There are plenty of opportunities like that meant to create give you lots of options. At one point..... years ago during playtesting, Adaptive Mutation and the like were limited as species only traits. Cant recall if that was before the open beta or not.

You do pay a point "penalty" for it with every model you field. It adds up.

Good way to get Military Weapons into your other domains, and other weapons. Have like one level 3 class that grants technology insight into the rest of your faction. Its always fun discovering some new route to create what you have envisioned in your head. Its why its rather rare for people to make the same faction even if they have the same concept in their heads.

Mark · Answer

I asked about adaptive mutation a few days ago, maybe that thread answers your

Ward Bannink · Answer

Yah, it helps to understand what adaptive mutation does when it's used as species trait : ) In that case (like when creating a humanoid faction) that's the only time you'd need it, since otherwise you can just directly pick the environmental adaptation trait as a class trait.

In this case, however, access to the adaptive mutation trait is gained through forbidden knowledge (as a class trait). Thereby opening upthe 'Adaptive Species' branch of life to everyone in my non-humanoid faction, if I understand forbidden knowledge correctly.

What this entails, is that every single class in my faction (with some exceptions, like Incarnates and Devoted) can pick the Adaptive Species trait for 1 point, and then pick any Environmental Adaptation trait for its added cost. With this, immense opportunities arise as one suddenly gets access to a large part of the Humanoid domain by taking the adaptive species and follow-up adaptive flexibility. Albeit at a slightly increased cost.

I was wondering whether this was an oversight, and Adaptive Species/Flexibility should be a species-only trait, or whether this is totally allowed.

Edit: just realized, one could also theoretically adaptive species into scientific adaptability to pick Knowledge and Science traits for the added cost + 3

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