Newbie Beast Form Suggestions and Feedback (Cow, Mainly)
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As for permanence (since you commented on it), what's your opinion on progressively permanent forms (as described above)?
That was the part I didn't like.
I like the milking idea; there could be some better balance between patience and clicking and batching. Transmutation has this 'feature', too.
I also don't think that Druids have Deer Form is a big deal - as long as they have to jump through the same hoops to learn the Deer moves and XP that everyone else does, that they can TF to a Deer doesn't really matter. If you want to give a bonus to non-Druid non-were animals, then they could just have a bonus based on not having that ability (or abstaining, like teleportation and veganism)
Herding is a cool idea - an animal adjunct to the lonely/grouped statuses.