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Originally Posted by Wonazer
Looking at the special limitations, I noticed Gliding and Small Wings. Small Wings notes "You use your wings to steer and to stabilize your flight – not to lift." Gliding states, "You cannot gain altitude." I don't need both, do I?
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If a creature has wings they need to stabilize their flight, and can only glide, not gain altitude, then yes, they need both. I think you're misunderstanding what Small Wings means when it says "not to lift". It's not saying that someone with Flight with Small Wings
can't use flight to gain lift, it's saying that the
small wings aren't necessary to gain lift. If someone cut or damaged their wings, they could still go up, they just wouldn't have good control while doing so.
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Originally Posted by Wonazer
My template originally had Wings + Gliding. I'm thinking Small Wings would accomplish that as well, right?
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The difference between someone with Flight (Gliding, -50%; Winged, -25%) and Flight (Gliding, -50%; Small Wings, -10%) is that the first character absolutely
needs their wings to fly - if the wings are crippled or completely removed, they can't fly at all. If they jump off a cliff, they just fall. Whereas, the second character, if their wings are crippled, can
still fly, they'll just suffer penalties to control their flight, and have to make rolls every time they want to land. Flight with Small Wings really needs another mechanism to explain how they actually fly, so I'd say your aerial race should probably have Flight with Gliding and Winged, not Small Wings. If you're concerned about the overall size of the wings, I'd suggest allowing reducing the limitation value of Winged by -5% to give them wings the same size as Small Wings, but still necessary to fly.
Hope all this clears things up!