The setting for my game features semi divine monarchs of various animals, the Wolf King, the Bear Queen, etc. One of the early jokes in the campaign was that there are 100 different Kings and Queens of the Housecats, all of whom consider themselves the one true ruler and all the rest impostors.
Last night, one of the One True Cat Kings gave his blessing to the party’s nine foot tall Half Giant Barbarian. Here’s the move:
When you Parlay with a creature larger than you, you can use your small size and adorability as leverage, even if you are otherwise a complete jerk.
We had a cat folk in a pathfinder game die and get reincarnated as an actual cat. She still did our crafting and cast oracle spells (some people have asked how she did the somatic and material components without hands and our GMs response was “the same way other magical talking animals with spells in the official books do it”). In any case, at one point she was chasing a lich around a dungeon with a Heal-Charged paw. Just imagining the scary lich running for his unlife from an adorable cat is amusing.
I love that the largest guy in the group gets the buff that’s only useful if you’re small. Now you just need to find some mega-Giants.
Sounds like a little bit of “Princess Mononoke” with the Animal Lords.