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And how often are you going to be climbing in combat

Not often at all, that's why I don't think it's the reason they picked centaur

The fact that you can have a Tank with Mounted Combatant riding you is very useful to a normal wizard build.

It's definitely a valid approach, but it's worth remembering that player centaurs are only medium-sized so the rider actually loses the advantage against medium-sized enemies that Mounted Combatant would otherwise give them. It's not useless by any means, especially if the centaur takes Protection (although that would require grabbing a fighting style one way or another too), but I'd be surprised if it was all that much better than just having the rider on a regular horse and the wizard not in melee. The wizard does still have to actually pass the dex saves, after all, and this one is not going to be doing that very often

The thing about centaurs requiring their own mounts to keep up is pretty damn funny

5E (which this looks like) doesn’t tend to do negatives for species. Centaurs actually do have one of the rare ones, but it's only that climbing is more difficult for you, so it's very rare. I think the reasoning is just that the features centaurs do get are basically completely useless to a normal wizard build - a charge ability to get you into melee where wizards don't want to be, natural weapons for all the punching wizards don't do, and a bunch of skills tied to an ability score that wizards don't need

Oh hey I sort of unintentionally did the monk one! He was raised in a villain's cult that was was taken down by a party of adventurers. Since he was raised in it he fully believed in the cult's teachings until the shock of that day, and since then he had been trying to make up for it. I didn't use the religious aspect, but he had the aesthetic and the repentance, and also the party's druid had taken him on as an apprentice beer brewer so he even had that European monastic tradition down too

The mimicry feature takes a bit of creativity, but remember you can use it on non-word noises! I've borrowed a dragon's roar to create panic, replayed a conversation I heard earlier word-for-word to earn someone's trust, and replayed the bard's music to give them a backing band for a performance. However the two extra proficiencies are probably the more useful thing; not a flashy feature, but definitely a useful one

My boy Alaric does it too! Truly an evolutionary masterclass to able to just nap anytime anyplace

What an incredible colour her eyes are!

The one with the overlaid diagrams is delightful

A collarbone that isn't attached to any other bones and a very flexible spine. However, while this makes them extremely good at it, the actual motions involved are, as demonstrated, manageable for a human. We're just a lot worse at it

I do indeed love my gremlin boy who yells at me and tries to steal every mug of mint tea I make

This happened both ways! An excerpt from the wiki page of Hidetaka Miyazaki, director of Dark Souls and Elden Ring amongst other things:

Miyazaki was an avid reader as a child despite his parents being unable to afford him many books. He frequently borrowed from his local library, including English language fantasy and science fiction that he did not fully understand, allowing his imagination to fill in the blanks by using the accompanying illustrations. He would later cite that as a major influence on his design philosophy.

So in other words, Dark Souls lore is the way it is for the same reason

Oooh I had no idea about the Lancer map creator, that will be very useful. I'm decent at making maps manually but a shortcut for adding all the information like cover to a grid would speed things up substantially

I love Mocha's ears