Great Animal

Great animals are human-looking people, who are capable of shapeshifting into a single animal. While in human form a great animal possesses some traits of their animal form, such as their tail, a point of pride to all great animals, and some other features, such as ears, teeth, or excess hair. Great animals are also normally shorted than humans, with only the largest of animals equaling humans in size. In animal form, a great animal varies from being identical to a normal animal of that type, to being a giant version of it. The size of the animal form is relative to the overall power of the great animal, and most great animals notice their animal form slowly growing as they age.

Mechanics

 * Medium: As a medium creature, great animals have no special bonuses or penalties due to their size.
 * Great animals base land speed is 30 feet.
 * +2 bonus to Handle Animal, Perception and Survival checks, on account of their natural, more bestial, sensibilities.
 * Shapeshift: A great animal may shapeshift into their assigned animal at will. While in animal form, all of the animals stats are used, except for hit points, Wisdom, Intelligence, and Charisma, which remain the same between forms. All skills are used with the skill ranks of the human form, with the bonuses of the animal form applied on top of them. At level 4, and every subsequent 4 levels the animal form's size increases by one category, until it reaches the maximum size of a huge form.
 * Automatic Languages: Common
 * Favored Class: Ranger