Humanoid Pretenders are too expensive

[Vynd]

Originally posted by Cainehill:
By "Special" abilities that you'll hardly ever use, I guess the great druid's bonus to casting vinemen / ogres? Nice bonus in a sense, but using a pretender to summon vinemen is such an incredible waste that it's rarely going to be done.

Yes, exactly. That, the Freak Lord's trample ability, and the Frost Father having Cold Resistance, are almost worthless, seems to me. The Enchantress's free pearl every turn is nice enough, I'll grant you that. And the Arch Mage's "special" of having three strategic move is OK. Neither really compares with things like immortality or lots of hit points and attack power.

But my point is that not only are the various human-type pretenders not very good, they are also all but identical. So if I ran the show around here, I'd kill two birds with one stone by making each of the human pretenders good at something (something useful, not summoning vine men), instead of having all of them be jack-of-all-trades-master-of-none rainbow mages with slightly different color text.