Bill Kropp wrote on May 27
th, 2012 at 5:09pm:
can kelpie function normally out of water in horse form?
Here are Kelpie's powers.
1. Heightened Intelligence
2. Natural Weaponry +3 to hit +6 damage with this martial arts skill.
3. Water Breathing Type B: So she becomes fatigued if she is out of water too long. This is why she sleeps in a water tank.
4. Transformation: Into any breed of horse, including a sea-horse (hippocampus).
So she can function as a human on land (until she becomes fatigued from dehydration).
She can function as a human in the water.
She can be any breed of regular horse on land. But she DOES NOT get fatigued from Water Breathing in this form.
She can become a water-breathing sea-horse in water. But she only breathes water in this form.
Because the horse form has low agility, and Kelpie has 15 Agility as a human, she's been staying in human form for standard fighting. With her martial arts skill and heightened intelligence, she does a lot of damage.
The horse form is helpful if she might need to carry someone or pull a large supply of weight.
Kelpie is probably the most complicated character in the lot. When the player got Water Breathing AND Transformation, she immediately wanted to become a Kelpie from myth even though some tougher options might have been available.