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Simic Archetypes: Biomancer & Guardian

When I was setting out rough design notes for each of the guilds, Simic very nearly designed itself. Using a shared list of features, or adaptations, that both the caster and martial subclass would access and use in different ways was thematically and mechanically resonant in a way that was almost prescient - at the time, I hadn't settled on using shared guild mechanics across the caster and martial subclasses, but the idea made too much sense to abandon. 

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