if wotc wants to do other were creatures (wererats, werebears, etc) is the lack of of a “were” creature type a problem since it means you can’t do were tribal synergies and you’d either have to do a new creature type for each species or do it inconsistently?So one of the things we tried we we experimented with the idea of Were as a creature type was to mock up cards and show them around. We made a few cards where the art was clearly a werewolf, but the word “Werewolf” wasn’t in the name.
The test didn’t go well. You’d think the space between Were and Wolf wouldn’t matter, but it did. My favorite response was on a card showing a bunch of Werewolves: “Okay, there were wolves. What are they now?”
The point of this story is if players don’t get the basic concept, it doesn’t matter what you could do with the design technology *if* they did get it.
