Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-26350183-20150427193641/@comment-26350183-20150428013322

Madman198237 wrote: Recneps, you forget that the Dwarves went to Beorn's. Nobody goes near Beorn. Not even orcs on wargs with troll backup go near Beorn. The Men of the Vales most likely live, you know, in the Vales near the Anduin. Just a thought. Not the whatever-they-are near the Misties.

I like the idea of shape-shifters....but maybe they should be VERY rare. As in, added in with major quests, characters, and structures as individual people rare. Because we know of all of two shapeshifters: Beorn and Grimbeorn the Old, and can assume that Beorn and Grimbeorn do not have so many children/descendants as to make hiring them reasonable at any level. I actually sort of agree that Beornings should be a rare mob, that shouldn't be recruitable. However, I think Valesmen, as all Northmen, would be common enough. I included Beornings as a recruitable unit as kind of an after-thought. Then again, Olog-hai would've been relatively rare, and almost every Mordor player I know recruits them by the hundreds, so sometimes a game doesn't really match entirely with canon, you know?