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<font size="3" face="Verdana, Arial" color="#cc6600">Georg Zoeller, Designer</font>

Manticor, for those that tested that patch (http://nwn.bioware.com//forums/viewpost.html?topic=378194&post=3118359&forum=77&highlight=)
<hr />Manticor are Beasts. They are ONLY suppose to merge with 'Armor' class items. And the normal manticor worked properly in this regard. EPIC Manticor seems to be Armor & Item class equipment.<hr />I always find it amusing when people find a rule in some arbitrary decisions I made http://forums.bioware.com/_global/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif The decisions which forms merge what were based completely on gameplay balance considerations ... if you find a rule, it's completely accidental http://forums.bioware.com/_global/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif

More: It's all defined in polymorph.2da, the last 3 columns define how things get merged for a shifter.