from a point of game balancing, what should be the overall advantages

>>54464163
depends on the setting

depends on the humanoid

By "functional", do you mean "prehensile"?

>>54464192
maybe

>>54464185
Depends on system more than setting

depands on so many things
-How many vertibrae or segments and their lengths
-Length
-Muscles and how well you can manipulate it
-How it affects your balance
etc etc
Quite bit of difference between having a pitiful bear tail or something like a tail from an ankylosaurus

Having a huge dragon tail or something might be harmful for your charisma or what ever you are using since you would be lurching forwards when walking

>>54464240
Not really, if the setting is sci-fi, a mechanical tail works marginally different and has many more uses than in a fantasy setting.

It also depends on the tail and how the tail is made.

>>54464163
No advantages
No disadvantages
May describe the character as using the tail.

>>54464163
Bonus to balance-based stuff?

>>54464163
System?
Allows you to grab stuff with little to no finesse (so to hold things but not to manipulate them), allows for cheap attacks, balance, acrobatics

>>54464163
What do you mean by functional? Different tails we know about in biology have different purposes. Many of them are for propulsion (often swimming), on bipeds they are often used for balance, although for upright bipeds that probably isn't quite so useful so much as it would be for something that stands hunched over raptor style. Some animals use tails to store excess fat deposits, as feelers, have stingers, etc.

>>54464163

Pros; Balance
Cons; You have a fucking tail

>>54465790
>Cons: You have a fucking tail
Isn't that a pro?

>>54465898

Naw, it can get in the way, tangled, caught by opponents/ect.

>>54468609
it also affects your hitpoints, one more limb that can be attacked to make you bleed out and die

>>54464163
Nothing explicit, just build a character with higher agility or whatever and fluff it as using a tail for balance.

Better balance
Help you keep steady when climbing
Archers can wrap it around something to better stay stable when shooting from moving vehicle
Aid to swimming like crocodiles

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>>54468648
Surely more limbs means more HP?

"Has functioning tail" as aspect.

Can be used by him.

Can be used against him.

There, done.