The Big Ol' thread of cool things to do with a shifter.

[DM_Matt]

Ok, so most people really like the Shifter prc.

Now since it does not involve a spell progression, the druids "spell list" becomes the cool things that he can do by wild shaping into sometihng cool. So why dont we compile the Shifter 'Spell List."

Here are a few to start:

1. Become a troll to regenerate all of your wounds and even get back lost limbs. (does the latter work?)
2. Turning into a gargantuan slime or ooze, catching your enemies as you expand for a really nasty area of effect. Turning into a gelatonous cube the size of a room to catch all the baddies that are surrounding you, and rather quickly digesting them are cool
3. Turning into a rust monster to kill metal, or various oozes or puddings to dissolve other appropriate substances or seep through things.

Add more....

 

[lodestone]

How about Wil 'o' Wisp?

Invisiblity, great AC, Spell Immunity...

That gets my vote for best defensive shape.


-lodestone

 

[Xarlen]

Don't forget excape methods for being Swallowed Whole.

Change into a Huge creature. *POP*. You're free. If that's hazardous to your health, then try something that's either: Immune to Acid, thus no acid damage (Purple worm), Something immune to Fire (For those pesky Remorhaz), or something immune to acid, with lots and lots of spikes (for Behirs). Unfortunately, the only thing I can think of with spikes is a Howler.

Can you say Beholder?

All those spell-eyes, not to mention an ANTI-MAGIC CONE.

Need to get in somewhere? Turn into a parasite. A tick, an ant, a leech, cling to an item, or someone's body, until you're through.

If you're big enough level... Tarrasque!

 

[Zerovoid]

In another thread, someone asked what would happen if you were an Ochre Jelly, which gets split in half when its damaged. I'm not sure how you'd work this, but almost any interpretation of this would be very powerful.

You could turn into a Digester and spray 4d8 acid damage in a 20 foot cone.

You could turn into an Ettercap so you can web things.

Turn into a Manticore and fly above you enemies, launching spike volleys at them.

Turn into a Minotaur to be immune to Maze spells

Turn into a Pseudodragon to see invisible.

 

[Wippit Guud]

You can turn into a doppleganger so that you could turn... into... huh, that's redundant.

You could trun into a Shambling Mound, and attack will-o-wisps (and grow, and GROW!)

You could turn into a clay golem, and prevent people from healing.

You could turn into a Nymph, and stare at yourself naked in a mirror for days at a time.

 

[Marion Poliquin]

Got problems with the little soldier ? Turn into a Satyr.

 

[DM_Matt]

Dont you only get their Exceptional Abilities, as opposed to their Spelllike and Supernatural ones?

 

[Maniac]

Dont you only get their Exceptional Abilities, as opposed to their Spelllike and Supernatural ones?

That is correct as far as I know. So Beholder does not work very well since you really only get fligh and All around vision.

But all of the other abilities mentioned are exceptional and not supernatural.

M.

 

[Happiest_Sadist]

Turn into an iron golem and wade in as the wizard wings fireballs. Shambling mound/flesh golem and lightning bolt.

Fly above your enemies as a sparrow and shapechange into an Iron golem. *splat*

Partial charge as a 12 headed hydra. Shapeshift into something incorporial on the end of your turn.

Shapechange into a celestial/demon/devil and give your enimies orders in the name of their gods.

Use your last partial action (at 0 hp) to shapechange into a frost worm and explode.

Use delver form to dig yourself tunnels wherever you want to go.

Massacre your foes with a ghost touch weapon as a wraith.

Use a burrowing animal/delver/friend with earthquake spell to burry enimies in rubble. Cursh them as an earthe elemental or incorporeal undead.

 

[Zhure]

Did my part.... somebody else want to do the next few letters?

Extraordinary Shifter abilities (A-B).
Aboleth - Transformation, Mucus Cloud
Achaierai - Black Cloud
Ankheg - Improved Grab, Acid, Spit Acid, Tremorsense
Araneas - Web, Poison
Arrowhawk - Immunities (acid/electric/poison)
Assassin Vines - Improved Grab, Constrict, Blindsight, Camouflage
Athacks - Poison
Azers - Heat
Barghest - Pass Without Trace
Behir - Improved Grab, Swallow Whole, Constrict
Beholder - All-Around Vision, Flight
Belker - Smoke Cloud
Bodak - Sunlight Vulnerability, Flashback
Bulette - Leap, Tremorsense