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How do you adjudicate the spells, polymorph self and polymorph other?
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<blockquote data-quote="Holy Bovine" data-source="post: 250463" data-attributes="member: 203"><p>In my game Polymorth Self/Other became a major offensive weapon on several occasions (A Paladin polyed into a troll is just not pretty when you take his sword away before poly and let him use it twohanded in troll form). But I restricted the wizard only to creatures he had seen up close.</p><p></p><p>Of course once he saw that Silver Dragon things were never the same <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></p><p></p><p>I found Poly Other, like most other 'save or die' spells, to be a mixed blessing for the players. Either they took out a big villian with it (very rarely, if ever, was the villian a key part of the plot - those fellows had the sense to have good Fort save <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> ) or they cast it time after time and never had any effect on the game at all.</p><p></p><p>The wizard player was very much into his 'Transmuter' specailist and took great pains to keep him true to type relying on buffing, poly and protection spells to boost the party's power.</p><p></p><p>I don;t remember Poly Self ever being abused in my game but that doesn't mean it couldn't be.</p><p></p><p></p><p>[edit] Just remembered that only time that Poly Other got 'abused' was when I, as the DM, had a Woodwrack Dragon (from the Scarreed Lands books) cast it to turn the Cleric & Paladin into fish (unbelievable bad luck on thier part to blow two 'only need a 3' Fort saves in a row too - but dang was the look other their faces worth it <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /> )</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Holy Bovine, post: 250463, member: 203"] In my game Polymorth Self/Other became a major offensive weapon on several occasions (A Paladin polyed into a troll is just not pretty when you take his sword away before poly and let him use it twohanded in troll form). But I restricted the wizard only to creatures he had seen up close. Of course once he saw that Silver Dragon things were never the same :D I found Poly Other, like most other 'save or die' spells, to be a mixed blessing for the players. Either they took out a big villian with it (very rarely, if ever, was the villian a key part of the plot - those fellows had the sense to have good Fort save ;) ) or they cast it time after time and never had any effect on the game at all. The wizard player was very much into his 'Transmuter' specailist and took great pains to keep him true to type relying on buffing, poly and protection spells to boost the party's power. I don;t remember Poly Self ever being abused in my game but that doesn't mean it couldn't be. [edit] Just remembered that only time that Poly Other got 'abused' was when I, as the DM, had a Woodwrack Dragon (from the Scarreed Lands books) cast it to turn the Cleric & Paladin into fish (unbelievable bad luck on thier part to blow two 'only need a 3' Fort saves in a row too - but dang was the look other their faces worth it :D ) [/QUOTE]
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