aramis erak
Legend
I never had an issue with the shapeshifter druid. It does what I expect it to as a GM, and my players weren't complaining about it. Including the one playing one.
As a GM, I don't want to deal with partial shifts - they're a hassle in every implementation I've encountered them in.
I don't want uses per day - that's just one more thing to track and enforce.
I don't mind half-transitions as long as they're a stable form - WWG's Werewolves having 3 forms — Human, Wolfman, Wolf — and them being long term stable, leads to them being prefigured, and thus readily used.
But my issue with the D&D 5 is that players have so many choices that it creates some analysis paralysis, and that it's limited to ones previously encountered leads to a "Pokémon" mode - gotta get 'em all! (Literally, player had a list of eligible monsters, and ticked off the ones encountered.)
Anything that sets limits requires GM mental effort to enforce/police. Or the limits will often be ignored, and that raises the question of suitably within the power limits for level... do you base it upon the low-fidelity-to-RAW GMs, or to the RAW using GMs?
As a GM, I don't want to deal with partial shifts - they're a hassle in every implementation I've encountered them in.
I don't want uses per day - that's just one more thing to track and enforce.
I don't mind half-transitions as long as they're a stable form - WWG's Werewolves having 3 forms — Human, Wolfman, Wolf — and them being long term stable, leads to them being prefigured, and thus readily used.
But my issue with the D&D 5 is that players have so many choices that it creates some analysis paralysis, and that it's limited to ones previously encountered leads to a "Pokémon" mode - gotta get 'em all! (Literally, player had a list of eligible monsters, and ticked off the ones encountered.)
Anything that sets limits requires GM mental effort to enforce/police. Or the limits will often be ignored, and that raises the question of suitably within the power limits for level... do you base it upon the low-fidelity-to-RAW GMs, or to the RAW using GMs?