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<blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 6153840" data-attributes="member: 508"><p><strong>INTERLUDE</strong></p><p></p><p>We gamed today and finished off our next adventure; hopefully I'll have a write-up in the next couple of days or so. But in the meantime, Telgrane leveled up from the last adventure, and one of the new spells he learned as a result was <em>polymorph any object</em>. He got that one specifically because he wanted to cast it upon Infernia, his Small fire elemental familiar, to transform her into a Large fire elemental familiar. Logan only chose that particular spell for Telgrane after talking it over with me, because as written if Telgrane cast a <em>polymorph any object</em> on Infernia to turn her into a Large fire elemental, it looked like her Intelligence would "default" to that of a standard Large fire elemental. We decided that her increased Intelligence was an inherent part of her status as Telgrane's familiar, and that if he boosted her size to Large, not only would it be permanent (due to the close similarities between her "before" and "after" forms) but her Intelligence would remain unchanged.</p><p></p><p>I only mention this because our discussion was hypothetical at the time; Telgrane was in effect researching the spell to decide whether it was one he wanted to add to his spellbook, and he eventually decided that it was. He did not actually cast in on Infernia at the time, because he was still dithering on whether he wanted to make her Medium or Large. Logan eventually decided that he'd have Telgrane cast it on Infernia at the beginning of the next adventure, depending on the needs of that situation. (He'd also realized that he could always "resize" her at a later date with an additional casting of the <em>polymorph any object</em> spell.)</p><p></p><p>As it happened, I had a "twist" prepared for the next adventure that would make this somewhat of a factor.</p><p></p><p>But in the meantime, I made some preparations. I did up stats for Infernia as both a Medium and a Large fire elemental familiar, so Logan could add it to his Telgrane folder with her normal, Small-size stats. Logan had been using a Small fire elemental D&D Mini to represent Infernia all of this time; to represent her as a Medium and a Large fire elemental, I took the image we had selected to represent her on her initiative card and resized it to scale as both a Medium and a Large creature, and printed them on a sheet of white peel-off stickers. Then, using orange poster board, I cut out a 1" square and a 2" square and rounded off the corners to use as bases. Then I cut out two rectangular shapes with two narrow triangles on either long side, and put each sticker on the rectangle part so that there was some excess white sticker sticking off the bottom. (The triangles were positioned so their bottom edges were level with the bottom of the picture.) The excess sticker I adhered to the bases, so I could "hinge" the image upright and fold the triangles out to stand it up. Result: two stand-up tokens of Infernia, one Medium and one Large, that could be folded flat for storage.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Richards, post: 6153840, member: 508"] [b]INTERLUDE[/b] We gamed today and finished off our next adventure; hopefully I'll have a write-up in the next couple of days or so. But in the meantime, Telgrane leveled up from the last adventure, and one of the new spells he learned as a result was [i]polymorph any object[/i]. He got that one specifically because he wanted to cast it upon Infernia, his Small fire elemental familiar, to transform her into a Large fire elemental familiar. Logan only chose that particular spell for Telgrane after talking it over with me, because as written if Telgrane cast a [i]polymorph any object[/i] on Infernia to turn her into a Large fire elemental, it looked like her Intelligence would "default" to that of a standard Large fire elemental. We decided that her increased Intelligence was an inherent part of her status as Telgrane's familiar, and that if he boosted her size to Large, not only would it be permanent (due to the close similarities between her "before" and "after" forms) but her Intelligence would remain unchanged. I only mention this because our discussion was hypothetical at the time; Telgrane was in effect researching the spell to decide whether it was one he wanted to add to his spellbook, and he eventually decided that it was. He did not actually cast in on Infernia at the time, because he was still dithering on whether he wanted to make her Medium or Large. Logan eventually decided that he'd have Telgrane cast it on Infernia at the beginning of the next adventure, depending on the needs of that situation. (He'd also realized that he could always "resize" her at a later date with an additional casting of the [i]polymorph any object[/i] spell.) As it happened, I had a "twist" prepared for the next adventure that would make this somewhat of a factor. But in the meantime, I made some preparations. I did up stats for Infernia as both a Medium and a Large fire elemental familiar, so Logan could add it to his Telgrane folder with her normal, Small-size stats. Logan had been using a Small fire elemental D&D Mini to represent Infernia all of this time; to represent her as a Medium and a Large fire elemental, I took the image we had selected to represent her on her initiative card and resized it to scale as both a Medium and a Large creature, and printed them on a sheet of white peel-off stickers. Then, using orange poster board, I cut out a 1" square and a 2" square and rounded off the corners to use as bases. Then I cut out two rectangular shapes with two narrow triangles on either long side, and put each sticker on the rectangle part so that there was some excess white sticker sticking off the bottom. (The triangles were positioned so their bottom edges were level with the bottom of the picture.) The excess sticker I adhered to the bases, so I could "hinge" the image upright and fold the triangles out to stand it up. Result: two stand-up tokens of Infernia, one Medium and one Large, that could be folded flat for storage. [/QUOTE]
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