Augmented Polymorph/Shapechange

[Loros]

Hola ENWorld!

I've been DMing a game for a number of years now, and one of my players has been head-over-heels in love with the Master Transmogrifist class on his Transmuter for quite some time now.

Is there any sort of prestige class or feats that can be taken in order to possibly increase the amount of hit dice of creatures that he can change into?

I have access to almost every book in existence... but so far I haven't found anything besides the metamagic feat from the Dragonlance series (Reserve of Strength)... though I purposefully haven't incorporated it due to balance issues.

Any ideas, suggestions?
I'm really trying to stay away from homebrew ideas, and I know that shapeshifting is pretty much the Druids domain, but he's been a major fan of the ability to splice different monsters into one polymorph.
I'm really surprised that there isn't some sort of transformation-themed prestige class for Transmuters.

Any help would be much appreciated,


~L

 

[Loros]

Ouch, 50 views and no responses?

 

[Rune]

Haven't played 3.x in quite some time, but I'd say if you can't find any for the transmuter, find some druid feats/prestige classes that fit what you're looking for and expand the prereqs. I guess, technically, this is homebrew advice, but should be a very minor adjustment.

 

[Nagol]

The only thing that comes to mind is a feat from Dragonlance Campaign Setting that allows the caster to add up to 3 levels to CL for a casting and allows the spell to break its normal level limits (the example is a 9th level caster throwing a 12d6 fireball).

The tradeoff is a stunning effect for 1 round per additional CL gained. You take damage if you are unstannable, but there are ways to reduce stun effect durations that can mitigate the effect.

*edit* the feat is called Reserves of Strength

 

[Jhaelen]

Ouch, 50 views and no responses?

You might get more responses in the Legacy Forum. IMG, I banned the transmogrifist and polymorph does not exist, so I cannot help you, unfortunately.

 

[MortalPlague]

Quite honestly, polymorph is usually fairly powerful even without augmenting it. In one of my campaigns, one of my players played a Master Transmogrifist, who routinely turned into a gargantuan octopus-troll in combat (sea-dwelling, sure, but they can hold their breath). 8 attacks per round with an automatic grab at the end? Plus troll regeneration? He was a tough cookie. I'm still not sure how he wound up not breaking the campaign; it ended up being one of my better ones. But he was definitely the most powerful PC.