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Durban "We could always awaken her with cold water. It shouldn't take too many days of that to get her accustomed to the hours of an adventurer."

Metamorphic transfer is a psionic feat which makes it a supernatural ability. Greg

Or that they are not indeed the same ability. Only "three uses per day of the metamorphic ability" means only three of the metamorphic transfer. It's crystal clear. The limitations on the dragon's supernatural ability is a further sub-limitation. Greg

I don't believe the implied object of 'it's supernatural ability' is 'adding meaningful content.' It's taking a one word implied meaning and adding it's full meaning. The sentence actually sounds clunkier in English by adding the three additional words, which is why it* might've been left out...

I think he means in the most heartfelt, kinship, brotherly loving way humanly possible. With noogies on top. :D

You're so tantalizingly close. It should be... As I've said before you're taking the most liberal and powerful interpretation of the feat then claiming the feat is overly powerful. Making a more reasonable interpretation of the intent of the feat brings it right back into line with most other...

It's not impossible to get around the limitation, but acquiring an additonal feat of metamorphic transfer clearly won't give that* ability. edit *that ability meaning 'doubling to six from three' the number of uses of metamorphic transfer per day.

One supposes you're being intentionally obdurate. No, the higher limit of uses refers to the Su of the creature. The example talks about a dragon being able to breathe more than three times per day, obviously since you can only use the Su ability gained from metamorphic transfer three times per...

Neither metamagic nor rods nor metamagic rods are new in 3.5. The special rules for taking a feat multiple times isn't new in 3.5 either. Normally have multiple iterations of an ability grants extra uses (so two metamagic rods means six uses) but feats cannot normally be taken multiple times...

So it's an identical sentence structure. Ok, I already did by explaining the intent of the words via adding clarifying words, I shall do so again in simpler terms. "You..." (the manifester, possessor of the feat metamorphic transfer) "gain only three uses..." (no more than three, only...

If you say so.

New tact: The second sentence, in a new paragraph, talks about the exceptions further de-limiting the ability granted by the feat. No one argues about 'saving throws' are not spells and 'opposed rolls' are not spells, even though the first sentence only talks about spells. Greg

Of course, my wishful thinking also includes the wish that 'metamorphic ability' was a standard and defined game-term. Since it isn't, then it becomes interpretive, which is where the problem arises. My interpretation is that as a pure editing oversight the phrase 'metamorphic ability'...

For completeness's sake, I should point out that a magic missile is a superior spell than crystal shard until around 10th level, where the damage becomes comparable factoring in missing the touch attack. After that, crystal shard begins to perform better but for a mage magic missile still only...

No, because you have two metamagic rods. Normally feats cannot be taken multiple times. Metamorphic ability (unclearly) explains what the effect of taking the feat additional times has as a result.

The sentence should probably read: "You gain only three uses of the metamorphic feat per day, even if the creature into which you can metamorph has a higher limit of uses of the supernatural ability." Correct. Except they're not only in different sentences but different paragraphs.

Inversely stated, this feat grants a minor advantage to the psion. That's what feats do. Once the general reasoning is put forth, it'd be nice to see specific examples illustrating the point. I've yet to see any. Detailing our example, the psion spends a standard action manifesting...

It more likely refers to the 'metamorphic ability' as the feat metamorphic transfer. Both include the word 'metamorphic.' I suspect this is wherein the confusion lies. I never made that claim. They are independent sentences, the second adding detail to the first. The first says you gain a Su...

"Each time you change your form, such as through the metamorphasis power, you gain one of the new form's supernatural abilities, if it has any." Thus, you can pick one supernatural ability per form that you might use. A medusa has only one supernatural ability, its gaze. "You gain only three...

Since you already know the psion's location when he metamorphasized, the first round of pinpointing isn't probably necessary. We ignore all the ways around gaze attacks (bat familiar? Reflective surfaces? Summoned Xorn attacking it for you) and we ignore all the spells that negate concealment or...