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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pielorinho" data-source="post: 2817899" data-attributes="member: 259">To be fair, those aren't the only two options.  You can also tell players something like, "You can only choose to gain a bonus by adopting a form if your character has directly witnessed that bonus in action."  That is, someone who has only fought bugbears in open combat may not take on the bugbear form in order to gain the move silently bonus, that sort of thing.  It's not a hard-and-fast rule, but it's one that's amenable to DM adjudication.You can also tell players, "Feel free to take on a form in order to gain a bonus.  Be aware, though, that the monsters in my world are not necessarily the monsters listed in the MM, and their stats may differ significantly."  If someone is trying to abuse the system, you can keep things in control through this fashion.You can also use Rich Burlew's rules, as I may have mentioned once or twice <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />.Even though I think it's totally copacetic if folks want to play an open-book game, in which these charts are freely available to players, this isn't the sort of game that I'd want to play in--not unless these charts were available as treasure to the PCs, in the form of a transmuter's captured notes.Daniel</blockquote>