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<blockquote data-quote="Eremite" data-source="post: 1842152" data-attributes="member: 24296">In one of the FAQs or errata issued for this spell, it clearly stipulates that hit points do not change (*). After all, that's the clear intent of the description from alter self at the beginning of this chain of spells. I believe that the rationale is that it otherwise becomes too difficult to recalculate hit points each round with each new form potentially assumed.I'm not sure if this has been addressed in the replies, but I wouldn't allow this spell to grant spell resistance. I realise that SR is either Ex or Su but the fact that it is not specifically called out as such in the descriptions in the MM makes me think that it is not supposed to be an ability or quality that is granted by shapechange.FWIW, I had a wizard in my last high level campaign use this spell, and this form, with great frequency (he also liked to use the beholder with its antimagic eye ray a lot). Until the point he discovered this spell he had played his character extraordinarily ineffectively (and if it wasn't for a well played druid and a reasonably effective cleric the party would not have lasted to these levels) but this spell made him a fair bit more useful without breaking the game.*: There is also a ruling by Skip somewhere that says that hit points do change but I still think the best thing to do with his rulings is ignore them.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Eremite, post: 1842152, member: 24296"] In one of the FAQs or errata issued for this spell, it clearly stipulates that hit points do not change (*). After all, that's the clear intent of the description from alter self at the beginning of this chain of spells. I believe that the rationale is that it otherwise becomes too difficult to recalculate hit points each round with each new form potentially assumed. I'm not sure if this has been addressed in the replies, but I wouldn't allow this spell to grant spell resistance. I realise that SR is either Ex or Su but the fact that it is not specifically called out as such in the descriptions in the MM makes me think that it is not supposed to be an ability or quality that is granted by shapechange. FWIW, I had a wizard in my last high level campaign use this spell, and this form, with great frequency (he also liked to use the beholder with its antimagic eye ray a lot). Until the point he discovered this spell he had played his character extraordinarily ineffectively (and if it wasn't for a well played druid and a reasonably effective cleric the party would not have lasted to these levels) but this spell made him a fair bit more useful without breaking the game. *: There is also a ruling by Skip somewhere that says that hit points do change but I still think the best thing to do with his rulings is ignore them. [/QUOTE]

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