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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Iku Rex" data-source="post: 2242645" data-attributes="member: 752">(See my above reply to Saeviomagy.)"Simple logic" in bizarro-world, perhaps... :\ Hey, I have an idea for how to explain this! I'll call it "option 1".Option 1: The table is an "equal" part of the spell description. The examples are a roundabout way to convey information about what the spell lets you do (rather than just illustrate it). In that case, polymorph any object "says otherwise", and any polymorph rule contradicted by the examples doesn't apply to polymorph any object. This does not help your case, since all it proves is that polymorph any object is not identical to polymorph. (We already knew that.)  The assumed form can’t have more Hit Dice than your caster level (or the subject’s HD, whichever is lower), to a maximum of 15 HD at 15th level.-- polymorphShrew to manticore-- polymorph any objectI don't know how many HD a shrew has, but I'm sure it's less than a manticore. Thus the above polymorph rule is contradicted. (You can [and I would] argue that only this rule is removed, and not all, but that doesn't help you.) Also note that 3.0 polymorph any object had the same wording, and 3.0 polymorph did unquestionably have a size restriction preventing a shrew-manticore transformation. Huh? This spell functions like alter self, except that you change the willing subject into another form of living creature. --polymorph This spell functions like polymorph, except that it changes one object or creature into another [implied: creature or object]. -- polymorph any object So the word "another" should be read as "any other" in the first sentence, but the exact same word, in the exact same context should not be read the same way in the second sentence. Looks to me like you're "[ruling] one that way and the other the opposite way"...</blockquote>

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