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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 4547317" data-attributes="member: 710">Self-Cloning!Interesting idea. If we want to speak science:Does Alter Self change your DNA? Doesn't it have to, otherwise how does the changed body work? DNA isn't just used for reproductive purposes, it is used to do all the chemical stuff our body needs to do to function.)If so, you won't really have a child with yourself, genetically speaking.If it doesn't change your DNA, can you really produce Semen (that also survives outside your body? What happens to body parts removed from your Alter Self body? Don't they revert? (To whatever they revert, it wouldn't be able to start a new life, right?)Of course, maybe magic is replacing everything your DNA does at this point. But then, all bets are off. Apparently, Dragon transformation magic does somehow retain Dragon DNA (at least in 3E). Or is this a property of the Dragon DNA, that it resists some shapechange or survives the end of the effect? And if we don't use science, well, everything is possible and we don't have a real basis to guess what could happen. Though we might be able to discuss what would be interesting for the story or a character background to happen.</blockquote>