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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Empirate" data-source="post: 5656970" data-attributes="member: 78958">While Patryn is indeed the man, I'll have to disagree strongly here. Disguise Self affords huge flexibility, where this spell only gives you a long duration with none of the flexibility. When memorizing spells, you have to know exactly that you'll want to look like a Lizardfolk for hours. Maybe, in a Lizardfolk-heavy campaign, you have the flexibility of choosing whether you want to look like a bent old Lizardfolk midwife, or a Lizardfolk warrior, or the Lizardfolk King himself, and maybe, if everything revolves around Lizardfolk, this kind of diversity is really good for you. But usually, this isn't the kind of versatility that's needed.Disguise Self can have you look like an Avariel hunter, like a Human nobleman, like an Orc Warrior, like a Dwarf smith, like Michael Jackson or Paris Hilton, like your neighbour, like a Lich, like a Bugbear shaman, or like the freakin' Lizardfolk King himself. And you can decide at the time of casting which of those it'll be, depending on whether you want to pass unnoticed among monstrous humanoids, bluff your way past a guard, lose a pursuer in the crowd, put the blame for a theft on your friendly neighbourhood Paladin, seem tall and strong and threatening to impress an Orc chieftain, or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uther_pendragon" target="_blank">sleep with Igraine so she conceives Arthur</a>. 10 minutes per level is easily enough for most or allf of these, an hour-long duration won't do much extra for you.Not having to know in the mornings which disguise you'll need today is a huge advantage.</blockquote>

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