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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gaiden" data-source="post: 2252812" data-attributes="member: 103">I seem to be one of the few people in agreement with the original poster that this combination is uttelry broken.Here are some examples why I think it is so broken:Shaped AM-F, Polymorph (choose your melee combat machine), Haste, Fly, Tensor's Transformation, shield, armor, Protection from..., and any other buffs you care to have up + adamentium tripping reach weapon.  You are not attacking with your natural form into the AM-F so you get all the benefits of your spells and your weapon retains the +2 to attack from its material.  You obviously polymorphed into a big creature to gain the trip bonuses and with the crazy strength you are capable of should have no problem tripping opponents, especially when you are getting in melee range with them the AM-F covers them.  If you are concerned about grappling, you can grease yourself, cast fire shield, blink, or anything else that hinders grappling.  You trip with your first attack and then womp on them without any of their defensive magical equipment working and with a +4 for them being prone (if you are full attacking).  Moreover, for them to exit the AM-F, they have to get up provoking an AoO (giving you another attack), and then would have to move and do nothing else for the round, provoking yet another AoO because of your reach weapon.  Meanwhile, with fly, you could move up to them or charge and trip again.  If they keep getting up and running away you still get AoO's every round,  If they stay in the AM-F...well, g/l.  If there are problems with the AoE of AM-F, just enlarge or widen it.Terrain:  Snow covered Mountains, AM-F + contingent gaseous form + shout + fly + wind wall.  AM-F + windwall makes you immune to all opponents attacks (since normal PC's don't have wings and therefore can't get within melee range of you).  You merely make a K(architecture/engineering) or K(nature) whatever your DM thinks appropriate and move to the weak point in the mountain - just shout away until you get the desired effect.Terrain:  any underground, + the immediate above spell combo.  Fly above your opponents and start weaking the ceiling of the cave/tunnel until you get a cave collpase.  You could just cast rock to mud (again limited wish I believe would get you this) or stone shape thin sheets through the rock to drop massive sized (non-magical rocks on your enemies).Terrain:  underwater.  This would be really deadly.  Polymorph into some aquatic creature with an incredibly fast movement rate, move next to your PC (again, most PC's don't naturally breathe underwater), and ready an action to move with him wherever he goes.  Your movement speed is fast enough that you could just follow him until he suffocates.  Alternatively, polymorph into some large creature and grapple your opponent, cast a quickened or still dispel magic after grappling and just sit there.Having any sort of dangerous terrain is where this combo really gets deadly - you have the magic to support yourself in the terrain while you counter your opponent's ability to do the same.I am sure other's can come up with even better tactics than I listed.  The point is a shapeable AM-F is truly devastating.  Even if you can't cast spells through it.  I think there might even be a loophole for this though.  As someone mentioned you could allow a window in the field.  However, make the window small enough so that anyone who needed line of effect would need to cast greater arcane sight to know where that window was.</blockquote>

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