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<blockquote data-quote="MerricB" data-source="post: 6201504" data-attributes="member: 3586">You can't turn into ANY animal you like. You can only turn into animals that are on the approved list. It's not like the old 3E version of &quot;any animal that is small or tiny&quot; or variants thereof. Because they're not particularly good rules. In PF, a 6th level druid with Str 10, Dex 10, Con 10 can turn into a grizzly bear.Grizzly Bear: AC 16, HP 42, Atk +7/+7 melee (1d6+5 plus grab), bite +7 (1d6+5). Str 21, Dex 13, Con 19Druid Bear: AC 12*, HP 30, Atk +5/+5 melee (1d6+2 plus grab), bite +0 (1d6+2). Str 14, Dex 8, Con 10 (may be boosted by magic rings, etc, but magic armour/shields are useless).Hmm. Not particularly frightening.In Next, you just use the Grizzly Bear stats without any calculation needed. (There's a lot of calculation needed for PF). The designers can select animals that are balanced for the various levels without having to guess at power levels and make sure later monster designs also work with the feature (the main problem with 3E polymorph is a lot of monsters had low HD and incredible stats... PF fixed that at the cost of making wildshape a rather poor power into normal animals).Cheers!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MerricB, post: 6201504, member: 3586"] You can't turn into ANY animal you like. You can only turn into animals that are on the approved list. It's not like the old 3E version of "any animal that is small or tiny" or variants thereof. Because they're not particularly good rules. In PF, a 6th level druid with Str 10, Dex 10, Con 10 can turn into a grizzly bear. Grizzly Bear: AC 16, HP 42, Atk +7/+7 melee (1d6+5 plus grab), bite +7 (1d6+5). Str 21, Dex 13, Con 19 Druid Bear: AC 12*, HP 30, Atk +5/+5 melee (1d6+2 plus grab), bite +0 (1d6+2). Str 14, Dex 8, Con 10 (may be boosted by magic rings, etc, but magic armour/shields are useless). Hmm. Not particularly frightening. In Next, you just use the Grizzly Bear stats without any calculation needed. (There's a lot of calculation needed for PF). The designers can select animals that are balanced for the various levels without having to guess at power levels and make sure later monster designs also work with the feature (the main problem with 3E polymorph is a lot of monsters had low HD and incredible stats... PF fixed that at the cost of making wildshape a rather poor power into normal animals). Cheers! [/QUOTE]

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