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Message: <blockquote data-quote="InkTide" data-source="post: 9550810" data-attributes="member: 7048463">Yeah... True Polymorph is not really "True" Polymorph as of some errata quietly added to later printings of the 2014 PHB in around 2016, which has carried into the 2024 PHB. The text, "the transformation becomes permanent," has now become, "the spell lasts until dispelled." RAW it is no longer the actual alteration of form that the 'true' adjective has historically meant - it's just a continuous magical effect. You can dispel it, and it gets suppressed by antimagic fields, because it never stops being a spell. It's not even called a transformation anymore, it's explicitly a spell. Basically a very convincing magical decoration.Which is... rather missing the point of True Polymorph, I think.2024 True Polymorph RAW also makes the target permanently mute (even if it's something like a human being True Polymorphed to a dwarf), because they didn't think the wording through very well in their zeal to preempt spellcasters from True Polymorphing themselves into a golem or something I guess. I'm sure that was a real plague at tables.It also has a size limitation (an object turned into a creature can't be smaller than the creature, and vice versa), which is probably a good change.The good changes stop there, though, IMO. With errata/2024 RAW, a human who had been True Polymorphed into an elf and is now 150 or so years old would die instantly of old age if they stepped into an antimagic field. Which, again, feels like it's rather missing the point of True Polymorph.I prefer to ignore that change, and I think a lot of people ignore it without even realizing it because... I mean, it's a 9th level spell called "True Polymorph," not "Bingledooper's Dispellable Shapechange Aura."(Named after the late wizard Bingledooper, who was sadly slain by an upcasted Dispel Magic that revealed him to have been a polymorphed wooden crate the entire time. He is survived by a length of sturdy rope and a pair of nonmagical tongs, for whom he had wished to create a more permanent solution to inanimate-ness, but alas, did not succeed. If only someone had told him about True True Polymorph during his 60-year-long scholarly career.)</blockquote>

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