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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Riley37" data-source="post: 6458542" data-attributes="member: 6786839">In general, anything with starts with you casting *as many 9th level spells as you have allies* should be rather powerful. Since you're choosing it over, say, that many Wish spells. Plus, of course, spending an hour each, but if your TP form doesn't get killed, then that's an hour of casting for days or years of effect. Also assuming that you don't mind days or weeks of life as a dragon; it's a power trip, but how does it affect your marital relations and social life? Are you eating as much as a dragon does?I would endorse a house-rule disallowing a True Poly into anything unique or Legendary. In general, when you're playing with multiple 9th level spells as buffs, I expect house-rules. The standard rules are hitting a transition phase, in the same way that the temperature/pressure equations for gasses stop working accurately when you reach the transition into liquid phase.However, if your campaign allows perma-true-poly with reversion, that is, if the spell is ended by 0 HP even when duration is otherwise permanent, here's my suggestion: TP your rogue ally or henchman into a doppelganger. He didn't have spellcasting anyways (assuming no caster multiclassing), so that's no loss. He DOES have speech and use of hands in the new form - and he can immediately shapeshift to look exactly as he did before the spell. Meanwhile, he also has impersonation abilities along the lines of at-will Alter Self, and Advantage on *every social roll* due to telepathy. He might happily stay in that form for years. His friends might not even know!Before you TP him, he takes off his regular clothes and puts on an outfit which he thinks would be useful in a just-got-assasinated scenario. Then you TP him, then he puts his regular gear back on. The outfit he was wearing during the spellcasting merges into him, and is more or less gone from reality until the spell ends... emergency storage, arguably even better than Drawmij's and Mordenkainen's methods.If someone does kill him - an assassin, a guard stopping whatever he was up to, etc. - he laughs, as he instantly reverts to full HP, *fully armed in the backup outfit*. Also, he's back to life, just after being bisected or whatever, without a visible form change... or maybe a split second of horrible transition to dead/dying doppelganger, then back to base form?</blockquote>

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