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<blockquote data-quote="see" data-source="post: 7215285" data-attributes="member: 10531">It's not cheese, it's how the spell has always worked.&nbsp;&nbsp; If you get polymorphed by an enemy spellcaster, and your enemies win, you die (barring mercy on their part).&nbsp; If your allies win the field, you can be restored without having to come back from death.&nbsp; All the specific curlicues around polymorph other (in original three-booklet D&amp;D, AD&amp;D, AD&amp;D 2nd, D&amp;D 3rd), polymorph others (in B/X, BECMI, and the Rules Cyclopedia), and baleful polymorph (D&amp;D 3.5) amounted to, &quot;Yeah, you can't insta-kill them during the combat with a trivial action, but after combat it takes just a little thought to manage it&quot;.&nbsp; You couldn't just trod a troll converted into a snail under your boot (per the original D&amp;D booklets), but it didn't take too much thought to figure out how to dispose of one.So, if the specific way you want to kill him after combat is over is by putting him in a strong box, well, that's the way you killed him.&nbsp; It sucks to fail a save against a hostile polymorph, and sucks worse if your opponents win.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="see, post: 7215285, member: 10531"] It's not cheese, it's how the spell has always worked. If you get [I]polymorphed[/I] by an enemy spellcaster, and your enemies win, you die (barring mercy on their part). If your allies win the field, you can be restored without having to come back from death. All the specific curlicues around [i]polymorph other[/i] (in original three-booklet D&D, AD&D, AD&D 2nd, D&D 3rd), [i]polymorph others[/i] (in B/X, BECMI, and the Rules Cyclopedia), and [i]baleful polymorph[/i] (D&D 3.5) amounted to, "Yeah, you can't insta-kill them during the combat with a trivial action, but after combat it takes just a little thought to manage it". You couldn't just trod a troll converted into a snail under your boot (per the original D&D booklets), but it didn't take too much thought to figure out how to dispose of one. So, if the specific way you want to kill him after combat is over is by putting him in a strong box, well, that's the way you killed him. It sucks to fail a save against a hostile [I]polymorph[/I], and sucks worse if your opponents win. [/QUOTE]

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