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<blockquote data-quote="The Sigil" data-source="post: 882177" data-attributes="member: 2013"><p>No, they don't... but spiders do.</p><p></p><p>Perhaps if you think of polymorph as a spell that can stretch/pull/shrink/rearrange skin, musculature, and bones (including "adding new appendages") but that does not add (nor subtract) internal organs you can see this better.</p><p></p><p>The spider's poison gland isn't gone when the polymorph occurs, it just shrinks so as to sit right above her palate - or maybe right below her jaw. The silk glands are shrunk and possibly moved around, but are still there.</p><p></p><p>In fact, the more I think about it, the more that seems a simpler way to think of polymorph than even in my earlier post... polymorph simply shrinks/rearranges skin, musculature, bones, et al but neither adds nor subtracts internal organs (and their related abilities). Now, of course, when your mouth is warped/reshaped into a froggy mouth (when I turn you into a toad), you can't cast spells because you can't properly vocalize the words.</p><p></p><p>Does that make any sense to anyone else?</p><p></p><p>Polymorph doesn't turn a halfling into a dragon... it turns a halfling into a dragon-shaped halfling. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>As for changing gender, well, I think we all know that the appropriate "parts" can be recreated by rearranging tissue without actually haveing to add or subtract organs themselves. But any further down that path and I'm likely to get the thread closed. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p>--The Sigil</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The Sigil, post: 882177, member: 2013"] No, they don't... but spiders do. Perhaps if you think of polymorph as a spell that can stretch/pull/shrink/rearrange skin, musculature, and bones (including "adding new appendages") but that does not add (nor subtract) internal organs you can see this better. The spider's poison gland isn't gone when the polymorph occurs, it just shrinks so as to sit right above her palate - or maybe right below her jaw. The silk glands are shrunk and possibly moved around, but are still there. In fact, the more I think about it, the more that seems a simpler way to think of polymorph than even in my earlier post... polymorph simply shrinks/rearranges skin, musculature, bones, et al but neither adds nor subtracts internal organs (and their related abilities). Now, of course, when your mouth is warped/reshaped into a froggy mouth (when I turn you into a toad), you can't cast spells because you can't properly vocalize the words. Does that make any sense to anyone else? Polymorph doesn't turn a halfling into a dragon... it turns a halfling into a dragon-shaped halfling. :) As for changing gender, well, I think we all know that the appropriate "parts" can be recreated by rearranging tissue without actually haveing to add or subtract organs themselves. But any further down that path and I'm likely to get the thread closed. ;) --The Sigil [/QUOTE]
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