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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tarchon" data-source="post: 883178" data-attributes="member: 5990">I was kicking this around a while ago, a template, untested, un-UL approved:Monster Title: ShiftlingType: shapechangerHit Dice: as base creatureInitiative: as base creatureSpeed: as base creatureAC: as base creatureAttacks: as base creatureDamage: as base creatureFace/Reach: as base creatureSpecial Attacks: as base creatureSpecial Qualities: Unstable Form (Su)Saves: +2 racial bonus vs. Transmutation spells and effectsAbilities: as base creatureSkills: as base creatureFeats: as base creatureClimate/Terrain: as base creatureOrganization: as base creatureChallenge Rating: as higher of base creatures + 1Treasure: as base creatureAlignment: as base creatureAdvancement: as base creatureDescription: Shiftlings are the offspring of transformed creatures. While the natural form of some parental beings, such as dragons, shows strongly in offspring begotten even in a polymorphed state, for most creatures,such offspring appear to be perfectly normal examples of their born type. The shiftling's dual heritage only reveals itself clearly when it is exposed to transmutation magic.Unstable Form (Su) - A shiftling affected by any form of Transmutation magicother than its own immediately shifts to its alternate form.  A saving throw is allowed per the spell (or effect's) description, however the only effect experienced by the shiftling is the transformation.  This effect is permanent until a subsequent Transmutation effect shifts the creature's form again.  Unlike with Polymorph spells, the shiftling gains all abilities of its current form, including Supernatural abilities.  All ability scores are altered (not just the physical abilities) as well and the shiftling even tends to take on psychological traits of the new form.However the creature type always remains Shapechanger (notably making themimmune to spells that specifically affect other types, such as Humanoid), and the specific details of the alternate form are consistent between transformations, resembling the original form in traits which are common to both, such as gender and relative age, height, and weight.  After the first transformation experience, a shiftling forever radiates a faint Transmutation aura.  True Sight reveals an image of the creature constantly and randomly shifting between its two native forms.A shiftling PC has the option of choosing Transmuter as its favored class,and, as noted, a shiftling's own Transmutation spells (or other magical effects) affect the shiftling normally.  Additionally, shiftling spellcasters automaticallygain Spell Focus (Transmutation) as a free feat, though they can never takeTransmutation as an opposition school for school specialization.Shiftlings tend to feel an unexplained affinity for creatures of their alternate form before discovering their true nature (many live and die without ever discovering it), and sometimes, though not always, develop deep feelings of alienation from their birth species.  They commonly have very mercurial temperaments and a strong leaning towards Chaos, whatever the natural tendencies of their native forms.</blockquote>

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