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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Piratecat" data-source="post: 1901247" data-attributes="member: 2">O wise ones! Any guidance you can give me on a few polymorph questions will be greatly appreciated. One of my PCs is a high level monk-like character who has access to polymorph. According to the rules as written (and feel free to say where you think the RAW is unbalanced):- As far as I can tell, polymorph now gives all of the following (some of which are "based on" alter self, as in the 3.5 spell description.) If I'm wrong on any of this, let me know.Type and Subtype (and the PC can be any one of the following: aberration, animal, dragon, fey, giant, humanoid, magical beast, monstrous humanoid, ooze, plant, or vermin) Size (as long as Hit Dice don't exceed the PC's caster level) Movement Rate and Types (as long as they are physically derived) Natural Armor bonus Natural attack forms Special Attacks (as long as they are Ex only) NO Special Qualities Physical Ability Scores (Str, Dex, and Con) are set to the creature's Mental Ability Scores are the PC's- Are magic items subsumed into the new form and do they keep working? (What about a suit of armor? What about a ring of protection? How about a ring that needs to be activated?)- I assume the PC keeps all of his own feats and class abilities as long as they are derived from class and not my form (which really, is all of them.)- How do feats (most of which are martial arts stuff) interact with creatures which have natural attacks?  For instance, the PC has a feat which increased his unarmed strike damage one size category (d8 to 2d6) -- would this carry over to the natural attacks of the new form? - Are the natural attacks of the polymorphed form considered unarmed strikes?- Can he still use Flurry Attack with the new form? If he became a bear with bite claw claw, could he then bite bite claw claw, all at -2?Thank you for any advice you can offer! I expect that there's a martial artist mega-raptor in my future, and I'd just as soon be ready. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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