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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Magus Coeruleus" data-source="post: 323466" data-attributes="member: 1704">These look pretty good.  Any chance you can email me these so I don't have to copy, paste, and remove the HTML?Was it your intent that with Poly Self you can incorporate as many of those features as you want at once?A related question is does your Poly Self allow one to assume the form of an abomination with a hodge-podge of features even if they don't belong together in any known creature (e.g. gills and wings)?Also, the beginning of the description says you can take any corporeal form, but then the functionality is defined by your list.  Does this mean that you can basically appear to be any sort of creature but have functionality as per the list?So, for instance, if you wanted to turn into the most powerful creature possible that looks convincingly like a Troll (i.e. nothing missing, nothing taken away, from regular Troll-stuff), you'd get 1) large size; 2) Claws (rake for 1d6 damage); Darkvision (what's the range limit for your Poly?); no extra limbs (clearly not Troll-like); Fangs (bite for 1d6 damage); no fins or gills (not Troll-like); Low-light vision (no one can tell whether you have low-light vision by looking at you, and you might want to be able to see in color and twice the normal range); Natural armor (+4); no tail, no wings; right?What are the ramifications of your Poly Self for Disguise?  It would seem to me to be better than Alter Self, but not necessarily perfect.  For instance, if you are mimicking a creature with claws, fangs, or natural armor, and your damage or armor bonus are lower than normal for the creature due to the maximum values on your list, or if you've chosen the values on the list even though the creature normally has values that are lower than them, that should detract from the disguise somewhat, right?Another way of putting the question is, is the appearance of the form you can take limited in some way by the values on your list?  Can you look like a creature with immense fangs even if they can only do 1d6 damage, so that they look really vicious but are not so bad, or does that actually limit how long or sharp they are?Thanks,</blockquote>

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