Polymorph Self -- Favorite Uses

[Lucius Foxhound]

Sounds like a lot of fun roleplaying.

What about polymorphing into an Iron Golem? Do you get the high AC, huge STR, and slam attack?

 

[Numion]

Sounds like a lot of fun roleplaying.

What about polymorphing into an Iron Golem? Do you get the high AC, huge STR, and slam attack?

You can't polymorph into a construct, unless you already are one.

In my group the cleric and psywarrior like to turn into stone giants. High STR with equipment + spell use is handy. Both are whoop-ass melee types, so that form is about optimal.

 

[Lucius Foxhound]

You can't polymorph into a construct, unless you already are one.

In my group the cleric and psywarrior like to turn into stone giants. High STR with equipment + spell use is handy. Both are whoop-ass melee types, so that form is about optimal.

Stone giant sounds good... Fire giant even better.

I think you may be wrong about constructs, though. From the SRD spell description:

"If the new form is a creature who does not use equipment (aberration, animal, beast, magical beast, construct , dragon, elemental, ooze, some outsiders, plant, some undead creatures, some shapechangers, or vermin), the equipment melds into the new form and becomes nonfunctional."

 

[Numion]

Stone giant sounds good... Fire giant even better.

Not necessarily. Stone Giants lose a few points of STR, but have much better DEX. That makes them a better choice still. The psywarrior in my games boasts and AC of 50!

I think you may be wrong about constructs, though. From the SRD spell description:

From Tome & Blood, Polymorph errataed versio:

"You cannot change subjects into constructs, elementals, outsiders or undead unless they already are one of these types."

So polymorphing into a vampire is doubly wrong: templated and undead.

 

[Lucius Foxhound]

From Tome & Blood, Polymorph errataed versio:

"You cannot change subjects into constructs, elementals, outsiders or undead unless they already are one of these types."

So polymorphing into a vampire is doubly wrong: templated and undead.

Yikes! Luckily, my DM refuses to use Tomb & Blood. And since they're mentioned in the spell description, I should be okay trying it out.

How about a big ol' demon of some kind? Pit Fiend? Or a Balor? Lots of strength and high AC...

 

[barsoomcore]

Huh? Tome and Blood?

Well, nuts to them. If they're going to come up with restrictions on spells like Polymorph they ought to put them where everyone can find them. Anyway, if it says "no undead" in the PHB I didn't see it so the mage got away with it.

It was sufficiently hilarious that frankly, I think I ruled correctly.

 

[Lucius Foxhound]

Re: Huh? Tome and Blood?

Anyway, if it says "no undead" in the PHB I didn't see it so the mage got away with it.

It was sufficiently hilarious that frankly, I think I ruled correctly.

You ruled right, dude. All it says in the spell description is: Incorporeal or gaseous forms cannot be assumed.

No reason you can't be a Vampire! Of course, without his special abilities, there's not much he could do physically. Sounds like your player used the spell well.

 

[Zerovoid]

Yikes! Luckily, my DM refuses to use Tomb & Blood. And since they're mentioned in the spell description, I should be okay trying it out.

How about a big ol' demon of some kind? Pit Fiend? Or a Balor? Lots of strength and high AC...

The errata is also available for free on the WOTC website. Those additional restrictions are the official way that polymorph is supposed to be played. They actually just put the newest vesion of polymorph into T+B for convenience. And to fill up the pages I'd imagine. I'm actually not sure that T+B even has the final version.

 

[Nail]

Re: Huh? Tome and Blood?

Well, nuts to them. If they're going to come up with restrictions on spells like Polymorph they ought to put them where everyone can find them.

To be perfectly Core Rule-Compliant, you'll also have to pick up a copy of Masters of the Wild, so that you know what the "real" druid Wildshape is.

Very annoying.

 

[Numion]

Re: Huh? Tome and Blood?

Well, nuts to them. If they're going to come up with restrictions on spells like Polymorph they ought to put them where everyone can find them.

Like maybe their website? Errataed Polymorph is in the PHB errata file. Where everyone can find it.

IMHO the new restrictions are there for a reason. Balor has +20 natural armor. Can use equipment and spells. Should a 4th level spell grant those?