Polymorph - Where do I find the most current version of these spells?

[Olaf the Stout]

The Polymorph spell (and the rest of the spells in the Polymorph family) has finally come up in my game. I know this spell has been quite controversial and has gone through several rewrites in 3.xE. Does anyone know where I would go to find the most up to date version of it?

Olaf the Stout

 

[XCorvis]

The 3.5 FAQ on Wizard's site:

http://wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/faq

 

[MarkB]

The most up-to-date official advice on what to do with the spell is to dump it from your game.

That was the advice that accompanied the big Polymorph Errata update awhile back (which didn't actually errata Polymorph, simply errata'd everything else that linked to the Polymorph family of spells to remove those links, allowing DMs to cleanly excise those spells from their campaigns).

 

[Olaf the Stout]

The 3.5 FAQ on Wizard's site:

http://wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/faq

The latest FAQ doesn't seem to provide a rewritten version of the Polymorph spell. It just answers 50 million questions in regards to the spell (and similar spells). Is the 3.5 PHB the most recent place to find the full listing of the spell or has it been revised again elsewhere?

Olaf the Stout

 

[Thanael]

MAy be RichBurlew's Polymorph rules can be of help:
http://www.giantitp.com/Gaming.html

 

[XCorvis]

The latest FAQ doesn't seem to provide a rewritten version of the Polymorph spell. It just answers 50 million questions in regards to the spell (and similar spells). Is the 3.5 PHB the most recent place to find the full listing of the spell or has it been revised again elsewhere?

Olaf the Stout

Yes. I don't think the actual spell has changed, only the details of how it's used. In 3.0 they actually re-wrote it in Tome and Blood, but I don't think they did that for 3.5. PHBII has some additional info on polymorph (they made it a subschool) so that might help clarify if you have it.

 

[Jhaelen]

The latest FAQ doesn't seem to provide a rewritten version of the Polymorph spell. It just answers 50 million questions in regards to the spell (and similar spells).

That's because the point of the last errata was to remove every reference to the polymorph spell from the game. I.e. the latest version of the Polymorph spell looks like this:









(... in other words: it no longer exists )

 

[Thanee]

The latest official version of Polymorph is the one from the 3.5 PHB.

You should not allow any monster to be polymorphed into. Place some restrictions there, i.e. only monsters one has encountered in person; or only monsters from the 3.5 MM I.

Bye
Thanee

 

[Tetsubo]

I'm hoping that the forthcoming Rules Compendium has something to say about Polymorph...

 

[Thanael]

PHB II has the polymorph subschool and further clarifications. See also the excerpt.

Here are the Easy to Read Polymorph Errata on WotC/Gleemax