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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Neo" data-source="post: 545095" data-attributes="member: 4139">I was one who playtested this, I actually didn;t like the idea of undead shapeshifting nor did the rest of my group and we mentioned this at the time, but for whatever reason it remained in the book so I assume the other playtest groups had no issue with it.As for forms being possible to assume indefinitely, well sure this is possible of a sort, but is rarely practical.  For example you are in a city and you turn into a dragon, suddenly the entire armed force of the city are going to want a piece of your hide.  In a dungeon you just can't do it due to lack of space.  And in the wilderness you are far more likely to be noticed by other uber and "territorial" predators if you go flashing around in such an immense form.  Most of the forms we found were used because they were convenient for the situation at hand as opposed to forms chosen for power playing reasons.  I also made it a factor that forms could only be assumed that the druid had actually seen, so unless he had ever witnessed a dragon (which at thier level they had not <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> ) it wasn;t going to be an issue anyway.  This way of doing things worked out well as with the encounters they have being suited to thier level the only forms they will ever have seen are those of a comparable level thereby maintaining the balance for you.</blockquote>

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