Shrinking down characters?

[pokedigimaniac]

Okay, so here's my question. A player of mine threw a character concept at me a little while ago, for use if his current character bites the dust in the WLD game I'm running, and I wanted to get opinions on it, as it's a bit unorthodox.

A bit of backgroud first... The group is made up nearly exclusively of Small characters (halfling rogue, halfling cleric, gnomish paladin, gnomish sorceror, and a xeph soulknife), and has taken to calling itself 'Teh Nutbusterz.' It makes for amusing RPing.

Back to the character concept. The player wants to play a Thri-kreen, only he wants to play one that's been shrunk to Small size. I'm not sure whether to allow this, or how to justify it. This also brought up the question of whether you could do this with other races - Small half-orcs? How would you justify that? I don't know if a simple Permanent Reduce would work, or if there's a better spell for the situation... thoughts?

 

[IcyCool]

Back to the character concept. The player wants to play a Thri-kreen, only he wants to play one that's been shrunk to Small size. I'm not sure whether to allow this, or how to justify it. This also brought up the question of whether you could do this with other races - Small half-orcs? How would you justify that? I don't know if a simple Permanent Reduce would work, or if there's a better spell for the situation... thoughts?

Is there a Reduce Monster spell? If so, run it just like the spell, and the first Dispel Magic spell to affect it bumps him back to medium size.

Will that do?

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

Sounds like a reasonable concept. A small half-orc would work, though one could easily use a goblin for that. Considering the fecundity of Orcs, there could easily be a runt of the litter.

I don't know that magic would even be necessary. The character could just be naturally small. A genetic error, or some such thing. Heck, maybe the parents (not sure if I should even use that term with a Thri-Kreen) were cursed: "Your offspring will only be half of what they could have been," or something like that.

 

[demiurge1138]

Or you could take a dromite, change the psionic powers, shuffle the ability scores, and give it an extra set of arms.

Demiurge out.