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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 1445316" data-attributes="member: 2067">Well, I've been working with a more palatable form of polymorphing for a while now....it's just a loose-all-your-own, gain-all-the-new kind of spell IMC. So polymorphing isn't a concern....can't cast spells while in the form except the form's spells anyway. There is an HD limit on it, now (of your level), but there's no casting-spells-as-an-ettin-ing.Certian monster abilities have physical stat DC's, so it's definately got prescedence....Ability score things aren't that big of a deal. The usefulness of Con in general is offset by the 1d4 HD....even with an extreme Con, they're not racking up immense hp without multiclassing, which weakens their spellcasting. The usefulness of Dex in general is offset by the fact that they need a pretty high one anyway, without armor. The usefulness of Strength is offset by the fact that they have a low BAB.And they won't have MAD, because every Nomad will use Only Dex, for instance. Every Savant will only use Strength. Even if they cast Telepathy. I'll describe them slightly differently ("The Savant's mental energies barge into your skull and sit there, daring all comers to thwart them"). I'll have to look at the rules before issuing the final judgement, but tentatively, this is the idea.But the main reason I want it is for flavor. I don't want another Wizard. I've got a Wizard. I don't want another cleric or bard. I've got 'em. I want a sort of magical mystic, who derives innate energies from their physical honing as much as their mental honing. Sort of a Monk of Magic. I like the concept of someone honing their body enough that it produces magical effects -- they increase their speed and agility to such exteme hights that they learn to teleport just by running fast. They have surpassed mortal limits through *physical* effort, not just magical manipulation.I've got the mystic holy man (Cleric), I've got the mystic academian (Wizard), I've got the mystic diplomat (Bard...ish). What I want is the mystic acrobat, the mystic strongman, the mystic tank....the ones who can, say, manipulate the matter within themselves by concentrating, because their bodies are such physical specimines. The ones who can run so fast that they teleport. The ones who are so mighty that simply by concentrating, using mental force, they can become more.I don't need another bloody Wizard, even one with psychic 'domains.'Of course, this is all hinging on me actually reading the book; I'm just making tentative calls, here. If they give me a good enough justification for Intelligence, or for no physical abilities, I may be inclined to agree....so far, no good. <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=":)" /></blockquote>

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