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<blockquote data-quote="Banshee16" data-source="post: 3353015" data-attributes="member: 7883">I'm looking for something a bit more flexible.&nbsp; I've never really liked Baleful Polymorph, as I find it too limiting.&nbsp; Part of the problem is that in order to prevent abuse, they've changed the essence of the spell.&nbsp; In 2nd Ed. it was still a character killer, because of the personality aspect of the spell.&nbsp; Baleful Polymorph still does that, but limits the spells from being used to do all kinds of neat stuff, like turning an opponent into a horse, or a bugbear to be sent rampaging into a village, or doing &quot;cosmetic surgery&quot; via spell etc.Much fantasy fiction provides other uses for the magic....FR in particular, which seems to really like having wizards turn peasants into rampaging monsters, turning deep gnomes into hook horrors, etc., or Voyage of the Dawntreader, which had one of the children get turned into a dragon, or one of the Belgariad novels where a wizardess turned the queen of a nation into a giant anaconda etc.I figured using &quot;Destroy&quot; could do that.&nbsp; Maybe blending with Slay instead, could do that as well.&nbsp; I don't recall why I changed my focus.Banshee</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Banshee16, post: 3353015, member: 7883"] I'm looking for something a bit more flexible. I've never really liked Baleful Polymorph, as I find it too limiting. Part of the problem is that in order to prevent abuse, they've changed the essence of the spell. In 2nd Ed. it was still a character killer, because of the personality aspect of the spell. Baleful Polymorph still does that, but limits the spells from being used to do all kinds of neat stuff, like turning an opponent into a horse, or a bugbear to be sent rampaging into a village, or doing "cosmetic surgery" via spell etc. Much fantasy fiction provides other uses for the magic....FR in particular, which seems to really like having wizards turn peasants into rampaging monsters, turning deep gnomes into hook horrors, etc., or Voyage of the Dawntreader, which had one of the children get turned into a dragon, or one of the Belgariad novels where a wizardess turned the queen of a nation into a giant anaconda etc. I figured using "Destroy" could do that. Maybe blending with Slay instead, could do that as well. I don't recall why I changed my focus. Banshee [/QUOTE]

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