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<blockquote data-quote="Minigiant" data-source="post: 6713596" data-attributes="member: 63508"><p>Iy's not ludicrous. </p><p>The idea came to me from feat ideas for the shifter, changeling, and elf races were a character revert to their old racial form or morphs to their true form. </p><p></p><p></p><p>It's not nonmagical.</p><p>The shapeshifter would be a straight up magical class. </p><p>They however don't cast spells. They get their magic powers from a ritual, potion regiment, magic tattoos, and then special training or something so they don't get the shapeshifter flaws of many genre.</p><p></p><p>It's a magical class. It's too hard to fluff it as not. In fact, that would be how you spot a shapeshifter. They show their true form in truesight and glow when you use <em>detect magic</em>.</p><p></p><p>I see it more like a invocation class like the warlock. You pick up invocations and they augment how you shapeshift.</p><p></p><p>ARMS OF BLADES</p><p>Your slam can deal slashing damage and your attacks when it does deals an additional 1d8 damage on a critical hit.</p><p></p><p>MASTER OF SIZE</p><p><em>Prerequisite:</em> Master of the Mimic Forms</p><p>When you minor shapeshift, you can take the form of a humaniod of the Small or Medium size or a Large Giant. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Possibly. </p><p>But I don't know if Mearls is going that way with his Mystic idea. They seem to be going heavy into the mind powers stuff.</p><p></p><p>The Body weaponry looks like it will be soulknife stuff. His immortal charges up normal weapons with psionics. So the T-1000 "turn your arms into blades and spikes" thing might not be filled any time soon.</p><p></p><p>Although a psionic order for shape shifting would be okay as well if they don't make the psion/mystic too castery.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Minigiant, post: 6713596, member: 63508"] Iy's not ludicrous. The idea came to me from feat ideas for the shifter, changeling, and elf races were a character revert to their old racial form or morphs to their true form. It's not nonmagical. The shapeshifter would be a straight up magical class. They however don't cast spells. They get their magic powers from a ritual, potion regiment, magic tattoos, and then special training or something so they don't get the shapeshifter flaws of many genre. It's a magical class. It's too hard to fluff it as not. In fact, that would be how you spot a shapeshifter. They show their true form in truesight and glow when you use [I]detect magic[/I]. I see it more like a invocation class like the warlock. You pick up invocations and they augment how you shapeshift. ARMS OF BLADES Your slam can deal slashing damage and your attacks when it does deals an additional 1d8 damage on a critical hit. MASTER OF SIZE [I]Prerequisite:[/I] Master of the Mimic Forms When you minor shapeshift, you can take the form of a humaniod of the Small or Medium size or a Large Giant. Possibly. But I don't know if Mearls is going that way with his Mystic idea. They seem to be going heavy into the mind powers stuff. The Body weaponry looks like it will be soulknife stuff. His immortal charges up normal weapons with psionics. So the T-1000 "turn your arms into blades and spikes" thing might not be filled any time soon. Although a psionic order for shape shifting would be okay as well if they don't make the psion/mystic too castery. [/QUOTE]
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