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<blockquote data-quote="Arkhandus" data-source="post: 4170668" data-attributes="member: 13966">No, that's no the same thing at all.The Shifting Planar Mastery does not copy a particular plane's shifting features and give them to you, it just lets you take advantage of any plane's shifting planar forces or somesuch wierdness.The Aligned Planar Mastery does not give you the Evil trait or somesuch; that is not what Planar Mastery it gives you.&nbsp; It gives you an adapt-to-the-local-environment ability, THAT is the Planar Mastery trait it gives you.&nbsp; THAT is what you carry with you wherever you go, the ability to adapt to aligned planes and mimic their alignment for purposes of magical effects.The SIDE EFFECT of having the Aligned Planar Mastery special ability is what gives you the Evil trait when you're on an Evil plane.&nbsp; You take the alignment-adaptation ability with you wherever you go, not just adapting to the first aligned plane you visit; but gaining the faux Evil alignment is just a side effect of having that adaptation ability.The wording of the two abilities is quite different.&nbsp; Shifting Planar Mastery directly gives you a teleportive ability; it does not say &quot;If you visit a shifting plane, you may use that plane's shifting effects on other planes to move about in new ways&quot;.&nbsp; The Shifting Planar Mastery DIRECTLY gives you Dimension Door ability, it does not say you have to copy it from some particular plane, or that you copy other shifting planes' planar traits.The Aligned Planar Mastery DIRECTLY gives you the ability to mimic a plane's dominant alignment.&nbsp; That is the only ability it gives you.&nbsp; The APM itself does not give you every alignment component.It only gives you the ability to mimic them when you're on appropriate planes.&nbsp; So when you're in Limbo, you're Chaotic for purposes of magical effects; as soon as you step through a portal from there into Ba'ator (just for argument's sake), you're Lawful Evil for purposes of magical effects, no longer Chaotic for those purposes.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Arkhandus, post: 4170668, member: 13966"] No, that's no the same thing at all. The Shifting Planar Mastery does not copy a particular plane's shifting features and give them to you, it just lets you take advantage of any plane's shifting planar forces or somesuch wierdness. The Aligned Planar Mastery does not give you the Evil trait or somesuch; that is not what Planar Mastery it gives you. It gives you an adapt-to-the-local-environment ability, THAT is the Planar Mastery trait it gives you. THAT is what you carry with you wherever you go, the ability to adapt to aligned planes and mimic their alignment for purposes of magical effects. The SIDE EFFECT of having the Aligned Planar Mastery special ability is what gives you the Evil trait when you're on an Evil plane. You take the alignment-adaptation ability with you wherever you go, not just adapting to the first aligned plane you visit; but gaining the faux Evil alignment is just a side effect of having that adaptation ability. The wording of the two abilities is quite different. Shifting Planar Mastery directly gives you a teleportive ability; it does not say "If you visit a shifting plane, you may use that plane's shifting effects on other planes to move about in new ways". The Shifting Planar Mastery DIRECTLY gives you Dimension Door ability, it does not say you have to copy it from some particular plane, or that you copy other shifting planes' planar traits. The Aligned Planar Mastery DIRECTLY gives you the ability to mimic a plane's dominant alignment. That is the only ability it gives you. The APM itself does not give you every alignment component. It only gives you the ability to mimic them when you're on appropriate planes. So when you're in Limbo, you're Chaotic for purposes of magical effects; as soon as you step through a portal from there into Ba'ator (just for argument's sake), you're Lawful Evil for purposes of magical effects, no longer Chaotic for those purposes. [/QUOTE]

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