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<blockquote data-quote="CreamCloud0" data-source="post: 9209356" data-attributes="member: 7034710">probably the best description i could give is 'if you combined teen titans' beast boy's fluidity of shifting with ben 10's variety of specialised alien forms, and throw in a little partial shapeshifting too'building up a variety of mini-statblocks for creatures specialised into certain things, each with their own strengths and perks you also can access while still humanoid, but probably somewhat limited outside of their dedicated niche, and swapping between them turn by turn: dash up to the enemies 100ft away as a jaguar and shift into a ogre to slam the leader with your giant fists, turn around to incinerate their minions with your dragonbreath before teleporting away as blink-dog, a jaguar is fast but lacked offensive might, the ogre is powerful but is also slow and would've been pincushioned by a dozen ranged attacks before it even got there, the dragon had a powerful AoE but with limited sustainability, and the blink-dog managed to escape without AoO's but is fundamentally weak(at least for the purposes of this explaination, i haven't looked at their stats), but together the shapeshifter manages to pull them together and make something greater than the sum of their parts.the worst thing about the druid's shapeshifting is that it's too limited, you commit to a handful of big transformations each day and then that's it, a proper shapeshifter shouldn't 'run out' of shifting capability</blockquote>

[QUOTE="CreamCloud0, post: 9209356, member: 7034710"] probably the best description i could give is 'if you combined teen titans' beast boy's fluidity of shifting with ben 10's variety of specialised alien forms, and throw in a little partial shapeshifting too' building up a variety of mini-statblocks for creatures specialised into certain things, each with their own strengths and perks you also can access while still humanoid, but probably somewhat limited outside of their dedicated niche, and swapping between them turn by turn: dash up to the enemies 100ft away as a jaguar and shift into a ogre to slam the leader with your giant fists, turn around to incinerate their minions with your dragonbreath before teleporting away as blink-dog, a jaguar is fast but lacked offensive might, the ogre is powerful but is also slow and would've been pincushioned by a dozen ranged attacks before it even got there, the dragon had a powerful AoE but with limited sustainability, and the blink-dog managed to escape without AoO's but is fundamentally weak(at least for the purposes of this explaination, i haven't looked at their stats), but together the shapeshifter manages to pull them together and make something greater than the sum of their parts. the worst thing about the druid's shapeshifting is that it's too limited, you commit to a handful of big transformations each day and then that's it, a proper shapeshifter shouldn't 'run out' of shifting capability [/QUOTE]

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