What does it mean to polymorph into a different creature type?

[Pielorinho]

I agree with you in principle. But I like the new versions of polymorph. They are more consistant with other spells (HD cap) and they include a major potential drawback. I don't dislike the type change. It makes more sense to me. I don't think either way is game breaking. Both are open to abuse.

DC

The HD cap is good, definitely. I don't see the advantage to the type change, however; AFAIK, its effects are not defined anywhere, and lead to some spectacularly weird results.

I don't want to go back to the old versions of polymorph; rather, I want to go back to the old version of Wild Shape, and mix and match polymorph descriptions until we have one that makes sense.

Daniel

 

[LokiDR]

They keep changing it because in every incarnation of any shapechange power or ability there is some munchkin somwhere who will find a way to squeeze every last ounce of advantage out of it to the point where it becomes out of balance and broken.

People try this with every spell. I haven't seen wall of thorns changed again and again, and that can be pretty powerful. The problem is that they can't seem to get polymorph to work properly.

From a RP perspective, I find the idea of a character that has no problem being transformed permanently into troll or other such creature to be absurd. Imagine the identity issues. BUT, there were still people that did it, thus the end of Polymorph Other.

And so on and so forth.

You can't understand the idea of want a better body? Dark rituals of transformation, holy trancendance, any sort of type change from a class. They all represent magically changing into something else, and presumably better. Poly other was just too easy.