Elementalist Spell Specification

Class: Enchanter

5. Polymorph

BTS = 35% (Co)

ULT = 150 hrs

Materials: a handful of clay 

Actions: mould Materials randomly in hands

Effect of Throw:

8 to 17 Insanity

18 to 20 Caster Polymorphed into the form of random Beings from the Encounter Tables (no st) for d8 / d6 / d4 Caeriads and changing every 8 / 6 / 4 hrs

21 to 24 No Effect

>= 25    Max Sz Difference:    4+(T-24)

Range:    d ft    -(4+d)    If cast on self, there is no Range minus. If cast on others, Range is at least 0 ft, so there will be a Range minus of at least -4.

Duration:    30t min - t(t-1)/2

Min. Frequency of Changes:    every (7-f) secs    -f(f-1)/2

Notes:

  1. Cast upon a single living, corporeal Target Being (the "Target" or "Shapechanger"), who may be Caster or another.  Enchanter Spells only affect living bodies.
  2. The Target gets a st (which he may choose not to make).  If the Target saves, there is no effect.  If the Target fails,or chooses not, to save, he gains the ability to Shapechange his body multiple times during the Duration into the forms of other living Beings ("Shapechangees").  At the end of the Duration he changes back to his form before the Spell was Cast.
  3. The Shapechange is Shapechanger-specified.  Each Shapechangee may be freely specified by the Shapechanger, so long as it is a possible living Being.  The changes are specified by thought (which requires light concentration) rather than by the Shapechanger physically transforming himself.  The Shapechangee does not need to be a form known to or memorised by the Shapechanger.  The Elemental will accurately produce a proper form for an actual Being that is correctly specified (e.g. an Icelander who has never seen a camel can specify "camel" and one will be produced), but imaginary forms will need to be accurately specified by thought, as the rest is left to the Elemental's discretion.  Named Beings can be accurately produced, even if the Caster has never met them, but if other Beings living or dead have the same name the Elemental may freely choose in the absence of sufficient instructions.  Time may be required to think the necessary instructions.
  4. The Shapechanger may specify Sz on changing, including to a Sz for the Shapechangee that does not normally occur.  If not specified Shapechangee will be of a possible Sz for its species.  If Max Sz Difference is insufficient for that required, the Shapechanger is still Shapechanged, but into a Shapechangee of the nearest Sz possible within the parameter.  Change takes 1/5 sec per pt Sz difference.  A new change can be begun before the previous one has finished, if Min. Frequency of Changes permits.
  5. Only the Shapechanger's body is Shapechanged.  Clothes and possessions are unchanged (so may be torn / dropped as the change takes place), and the Shapechanger will be naked on changing back.
  6. Polymorph is a Shapechange Spell.  See the General Notes on Shapechange Spells and Effects for further explanation of how its Effect works.