Elementalist Spell Specification

Class: Enchanter

5. Shapechange Others

BTS = 70% (Co)

ULT = 150 hrs

Materials: a handful of clay 

Actions: mould Materials into approximate shape of Shapechangee

Effect of Throw:

8 to 17 Insanity

18 to 20 Caster Shapechanged into the form of a random Being from the Encounter Tables (no st) for d8 / d6 / d4 Caeriads

21 to 24 No Effect

>= 25 St Mod: BTS + 4 sqr. rt. (T-25) (FRD); i.e.

Range:    30d feet -d(d-1)/2

Duration:    30t min - t(t-1)/2

Max Sz Difference:    5s points of Sz    -s(s-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, his body is Shapechanged for the Duration into the form of another living Being (the "Shapechangee") specified by Caster on Casting.
  3. The Shapechange is Caster-specified.  The Shapechangee may be freely specified by Caster, so long as it is a possible living Being.  It does not need to be a form known to or memorised by Caster.  The Elemental will accurately produce a proper form for an actual Being that is correctly named in Casting (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 Incantation and Actions, 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.  Extra Incantation time in Old Speech may be required for instructions.  Materials may be partly moulded in advance.
  4. The Shapechangee must be a living Being, but may be specified to be mutilated or disabled, even to the extent that it may not survive for long (e.g. Target may be Shapechanged to himself with no nose or mouth or to a fish out of water).
  5. Caster may specify Sz on Casting, 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 Target is still Shapechanged, but into a Shapechangee of the nearest Sz possible within the parameter.  Change takes 1/5 sec per pt Sz difference.
  6. Only the Target's body is Shapechanged.  Clothes and possessions are unchanged (so may be torn / dropped as the change takes place), and the Target will be naked on changing back.
  7. Shapechange Others is a Shapechange Spell.  See the General Notes on Shapechange Spells and Effects for further explanation of how its Effect works.