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Originally Posted by MikMod
Are you okay with a shapeshift of a one-legged person into a two-legged person?
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Not a mutilated two-legged person into a healthy two-legged person, no.
Similarly, no people with diseases into people without diseases, blind/deaf/mute people into sighted/hearing/voiced people, wounded people into healthy people, etc.
Shapeshifting changes someone into another "type" of creature, as in another race/species. Attributes can be re-arranged a bit, but that's all it says it allows. It doesn't say it lets you specify age or make your other problems go away.
Otherwise Shapeshifting is not just shapeshifting (which, it seems to me, is quite overpowered enough) into cure/fix anything, even all sorts of things there are (or were before Legacy) no other spells that offer such a fix for, or if they are, they involved very difficult/expensive potions to even do a small fraction of that.
I think age, limb loss, disease, etc are all important elements of play that shouldn't be trivially instantly removable by one spell that's supposedly for something else.
Of course, there might be some creative uses of shapeshiftng that might come close to some of those cures but in more interesting ways. e.g.:
Want to live longer? Maybe if you get shapeshifted into a longer-lived animal, such as a turtle? Maybe...
Want to be able to walk despite having lost a leg? Maybe if you shapeshift into a giant spider or crab, you'll only be missing one of many legs? Maybe...