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Re: How to live forever in TFT
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06-18-2019, 01:43 AM | #14 |
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06-18-2019, 05:19 AM | #15 |
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Re: How to live forever in TFT
ITL: "Shifting to the new shape gives you the physical, but not the mental, abilities of that shape"
Is it wrong to think that youth is a physical attribute? Of course, Dissolve Enchantment becomes a death spell for you at some point...although looking it up, its not clear what the ST cost would be. Maybe 10? The same as your shapeshift? Last edited by MikMod; 06-18-2019 at 05:38 AM. |
06-18-2019, 05:25 AM | #16 |
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06-18-2019, 11:04 AM | #17 | |
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The spell doesn't say it's about turning people into frogs, not about changing age. Changing age is very difficult to do in all of the ways it is mentioned in TFT. So assuming this spell lets you change your age is just "it doesn't say you can't" wishful attempted exploitation. If the GM wants it to work that way, er, ok, whatever, but GMs can do that anyway, and in more appropriate ways than pretending that's an intended use of the spell all along, which it seems to me this clearly is not. |
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06-18-2019, 12:18 PM | #18 |
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06-18-2019, 07:54 PM | #19 | |
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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... |
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06-18-2019, 08:58 PM | #20 |
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Re: How to live forever in TFT
Personally, if it were in a game I were GM-ing, I would say your one-legged person would be a one-legged bunny or giant or whatever it was you were morphing them into -- if it was a wolf, they'd be a three-legged wolf, or if a spider, they'd be a seven-legged spider. I don't see shapeshifting as a way to heal something, nor do I believe that was ever the intent of the spell.
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