Shapeshifting gone for good??

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Originally Posted by Turhan's Bey Company

"Not in the core material" doesn't mean "banned." It just means "not in the core material." I do not know why it's not there, but I suspect it was seen as potentially complicated in play, and since the DFRPG is all about easy play out of the box, anything complicated but not necessary could get cut. Perhaps, should there be DFRPG supplements, there'll be a druid splatbook or something similar with clearly optional rules for shapeshifters.

I believe that one of the books says that such abilities aren't included in DFRPG because because GURPS uses point costs for such things, but as DFRPG doesn't include point costs for such critters it kinda hard to do.