[DF] Playing a dragon as an adventurer

[johndallman]

Originally Posted by OldSam

If that assumption is true, I wonder how it would be priced (as a little limitation) if the alternate form is a kind of illusion which could be revealed by a powerful magic user for instance...?

Be careful with this. If the dragon-in-human form breaks staircases and can't fit through narrow doors, it's quite a big limitation.

[Fred Brackin]

Originally Posted by johndallman

Be careful with this. If the dragon-in-human form breaks staircases and can't fit through narrow doors, it's quite a big limitation.

These are several of the reasons my dragon was going to have Dwarfism. The biggest one though would have been the cost to cast spells on a full-sized dragon, even by himself. There's a Perk to alleviate this in Magical Styles and dragon casters will generally need it.

[OldSam]

Originally Posted by johndallman

Be careful with this. If the dragon-in-human form breaks staircases and can't fit through narrow doors, it's quite a big limitation.

hehe yes ;) But I don't think that would be the case by RAW with alternate form, by default the mass and size fits to the new form (see limitation "Mass Conservation"), so looking like a human you can also act like a human... well, actually I'd say you are a human if you switch form (the wording in Basic Set is "[...] the racial template of whatever you turn into replaces your native racial template.")

[Anthony]

Note that 250 points actually lets you have a very powerful dragon, you just need a more optimized template.

[OldSam]

...an interesting and funny idea for the dragon-hiding-as-human approach could be the "cosmetic" (-50%) limitation (B85). That way you could "look" like a normal human, but still (being a very small dragon for real) you would smell very strange and your physical form is different, so you would have to avoid direct body contact and would have some challenges adapting to the human environment.

[Raekai]

Originally Posted by OldSam

...an interesting and funny idea for the dragon-hiding-as-human approach could be the "cosmetic" (-50%) limitation (B85). That way you could "look" like a normal human, but still (being a very small dragon for real) you would smell very strange and your physical form is different, so you would have to avoid direct body contact.

I was just about to suggest Cosmetic along with the Glamour limitation.

Or I'd even allow just the Glamour limitation on its own. So, you're really a human right now, but it's possible to see through that form.

[OldSam]

A classic variant could also be Illusion (Powers, p.94), with the Mental Enhancement (+100%), this would affect people's mind so everyone affected believes to see a human, even though the dragon could theoretically be seen by the normal human eye.