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Message no. 1
From: Ubiquitous <weberm@*******.NET>
Subject: Re: [SR2] Dragons & shapeshifting
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 23:01:55 -0500
At 09:44 PM 11/5/96 PST, you wrote:

>Didn't I hear on this list that you could only go up/down a max of 2
>Bod with Shapechange? Then how do dragons (Bod 12 or so) Change into
>Humans (bod 1-6)? Or am I wrong about the up/down Bod rule?

You are correct about the rule. Dragons, however, are special.

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Message no. 2
From: Peter Bailey <pbailey@***.COM.AU>
Subject: Re: [SR2] Dragons & shapeshifting
Date: Sat, 9 Nov 1996 17:23:01 -0800
Hi Ubiquitous,

> >Didn't I hear on this list that you could only go up/down a max of 2
> >Bod with Shapechange? Then how do dragons (Bod 12 or so) Change into
> >Humans (bod 1-6)? Or am I wrong about the up/down Bod rule?
>
> You are correct about the rule. Dragons, however, are special.

Whoa! Where did this rule come from? Limit on Shapechange? Please
tell me more!

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Message no. 3
From: Bull <chaos@*****.COM>
Subject: Re: [SR2] Dragons & shapeshifting
Date: Sat, 9 Nov 1996 19:20:54 -0500
>Whoa! Where did this rule come from? Limit on Shapechange? Please
>tell me more!
>
This is a modification to the spell that (I believe) Tom Dowd came up
with... It's not official, but...

The rule was you can only change +/- 2 Body size... Thus, you can't turn a
Rabbit into a Rhino, or vice-verse.

Personally, I think you should be able to change to larger or smaller, but I
assign a +1 to the target number for each point of difference greater than
2...:)

-Bull-the-rules-referencing-decekr-turned-GM
Message no. 4
From: Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: [SR2] Dragons & shapeshifting
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1996 00:13:45 +0000
|
|>Whoa! Where did this rule come from? Limit on Shapechange? Please
|>tell me more!
|>
|This is a modification to the spell that (I believe) Tom Dowd came up
|with... It's not official, but...
|
|The rule was you can only change +/- 2 Body size... Thus, you can't turn a
|Rabbit into a Rhino, or vice-verse.
|
|Personally, I think you should be able to change to larger or smaller, but I
|assign a +1 to the target number for each point of difference greater than
|2...:)

And, (even though the fiction isn't Cannon), when Sir Twist was in a
restaraunt and astrally checked, he noticed that someone was a shapechanged
dragon with the spell locked.....

One of the first trilogy books... Probably "Never Deal with a Dragon"....
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Message no. 5
From: Ubiquitous <weberm@*******.NET>
Subject: Re: [SR2] Dragons & shapeshifting
Date: Sat, 9 Nov 1996 21:27:14 -0500
At 05:23 PM 11/9/96 -0800, P.B. wrote:

>> >Didn't I hear on this list that you could only go up/down a max of 2
>> >Bod with Shapechange? Then how do dragons (Bod 12 or so) Change into
>> >Humans (bod 1-6)? Or am I wrong about the up/down Bod rule?
>>
>> You are correct about the rule. Dragons, however, are special.
>
>Whoa! Where did this rule come from? Limit on Shapechange? Please
>tell me more!

The question was once raised to a FASA spokesman and that was the ruling.
It was also in an issue of Ka-Ge, I believe.

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Message no. 6
From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject: Re: [SR2] Dragons & shapeshifting
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1996 12:34:51 +0100
Peter Bailey said on 17:23/ 9 Nov 96...

> > You are correct about the rule. Dragons, however, are special.
>
> Whoa! Where did this rule come from? Limit on Shapechange? Please
> tell me more!

A Tom Dowd (ex-DLoH) ruling in Ka*Ge, the Shadowrun magazine whose
publishers ran away with the subscription money after 10 issues or so.

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