| From: | woneal@*******.NET |
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| Subject: | Re: Metahuman Shapeshifters? |
| Date: | Tue, 1 Jul 1997 13:43:31 -0005 |
>
> The Companion (which has character creation rules for shapeshifters)
> doesn't concern itself with metahumans at all. The character creation
> table on page 36 has only one entry for race, namely "Shapeshifter"
> (duh!). Since the other table on that page gives modifiers for "Human
> form" it looks to me like shapeshifters always turn into a normal human,
> not any metahuman race.
>
> Allowing metahuman shapeshifters would be logical IMO, though it would
> require re-writing the table I think.
I thought about this too, but I don't think it requires any rewriting of
the rules. Here's how I'd handle it. The shapeshifter has the option of
what (meta)human form they assume, whether it be human or otherwise.
Gender is always the same (male wolf becomes a male human or male elf or
male whatever). Stats don't change, so a fox-shapeshifter in Troll form
is going to be fairly punny troll, but would be a great elf. Likwise a
tiger shapeshifter could probably pass for a troll, but would be brawny
elf. The biggest trouble I see with this is a shapeshifter changing
meta-type as a form of disguise. But in a campaign allowing shapeshifters
to begin with this might not be much of a problem.
--
Ashlocke
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