The EVEN MORE Complete Polymorph Thread 3.5

[Lycanthromancer]

Actually, animated objects can be great forms. I mean, give your psicrystal a psychoactive skin to turn it into a horseless carriage so the whole party can travel in style.

[Endarire]

I like the Griffon (7HD).  It flies, it has claw/claw/bite, rake, and pouncei!  Booyah!

[cru]

Griffon added. Booyah!

[Lycanthromancer]

It's a bit niche, but anything involving crystals is good if you pull out a folugub. Good vs psionic characters, and potentially anything made out of glass or granite, depending on what your DM qualifies as 'crystal'. Basically it's a rust monster that eats crystalline stuff instead.

Also, Polymorph allows for ectoplasmic forms, while Metamorphosis doesn't, meaning warforged spell-to-power erudites can become astral constructs. Metamorphosis works on non-living creatures, but Polymorph can affect things other than the caster.

[nijineko]

and if you can get dragons to teach you stuff, you can pick up a number of divine as arcane spells too. i think. ^^ posting again from memory instead of looking it up.

[The_Laughing_Man]

Don't forget to make a copy of those RotG articles somewhere before WotC deletes them.

Which articles are those, please?

I think they are these.

[CrimsonDeath]

It's a bit niche, but anything involving crystals is good if you pull out a folugub. Good vs psionic characters, and potentially anything made out of glass or granite, depending on what your DM qualifies as 'crystal'. Basically it's a rust monster that eats crystalline stuff instead.

If you're going to call granite a crystal, then so is iron and over 95% of any decent piece of steel, but glass isn't (it's an amorphous solid).  It's probably best not to get into metallurgy or other branches of materials science, though, and just look at macrostructure.

[nijineko]

Don't forget to make a copy of those RotG articles somewhere before WotC deletes them.

Which articles are those, please?

I think they are these.

thank you. those are already included in the archive. i'm attempting v2.0 actually. found some more official material of which i was previously unaware. getting it all downloaded is the trick now.

[CrimsonDeath]

I was never really impressed with the "Rules of the Game" articles, as often as they contradict the actual rules of the game.

[nijineko]

not taken in the view of updates, eh?

[CrimsonDeath]

Updates are what errata are for, and RotG contradict that about half the time too.  Just look at the Polymorph articles.

[cru]

Just look at the date when the articles were published... Of course they are obsolete.
I for one do like the RotG articles; they sometimes clarify things that are not specifically mentioned in the core rules. BTW I have merged all RotG articles into one searchable PDF file here.

[zook1shoe]

where is the most current errata'd Polymorph Any Object?