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First off, Paizo, I must fully commend you for the system you've put together. Although my wife is a gamer (and a great baker!) and plays Pathfinder and D&D with us, never before has she shown such investment and excitement in a new system. Typically, we build and level her characters for her based on her theme and feedback, but the Pathfinder Playtest has excited her so much that she went out to the local Books-A-Million to buy a paperback copy (as we had been using the PDF).
Today was her first real day off in a while (she works at a bakery), and would you believe that she finished reading the Core Rulebook cover-to-cover. Not even 5th Edition was that approachable for her. Although she has thoughts and comments, she intends to save those for the surveys, after we do our actual playtest sessions.
However, today when I got home, she did approach me with one question that I was hoping the fine folks at Paizo could help me with. :). You see, it wasn't enough for her to just build her 1st level Doomsday Dawn character (Dwarf Aberrant Sorcerer with the Mindquake Survivor background, named Rosy)- she ended up plotting her out all the way to 20th level - this coming from a gamer that has been playing with us since 3.5 that has rarely built or leveled her own characters from scratch!
Finally, to the question: The aberrant sorcerer's 9th-level bloodline spell (granted for free) is shapechange. However, shapechange specifies that is gives you the ability to transform into any form you could choose from a polymorph spell you *know* of 7th level or lower, with the additional benefit of being able to change between those various forms you know during the duration of the spell. However, my wife's concern is that there are no other polymorph spells on the occult spell list. Thus, this spell appears to have no benefit for her dwarf sorcerer.
I haven't fully researched into her claims, but when I mentioned to her that I could pose the question on the Playtest Forums, her eyes got wide and she said, "Do you really think they would answer?"
I told her, "I have no doubt." So Paizo, please don't let me down. To be fair, though, we won't need the info for a while (17th level). But based on my wife's enthusiasm, we would like an answer at some point.
Thank-you.
Mark Seifter Designer |
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Tell her to use unfathomable song for now and we'll look into it further. Glad she's enjoying the playtest so much!
Wow, thank-you, Mark! I just told her about your answer and her amazement was worth the post alone. This just goes to demonstrate Paizo's great customer service. Thank-you, again!