Expanded and new spells


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First off, I have to say: to everyone working on Pathfinder you are doing excellent work. Keep it up!

Now on to the point of the post. While I enjoy the polymorph subschool work that has been done, it has felt like two of the progressions did not go as far as they could so I have made a couple revisions to a spell and added some new ones but they all build off exisitng spells and so just look for the lower level ones for details I did not include here.

Expanded Spell: Beast Shape IV

-add Gargantuan and Fine animals to the forms that can be assumed

-Fine animal: -6 Str, +8 Dex, +1 natural armour
-Gargantuan animal: +8 Str, -6 Dex, +8 natural armour

New Spells:

Beast Shape V

Level: Sor/Wiz 7

-as Beast Shape IV except that Diminutive and Huge magical beast forms can be assumed
-if form has any of the following you gain the ability: burrow 90 ft, climb 90 ft, fly 150 ft (good), swim 150 ft, blindsense 90 ft, darkvision 90 ft, immunity to an energy type if the creature has that immunity, as well as all the other abilities listed for Beast Shape IV
-Diminutive magical beast: -4 Str, +12 Dex, +4 natural armour
-Huge magical beast: +8 Str, -4 Dex, +8 natural armour

Beast Shape VI

Level: Sor/Wiz 8

-as Beast Shape V except Fine and Gargantuan magical beast forms can be assumed
-if form has any of the following you gain the ability: burrow 90 ft, climb 90 ft, fly 180 ft (good), swim 180 ft, blindsense 120 ft, darkvision 120 ft, as well as all the abilities listed for Beast Shape IV
-Fine magical beast: -6 Str, +16 Dex, +5 natural armour
-Gargantuan magical beast: +10 Str, -6 Dex, +10 natural armour

Form of the Dragon IV

Level: Sor/Wiz 9

-as Form of the Dragon III except that it allows you to assume the form of a Gargantuan chromatic or metallic Dragon
-gain: +16 enhancement to Str, +16 to Con, +10 natural armour, fly 150 ft (poor), blindsense 60 ft, darkvision 120 ft, breath weapon, DR 15/magic, frightful presence and immunity to element (same type Form of the Dragon I grants resistance to)
-gain: bite (4d6), 2 claws (2d8), 2 wing attacks (2d6), tail slap (2d8), tail sweep (2d6)
-breath weapon: wait 1d4 rounds between uses-deals 18d8 points damage (Reflex save for ½); lines increase to 120 ft, cones to 60 ft

Not sure how balanced these are but they seemed to be logical progressions of already established chains. Hope people like them.

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