Can paralyzed creatures use (Su) abilities? An intresting situation happened on the last session. Party's Life Oracle got paralyzed and he used Elemental Body to get (among other things) elemental subtype which makes him immune to paralysis. Is this doable?
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As far as I know you can use supernatural abilities while polymorphed.
The polymorph bit I don't think would work though, when you polymorph you only gain a subset of the creature's abilities and I don't believe your type changes. Immunity to paralysis is not one of the abilities you gain when using elemental body.
I don´t believe that Su abilities require any movement, so that´s OK.
I think TKD is mis-quoting the actual ability name, and he doesn´t actually mean using Elemental Body (Polymorph spell), but the Energy Body Su ability which DOES actually grant full abilities and actual type (explicitly) although no Stat Bonuses... Energy Body isn´t really using the Polymorph rules at all.
I think that (unlike 2 Polymorph effects), you CAN combine Energy Body with another Polymorph effect, at the least retaining the Elemental Type from Energy Body (since Polymorph doesn´t change Type) and POSSIBLY still applying the positive energy vs. undead and allies (and light effect)... those aren´t clear if they depend on your ´form´ or not (and thus would be replaced by a Polymorph effect). Energy Body is pretty amazing given how Polymorph has otherwise changed in PRPG... I´ve considered a Life Mystery Rage Prophet just because of it, in fact.
Yeah, my bad, it's Energy Body.
Only thing I would add is that Energy Body is rather limited in duration,
and when it ends, you would no longer be Immune to Paralysis...
Just being temporarily Immune wouldn´t end the Paralysis´ duration IMHO (???).
Paralsis effects usually don't last long anyway. Nifty trick to have at disposal.
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Yeah, it is a neat trick, and I didn't catch that it was energy body.
Hmm, the more I look at that ability the more I like it. Life Oracle is pretty nice in a lot of ways. I was just looking at Spirit boost and thinking about how nice that would work with something like heal. Getting 100+ temporary hit points would be pretty sweet on occasion.
The weird thing about Oracles is it seems to me it's easy to 'run out' of revelations and generally the better ones get taken early so you wind up getting some pretty wimpy abilities at higher levels because that's all that's left.
Prestige classes might help.