Polymorph and vital statistic

[alarich]

Well, the polymorph subschool descriptive text is exaustive, BUT there are a few things need to clarify, imho:

example:
Trasmuter guy has silent undead anatomy I prepared, and cast it to turn into skeleton.
Necromancer guy cast suffocation spell to trasmuter guy.
Trasmuter guy fail the save...
...well, a skeleton doesn't have lungs...

...so, trasmuter guy continue to suffocate?
Or is immune?

Any thoughts?

[Wizrad, Divination Specialist]

Undead don't need to breathe.

Transmuters do.

Is tricky problem.

[Darth_Slanderous]

since polymorph effects don't change your type, you're still a breather, so nothing changes.
don't like it that way, but that's how it is.

[The Bald Man]

Related question: Vampire (arcane caster) is exposed to sunlight (and therefore staggered first round, then dead second round). Can it cast a polymorph spell to shed the sunlight weakness?

[Stubs McKenzie]

Polymorph wont ever change your type, and there is no polymorph ability to become "immune to sunlight", so I would say no. Remember, if you polymorph into an animal or some such that spells that effect animals wont effect you, and if you weren't a humanoid (material plane) you wont be effected by hold person and such if you polymorph into a humanoid.