There's very little I love more than Shifter/Shapeshifter types. Not a lot of that in PF. What are my options exactly? Druid? Ish? Synthesist works too. And there's that Ranger archetype, but kinda. Help me out here, guys.
KQ15 has a spell-less druid shapeshifter.
Oooh, sick. Any good?
I don't remember, I'll have to check it out later.
http://www.d20pfsrd.com/classes/3rd-party-classes/rite-publishing/taskshape r
....whoa.... the heck?
Wizard at a very high level can turn into a dragon.
Kitsunes might be an option since they start with human and anthro fox forms. A feat gives them a true fox form, and another one lets them mimic people's appearances.
Beastmorph Alchemists might cover what you're looking for as well.
Shapeshifter, in what sense, and to what extent?
What is the focus of this Shapeshifting?
You could play an Oni-Spawn Tiefling Shapeshifter Ranger, and look like any humanoid and also have a animal combat form.
Is this what you are looking for?
Like diverse shapeshifting, used for combat or social deception. Shapeshifting were taking a completely new form is the brunt of their abilities. Like a changeling from DS9 or an Animorph or anything.
Turns out that I don't have KQ 15, just saw it at a game store. So...won't be much help there. Although the author of it is quite talented, judging by his other works!
Turns out that I don't have KQ 15, just saw it at a game store. So...won't be much help there. Although the author of it is quite talented, judging by his other works!
Not a knock against the author, but a general rule, any class that gives up spell casting as a main feature (like a druid would) usually doesn't stack up against the non caster archtype/rewrite in terms of utility.
That being said the alternate class was nifty, it granted you the ability to form natural weapons (up to 3) while not wildshaped for a swift action that lasted until your next round, access to "wild" qualities (a list of qualities like darkvision, blindsight, scent, grab, pounce, web, bite w/ poison) that you could swap out as needed and early access to wildshape (3rd level). Later on it granted a boost to speed that increased every few levels.
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There's very little I love more than Shifter/Shapeshifter types. Not a lot of that in PF. What are my options exactly? Druid? Ish? Synthesist works too. And there's that Ranger archetype, but kinda. Help me out here, guys.
I'm wondering if there are any classes out there for Pathfinder (or are easily adaptable) that focus on shapeshifting from level 1. I have a player that likes the wildshape aspect of the druid but doesn't want to wait until level 4 to start to use it.
I remember there being a druid variant in 3.5 that dealt with this issue, but the Druid gave up a lot for it.
Is there anything out there that focuses on shapeshifting? I'm willing to look at 3PPs if the material is good.
There's a very cool new shapchanging base class called the Shapeshifter introduced in the "Grimoire Viperian" by Magic Skull Games.
The class is not just limited to animals but also lets you use alter self and change into mythical beasts of legend like the hellhound, winter wolf, centaur, nightmare, unicorn, sphinx and eventually giants and dragons! You not only get some of the their standard abilities as you would from a beast shape spell, but you also get some of their special or spell-like abilities that normally aren't available with beast shape or polymorph spells.
The Grimoire Viperian Shapeshifter is also highly customizable, letting you choose favored forms and special form abilities so no two shapeshifters are exactly alike!
You can download a partial free sample preview at DriveThruRPG or here at the Paizo store. Both sites offer the full PDF with all the Shapeshifter rules (and 160+ pages of other great content) for a very reasonable price!