My Party enjoys classic fantasy staples, so I was going to have thier longtime enemy (an evil lich) cast somthing like baleful polymorph with a contingency trueform spell that will cast if the polymorphed person fufills a specific criterea i.e. "ruin the lives of seven good beings" or somthing like that, but i would like the polymorph spell to not turn them into a little squirrel or frog but instead somthing like an anthropamorphised version (a grippli maybe?) is this within the limits of the spell? it would seem weaker since a grippli can still fight well enough. if its not what would be the appropriate level for this spell? i would want any spell my villian uses to be in his spell book and later available to party members when they kill him. thanks for the help in advance.
My Party enjoys classic fantasy staples, so I was going to have thier longtime enemy (an evil lich) cast somthing like baleful polymorph with a contingency trueform spell that will cast if the polymorphed person fufills a specific criterea i.e. "ruin the lives of seven good beings" or somthing like that, but i would like the polymorph spell to not turn them into a little squirrel or frog but instead somthing like an anthropamorphised version (a grippli maybe?) is this within the limits of the spell? it would seem weaker since a grippli can still fight well enough. if its not what would be the appropriate level for this spell? i would want any spell my villian uses to be in his spell book and later available to party members when they kill him. thanks for the help in advane.
Honestly, that sounds more like a cure to me than a baleful polymorph spell. If you place something like a Strength penalty on your player via bestow curse, there's no reason that you couldn't also include the physical change. After all, you're not changing the creature's type. Cosmetic things like that are well within the power of bestow curse.
Ah do somthing like a CHR penalty and say it manifests as a froglike appearance? thats workable