GM question: does fleshwarping need a feat?


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Hi!

As a GM, I wanted to let my players run into a fleshwarping lab where a friendly half-orc NPC they met earlier has met a terrible fate at the hands of a bad guy: the halforc has just been fleshwarped into an oronci (I took the liberty of treating the half-orc as an orc in this respect)
Does said bad guy need a feat (or feats) for fleshwarping?


No one?

I washoping to find out what kind of NPC badguy I need to build that does the fleshwarping... drow probably... an alchemist? Is worshipping Haagenti obligatory? Can worshippers of Yamasoth do it?


It's... variable. There's several different systems for fleshwarping across the span of the books.

Drow fleshcrafting, as described back in the Second Darkness AP, uses the Brew Fleshcrafting Poison feat. There's a list of examples available on AoN. Such alterations can be permanent or temporary, and grant a single new ability with a single (usually crippling) cost.

Fleshwarping is a different process altogether, and wasn't written up until Inner Sea Magic. The general process is "fill vat with magic goo, dump subject in, let them stew until done or dead". There's no listed feat requirement, no craft check, and no religious affiliation besides "demon lord". It's essentially just mixing up the batter according to an evil cookbook and tossing in your secret ingredient (people). The only obstacle is expense, as the batter itself costs 20k gp at least. So your prospective fleshwarper should be extremely wealthy, and can otherwise be whatever you feel fitting.


Just build the NPC however you want him to be as a challenge for your party, and include the fleshwarping equipment as his gear that allows him to do what he does.

The PCs won't ever see his build, and even if they do, you can explain it as 'he got the equipment and that let him do it without needing to spend a feat'.


Thanks!

Yes, I was talking about fleshwarping, not -crafting... so yes, magic goo, put captured good guy in...
I thought that like craft contruct or making undead it would need spells and/or feats... oh well...
The fleshwarp (the creature that is the result of the proces, like the oronci) is under control or at least friendly to the fleshwarper, right?

The fleshwarping-scene is planned as an add to 'beyond the doomsday door', the fleshwarper is supposted to be an ally of the main BBEG elf-cleric-of Yamasoth-guy. I wanted to make a tiefling-qlippoth-born cleric of Yamasoth (Yamasoth is much into transforming flesh, and his interest in fleshwarping is recorded), but am in doubt now because it might need an alchemist.

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