D20:Baleful Polymorph Spell



Baleful Polymorph
Drd 5, Sor/Wiz 5
V, S
1 standard action
Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)
One creature
Permanent
Fortitude negates, Will partial; see text
As polymorph, except that you change the subject into a Small or smaller animal of no more than 1 HD. If the new form would prove fatal to the creature the subject gets a +4 bonus on the save.
If the spell succeeds, the subject must also make a Will save. If this second save fails, the creature loses its extraordinary, supernatural, and spell-like abilities, loses its ability to cast spells (if it had the ability), and gains the alignment, special abilities, and Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores of its new form in place of its own. It still retains its class and level (or HD), as well as all benefits deriving therefrom (such as base attack bonus, base save bonuses, and hit points). It retains any class features (other than spellcasting) that aren?t extraordinary, supernatural, or spell-like abilities.
Incorporeal or gaseous creatures are immune to being polymorphed, and a creature with the shapechanger subtype can revert to its natural form as a standard action.

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You change the subject into a Small or smaller animal of no more than 1 HD (such as a dog, lizard, monkey, or toad). The subject takes on all the statistics and special abilities of an average member of the new form in place of its own except as follows:
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    The target retains its own alignment (and personality, within the limits of the new form?s ability scores).
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    If the target has the shapechanger subtype, it retains that subtype.
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    The target retains its own hit points.
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    The target is treated has having its normal Hit Dice for purpose of adjudicating effects based on HD, such as the sleep spell, though it uses the new form?s base attack bonus, base save bonuses, and all other statistics derived from Hit Dice.
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    The target also retains the ability to understand (but not to speak) the languages it understood in its original form. It can write in the languages it understands, but only the form is capable of writing in some manner (such as drawing in the dirt with a paw).

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With those exceptions, the target?s normal game statistics are replaced by those of the new form. The target loses all the special abilities it has in its normal form, including its class features.
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All items worn or carried by the subject fall to the ground at its feet, even if they could be worn or carried by the new form.
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If the new form would prove fatal to the creature (for example, if you polymorphed a landbound target into a fish, or an airborne target into a toad), the subject gets a +4 bonus on the save.
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If the subject remains in the new form for 24 consecutive hours, it must attempt a Will save.
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If this save fails, it loses its ability to understand language, as well as all other memories of its previous form, and its Hit Dice and hit points change to match an average creature of its new form. These abilities and statistics return to normal if the effect is later ended.
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Incorporeal or gaseous creatures are immune to baleful polymorph, and a creature with the shapechanger subtype (such as a lycanthrope or a doppelganger) can revert to its natural form as a standard action (which ends the spell?s effect).

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