Paragon Badger
2011-05-13, 05:48 PM
Not shapechange... or Alternate form. Or Polymorph or any of those things.
The objective is to assume a human or humanoid form without assuming a human or humanoid's ability scores.
Because it's an ancient dragon fighter/battle sorceror/eldritch knight BBEG... Not the most optimized build, but that's the point... All she needs is to have an ancient dragon's strength and constitution to make her pretty challenging against both full casters and full melee'rs, while retaining mental ability scores in the twenties. The point isn't to make her invincible, but a tough cookie for every member of the party. Anyways;
90% of the time she'll be in human form until being forced to reveal her true form, using the spell Transformation to boost her breath weapons and melee attacks, going out in one final fit of wrath. (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OneWingedAngel) At that time, she should be just about dry on her limited arsenal of spells, with the party's 2 spellcasters having exhausted a good portion of their own.
There is always something like using Assume Supernatrual Form and polymorphing into a succubus or something for Change Shape... but that feat always seemed like such a cop-out. Besides.. She'd have to Polymorph into a succubus just so she can Change Shape into a human. Seems... silly.
Sure, as a silver dragon she has Alternate Form and could just turn into a human normally... but her ability scores would turn into 10,10,10...
Worst comes to worst, I can just say metallic dragons have Change Shape instead of Alternate Form... But I would prefer my players think I'm using perfectly legitimate rules in the creation of their enemies. :smallwink:
And I am aware Silver Dragons are supposed to be good.
The objective is to assume a human or humanoid form without assuming a human or humanoid's ability scores.
Because it's an ancient dragon fighter/battle sorceror/eldritch knight BBEG... Not the most optimized build, but that's the point... All she needs is to have an ancient dragon's strength and constitution to make her pretty challenging against both full casters and full melee'rs, while retaining mental ability scores in the twenties. The point isn't to make her invincible, but a tough cookie for every member of the party. Anyways;
90% of the time she'll be in human form until being forced to reveal her true form, using the spell Transformation to boost her breath weapons and melee attacks, going out in one final fit of wrath. (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OneWingedAngel) At that time, she should be just about dry on her limited arsenal of spells, with the party's 2 spellcasters having exhausted a good portion of their own.
There is always something like using Assume Supernatrual Form and polymorphing into a succubus or something for Change Shape... but that feat always seemed like such a cop-out. Besides.. She'd have to Polymorph into a succubus just so she can Change Shape into a human. Seems... silly.
Sure, as a silver dragon she has Alternate Form and could just turn into a human normally... but her ability scores would turn into 10,10,10...
Worst comes to worst, I can just say metallic dragons have Change Shape instead of Alternate Form... But I would prefer my players think I'm using perfectly legitimate rules in the creation of their enemies. :smallwink:
And I am aware Silver Dragons are supposed to be good.