Favorite uses for master transmogrifist's "infinite variety" ability

[Venger]

So, I heard about a pretty hilarious use infinite variety and was wondering of other people had creative or funny ones:

Get your target to change his shape somehow (challenge him to a duel, shapechanging contest, or slam him with baleful polymorph)

Change into him (assuming his race is one of your favored shapes) and add the sharn's archetypal shape ex quality.

he is unable to change back.


another one was to just change into a very big monster (mountain troll for example) and stack zern's malleable form ability on there, letting you become gargantuan, which is normally really hard to do.

[Qwertystop]

So, I heard about a pretty hilarious use infinite variety and was wondering of other people had creative or funny ones:

Get your target to change his shape somehow (challenge him to a duel, shapechanging contest, or slam him with baleful polymorph)

Change into him (assuming his race is one of your favored shapes) and add the sharn's archetypal shape ex quality.

he is unable to change back.


another one was to just change into a very big monster (mountain troll for example) and stack zern's malleable form ability on there, letting you become gargantuan, which is normally really hard to do.

How does this work? What is this ability?

[Biffoniacus_Furiou]

1. "He can then choose a single aspect of a second monster whose form he could assume using the spell he is casting and add it to the fi rst creature." You cannot take the form of a creature which has archtypal form, so you cannot gain that via infinite variety.

2. Your opponent will automatically go back to his normal form if form-changing spells are no longer in effect on him, a creature in his form with archtypal form will not prevent this. Furthermore, just because you're in his form with archtypal form doesn't prevent anyone else from assuming his form, it only prevents them from assuming a version of his form with archtypal form.

3. Alter Self and any spell that's based on it (Polymorph, Shapechange) has a built-in allowance of assuming your own form. This supersedes archtypal form due to Specific > General. If you're already a creature with archtypal from normally, then you could take the form of yourself, so you could add archtypal form via infinite variety, but it won't do any good because you're in an 'imaginary form' version of a creature with that quality, anyone could take the form of a version of that creature without that quality completely unhindered.