Grig Disguise Self SLA

[Rensalorath]

I am making a 3.5 grig bard for a current game. I am doing ok with all the mechanical aspects of the it, excpet for one thing.

How can a grig benefit from their Disguise Self SLA?

As I read the spell description, I am hung up on the phrases, "you can not change your body type," and "a human caster could look human, humanoid, or like any other human-shaped bipedal creature."

Perhaps I am being too literal, but I don't see how a grig could disguise himself as anything other than a different grig, a small hybsil, or a miniature centaur.

Does anybody else have suggestions or see something I am missing?

[Invader]

I am making a 3.5 grig bard for a current game. I am doing ok with all the mechanical aspects of the it, excpet for one thing.

How can a grig benefit from their Disguise Self SLA?

As I read the spell description, I am hung up on the phrases, "you can not change your body type," and "a human caster could look human, humanoid, or like any other human-shaped bipedal creature."

Perhaps I am being too literal, but I don't see how a grig could disguise himself as anything other than a different grig, a small hybsil, or a miniature centaur.

Does anybody else have suggestions or see something I am missing?

No you're right, it's really not all that useful for a grig.

[Rensalorath]

No you're right, it's really not all that useful for a grig.

That was what I thought. Poor design, in my opinion.

I agree that an illusory disguise is good for the theme of a sprite. It is just that the one that was chosen happens to be rather limited in application for the race in question.

(shrugs)

[Inevitability]

I'd say they use it for pranks. They can disguise themselves to look like any other grig, cause trouble, then watch how someone else is blamed for it.

[Rensalorath]

I'd say they use it for pranks. They can disguise themselves to look like any other grig, cause trouble, then watch how someone else is blamed for it.

(smiles) I could see that. Interesting take on it.

[Rensalorath]

I have done a little more research, and I realized that I was looking at this all wrong. I got too hung up on the picture of the grig as illustrated in the 3.5 Monster Manual.

Reviewing the text specifically, "with the wings, antennae, and legs of a cricket", coupled with the fact that most pics online are humanoid shaped, I have come to the conclusion that it doesn't have to be a centaur like body.

In fact, this is my favorite picture I found. http://jimnelsonart.blogspot.com/2012/06/grig.html

With this mental adjustment, the Disguise Self SLA is more useful. He could pretend to be a child, a small halfling, a goblin, etc.

Any thoughts on that?