Transform Other

Spell — see Magic and Spellcasting for the rules and the Spell Index for the full list.

Arcane 6 Type: transmogrification

Range: touch Duration: perpetual

This spell allows the caster to change a living target into another form of living creature. The target’s current form cannot be incorporeal, gaseous, or larger than man-sized. The target’s new form can’t have more Hit Dice than caster’s level, must have fewer than twice the Hit Dice of the target’s old form, and cannot have more than one special ability (*). The target cannot be changed into an incorporeal or gaseous form**,** nor into the form of an enchanted creature. The spell cannot create a duplicate of a specific individual.

If the target creature is a willing recipient, the transformation automatically occurs when the creature is touched. If the creature is an unwilling target, it must make a Spells saving throw when it is touched. If the save succeeds, the spell has no effect. If the save fails, the creature is transformed.

While transformed, the target gains the physical capabilities and characteristics, physical attacks, and special abilities of the new form while retaining his own mental abilities (perhaps to his horror). The target creature will have the same number of hit points it previously had, regardless of the Hit Dice of the form assumed. The target creature is sterile in its new form and cannot reproduce offspring. The new form will always be of around the same relative age as the original form.

Creatures with shape changing abilities such as a doppelganger or powerful shaman can revert to their natural form in one round. Otherwise, the spell is perpetual, lasting until dispelled or the creature is slain or until the caster dies or decides to stop sustaining the spell. When the spell expires, the target (or target’s corpse) reverts to its original form.