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{{OGL Top}} {{3.5e Spell | name=Baleful Polymorph | school=Transmutation | lvl=[[SRD:Druid Spell List|Drd]] 5, [[SRD:Sorcerer/Wizard Spell List|Sor/Wiz]] 5 | comp=V, S | casttime=1 [[SRD:Standard Actions|standard action]] | range=Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels) | tsea=t | subj=One creature | dur=Permanent | save=[[SRD:Saving Throw|Fortitude]] negates, [[SRD:Saving Throw|Will]] partial; see text | sr=Yes }} <s>As ''[[SRD:Polymorph (Spell)|polymorph]]'', except that you change the subject into a Small or smaller [[SRD:Animal Type|animal]] of no more than 1 [[SRD:Hit Dice|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 [[SRD:Saving Throw|Will]] save. If this second save fails, the creature loses its extraordinary, supernatural, and [[SRD:Spell-Like Ability|spell-like abilities]], loses its ability to cast spells (if it had the ability), and gains the alignment, special abilities, and [[SRD:Intelligence|Intelligence]], [[SRD:Wisdom|Wisdom]], and [[SRD:Charisma|Charisma]] scores of its new form in place of its own. It still retains its [[SRD:Class|class]] and level (or [[SRD:Hit Dice|HD]]), as well as all benefits deriving therefrom (such as [[SRD:Base Attack Bonus|base attack bonus]], base save bonuses, and [[SRD:Hit Points|hit points]]). It retains any [[SRD:Class|class]] features (other than spellcasting) that aren’t extraordinary, supernatural, or [[SRD:Spell-Like Ability|spell-like abilities]]. [[SRD:Incorporeal|Incorporeal]] or gaseous creatures are immune to being ''polymorphed'', and a creature with the shapechanger subtype can revert to its natural form as a [[SRD:Standard Actions|standard action]].</s> <span class="errata">You change the subject into a Small or smaller [[SRD:Animal Type|animal]] of no more than 1 [[SRD:Hit Dice|HD]] (such as a [[SRD:Dog|dog]], [[SRD:Lizard|lizard]], [[SRD:Monkey|monkey]], or [[SRD:Toad|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:</span> * <span class="errata">The target retains its own alignment (and personality, within the limits of the new form’s ability scores).</span> * <span class="errata">If the target has the [[SRD:Shapechanger Subtype|shapechanger subtype]], it retains that subtype.</span> * <span class="errata">The target retains its own [[SRD:Hit Points|hit points]].</span> * <span class="errata">The target is treated has having its normal [[SRD:Hit Dice|Hit Dice]] for purpose of adjudicating effects based on [[SRD:Hit Dice|HD]], such as the sleep spell, though it uses the new form’s [[SRD:Base Attack Bonus|base attack bonus]], base save bonuses, and all other statistics derived from [[SRD:Hit Dice|Hit Dice]].</span> * <span class="errata">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).</span> <span class="errata">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 [[SRD:Class|class]] features.</span> <span class="errata">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.</span> <span class="errata">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.</span> <span class="errata">If the subject remains in the new form for 24 consecutive hours, it must attempt a [[SRD:Saving Throw|Will]] save.</span> <span class="errata">If this save fails, it loses its ability to understand language, as well as all other memories of its previous form, and its [[SRD:Hit Dice|Hit Dice]] and [[SRD:Hit Points|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.</span> <span class="errata">[[SRD:Incorporeal Subtype|Incorporeal]] or [[SRD:Gaseous Form|gaseous]] creatures are immune to ''baleful polymorph'', and a creature with the [[SRD:Shapechanger Subtype|shapechanger]] subtype (such as a [[SRD:Lycanthrope|lycanthrope]] or a [[SRD:Doppelganger|doppelganger]]) can revert to its natural form as a [[SRD:Standard Actions|standard action]] (which ends the spell’s effect).</span> {{SRD Spell Footer}} [[Category:Transmutation School|{{BASEPAGENAME}}]] [[Category:Druid 5|{{BASEPAGENAME}}]] [[Category:Sorcerer/Wizard 5|{{BASEPAGENAME}}]]
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