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'''Description:''' Some beasts shift forms even more dramatically than
the barnacle goose, which transforms from clam to bird, and
that only once. Many of the greater mystical creatures —
dragons, unicorns, even some exceptional "normal" animals — can change their forms as easily as humans change
their clothes. Although you bear no relation to the so-
called "Changing Breeds," you are able to shift forms.

In game terms, switching forms usually takes one
turn, although the nature of your change may indicate a
slower (or faster) change. Barding, weapons, gear and
clothing do not shift; if your forms have differing numbers
of limbs or different arrangements of them, you'll probably
want to transform while naked (not that being naked is an
issue for beasts...).

This Advantage only grants you the ability to change
shape; any extra Advantages or special characteristics of
the new form must be purchased separately. An ape who
wished to transform into a falcon, for example, must purchase wings, claws and reduced size. Unless your new form
dictates otherwise (see Size, and the templates elsewhere in
this Bestiary), your Attributes and Abilities remain unchanged. The Storyteller may rule, however, that if a
human transforms into a pig, for example, he must purchase
Human Speech (page 115) to retain the ability to talk. The
Storyteller may allow you to buy Talents, Skills or
Knowledges unique to one of your forms; she may even
allow you to buy them at a discount if they support an
excellent character concept (a celestial dragon who has
spent lifetimes walking among men, for example).

To those who notice such things (Perception + Awareness, difficulty 7, or any number of magicks), shapeshifters
can be easily seen as the magical beings that they are. Your
smell may either shift with your form or remain the same
(or you may always smell like all of your forms) at the
Storyteller's discretion. The point cost for shapechanging
depends on the number of forms you can shift into:

{| class="wikitable"
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|'''POINTS'''||'''ALTERNATIVE FORM'''
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|3 points||One alternate form (a hawk, woman, lynx, or shark).
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|5 points||You may take any form within a certain range (birds, humans, cats, fish).
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|8 points||You may change into anything, assuming that you have the necessary Advantages.
|}
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'''A Note of Draconic shape-changing''': it is a function of {[[HAVOC]]}.
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