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How much time does Beast Change take?
« on: May 11, 2013, 04:50:06 AM »
Quick question: How much time does Beast Change take? Is it a full exchange? A supplemental action? Maybe more?

Is there a RAW answer to this?

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Re: How much time does Beast Change take?
« Reply #1 on: May 11, 2013, 05:52:53 AM »
I'm away from books at the moment, but I believe it takes a supplemental action.
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Re: How much time does Beast Change take?
« Reply #2 on: May 11, 2013, 06:50:25 AM »
Given that there exists a stunt on the custom list to make supplementary, I think it's a full action by default.
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Re: How much time does Beast Change take?
« Reply #3 on: May 11, 2013, 11:11:01 AM »
True shape shifting takes longer than beast change for more complex things...taking several exchanges   But it says shifting into animals and humanoids is a supplemental.  So I take that to mean beast change is also a supplemental.

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Re: How much time does Beast Change take?
« Reply #4 on: May 11, 2013, 01:04:40 PM »
In the fiction, it always seems like Billy takes no time at all to transform into a wolf... no longer than it takes to pull off a t-shirt and drop trow.
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Re: How much time does Beast Change take?
« Reply #5 on: May 11, 2013, 04:27:51 PM »
The Custom Stunt list is not meaningfully fact-checked.  The existence of a stunt there should not be taken as indication of RAW.
If the power itself does not specify an action type, then the Shapeshifting section's intro states it to be supplementary.
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Re: How much time does Beast Change take?
« Reply #6 on: May 12, 2013, 01:28:39 AM »
YS pg 177

Under True Shapeshifting [–4]
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Multi-Form. You may take on nearly any
humanoid or beastly form as a supplemental
action.
Changing into something else—say,
a tree, a vacuum cleaner, a water bed—takes
a longer amount of time, usually several
actions, or even minutes, depending on how
different.

I added the bolded.  I use this ruling for beast shape.


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Re: How much time does Beast Change take?
« Reply #7 on: May 12, 2013, 07:50:33 AM »
Quote from: YS174
Unless explicitly noted otherwise, shapeshifting
may be done as a supplemental action.

This sort of settles it, as far as I see it. Beast Change does not "explicity note" how fast a change is, so the above general rule should be applied.

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Re: How much time does Beast Change take?
« Reply #8 on: May 13, 2013, 04:42:13 AM »
Indeed.

If a stunt implies otherwise, that stunt has a problem. A problem I should probably fix.

Which stunt is it?