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The Dresden Files => DFRPG => Topic started by: Magicpockets on May 11, 2013, 04:50:06 AM
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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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I'm away from books at the moment, but I believe it takes a supplemental action.
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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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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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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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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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YS pg 177
Under True Shapeshifting [–4]
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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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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Indeed.
If a stunt implies otherwise, that stunt has a problem. A problem I should probably fix.
Which stunt is it?