Function  Follows  Form.   You  may  shapeshift your  form  to  take  on  a  variety  of  abilities, taking  a  full  action  to  change  them  around. When making such a change, you may real-locate  some  or  all  of  your  form  points  (see above)  to  purchase  new  abilities,  focusing on  those  available  as  Creature  Features (page 162), certain Minor Abilities (page 169), Speed (page 178), Strength (page 183), and  Toughness (page 184).

EDIT: Well, crap, looks like he's already got it. Wonder why the forum didn't warn me something else had been posted, like it usually does?

That's pretty cool, actually. I kind of want to build a True Shapeshifter, now.

Hello, new NPC for my players to meet ;-)

You COULD have him only able to change into mammals, to start, with Diminutive/Hulking Size, Claws and Inhuman Speed and/or Strength being the powers he has access to, depending on what he shapeshifts into, and then with further Major Milestones gain the ability to turn into birds with the Wings power or fish/reptiles with the Aquatic power and whatnot.

Or you could further limit him in the beginning if he doesn't have the necessary Refresh for all the powers, only able to turn into mammals from a certain family or whatever.

I'd imagine for TRUE shapeshifting, you'd need an awful lot of Refresh...

Like, what would the difficulty be to give someone Inhuman Strength or Speed or even Claws? Considering Aristedes could do it for himself, I'd imagine it'd be something under Evocation, perhaps a specialized class of it?

Also, would it vary based on whether you're casting it on yourself or someone else, as well as whether the recipient wants it or not?

Most of the time, I just say to myself, "This guy they're going to face is most like THAT guy that Harry fought/worked with/was scared of that one time," and then just look up that guy in Our World, making appropriate changes if, for example, I'm using a Vampire stat sheet to approximate a Fae character, or if the guy in the books is a Pure Mortal but I want someone with Inhuman Strength.

Smaller mooks usually just get a quickwrite of some relevant skills (as detailed on page 327 of Your Story), and I make up new skills on the fly if my characters end up trying to talk down the guy I expected them to just fight.

BIG big bads, bosses they've been chasing for a while (like the guy my players are facing next week), get their own custom sheets done up from scratch. I fill in all the Aspects, Skills and Powers as though I were actually going to be playing the guy. That's the only time it really seems worth the effort, to me.

No, no, more like

Its not underpriced, one Hexus, and he comes tumbling down.

Should put that in as a Catch (+X) and add the value of the Catch to the price of the armor.

Keeps the same basic Refresh value, but fits the rules as written better.