Shapeshifting is more of a mix’n’match power. Shapeshifting is organic. You
can’t become steel, or a gas, or flame. Not without dying, anyway. Once
you’ve assumed a form you tend to stay that way, with certain exceptions.
Each shapeshifting trick costs 5 points:
- SS Wounds
- Combat Form
- Automatic SS
- SS Parts
- SS Internal Structures
- SS Creatures of Blood
- SS Others with your blood
- Grant SS powers with your blood
- SS Facial Features
- SS to Animal Forms
- SS to Animal Abilities
- SS Aura
- Wounds lets you seal wounds fast; more or less the equivalent of modern first aid
- takes seconds to minutes, depending on the wounds
- Combat form = fast shift to a particular form, usually armored, fanged, clawed.
- Automatic = fast adaptation to environmental extremes or toxins
- tens of seconds; seconds for practiced, moderate toxins
- Parts includes things like hair and skin color.
- Internal Structures lets you move your organs around, add new ones, duplicate them and employ a Regenerative Trance: heal at 10x your normal rate. Note that accelerated healing takes a LOT of nutrients and you can kill yourself -- starve to death -- if you screw up.
- Creatures of Blood = making creatures out of your blood. Creature design is learned and/or absorbed (eaten). Note that you'll need Animal Abilities to mix'n'match.
- takes minutes; a few seconds for practiced, small ones
- Others = program blood creatures to fix or modify other creatures. More or less like nanites.
- tens of seconds to program the blood, minutes to days for the effects
- Grant powers = modify people enough to make them shapeshifters or potential psychics/mages.
- Facial Features = able to mimic specific people; must be maintained.
- tens of seconds for a new look, seconds for a practiced one
- Disguise = maintain a disguise even if sleeping or knocked out.
- Animal Forms = assumed learned (ingestion helps) animal forms; you have to learn how to deal with each one.
- tens of seconds for a practiced form, tens of minutes for a new one
- Animal Abilities = 1) know how to deal with an animal form, 2) shift complex parts -- senses, some brain mods, antigrav organs.
- tens of seconds to minutes, depending on complexity and practice
- Aura = alter your magical/psychic aura. Your personality will change some. This effectively blocks all Trumps made of the normal persona/aura.
- seconds for a practiced change, tens of seconds otherwise