surge@milton.u.washington.edu (Jonathan Sari) writes:
> 3. If changelings can change their appearance, why give them a PB stat
>    at all?  Can they change their appearances to be *anything* of the
>    appropriate mass within the appropriate height range?
> 
> The solution I came up with is a flawed solution at best.  PB represents
> the ability of the changeling to come up with the appearance he desires,
> limiting the PB of the form he takes (lower PB forms would be allowed,
> but higher ones would not).  The obvious question with this method: Why
> is PB necessarily the perfection of the transformation?

  Well, I'd say that a modification to physical buety is a very
difficult and specific task, and that you can modify your own PB up
one point per 10% of lifespan (don't have it onhand) that the
character has been alive.  Most characters are young, so that isn't a
problem. (Weak, but livable.)

> 4. How do Changelings reproduce?
> 
> Does their base form contain some form of gender?  I thought I read
> somewhere that they were hermaphoditic.  If they have a gender, are
> they restricted in the gender of the form they assume?  Along those
> lines, what happens when a changeling in some other form mates with
> another creature of the changed form?

  If you read one of the adventures in book 3, you will notice that
Changelings have intrinsic gender, are male and female, and can have
children like any other race.

> 5. How is the changeling's ability to transform limited?
> 
> I rule that changing form requires a great deal of energy, and the
> changeling gets very hungry after a transformation.  (With weak
> changelings unable to make a transformation.)  Is there a better
> method?

  I think having the PC's required to kill the changeling if he is
found out to maintain in character is sufficient limitation.
Changelings are about as well liked as child molesters, and probably a
little worse, so I would want a real thoughough explination from any
pc why it was _not_ in character to react violently to the discovery.


  To be honest, I'm a bit uncomfortable with the existance of
changligngs who's only real disadvantage is their lack of social
accpetance.  But if that is their balancing factor, then it has to be
played to the hilt.
  
My question: what do you do about "chaining" of wards that is
mentioned in a few places obsurly?


Stephen H. Underwood                 The Heechee          The Nephron 
su11@andrew.cmu.edu                     "Evil has only complex roots."

Stephen H. Underwood                 The Heechee          The Nephron 
su11@andrew.cmu.edu                     "Evil has only complex roots."