Shapeshifting
Biomancy, Polymorph
Selection: Choose one Size 4 (Small) or 5 (Medium) creature of the same life form as you.
Activation: 1 standard action (Material, Somatic, 25% failure chance)
Target: Self
Duration: 1 minute (Dismissible)
Rolls: Fortitude negates
The target transforms into the selected creature. They temporarily lose all of their innate traits from their natural form that the new form does not have such as a saurian losing its bite attack when transforming into a human. If the new form also has the trait, such as a saurian turning into a wulver that also has a bite attack, it can keep the trait.
The target also gains an amount of XP-worth of non-magical innate traits of the new form up to 4 XP/tier of this effect. Which traits are acquired is chosen by the caster at the time of casting.
Baleful Polymorph (Trade-off): This trade-off is a -1 tier downgrade when targeting yourself but a +1 upgrade when targeting another creature but once applied, cannot be removed and is always applied when you activate this ability. This ability gains the Curse and Mental types and the target must make a Will save against the DC of this effect every interval they are affected or their mind will cease being Sapient and become Bestial (see Sentience) for the remainder of the duration. If the target is already Bestial or Mindless, this has no effect on them.
Larger Shapeshifting (+1 tier): Each time you apply this upgrade you can increase the maximum size the target can be polymorphed into by 1 size category.
Master of Disguise (+1 tier): When the target is transformed into another creature, you can choose to take on the appearance of a particular individual, allowing them to impersonate that individual with a +4 innate bonus to their skill rolls to do so.
Smaller Shapeshifting (+1 tier): You can shift the target into any size smaller than 4 (Small), as low as Size 1 (Fine).
Versatile Shapeshifting (+1 tier): Choose one creature type such as aberration, air, beast, dragon, earth, elemental, fey, fire, humanoid, etc. Instead of transforming into only one creature, you can turn into any creature of this type. This can be taken multiple times allowing you a wider selection.