Baleful Polymorph (Spell)
{{Spell
| name=Baleful Polymorph
| school=Transmutation
| lvl= Drd 5, Sor/Wiz 5
| comp= V, S
| casttime= 1 standard action
| range= Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)
| tsea=t
| subj= One creature
| dur= Permanent
| save= Fortitude negates, Will partial; see text
| sr= Yes
}}
If the spell succeeds, the subject must also make a Will save. If this second save fails, the creature loses its extraordinary, supernatural, and spell-like abilities, loses its ability to cast spells (if it had the ability), and gains the alignment, special abilities, and Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores of its new form in place of its own. It still retains its class and level (or HD), as well as all benefits deriving therefrom (such as base attack bonus, base save bonuses, and hit points). It retains any class features (other than spellcasting) that aren’t extraordinary, supernatural, or spell-like abilities.
Incorporeal or gaseous creatures are immune to being polymorphed, and a creature with the shapechanger subtype can revert to its natural form as a standard action. You change the subject into a Small or smaller animal of no more than 1 HD (such as a dog, lizard, monkey, or toad). The subject takes on all the statistics and special abilities of an average member of the new form in place of its own except as follows:- The target retains its own alignment (and personality, within the limits of the new form’s ability scores).
- If the target has the shapechanger subtype, it retains that subtype.
- The target retains its own hit points.
- The target is treated has having its normal Hit Dice for purpose of adjudicating effects based on HD, such as the sleep spell, though it uses the new form’s base attack bonus, base save bonuses, and all other statistics derived from Hit Dice.
- The target also retains the ability to understand (but not to speak) the languages it understood in its original form. It can write in the languages it understands, but only the form is capable of writing in some manner (such as drawing in the dirt with a paw).