dragonshouter
The war has been rageing ever since
Nope Nope Nope!!! runs away
Yeah it’s weird pixies can caste polymorph, like why do they need that spell at their CR. I don’t think it makes sense for lore ether.
A way to fix the banishment type effect is make it so it can only be cast on a creature who is not a threat (like being tied up, unaware, or several levels below you) so its more balanced and keeps the idea of a witch/wizard curseing someone to become a frog. Scouting I’m fine with because it is a common fantasy trope. My only solution for being a combat buff is capping the health you can have per level or stronger forms have a lesser duration.
True but you should be able to choose a little. When things like woodland creature are so random( and I guess know polymorph) its hard to form tactics around become rather useless. If you have a mean DM it can be a hazard like turning into something useless and not contributing to combat or summoning something that ether dies immediately or just clogs the initiative not helping.
That would be so cool!!! Its not even a problem that Horton is nice as he is also an idiot so you can explain that as him being that vast a being and humans as being just as incompressible to him as he is to us.
Just an idea :P " The doomsday cult of Whoville is a strange one as unlike many elder god cults they are trying to save the world, not that outsiders know that. It is said it all started with the mayor who thought he heard a voice in the thunder and built a device to listen to it. With this he made the discovery of Horton a immense beast bigger than the mayors universe with two large tusks extending from its toothy maw framing a fleshy tendril extending toward the world. It’s voice was thunder and it’s breath tempest but what the mayor noticed most was Horton’s large ears and kind, beady may they be, eyes. The beast was the one charged with guarding this world from the dangers of his alien forest as the world was transported to a new resting place. The mayor, and soon the town, agreed to be his hands on earth safe guarding it from horrors attempting to extort it. Alas *Horton * being what he was left marks on the town and its inhabitants. The town has a perpetual storm above it and the people have grown large and impossibly muscled with devices strapped to their skulls resembling large ears to hear their gods will. This is why though they do good in the world they are as feared as the monsters they fight" If that isn’t horror enough add descriptions of the horrors (insects) that the cult fight and the earth shaking battles Horton has with other dark gods( other animals). Also pretend they don’t know what an elephant is.