Shapeshift

Time: Action Target: Self
Test: Deception or Mage Strained
Effect: Buff

Flavor: Choose one creature from the Creature List that has the Easy or Moderate Creature Tag. If the creature comes with Variants or other selections, also choose a Variant and fill out all selections. You will still be able to vary your overall look each time you use this Ability, but your form and capabilities will remain fixed based on your choices.

If you Pass the Test, you a stack of Strained and gain two stacks of Polyformed as a Persistent Condition. As an Action, you can clear all stacks of Polyformed gained from this Ability.

If you Fail your Test for this Ability, you can still transform with all the above effects, but your starting Shield will be set to 1 instead of the value described in Polyformed.

You can attempt to copy the exact look of a matching creature. If you get a High Score on the Mage Stat Test, you are a spitting image of your goal. If you get a Mixed Score, then you would only be passable at a glance. If you get a Low Score, you don't look like your goal at all. Note that you may still be asked to perform an Acting Tests if you are attempting to portray the target beyond just looks.

While you have this Ability you also have the "Shapeshifter" Creature Tag.

For reference:

Polyformed

Before reaching 2 Stacks of this Condition, there is no effect. Once you reach 2 Stacks, you are transformed into a new creature as determined by the source of the last stack you gained of this Condition.

While transformed, you are affected in the following ways:

You must use your new form's Creature Sheet as your Character Sheet (replacing all of your Stats, Skills, Abilities, etc.) with exception of the following:
- You retain your Social Stats, Performance Skills, and Social Abilities.
- You retain your general mental faculties, though you will feel a subtle draw toward the creature's natural behaviors, including desires and fears.
- You retain your current Health and Vitality.
- Your Shield is set to the larger of the chosen form's Health or Vitality. If your Shield reaches zero, you will transform back into your original self. Any Damage left over when your Shield reaches zero affects your Health and Vitality in the usual way.
- Your Shield cannot be increased. (Abilities can still reset your Shield to where it already is, if that would in-turn trigger other effects.)
If this Condition ends before your Shield reaches zero, you will first return to your normal form, then whatever Shield you had left over from this Condition will be halved (rounded down.)

Upgrades:

Expanded.
- Choose a second and third creature that meets the criteria. You can change into those creatures as well. (These choices can be the same as the first, but with different Variant choices.)
Magical.
- You can retain access to your Spell Abilities from your Character Sheet while transformed. You can use the Tuning Stat from your Character Sheet instead of the one on the Creature Sheet.
Skilled.
- If you chose a humanoid form or a form capable of using tools and weapons, you can retain access to the Abilities from your Character Sheet that are not Spell Abilities. In such forms, you can also use the Might and Artifice Stats from your Character Sheet instead of the ones on the Creature Sheet.
Swarm.
- If a chosen creature Flavors has the Swarm tag, you can now transform into a swarm of that creature. Set your Shield to 10 instead of the normal Shield value for this Ability.
Versatile.
- You can turn into any valid Flavor that you did not choose. These extra transformations can still approximate the appearance of Variants, but cannot actually be mechanically effected by Variants. For example, you could transform into an "Owl", which is a Variant of Bird, but you would not gain a bonus to your Sneaking Skill.

Prestige Upgrades:

Mighty.
- You can choose one additional creature Flavor.
- You can now choose your Flavor(s) to be any creature with the Hard Creature Tag. When choosing a Hard creature, you also have the following limitations:
  - This Ability becomes Exhausting instead of Straining.
  - Your Shield is capped at 12.
  - You will lose 1 Shield at the end of each of your Turns.