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Post by chainlink on Aug 16, 2007 10:24:59 GMT
Teleportation plz although I'd definitely like to be able to take the basics with me as turning up everywhere butt naked doesn't appeal to me.
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Post by Ironfang on Aug 16, 2007 12:58:50 GMT
Shapeshifting as it could provide fast travel. (Not as fast as teleport, nor the ability to teleport into enclosed areas) But it just has much more functionality. Especially if you could change into fantasy creatures. Even just animals would be fun and handy. Gorilla for moving day. Swift to get to work. Dolphin to give rides at the beach. Skunk to clear the lines on Boxing Day or Black Friday. Monkey to point my satellite dish and put up Christmas lights. The list can go on and on.
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Post by dynneroth on Aug 16, 2007 14:13:51 GMT
OK, I think in all these "which would you rather..." situations we have to assume you know how to use the ability in a way that would not immediately kill you and would get you out of sticky circumstances. The "teleporting into vacuum or rock" and "becoming someone's meal" arguments should not exist in these discussions. Also, I must be very unimaginative because when I first read the question I was thinking of shapeshifting as a doppleganger or shifter ability, not really going much outside the animal kingdom. But hey, shifting into a ray of light is cool too.
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Post by johannhowitzer on Aug 16, 2007 14:29:04 GMT
Even with just animals, I think I'd prefer shifting. The aforementioned wolf is amazingly cool (one of my favorite things to do as a druid is take Dire Wolf companion, cast summon III, and shift into wolf form - it's a pack!). If you shifted into a cheetah you could go almost as fast as a car and save on gas money... I could grow two more arms and learn to coordinate them to play piano duets by myself... the bird option is very cool, though clean windows might be a headache... oh, and since you could probably speak English in all these forms, you could probably get an acting gig very easily in Hollywood in the next Babe-like movie - the producers would be very glad to be able to cut the mouth animations from the budget!
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