Shapeshifting

​

While the World of Darkness is indeed home to some shapeshifting monsters, a few sorcerers learn to alter their bodies through magical practice rather than inborn heritage. Perhaps it's a spoken word that calls to the primal animal within or the intervention of an animal-spirit or even a little judicious genetic engineering. This Path is very elemental, often calling upon instinctive knowledge, and many sorcerers have lost their personalities to the beast-side conjured up. Others lose their identity in malleability. For a few, shapeshifting is less an art than a natural talent, but one unchanneled by the callings of the true Changing Breeds. It seems that Shapeshifting comes in as many forms as its practitioners.

​

Roll: Stamina + Animal Ken, difficulty 5+ level used. (For Mythic Shifting, roll Int + Occult at a difficulty of 10)
Cost: One Willpower per use.
Duration: One scene.

Cost of Failure: Shapeshifters have a tendency to lose control over their shifting processes; a sorcerer who botches traps himself permanently in an animal's body. A failure requires that the Sorcerer make a Self Control roll at difficulty 7. Without success on this Self Control roll the character remains trapped in the animal's body for the scene, but not permanently.​

 

Level   Ability

    1..............A minor cosmetic change: The sorcer can change eye colors, grow                          hair, etc.

    2.............Noticeable change: The sorcerer grows small claws, sprouts scales                        on the hands or the like.

    3.............Significant change: The sorcerer replaces some body part with an                            animal feature — a full clawed paw, a nasty shark jaw or an                                          externalized digestive system.

    4.............Half-shift: The sorcerer can shift half of his body into another                              form or find some halfway point between human and animal with                            significant traits of each. The sorcerer might resemble a bipedal                              wolf (of size somewhere between human and wolf) or could have                              bird wings and a beak with human legs.

    5.............Full shifting: The sorcerer can change completely into animal                                  forms.

    6.............Mythic shifting: Not only can the sorcerer take on animal forms, he                    may turn into forms that he only imagines.