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Can a Fetch change its Catch with True Shapechanging and Modular abilities?

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Shaft:
Can a Fetch change its Catch with True Shapechanging and Modular abilities?  For example, if it shapechanges into a vampire, can it transform its Catch vs [cold iron and summer magic] into [sunlight, holy attacks, fire and stakes to the heart] and lose the previous vulnerabilities while in the vampire form?

Sanctaphrax:
Nope. Margin note at the bottom of YS185 indicates that if they could, their Catch would be reduced to +0 in value. Which it isn't.

And for what it's worth, I don't think it's best to model fetches as having unrestricted shapeshifting Powers. Going by what I remember from the books, if they show up in a given form they're staying in that form until at least the end of the scene. Been a while, so I could be misremembering, but if I were writing them up I'd put a heavy Limitation on their Shapeshifting powers.

lankyogre:
I feel like this is also an area where a perceptive player can realize something is not what it seems. “Wait, I just forced it in front of an open window and it doesn’t care.” Or “Why is he staying away from the guy with the crowbar?” 

Mr. Death:
The way I look at it, shapechanging might change what it looks like or can do, but doesn't change what it is.

Put another way, if you're a Faerie using Faerie magic to shapeshift, then Faerie magic can't protect you from something that is harmful to Faeries.

potestas:

--- Quote from: Mr. Death on October 09, 2017, 02:56:35 PM ---The way I look at it, shapechanging might change what it looks like or can do, but doesn't change what it is.

Put another way, if you're a Faerie using Faerie magic to shapeshift, then Faerie magic can't protect you from something that is harmful to Faeries.

--- End quote ---
and the fact that it had fey weaknesses could be used by the players to understand what it really is

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