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g33k:
--- Quote from: nadia.skylark on January 29, 2020, 04:21:27 PM --- Would shapeshifting powers be useful for a WCV? What non-WCV powers might an old WCV develop?
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WCV's can learn some sorcery, though they don't get to the power-levels of White Council wizards. I can imagine they might develop novel ways to combine Vamp-powers with magic; that could get remarkably dangerous! Imagine Raith-Lust, Skavis-Despair, etc... add in mind-magic, or body-based (water?) magic to play into the psychic Vamp-Whammy stuff ...
Also imagine magic enhancing a Whamp's natural speed & strength... Harry's "Bear" belt-buckle, speed potions, etc.
They can learn any mortal skill to more-than-mortal skill levels.
I think the Whamp-demon is too anthropomorphic to allow for any significant shapechange, but that's an "IMHO:" my understanding of how the Dresden universe works, by inference; not explicit in canon or rulebook.
KlausGerken:
We have a very long running campaign with a very high (16) Refresh with 2 WCVs. One went the "fighter" way, boosting Strength, Recovery and Speed. The other went the "Mind-Whammy"-way and that kind of fizzled out after a while. At first we added some extra steps for bonus damage on the Lust-Attack (basically going towards the Kiss of Death that the King of the WCVs has in the books, as her character is the WCV-Queen of Prussia), but you can never keep up with the bonus damage a wizard will dish out. And then there is always the question on which monsters the attack will work: Humans, sure. WCV - yes. BCV? No, yuck! Fey? Dunno, roll lore to declare.
The player then dropped her last points into a white panther shapeshift, because her WCV became a one-tick-pony. Either it can be mind-whammied, then she wins. Or not, then she's pretty helpless. As a shapeshifter she can fight a little better and has some more options.
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