------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Guild info on shapeshifter. A alpha level shapeshifter guild. | | --------------------------------------------- | | [Level 01] | | New Skills: tanking and attack | | [Level 03] | | New Skills: weapon skill blunt | | [Level 04] | | New Spells: spirit wind | | [Level 04] | | New Skills: honor of the gods | | [Level 05] | | New Skills: scavenge wood | | [Level 06] | | New Spells: magical growth | | [Level 06] | | New Skills: fire building | | [Level 08] | | New Skills: spirit blessing | | [Level 09] | | New Spells: rock rain | | [Level 09] | | New Skills: herb gathering | | [Level 10] | | New Skills: herb preservation and essence eye | | [Level 11] | | New Spells: shape shift | | [Level 11] | | New Skills: form preference, shapeshifting lore, avian lore and | | ursine lore | | [Level 12] | | New Skills: feline lore and canine lore | | [Level 13] | | New Skills: doublehit and claw attack | | [Level 14] | | New Skills: tooth and nail | | [Level 15] | | New Skills: dodge | | [Level 17] | | New Skills: natural coordination | | | | --------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Shapeshifters learn from their guild master, Morpheus, various natural and unnatural forms; they become experts at changing their shape to one most suited to the task at hand. This is not intended to be an easy guild to play. There are many pitfalls and traps that can make being a shapeshifter a difficult and dangerous task - and this means real danger, not the occasional chance of death. On the other hand, a bright player can overcome these difficulties to become an expert in a very versatile, and sometimes even quite powerful guild.
A little more needs to be said about learning forms. Morpheus (the shapeshifter guild master) will teach you the various forms he knows if you complete small quests for him - one for each form. No form quest requires any other forms its form doesn't. Forms are hierarchically arranged, to some extent, and if you fail a quest, any forms above it in the same tree are also disallowed you until you next reincarnate into the guild. The lower-level quests, though, should be fairly easy, and there are enough forms that few people should get truly stuck because of this. Shapeshifter is not, however, a guild for the meek.
%^BOLD%^RED%^Don't ask for forms while carrying equipment. If you lose equipment due to a form quest, you will not be reimbursed.%^RESET%^
============================================================================== Help on skill : Attack Guild Level : Alpha Skill type : Combat Base Experience Cost : 459 ============================================================================== This skill helps determine how likely a player is to successfully hit their target when they attempt to hit it. It directly influences the damage that the player inflicts (if you don't hit, you can't hurt the enemy). You can not be an effective fighter without a lot of training in this skill. ============================================================================== Created By : Unknown ============================================================================== ============================================================================== Help on skill : Tanking Guild Level : Alpha Skill type : Mastery Base Experience Cost : 557 ============================================================================== Protecting a party from the blows of their enemies is a hard, thankless task. Doing so well takes training and practice. That's where this skill comes in. With this skill, party members may attempt to protect the party members who stand behind them. The more people being protected, the more training this takes. Obviously, different guilds gain different techniques, and thus they are not all equally efficient. Warrior, being the biggest and baddest tanks, are, of course, unrivaled in their abilities. Please note that in the case of shapeshifters, ursine forms can make use of the training in a 'normal' way, whereas canine forms tank better the more of them that there are. Other shapeshifter forms do not have the ability to tank at all. Also note that necromancer familiars do need this skill to properly tank as well. You feel as though you could safely tank for 10 people. ============================================================================== Created By : Daneel ============================================================================== ============================================================================== Help on skill : Weapon skill blunt Guild Level : Alpha Skill type : Combat Base Experience Cost : 504 ============================================================================== This skill teaches an adventurer to handle blunt weapons. ============================================================================== Created By : Unknown ============================================================================== ============================================================================== Help on skill : Honor of the gods Guild Level : Alpha Skill type : Mastery Base Experience Cost : 557 ============================================================================== This skill allows a player to keep in touch with his spiritual side. If he studies hard, the gods will remember him, and grant him more health as he regenerates. ============================================================================== Created By : Pavilion ============================================================================== ============================================================================== Help on spell : Spirit wind Guild Level : Alpha Spell type : Attack Average damage : Small Damage type : Asphyxiation Sp Cost : 78 Casting time : 4 rounds Affecting stats : wis, int Base Experience Cost : 308 ============================================================================== Using this spell you can call upon a small group of sylphs to hit the target with a sudden blast of wind. The sylphs will then instantly return to roam the skies. ============================================================================== Created By : Samael ============================================================================== ============================================================================== Help on skill : Scavenge wood Guild Level : Beta Skill type : Miscellaneous Ep Cost : 246 Using time : 6 rounds Base Experience Cost : 571 ============================================================================== This simple skill helps the user to find wood for making a campfire without harming the living nature. ============================================================================== Created By : Samael ============================================================================== ============================================================================== Help on skill : Fire building Guild Level : Beta Skill type : Miscellaneous Ep Cost : 350 Using time : 4 rounds Base Experience Cost : 604 ============================================================================== This skill allows a player to create a campfire for warmth. The strength and duration of the campfire are dependent upon the player's skill percentage. It is said that skilled travelers are even able to start campfires without a tinderbox. ============================================================================== Created By : Unknown ============================================================================== ============================================================================== Help on spell : Magical growth Guild Level : Alpha Spell type : Special Sp Cost : 80 Casting time : 2 rounds Affecting stats : wis Base Experience Cost : 292 ============================================================================== The growth of some plants and fungus may be dramatically increased with this spell. When an animist casts magical growth, one nourishing plant or fungus will sprout up nearby and grow to be instantly edible. ============================================================================== Created By : Samael, updated by Cash ============================================================================== ============================================================================== Help on skill : Spirit blessing Guild Level : Alpha Skill type : Protection Protection category : General Average duration : Noticeable Number of stacks : 1 Ep Cost : 128 Using time : 5 rounds Affecting stats : wis Base Experience Cost : 1033 ============================================================================== Animists have the power to bless living creatures with the influence of nature spirits. The blessings work better outdoors where the spirits are much more abundant. When the animist blesses a person outdoors, spirits of a random element will flock to the call, but indoors only either gnomes of the earth or salamanders of fire will respond. ============================================================================== Created By : Samael ============================================================================== ============================================================================== Help on spell : Rock rain Guild Level : Alpha Spell type : Attack Average damage : Under average Damage type : Physical Sp Cost : 96 Casting time : 4 rounds Affecting stats : wis, int Base Experience Cost : 350 ============================================================================== With this spell the animist causes damage to his target by hurling a volley of rocks at him. The animist needs to be outdoors for this spell so that earth can respond to the call with enough rocks. ============================================================================== Created By : Samael ============================================================================== ============================================================================== Help on skill : Herb gathering Guild Level : Beta Skill type : Miscellaneous Ep Cost : 262 Using time : 15 rounds Base Experience Cost : 873 ============================================================================== This skill allows an experienced traveler to search for rare herbs that can provide some healing when properly used. Knowledge of the skill herb preservation is essential to keep the herbs active over an extended period. Herbalists with herb lore skills are also more efficient at gathering herbs. ============================================================================== Created By : Sigwald ============================================================================== ============================================================================== Help on skill : Essence eye Guild Level : Alpha Skill type : Mastery Base Experience Cost : 557 ============================================================================== This skill allows players to be aware of how soon their spell casting and skill using are going to occur. Awareness of this can be switched on and off by using the toggle_essence command. ============================================================================== Created By : Onyx ============================================================================== ============================================================================== Help on skill : Herb preservation Guild Level : Alpha Skill type : Mastery Base Experience Cost : 501 ============================================================================== Knowledge of herbs is essential in order to preserve the powers of herbs gathered in Nature. Students of this skill learn how to best keep herbs in order to have them efficient over extended durations. ============================================================================== Created By : Sigwald ============================================================================== ============================================================================== Help on skill : Avian lore Guild Level : Beta Skill type : Mastery Base Experience Cost : 1428 ============================================================================== Expert knowledge of bird anatomy, habitat, habits, and culture is necessary to properly imitate the form and abilities of a bird. ============================================================================== Created By : Daneel ============================================================================== It can be trained up to 10 percent of your skill max at level 11. It can be trained up to 20 percent of your skill max at level 13. It can be trained up to 30 percent of your skill max at level 15. It can be trained up to 40 percent of your skill max at level 17. It can be trained up to 50 percent of your skill max at level 19. ============================================================================== ============================================================================== Help on spell : Shape shift Guild Level : Beta Spell type : Protection Sp Cost : 408 Casting time : 1 round Protection category : Major Average duration : Incredible Number of stacks : 1 Affecting skills : call of the wild, call of nature, shapeshifting lore Affecting stats : sta, int Base Experience Cost : 754 ============================================================================== This spell is the heart and soul of a shapeshifter. It is with this spell that they transform into their many forms. Though the obvious skills and stats are crucial to proper transformation, nearly every skill in the guild affects this spell in some way or another. ============================================================================== Created By : Daneel ============================================================================== ============================================================================== Help on skill : Ursine lore Guild Level : Beta Skill type : Mastery Base Experience Cost : 1428 ============================================================================== Expert knowledge of bear anatomy, habitat, habits, and culture is necessary to properly imitate its form or abilities. ============================================================================== Created By : Daneel ============================================================================== It can be trained up to 10 percent of your skill max at level 11. It can be trained up to 20 percent of your skill max at level 13. It can be trained up to 30 percent of your skill max at level 15. It can be trained up to 40 percent of your skill max at level 17. It can be trained up to 50 percent of your skill max at level 19. ============================================================================== ============================================================================== Help on skill : Form preference Guild Level : Beta Skill type : Miscellaneous Ep Cost : 146 Using time : 1 round Base Experience Cost : 336 ============================================================================== With this skill, a shapeshifter decides what form he will take next time he shifts his form. The syntax of this skill is "use form preference with #form#". Valid forms include gold dragon, blue dragon, leopard, vulture, white dragon, polar bear, tiger, dog, cat, green dragon, red dragon, wolf, gryphon, black dragon, timber wolf, falcon, black bear, eagle, grizzly bear, owl, though any given shapeshifter will not know them all. ============================================================================== Created By : Daneel ============================================================================== ============================================================================== Help on skill : Shapeshifting lore Guild Level : Beta Skill type : Mastery Base Experience Cost : 1256 ============================================================================== Basic knowledge of shapeshifting, taught to all of Morpheus' pupils, is essential for a successful, relatively painless transition to forms not ones own. Many of the more complex forms require knowldege of the simpler ones, and the more complex the form, the higher the level of basic shapeshifting knowledge required to be able to successfully complete a transformation to it at all. ============================================================================== Created By : Daneel ============================================================================== It can be trained up to 10 percent of your skill max at level 11. It can be trained up to 20 percent of your skill max at level 12. It can be trained up to 30 percent of your skill max at level 13. It can be trained up to 40 percent of your skill max at level 14. It can be trained up to 50 percent of your skill max at level 15. It can be trained up to 60 percent of your skill max at level 16. It can be trained up to 70 percent of your skill max at level 17. It can be trained up to 80 percent of your skill max at level 18. It can be trained up to 90 percent of your skill max at level 19. It can be trained up to 100 percent of your skill max at level 20. ============================================================================== ============================================================================== Help on skill : Canine lore Guild Level : Beta Skill type : Mastery Base Experience Cost : 1428 ============================================================================== Expert knowledge of dog and wolf anatomy, habitat, habits, and culture is necessary to properly imitate their forms and abilities. ============================================================================== Created By : Daneel ============================================================================== It can be trained up to 10 percent of your skill max at level 12. It can be trained up to 20 percent of your skill max at level 14. It can be trained up to 30 percent of your skill max at level 16. It can be trained up to 40 percent of your skill max at level 18. It can be trained up to 50 percent of your skill max at level 20. ============================================================================== ============================================================================== Help on skill : Feline lore Guild Level : Beta Skill type : Mastery Base Experience Cost : 1428 ============================================================================== Expert knowledge of cat anatomy, habitat, habits, culture, and food is necessary to properly imitate the form and abilities of any of the cats. ============================================================================== Created By : Daneel ============================================================================== It can be trained up to 10 percent of your skill max at level 12. It can be trained up to 20 percent of your skill max at level 14. It can be trained up to 30 percent of your skill max at level 16. It can be trained up to 40 percent of your skill max at level 18. It can be trained up to 50 percent of your skill max at level 20. ============================================================================== ============================================================================== Help on skill : Claw attack Guild Level : Beta Skill type : Attack Average damage : Low Damage type : Physical Ep Cost : 126 Using time : 2 rounds Affecting skills : natural instincts, unnatural instincts Affecting stats : str, dex Base Experience Cost : 829 ============================================================================== Many animals have claws that can be quite effective in combat - more so with a true intelligence and animal instincts combined. It is easier to do a lot of damage with your claws when you have your opponent firmly clenched in your jaws. This skill using time varies somewhat. ============================================================================== Created By : Unknown ============================================================================== ============================================================================== Help on skill : Doublehit Guild Level : Beta Skill type : Combat Base Experience Cost : 940 ============================================================================== This skill helps the player score an extra hit in combat. ============================================================================== Created By : Unknown ============================================================================== It can be trained up to 30 percent of your skill max at level 13. It can be trained up to 60 percent of your skill max at level 16. It can be trained up to 90 percent of your skill max at level 19. It can be trained up to 100 percent of your skill max at level 20. ============================================================================== ============================================================================== Help on skill : Tooth and nail Guild Level : Beta Skill type : Combat Base Experience Cost : 1080 ============================================================================== This is the skill that shapeshifters need to efficiently use the weapons with which their shapes naturally come. ============================================================================== Created By : Daneel ============================================================================== ============================================================================== Help on skill : Dodge Guild Level : Beta Skill type : Combat Base Experience Cost : 1316 ============================================================================== Dodge trains a fighter to be quick and nimble on his/her feet. With this skill one can actually dodge combat blows, and helps considerably when attacking larger monsters. Effectiveness of that skill is considerably affected by how much you carry, ie your capacity modifier. ============================================================================== Created By : Unknown ============================================================================== It can be trained up to 20 percent of your skill max at level 15. It can be trained up to 35 percent of your skill max at level 16. It can be trained up to 55 percent of your skill max at level 17. It can be trained up to 70 percent of your skill max at level 18. It can be trained up to 90 percent of your skill max at level 19. It can be trained up to 100 percent of your skill max at level 20. ============================================================================== ============================================================================== Help on skill : Natural coordination Guild Level : Beta Skill type : Combat Base Experience Cost : 845 ============================================================================== This skill is needed for a shapeshifter during combat. A shapeshifter without this skill will never be able to hit with more than one of his form's natural weapons (claws, bite, etc.). ============================================================================== Created By : Daneel ==============================================================================