How do mages in your setting handle magic that involves transforming

I don't have it at all unless someone else brings it up. My fetish is tf and I am therefor unable to write it in any way without being worried someone will realize its my fetish.

>>46086877
Just fuck off with the gender change and you're fine.

>>46086714
A tragedy, in my setting.

Magic went out of control. Entire towns and cities woke up as mutated beasts with extra lombs and arms.

There is a major moralistic political push to start using magic to transform anyone convicted of a crime and sentenced to a prison term into an elf for the duration. It is argued that it would be more humane, because elves age so much slower. Criminals can serve their whole term and received their deserved punishment but when transformed back to their natural state will have only aged a few months and not been denied many years of lifespan.

>>46086714
Very rare. Only done with a special type of mage, a Biomancer, and typically they only mess with themselves to augment their physical abilities or turn themselves into bodyhorrors in the name of efficiency and science. Doing things to others is a bit more complicated because they either need to get the permission of that person's soul or literally overpower it at the cost of that person losing it and becoming a lesser.

We had a PC one in a campaign once, he was quite insane, or in his own words, he altered his brain to be more efficient with the side effect of giving him an inhuman point of view. Early on, he could birth a baby deer out of his chest and used them to test traps in dungeon corridors and at one point modified one to be part mushroom and produce anthrax spores if fed water and gave it to a little girl in an enemy city.

By the end of the campaign, he had created a giant bee named Efrim to fly around on and built a nest where his lungs used to be that housed his favorite combination of spider-wasps.

He was disliked by the party but not enough to get rid of since he was the party healer.

>>46086714
Most people have next to no magic.
Some mages to exist, they have elemental manipulation and are generally total local badasses.

Guys that can manage transformation magics are a step above and as such don't give a single shit about opinions and just do whatever they want.

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Depends on the mage, but for the most part they're indifferent as a whole.
Something as asinine as ethics will not get in the way of science to a wizard.

My wizards have no sense of right and wrong, though.

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>>46086714
>How do mages in your setting handle magic that involves transforming humans and/or animals? Is it verboten, common, or under the table?

The big issue with "transforming" is the more dramatic and unwanted the change is the more likely the target will resist it and the shorter the duration is.
Even if the person wants to look a certain way they're still required to "concentrate" as it's a lot like the difference between breathing manually vs doing it automatically: someone can slip out of their transformation quite quickly if they forget their supposed to be someone else.

Illusionary Transformation is the most common and rudimentary form of transformative magic but is non-physical; being purely based on a "trick of the light". Illusionary transformation is practiced by many casters, magicians, etc.. as well as the odd magical animal, typically Cats, Raccoons, Foxes, Rats, etc..

The most famous form of permanent physical magical transformation however is Alchemy: long term prescriptions of magical potions and pills can eventually cause minor changes and so forth. Numerous sorts of mundane-folk can and will go to Alchemists in order to purchase such items for cosmetic purposes: suppress aging, gain height, increase genital/bust size, lose weight, etc, etc..

The most COMMON form of permanent physical magical transformation is through purely natural magics; long-term exposure to wild rustic livings: eating dire plants, dire animals, and monstrous beasts, exposing yourself to druidic, feyish magical sources and elementals. These natural sources turn even the most pitiable boys into strong and rugged MEN, so much so that often times agrarian cultures will exile lazy or runty youths into the wild for a year to turn them "dire".

Extremely powerful casters are also capable of physically changing themselves, but in doing so in such a way -and so quickly- they can run the risk of forgetting what they look like and..just sort of fucking up quite graphically.

>>46086714
Limited study is allowed with proper governmental oversight, but it is mostly forbidden. Unchecked biomancy led to the origins of most of the monsters in the world.

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>>46087318

Here are some other methods of shapeshifting to consider:

>Changeling "literal" shapeshifting:
Changeling's form of shapeshifting is -not- magical: they literally mold, swap and contort their bodies as the only bones they possess is a cuddlefish-like rib cage and a spine and skull all support by a cartilouges skeleton.

>Druidic Shapeshifting
Druids can turn into certain animals and plants so long as they're of proportionate size and they have the animals skin or the plants bark/branches. Druids typically wear bear, boar, sheep or goat skins or carve their staves from certain trees so they can shift at will.

>Hags & Necromancers Skin-walking
Hags -the paranormal creature- and Necromancers -the class- can skin dead bodies and wear them much the same way a Druid would wear an animals skin so they can shape-shift into people. Hags have no class; they will skin a humanoid and drape their hide over their body- typically so they can appear as the beautiful country women or little boys the hide was skinned from. Necromancers 'usually' have a little more decorum and respect: turning skins into cloaks, hoods or vests so they can discreetly shift into the skins previous owner or to simply hide their occasional undead nature.

>>46086714
Transfiguration is one of the three magic skills that can be learned by any pc. It's not common within the setting, but that's okay because the pcs are uncommon heros. Low level shapeshifting can change your appearance, but doesn't affect your species/stats. This is useful for disguises. Higher level shapeshifting allows the user to self-buff by taking monster/animal aspects when they transform. The higher the level, the stronger the aspect taken. Shapeshifters are treated differently based on the society. In smaller tribes of humans and trolls, shapeshifting is considered a powerful skill to be encouraged and celebrated. In city-like settings, shapeshifters are often seen with suspicion.

Note: The beastfolk monsters originated from powerful shapeshifters breeding while in their monstrous forms and giving birth to creatures that couldn't return to human form.

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>>46086714
Most mages wouldn't care about something so minor and petty. Sacrifices must be made for gain to happen. Why let something so petty like morals hinder our progress? I mean we ARE mages, right?

>>46086714
verboten and non existent despite my girlfriend's fucking obsession with her fetish.

>>46089116
>not running ERP to get your gf all hot and bothered before fucking her brains out

>>46089173
>not knowing thats like letting an air out of a balloon and expecting a POP!
Its like a hotspring. You gotta plug that shit up till you've upset the volcano its ontop and its ready to blow.

>>46089430
It's fine to build up her appetite for a while or something, but making her horny is going to make her more horny - not less horny.

>>46089767
Nah m8. Chicks hate foreplay ask any of them.

I'm disgusted nobody thinks that OP crossed the line with this.

It's way toosoon, man.

>>46086714
Its extremely common. Why do you think so many magic users' go to threat are things like "I'll turn you into a newt?"

>>46090517
Some threat. Everyone knows you'll get better.

>>46090458
It will never not be to soon, anon. We...no, The world doesn't deserve for this wound to heal. This is how we keep that wound open, this is how it stays fresh, through this pain we atone for our sin.

>>46090539
Not if they turn you into a fly, your friend into a frog and make him eat you.

Witch Girl Adventures represent

>>46086714
My BBEG really wishes that he were/could become the main creator deity, because he thinks he'd do a much better job at it. He's taken over a sparsely-settled area and turned his followers into a variety of disgusting mutants.

Nobody else really knows how to cause permanent changes with magic, unless Reincarnate counts.

>>46086714
It's treated kinda like plastic surgery. You need a specialist to examine each case and work out the details of the procedure, and it's expensive. Some goverments have it regulated more, some less. Certain aspects like copying someone's face are forbidden in most cases, but that's what the black market is for.
There's no fire-and-forget spell that can transform some guy into a horse, at least not one where the horse lives long.


Uncontrolled magic can also lead to mutations and the like, but those a simply enviromental risks.

>>46086714
Ok, first of all, fuck you. Fuck you and the image you rode in on. Second of all, it's literally impossible in my current setting so I really just posted because you need significantly more "fuck you"s than you have gotten so far for the bullshit that is that image. God damn.

>>46090986
Jesus someone took the joke a little ruff.

>Willful changing of shape
That would be amber mages that wild shape into animals and still cast spells. You ever seen a pissed off lion blow shit up with mind bullets? I have.

>Against their will and basically in all other circumstances

PURE CHAOS! See it happening, need to burn the source and the infected.

>>46086714
Mages are purely NPCs in my settings. They often don't think like regular people... Their use of their powers can be considered by some to be evil or saintly.

Mages are commonly despised, feared and worshipped as gods and demons on earth.

>>46091026
I kind of want to be mad, but I find I can't. You have blown all of the overly-dramatized rage/disgruntlement out of my proverbial sails with that joke there.

>>46086714
There is an industry built around it in my DM's setting. Women get dolled up temporarily or permanently and guys get their schlong a enhanced, too. People are what they are, and sex sells, no matter the age. Abortion is fairly common via interesting uses of teleportation and some psionics abilities I've not asked about.

As for my character, she's a necromancer who plays with skeletons. She openly changes her body to the situation and her want.

>>46090986
>>46086714
>>46090458
>>46090542
Somebody post the dragon's heart please.

It takes incredibly powerful magic to make such changes permanent. Temporary transformations are the domain of druids mostly.

>>46087174
That's absolutely fucking rad, what system were you using? some variant of DnD?

>>46086714
double extra verboten, unless the are slaves or subhumans

>>46086714
Verboten but it doesn't mean people don't try it. 90% of them get murdered by their creations though.

Well, it depends on what you mean. Minor modificiations and temporarry stuff is reasonably common but ''genetic engineering'' such that you might make a new ''race'' is forbidden in most places. Some places use a variant of it as punishment for the most heinous crimes.

You plotted against the king? You get fused with a wolf, lobotimised if you have any free will and turned into a literal guard dog for the king. They like irony.

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No fucks are given, go right ahead and turn yourself into whatever freak shut you want you crazy fuck, but that's just because alchemy is just viewed as strange already that and the current goverment is focusing on necromancy because the alchemists are trying to destroy death in the setting and are going full no sense of right or wrong with it.
it isn't helped by my mentally unstable alchemist being a part of this underground necromancer ring.