Special; Resisted by Will
As Plant Form, but usable on others. Only the caster or a Remove Curse spell can end the spell. IQ loss will soon transform the subject into a true vegetable!
Duration: 1 hour. Cost: 5 to cast. 2 to maintain. Time to cast: 30 seconds. Prerequisites: Magery 2 and Plant Form.
Item
Staff or wand. Usable only by mages; the item must touch the subject. Energy cost to create: 3,000.
Special
Assume the form of any natural plant or tree between 1/2 and five times your own size. Clothing vanishes, to reappear when you regain your form; large possessions fall to the ground, while small ones (up to bracelet or wand size) may remain embedded in your plant form.
The caster cannot move about, attack, etc., unless a plant with those abilities exists in the game world and he takes that form, or unless Animate Plant is cast on his plant form. A wizard in plant shape may cast no spells unless he knows them so well that he can cast them without speech or gesture!
He may hear normally but may not see except to sense light and darkness. He may not speak.
Injuries taken in plant form carry over proportionately. This means, for instance, that an arrow wound to a tree is a pinprick to a man; some GM flexibility is required here! Time spent in plant form automatically counts as “rest” unless the plant is under attack. However, he must roll against IQ every hour that he stays in plant form. A failed roll temporarily reduces his IQ by 1. If IQ drops to 5, he is trapped in plant form, with a plant’s IQ, until someone else frees him with Remove Curse.
Duration: 1 hour. Cost: 5 to cast. 2 to maintain. Prerequisites: Magery 1 and six Plant spells.