Sizeshifter: Difference between revisions

* Perhaps needless to say, tabletop RPGs created to handle playing in the superhero genre usually include both powers. Fights between characters of massively disparate sizes can also seriously challenge a game's usual combat rules, which usually assume roughly human-sized opponents facing each other as the unspoken default and whose designers may not have stopped to consider how to address questions such as "can I climb/fly into my giant-sized opponent's ear and knock him out from there?"

* ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]''

** Originally introduced in the 1st Edition ''Oriental Adventures'' sourcebook (and then seen again in ''Complete Arcane'') are the Giant Size and Minute Form spells. Even a [[Squishy Wizard]] is going to hurt when she's hitting you with a ''tree''.

** Psionic characters have the [http://www.d20srd.org/srd/psionic/powers/expansion.htm Expansion] power, which achieves the same effect. It has the added bonus of working on non-humanoids just as effectively as humanoids and even allowing the target to grow even more. There is, of course, an opposite that causes the target to reduce in size.