[LintMan]

Originally posted by st.patrik:
I think it's worthwhile - often you trade in a simple human with 10 hp and get a rather tougher beast which is much more resilient in combat. So you're not going to get a SC, but if that isn't your expectation you'll probably be pleasantly surprsised.

In my experiments, I didn't really have any expectations, I was just curious about what the results would be. In those 5-6 tests, I think I ended up with foul spawns in every case but one.

Perhaps the problem was that I used Coatl for most (all?) of those experiments? (Those were the 3-n mages I had available, and I didn't know that unusable path-booster items on the transformed mage would get placed in the lab rather than lost).

That other thread on transformation seemd to imply that mages typically kept their magic and so could recast transformation and try again. I'm not 100% sure now, but I really don't think that any of the transformed Coatls had 3-N, 3-S afterwards. I believe that only 1-2 of my transformations had any magic ability at all afterwards. So for me, Transformation seemed like a good way to spend nature gems to transform a mage into a foul spawn which may or may not have magic ability.

I guess I'l have to experiment with low-end mages and see if that works out any better.