Editing Familiarity Question (section)

===Write up your bestiary===
Having someone go through several books to see what they can turn into to help the party, or write up a new form for a situation is VERY ANNOYING for it grinds the game to a halt. If you want to turn into a variety of things, you have two ways of doing this.

* Write down all your forms. In case that you can generate infinite forms on your own, make sure you have a form ready to go. Order them by name, by type, by species; whatever works for you as long as it is fast to look up. Use sticky notes for various types if you need them.
* When you want to use critters from the [[Monster Manual]] or other physical books, know where they are. Don't go turning pages to see what works best: know what you want to turn into, then flip to that page. And please, use your own books for this effort. As a rule of thumb, if it takes longer than a turn (6 seconds or so) to look something up you're doing it wrong.

Additionally, you might find it useful to keep notes with several forms fit to a specific solution. For example:

* Fighting: War [[Troll]], Cloud Giant, [[Baatezu|Chain Devil]]
* Flying: [[Pegasus]], Roc, Air [[Elemental]], Gargoyle, Young Red [[Dragon]]
* Social: [[Succubus]], Nymph, [[Changeling]]
* Swimming: Dragon Turtle, Water Elemental, Sahuagin, Plesiosaurus

If the rules indicate that your stats contribute to the creature's stats, make sure to calculate this along the way. Make tables if you need them to determine things like your new AC if you have armor that contributes to this.