Need help with Transform/Duplicate Self

[bawonsamdi]

I made a wolf-man character capable of transforming himself into ... a pack of wolves:
murpg.proboards19.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=Original&thread=1156722123

I did it by taking Transform Self, choosing a fury man-wolf as main form and a regular wolf as the lesser form and restricting the Duplicate Self modifier to this lesser form.

But i'm a bit confused about how pricing the whole thing. I think that the cost of the wolf form (including the duplicate self modifier) should be halved but i'm not sure ...
Or maybe there is another way to do the trick ?

Thank you for your incoming advices ...

[Beacon]

The cheaper form is half price. Even without looking at the write-up, I figure it’s a safe bet that the form with Duplicate Self isn’t likely to be the cheap one. That’s especially true it it’s the wolf form too.

I’d imagine the cheapest way to create the character is to, rather than having a wolf that multiplies, have a human form with Duplicate Self and a secondary wolf from. That way you’d have a guy who turns into a lot of guys who turn into a lot of wolves instead of having – as I’m under the impression your character currently is – a wolf who turns into a lot of wolves who turn into a lot of guys. Then you’d just reduce the cost of whichever form was cheapest by 50%.

[bawonsamdi]

beacon said:

The cheaper form is half price. Even without looking at the write-up, I figure it’s a safe bet that the form with Duplicate Self isn’t likely to be the cheap one. That’s especially true it it’s the wolf form too.

Well, by strictly following the rules, you are right.

Maybe i should explain myself: i don't want that the duplicated being can switch between the two forms. In my example, the only way to duplicate self is to be transformed into the wolf form and once duplicated, each wolf can't turn into the man-wolf form. This is either the man-wolf form or the wolf pack form.

Since i would like to duplicate only the lesser form ("lesser" regarding his powers not his cost including the cost of the duplicate self modifier), i think that is fair to lower the cost of this modifier.
Maybe that 15w for the ability to duplicate the lesser form only is too cheap ? Then 20w ?