Changeself (and Genderbend really) should be tweaked to have its effect last through death and qq'ing. Ideally the only way to lose the changeself def should be to manually relax it yourself.

The reasoning here is that the ability has roleplay potential but it goes to waste the moment you qq. All anyone has to do to see through your disguise is wait a little while to see what race you really are.

Would it be bad to use this thread to request a different change on the same theme?

The mana and ego drain playing a Composition song that has no powers imbued doesn't just make no sense, it hinders the roleplay of performances. There's no reason for it.

I agree totally with this one.

I can't figure out exactly when changeself resets - even after I qq, sometimes I'll come back and still be a different race.

Pretty sure you lose changeself after a set amount of RL time.

Never tested how much time, though.

You do (I've just been standing around and my illusion has faded away), but I think the time counter might continue even while you're not logged in. That would explain why sometimes I'll come back to my illusion still intact, and other times it's gone.

Changeself lasts a certain amount of time regardless of quitting. Not sure about death though, I seem to remember illusions poofing when dying in the arena. Not sure about real death.

Looks like I'll be doing some testing.

Changeself apparently lasts somewhere close to seven hours. That doesn't do anyone much good unless you never take a break from playing that lasts longer than seven hours.

Even just extending the duration to a full 24 hours or one game month would make it work much better.