#1505, "RE: Some ideas about shapeshifters, comments welcome..."
Add unique echos to each partial shift when they fall.
This isn't practical for technical reasons. Standard wear-off echoes are somewhat inflexible, and the 'overlap' echoes you are discussing change based on the caster's anatomy.
Add a blurb of sorts to the shifter's desc when a partial shift is up.
Eh. I'm not sure I like imposing on their description style. It's hard to make things like that flow correctly.
Allow various partial shifts (I'm thinking of the melee ones) to improve in combat.
Claw of the Lion already could be. I added checks for the other two as well.