Gayming in 2024
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Ok, devil's advocate - maybe a spell of sex change is really expensive and adventuring just doesn't cover the costs, but they need to let the peasants know how brave they are.
Why would a spell that manipulates your body be any more expensive than the ones you use all the time in that series? Wouldn't it be harder to generate fire, ice, and whatever the else out of thin air than transform something that already exists?
This is why it's dumb. It creates questions that don't need to be asked.
You could ask the same about technology. Why is it that we can produce a flame easily but not rewrite a whole person?
It seems completely reasonable that something that is altering a functioning living being into another form at every level, while keeping it alive, would be far more complex than generating a blob of something elemental. Especially when elemental is, by definition, the simplest form.
Just a matter of how logical you want your magic system to be vs "it's magic, don't worry about it."
Edit: But I have no idea what the garbage in OP is from, so if it's a no-rules system, I agree.
Like above, there are ways to answer the question "why don't they just cast a spell?" But they won't, because addressing it at all would mean acknowledging biological reality.
Boom. If they cast a spell they'd actually change sex just like they would actually turn a person into a crow or a snake.
But then there'd be no controversy. That person IS, as a matter of fact, the thing they changed into.
They actually enjoy the idea of pretending to be something they aren't and then either A) getting everyone else to knowingly validate the lie. Or B) you don't acknowledge them and they play the victim.
Either way they get attention and try to make others endure a humiliation ritual.
It's Dragon Age, it's the Harry Potter rule of "magic does and doesn't do whatever is convenient to the plot"
I can't speak for tranny age, but D&D has a true polymorph spell. It's not particularly expensive, though it is 9th level. Finding someone capable of casting it would probably be the most difficult part.
Short of that though, there's no shortage of cheap, cursed garments that can also do the same thing until removed. A ring would be both easy to wear and and not get in the way of whatever degenerate things they want to get up to.
Exhibit A: https://baldursgate.fandom.com/wiki/Girdle_of_Masculinity/Femininity
That game was released on December 21, 1998. This is a solved problem, but these people are freaks and want to be freaks.
I was gonna say polymorph is for like turning into dragons (at least you can in Pathfinder). Appearing as a different sex can be done with lower level spells. But I don't think that will give you/remove a dong.
True Polymorph also lasts for an hour?
That is what it says if you don't read beyond the top of any spell summary, yes.
You can do it with lower level spells, but it's not going to be permanent.
There's also still magic items that could do similar. I don't see why it couldn't be in dragon age, where DO magic items come from? Someone made them. I don't see why you couldn't have someone genderswap with some magic bra or something. Normal people would call it a cursed item though, lol.
If writers weren't hacks, they'd make it into an interesting dilemma where in order to change your body to that extent you have to, quite literally, make a deal with the devil.