You assume a different form. When you cast the spell, choose one of the following options, the effects of which last for the duration of the spell. While the spell lasts, you can end one option as an action to gain the benefits of a different one.
Aquatic Adaptation. You adapt your body to an aquatic environment, sprouting gills and growing webbing between your fingers. You can breathe underwater and gain a swimming speed equal to your walking speed.
Change Appearance. You transform your appearance. You decide what you look like, including your height, weight, facial features, sound of your voice, hair length, coloration, and distinguishing characteristics, if any. You can make yourself appear as a member of another race, though none of your statistics change. You also can't appear as a creature of a different size than you, and your basic shape stays the same; if you're bipedal, you can't use this spell to become quadrupedal, for instance. At any time for the duration of the spell, you can use your action to change your appearance in this way again.
Natural Weapons. You grow claws, fangs, spines, horns, or a different natural weapon of your choice. Your unarmed strikes deal 1d6 bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing damage, as appropriate to the natural weapon you chose, and you are proficient with your unarmed strikes. Finally, the natural weapon is magic and you have a +1 bonus to the attack and damage rolls you make using it.
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Posted Aug 6, 2024No, Warlocks only get it at level 15 with their invocation for it:
Master of Myriad Forms
Prerequisite: 15th level
You can cast alter self at will, without expending a spell slot.
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Posted Oct 25, 2024The 2024 PHB Warlock now gets this at... level 5, thus, four years later this wish was granted... and Warlocks will still probably opt to pick the Disguise self invocation over alter self anyways, lol.
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Posted Oct 31, 2024Alter Self D&D Free Rules, pg. 239
Link to the 2024 version of this spell
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Posted Dec 28, 2024A green hag with this spell, perhaps by a brewed potion, would pass physical tests that her illusory powers wouldn't handle. If one could be an Artificer Alchemist, she could handle a trip to town easily, and interact with folks as well. A kindly but solitary old crone who lives in a hut could gain the townsfolk's trust this way, especially if she's bringing heather ale and whiskey from the peat brewing (heather grows well in peaty soil).
They certainly have the intelligence to be artificers.