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If I'm Wild Shaped or Polymorphed and reduced to 0 hit points, can I use Strength Before Death as a reaction to take an extra turn?
The ability comes from the Fighter Samurai subclass.
Strength Before Death
Starting at 18th level, your fighting spirit can delay the grasp of death. If you take damage that reduces you to 0 hit ...
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What happens when the Aid spell ends on a creature while its hit point maximum has been changed to another value?
A number of effects in D&D 5e can change a creature's hit point maximum. Some issues in the specifics of how some features are written can arise when these effects coexist or otherwise interact.
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What happens to Ability Score changes when shapeshifted?
A low strength druid has been hit twice by a Shadow's Strength Drain ability, reducing their strength score from 9 to 3. Fearing potential instant death, the Druid uses Wild Shape to turn into a ...
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As a wildshaped druid, I’m getting polymorphed. What happens when the polymorph ends, do I revert to wildshape form or to normal form?
Imagine that I’m a druid, wild-shaped into a beast.
I got polymorphed by a wizard.
I want to know which form my druid will revert to when the polymorph spell ends because of the wizard losing ...
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Polymorphing into a creature that is larger than the room
If a character has the ability to transform into different creatures (using polymorph or wildshape as examples), what would happen if they shift into a creature larger than the space they are in?
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What happens if a creature with a Bag of Holding is polymorphed/wild-shaped, then is placed inside another Bag of Holding?
If a druid who has a bag of holding uses Wild Shape to become a bug, then the bag of holding merges with their new form (and is not dropped). Then someone puts said bug in another bag of holding, what ...
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What happens when a druid picks up an object which is a polymorphed creature and then tries to merge it into their Wild Shape?
One of the interesting and useful characteristics of a druid's Wild Shape is that they can merge their equipment into their beast form.
The scenario is this:
A PC from the party is turned into an ...
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Can a Wild Shaped Druid be copied by Polymorph or Wild Shape
Wild Shape says:
Your game statistics are replaced by the statistics of the beast, but you retain your alignment, personality, and Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores. You also retain all of ...
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Can a character using a polymorph spell be targeted by Enlarge Person?
After looking over Shifter for a build, I noticed that they use the same class feature (Wild Shape) as a Druid. Wild Shape depends on Beast Shape (among other similar spells), which is a spell of the ...
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Can I Wild Shape or Polymorph into an Awakened Beast?
Suppose I see an Awakened Beast, either through an adventure or by casting Awaken myself.
Am I then able to Wild Shape or Polymorph into the Awakened version of the Beast?
The main advantages are ...
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Can I cast Elemental Body while Wild-Shaped?
I have a level 13 Druid with access to the Cloud (Air Domain). My level 7 domain spell is Elemental Body IV (Air). Can I cast that while I am in a Wild Shape? Or does polymorph rules prevent that?
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If PC with Great Weapon Master reduces a polymorphed creature to 0 hp, can they attack again?
The feat Great Weapon Master (PHB, pg. 167) includes the following benefit:
On your turn, when you score a critical hit with a melee weapon or reduce a creature to 0 hit points with one, you can ...
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How does resistance/vulnerability/immunity interact with carryover damage after reducing a Polymorphed (or Wild Shaped) form to 0 HP?
A caster casts polymorph on another creature. Let's say the polymorphed creature has 10 HP in its new form, but takes 30 piercing damage and its current form is reduced to 0 HP. This causes it to ...
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Can Polymorph be used to give a druid new Wild Shape forms?
After my group's last session, it was pointed out that Polymorph does not require the caster to have ever seen the creature they are attempting to transform the person into. This has spawned a ...
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When you polymorph/wild shape into elementals, can you speak?
Since elementals have languages that can be learned and spoken by anyone, are you able to speak freely with any language you know to fulfill the conditions of spell casting and communication?
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