Questions tagged [wild-shape]
For questions about Wild Shape, the ability of D&D and Pathfinder Druids to turn themselves into a variety of animals. It is a shapeshifting effect that allows Druids to become more in tune with nature, allowing them to do things they normally could not or to become more fearsome in battle.
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Stacking Shapechange and Wild Shape: what happens when reduced to 0 hp?
Let's say a Druid casts Shapechange and then Wild Shapes (or vice versa), which seems stackable since they are not the same named game effect.
Both abilities say almost the same thing regarding what ...
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Best base class for a homebrew subclass inspired by Doric from the movie?
A lot of D&D fans have noted that, unlike how Doric’s Wild Shape is presented in Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, D&D druids have almost never had the ability to transform into ...
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Can you eat a druid? [duplicate]
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In my recent game our party was travelling through some barren wasteland and we were short on food, fortunately we have druid in a party so we think of using wildshape ability to create ...
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Chimeric Animals from Icewind Dale
I've recently discovered the Chimeric Animals from Icewind Dale on DNDBeyond. I'm really curious about what they are, what the lore is behind them, etc. I've looked on the Forgotten Realms wiki, and I ...
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Does the Feat "Telepathic" allow my druid to communicate with the party and other beasts through telepathy without limitations of the beast form?
I am new to the D&D system and want to create a druid character for D&D 5e.
At level 4, I am allowed to choose either an ability enhancement or a feat. The feat "Telepathic" has the ...
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Does a druid in wild shape still benefit from the speed increase of the Mobile feat?
Since in wild shape "You retain the benefit of any features from your class, race, or other source and can use them if the new form is physically capable of doing so" and the Mobile feat ...
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Druid wildshape and skills/perception [duplicate]
The explanation of druid wildshape shows that the druid while wildshaped retains its intelligence wisdom and charisma modifier. And gains additional abilities given by the animal.
Now keeping the ...
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What happens when a PC being infested with Rot Grubs chooses to Wild Shape into a beast?
Some context: We're running the Dragon Heist campaign and had an initially boring "sewers crawl" encounter that I've decided to "spice up" by dropping a bunch of Rot Grubs on ...
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Can Level 6 Circle of the Moon Druids wild shape into a flying beast?
From reading the rules, it appears that level 6 Circle of the Moon druids should be able to wild shape into a flying beast.
Many sites on the internet suggest that they cannot.
https://www.dndbeyond....
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Paladin fighting style blind fighting and druid ability wild shape working together?
You retain the benefit of any features from your class, race, or other source and can use them if the new form is physically capable of doing so. However, you can't use any of your special senses, ...
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Can a wildshaped Druid proxy a touch spell through its familiar?
A Druid in wild shape
... can’t cast spells ...
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... your familiar [to] deliver [a touch spell] as if it had cast the spell.
Does specific beat general here, and allow a ...
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Can a druid use Wild Companion and Wild Shape simultaneously?
The context for this is that a PC druid that is not yet level 8, wants to achieve flight by using the Wild Companion feature from Tasha's Cauldron of Everything to summon a familiar with a fly speed ...
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Shifters and druids, how do they interact?
If a Longtooth shifter changed into a werewolf and then wild shaped into a bear, would it become a werebear or do I need to do it the other way around?
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Do items like Headband of Intellect or Gauntlets of Ogre Strength work with Wildshape?
Can a druid be using them while wild-shaped if they had them before they wild-shaped? I'm not sure exactly what the ruling is and I'm being asked by my players.
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Wild Shape vs. Blackrazor
Wild Shape specifies that:
You automatically revert if you fall unconscious, drop to 0 hit points, or die.
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When you transform, you assume the beast’s hit points and Hit Dice. When you revert to ...
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