Wild Shape

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Wild Shape is an Action gained by Druids at Level 2 that allows them to magically transform into various creatures in order to fight in combat or explore the environment.

See also: Combat Wild Shape, the Circle of the Moon Druid enhanced version with extra exclusive forms.

Description

Magically assume the shape of a beast. While in animal shape, you can't talk or cast Spells.

You can take on the attributes your beast form -- excluding your Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores.

When your beast form drops to 0 Hit Points, you revert to your normal form.

Properties

Cost:

Action + Wild Shape Charge

Details:

• Your physical Ability Scores ( Strength, Dexterity, Constitution) become the Ability Scores of the creature while Wild Shaped. Your Hit Points and  Armour Class also become that of the transformed creature.
• When you reach 0 Hit Points, you revert back to your original form (with the same Hit Points you had before Wild Shaping). If you take damage that reduces the Wild Shape form's Hit Points below 0, the remaining damage is applied to your original form.
• If a Concentration Spell was cast before entering Wild Shape, you do not lose Concentration on the spell after Wild Shaping.
• You can't cast spell but furthermore can't do any action outside of those available to your Wild Shape.
• Your equipped items are merged into your beast form and do not have any effect until you revert back.
• You retain your normal Skill and Saving throw Proficiencies while Wild Shaped, but the total bonuses for Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution-based rolls are influenced by your new animal form ability scores.
• Your beast form has a fixed number of base Hit Points that increase every two levels that you advance in the Druid class after unlocking each unique creature type.
• The Hitpoint-Increase is calculated by a factor depending on the shape you are using: - Sabre-Tooth, Panther: 1.15 - Myrmidons, Rothe, Owlbear: 1.2 - Bear, Badger, Spider: 1.3 - Wolf: 1.4

Current Hitpoints = Base Hit Points * (Factor ^ #of2levelups) rounded

e.g. Bear Lvl 8 = 30 * (1,3^3) = 65.91 => 66 HP

• There is a certain increase to damage for some of the attacks. The first increase is gained at Level 4 as follows: - d4: Bear: Claws; Dire Raven: Beak and Rend Vision; Panther: Bite; Owlbear: Rupture, Claws and Crushing Flight - d6: Badger: Bite; Spider: Bite; Rothe: Gore and Charge; Panther: Jugular Strike and Pounce The increase is set at Level 4 so the Rothe, Raven, Panther and Owlbear get them right from the start. At Level 8 these dice increase by one so a d4 becomes d6, d6 becomes d8 etc.

All Wild Shape Forms

Creature	Level Learned	Base AC	Dex Mod to AC	AC	HP (Base)	HP (At Level 12)	STR	DEX	CON
Badger	2	10	+0	10	13	48	14	10	15
Bear	2*	12	+0	12	30	111	19	10	16
Cat	2	10	+2	12	2	2	6	15	10
Spider	2	11	+3	14	20	74	14	16	12
Wolf	2	12	+2	14	18	97	17	15	15
Dire Raven	4*	14	+2	16	13	13	6	14	8
Deep Rothé	4	10	+0	10	23	48	18	10	14
Panther	6	12	+2	14	45	68	14	15	10
Owlbear	6	14	+1	15	65	112	20	12	17
Sabre-Toothed Tiger	8*	12	+1	13	67	89	18	13	15
Dilophosaurus	10	13	+1	14	74	96	19	13	17
Air Myrmidon	10*	16	+2	18	90	108	18	14	14
Earth Myrmidon	10*	18	+0	18	103	124	18	10	17
Fire Myrmidon	10*	14	+4	18	90	108	13	18	15
Water Myrmidon	10*	16	+2	18	90	108	18	14	16

• * Only available to Circle of the Moon Druids.

Variants

•  Wild Shape: Badger
•  Wild Shape: Cat
•  Wild Shape: Spider
•  Wild Shape: Wolf
•  Wild Shape: Deep Rothé
•  Wild Shape: Panther
•  Wild Shape: Owlbear
•  Wild Shape: Dilophosaurus

How to learn

Classes:

• Class level 2: Druid

Notes

• For April Fools 2023, Larian Studios posted a tweet "announcing" a new wild shape for Druids: the Waterdhavian Cheese Wheel.
• Aberrant Shape