Can I turn into a giant octopus as a skald?


Rules Questions

Sczarni

The totemic skald archetype gives you the ability to wild shape into your totem animal of choice, while still able to perform a raging song.

My idea originally was to turn into a giant octopus. Combines with elemental blood (air) rage power and beast totem rage power I would have a flying, ragepouncing octopus of death with 11 natural attacks (8x tentacle, 1x bite, 2x claws).

However, the wild shape of the skald seems to be limited to your chosen totem animal. Anyone has an idea to circumvent this? Id really like to stick to something funny instead of the usual tiger or bear.

TLDR; flying dubstep humming octopus of doom, how do I do it?

Sovereign Court

Two ways I can think of, though they're kinda disappointing;

1) Don't take the totem archetype, use Spell Kenning for Beast Shape, and a Ring of Eloquence so you can still perform.

2) As a druid dip into bard and use perform-dance; or dip into skald/bard and use a ring to do vocal performance.

Sczarni

I figured I could just take 6 levels of druid and natural speech but then i'd lose the beast totem track.

I forgot the ring of eloquence, it's a nice solution! But the point of this build is the rage powers it grants... so 3 levels of skald is obligatory.

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