Entertaining Druid wildshape stories?


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Hey all,

Our party just hit 6th level and our druid started some earthglide adventures. We had already been using summoned elementals, but despite the restrictions and risks, have a PC with so many forms is pretty sweet utility.

How have other people experiences been?


Wild shape is an amazing ability.

The list of awesome things you can do with animal powers is pretty much endless, and is as varied as your imagination, when it comes to fun and useful abilities, it is hard to beat.

Plus, who does not loving mauling baddies as a bear, there is just something satisfying about that.


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Turned into a horse to carry a party member. The dirty jokes never stopped regarding the one character "riding" the other.


Earthglide and Whirlwind all over the place. And the reach you get at Huge size is just amazing against anything Large or smaller.

I've said many times before, I would pay any amount of money for a non-caster wildshaping class.


Your wish has been heard!

(I have always wanted to explore that niche)


Back in old 3.5, I played a 20 Charisma Yuan-Ti pure blood cleric of Set. While she didn't have complete wild shape, she had snake form. Though that racial ability did not transform your gear and clothes.

Sufficed to say, the lecherous party members tried to find excuses for Lenori to take snake form.

A vanara druid I played would often wild shape into a monkey, as we were in a jungle. The snarky party rogue would ask her "hey, why do you keep devolving?"


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What happens in wildshape stays in wildshape.


I've had lots of fun wild shaping into a celestial allosaurus (planar shape feat) and doing a smiting pounce with 5 attacks as a huge dinosaur.

Or the time I turned into a dire badger and burrowed through a barred wooden door.

During an aquatic adventure we went from being underwater to the deck of a hostile ship. The GM learned that holding your breath works both ways when my druid pulled himself out of the water as a giant octopus with animal growth, pummeling mooks with 8 attacks and 20+ feet of reach.


blood_kite wrote:


During an aquatic adventure we went from being underwater to the deck of a hostile ship. The GM learned that holding your breath works both ways when my druid pulled himself out of the water as a giant octopus with animal growth, pummeling mooks with 8 attacks and 20+ feet of reach.

I believe the rule is that wildshapers can breath in any environment they or their new form can travel in. They do not lose their ability to breath air ever.

" If the form grants a swim or burrow speed, you maintain the ability to breathe if you are swimming or burrowing. The DC for any of these abilities equals your DC for the polymorph spell used to change you into that form."

I cannot wait to see our druid do the giant octopus.


blood_kite wrote:
During an aquatic adventure we went from being underwater to the deck of a hostile ship. The GM learned that holding your breath works both ways when my druid pulled himself out of the water as a giant octopus with animal growth, pummeling mooks with 8 attacks and 20+ feet of reach.

Wild Shape doesn't change you type so you are not a legal target for Animal Growth.


yep, andreww is correct, that is why you use long arm :)


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well, i once went earth gliding, thing is - your are blind while doing so, went too dip, fell under the floor.
the level below was 400' high cavern ending in lava.
game over.

another time - wanted to follow someone in the world wound, turned into a rat... forgot demons got special vision... a huge demon swallowed me whole, i wild shaped again into a huge hippo - ripped the demon from the inside.


666bender wrote:

well, i once went earth gliding, thing is - your are blind while doing so, went too dip, fell under the floor.

the level below was 400' high cavern ending in lava.
game over.

You are so totes blind. PF wildshape is so wierd. I also imagine that many MANY druids when on earthglide adventures and ended up as purple worm snacks.

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Back in 3.X I played a gnome druid who had to infiltrate an organization that didn't have nonhuman members. We decided that the best plan was to have me sneak in as a tiny-size snake hidden inside the trousers of another party member. Unfortunately the guy screening us at the door noticed something... amiss. "What in the World is in his pants?" he said. The bard, our "commanding officer," rolled bluff: "Do I look like the kind of man who knows what's in my underlings' pants?" The doorman, flustered, let us pass.

Played a druid again in my first Pathfinder game and impersonated a religious omen. A group of orcs with a history of coexisting more or less peacefully with their neighbors had fallen under the influence of the BBEG, who wanted them in his Legions of Doom. The party decided to convince the orcs to rebel by appealing to their traditional culture. The orcs believed white ravens to be a sacred animal, so the party caused some unfortunate accidents to occur to the BBEG's people while my druid flew around as a white raven (and an item that let me speak) calling out "Old Ways! Return to Old Ways!" When the party's half-orc barbarian rolled up to challenge the puppet chief to single combat, most of the rest of the orcs supported him.


@wierdo, Those are both awesome and roleplaytastic!


We were fighting a flying wizard. My druid turned into bat and flew over the enemy wizard. When my turn came again the GM asked me what I am doing.

I responded that when I am directly over the wizard's head I am shapeshifting into a large bear...

*splat*

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