Clarification on wild shape


Rules Questions


So I'll be doing a 1 shot dungeon with my group and one is going to try out a druid and wild shaping. I understand it for the most part but need clarification on the size when wild shaping.
1. if the druid is medium and say wants to shift into a Dinosaur, Deinonychus(aka a raptor) which is a medium animal, do they stay as that animal's size or can they make it large?
any other tips are helpful thanks


It would have to be medium.


Milo v3 wrote:
It would have to be medium.

Awesome thanks


Once in that wild shape you can alter the size with different spells such as Animal Growth or if you wild shape into a humanoid you can use Englarge.


Rameous wrote:
Once in that wild shape you can alter the size with different spells such as Animal Growth or if you wild shape into a humanoid you can use Englarge.

Not really, no. Your type doesn't change, so you aren't a valid target for things like animal growth. You may look like a bear, but you skill count as a Humanoid not an Animal. And as the various spells that wildshape duplicates are polymorph effects, other polymorph effects have no effect on you.

And because wild shape is a polymorph effect, size changing magic of any type doesn't work regardless of its source. So you can't benefit from things like enlarge person either.

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You can only be affected by one polymorph spell at a time. If a new polymorph spell is cast on you (or you activate a polymorph effect, such as wild shape), you can decide whether or not to allow it to affect you, taking the place of the old spell. In addition, other spells that change your size have no effect on you while you are under the effects of a polymorph spell.

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