So I just got to the level where I can Wild Shape into a plant (a.k.a. Plant Shape I), but I can't seem to find a use for it. Any help?
Great for camouflage.
Also great for avoiding all sorts of creatures whose nasty special attacks don't harm plants.
You're in a graveyard surrounded by vampires who want to suck your blood, zombies that want to eat your brains, ghouls that want to gnaw your bones, even wraiths who want to suck the life out of the hated living who they hate because they're living.
Suddenly, there's no more druid. Just slightly more ivy on one of the mausoleums.
The undead feel vaguely stupid. Even if they know it's the druid, he's suddenly no longer on the menu. At worst the druid gets a bit beat up by the zombies who think the druid might be hiding behind the ivy.
I was going to say that turning into a violet fungus would be potentially useful, but I just noticed that the PFRPG version has "rot" instead of "poison" as a special ability (even though it says rot is a poison ability). So do you get it with Plant Shape I or not? I don't know.
I don't think you'd get "rot" since it isn't on the list of special abilities you get from the spell. If somebody can get official word otherwise I'd be quite pleased though as I have some rather nice homemade violet fungus minis. I think Zuggtmoy is WotC IP, so I wonder who is in charge of fungus monsters in Pathfinder.
I think you've only got 3 choices for small or medium plant creatures:
Basidirond - This form totally sucks.
Vegepygmy - This form exists so that basidirond won't get lonely sucking all alone.
Violet Fungus - If nothing else the violet fungus has 4 attacks with a natural reach of 10 feet. As one of the few Medium sized forms with reach it could be semi-useful in dungeons.
Can we get an errata on that ruling? Is the voilet fungi rot a poison? The descripion contains a procedure on distilling the Voilet Venom so I assume that it is.
But how about the yellow musk creepers or Basidrond's spores?
Also, not clear if the spell provides the slam or natural weapons of the plant shape that is assumed. I know it's nitpicking and logically it should, but does it?
I mean, we're talking a 5th level spell here
Can we get an errata on that ruling? Is the violet fungi rot a poison? The description contains a procedure on distilling the Violet Venom so I assume that it is.
But how about the yellow musk creepers or Basidrond's spores?
Also, not clear if the spell provides the slam or natural weapons of the plant shape that is assumed. I know it's nitpicking and logically it should, but does it?
I mean, we're talking a 5th level spell here
Ok, So the Violet fungi is a poison effect (says so in the monster description) but the yellow mush and basidrond's effects are disease.
And reading up on polymorph spells in the magic section tells you that you automatically gain the new forms natural attacks and proficiency in them.
You could turn into a Mary Jane shrub and mello out. Or cat nip and become a dealer...Here kittie, kittie.