Tiny Druid Questions

[Kydeem de'Morcaine]

I have a player that is probably going to play a tiny fey druid.

1) Would that change animal companions available? { My first thought is no, but I thought I should ask. }

2) Would that change size of what is allowable for wild shape?
Ex: At level 4, fine to tiny. At level 6, diminuative to small. At level 8, upto medium. What about the plant and elemental sizes? It says as the spell beast shape. But isn't that spell predicated on a medium caster?

Maybe I should just ignore it. But then most druids can only become a smaller animal at 4th level, however this one can become 2 sizes larger.

[Chuck Wright]

Not going by the rules or anything here, but I think that your instincts on how to handle it are spot on.

Animal companions being unaffected and shifting the size limitations down by 2 to match the starting point of the character.

[ShadowcatX]

There is no RAW for it because by RAW pcs can't be tiny. (For important reasons.)

Its important to note how limited wild shape will be (tiny animals). However, by RAW on polymorphing, remember you add size modifiers up until you get to small or medium and then polymorph so he could potentially get a lot of stacking size bonuses and penalties.

[Malfus]

By RAW:
1. No
2. No

As GM:
1. If you want you can change it
2. You should probably change it to a system similar to what Chuck Wright said, though I would drop the size limitations by one since tiny is one step below small.

[Happler]

The closest to RAW you will get is here:
In the "magic" section, under polymorph

Quote:

If a polymorph spell is cast on a creature that is smaller than Small or larger than Medium, first adjust its ability scores to one of these two sizes using the following table before applying the bonuses granted by the polymorph spell.

Creature's Original Size,Str,Dex,Con,Adjusted Size

Tiny +4 –2 — Small

(Please see page for table, it pastes badly)

So, since wild shape acts as Best shape except where is states it is different in the description, you treat it as a polymorph spell.

For example, if your tiny druid changes into a small bird, before you applied the beast shape effects, you would temporarily give them a +4 bonus to STR, and a -2 penalty to Dex, and then treat them as a "small" character for that spell/effect. This would end up with a small bird, with the druids stats except the following: STR: +4, DEX: +0, +1 natural AC, low-light vision, and a fly speed of 30, and then what ever attacks the bird has.