Wild shape and Greater Magic Fang


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Playing other classes, I have used GMF as a breakfast spell, cast at the beginning of the adventuring day. I use multiple castings of the full bonus option. If I am a druid, how do my casting of GMF interact with the fact that I might be shifting into and out of different forms with different natural weapons throughout the course of the day.


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Grand Lodge

Read the entries on Wildshaping, Beast Shape spell descriptions and the rules for polymorphing.

Silver Crusade

Given the text of MF/GMF, it only targets a particular natural weapon on the current target. For example, let's say you have a half-orc druid with the Toothy racial trait (bite attack). If you were to cast GMF on your bite attack granted by the racial trait, THEN wild shape into another form, you'd lose the ability to use that specific bite attack; as a result, the GMF isn't being utilized.


Volkspanzer said wrote:
Given the text of MF/GMF, it only targets a particular natural weapon on the current target. For example, let's say you have a half-orc druid with the Toothy racial trait (bite attack). If you were to cast GMF on your bite attack granted by the racial trait, THEN wild shape into another form, you'd lose the ability to use that specific bite attack; as a result, the GMF isn't being utilized.

This makes sense. I also wonder if it should carry across kind of NW. Like if you took weapon focus bite, had a bite attack in your normal form and then polymorphed into another form with bite they would both benefit.


If you want it to as GM go ahead and run it that way. As written it wouldn't, it probably has something to do with certain forms having more that one set of attacks (going from one form with a bite, to another with 2 bites, 2 claws to 4+ claws, etc). This keeps you from pre-buffing one form and possible confusion on which attack forms get the spell.

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