I'm contemplating createing a changeling druid. The Mother's Gift feat, available to changelings, has as one possibility:
Hag Claws (Ex): You gain a +1 bonus on attack and damage rolls with your claws.
Would this bonus still apply if the changeling was wildshaped into an animal form with claws?
I don't see why not.
The relevant text from the rules is as follows:
While under the effects of a polymorph spell, you lose all extraordinary and supernatural abilities that depend on your original form (such as keen senses, scent, and darkvision), as well as any natural attacks and movement types possessed by your original form. You also lose any class features that depend upon form, but those that allow you to add features (such as sorcerers that can grow claws) still function. While most of these should be obvious, the GM is the final arbiter of what abilities depend on form and are lost when a new form is assumed. Your new form might restore a number of these abilities if they are possessed by the new form.
Mothers gift would to me be something tied to your physical form as it is a racial feat. So I would rule no at my table. But check with your GM.
The relevant text from the rules is as follows:
While under the effects of a polymorph spell, you lose all extraordinary and supernatural abilities that depend on your original form (such as keen senses, scent, and darkvision), as well as any natural attacks and movement types possessed by your original form. You also lose any class features that depend upon form, but those that allow you to add features (such as sorcerers that can grow claws) still function. While most of these should be obvious, the GM is the final arbiter of what abilities depend on form and are lost when a new form is assumed. Your new form might restore a number of these abilities if they are possessed by the new form.
Mothers gift would to me be something tied to your physical form as it is a racial feat. So I would rule no at my table. But check with your GM.
Heh, I wouldn't have thought that, in general, you would lose racial feats as a result of wildshaping. On the other hand, the hag's claws bonus is an extraordinary ability, and the polymorph language is pretty clear that you do lose extraordinary and supernatural abilities tied to your original form.
Too bad!