Wild Shape and Divine Casting

[Kazumetsa_Raijin]

Let's say I combine several levels of Sacred Fist and Druid.

Is taking the Natural Spell feat a necessity to cast Divine Spells from the Warpriest's list while in Wild Shape?

[dragonhunterq]

Without the feat you can't cast any spell requiring vocal or somatic components whilst in wildshape, it doesn't matter spell list you use.

[Kazumetsa_Raijin]

dragonhunterq wrote:

Without the feat you can't cast any spell requiring vocal or somatic components whilst in wildshape, it doesn't matter spell list you use.

Aaahhh. Alright. In that case, it'll be a necessity haha. Thank you Dragonhunterq!

[Taenia]

If the shape you turn into can speak it can cast spells with a Vocal component only.

If they have hands they can complete somatic gestures.

If you have Eschew materials or spell component pouch you can cast spells with material components, if you can access them.

[Kazumetsa_Raijin]

Taenia wrote:

If the shape you turn into can speak it can cast spells with a Vocal component only.

If they have hands they can complete somatic gestures.

If you have Eschew materials or spell component pouch you can cast spells with material components, if you can access them.

Air Elemental could do it then?

[joe kirner]

you need to have the natural spell feat in order to cast any spell when in wild shape form.

[Taenia]

I disagree

[Weirdo]

Expect table variation on whether elementals can cast without Natural Spell. Some GMs think they're humanoid enough to do so, others think not.

I'm on the fence. I never tried it as a player with my druid, but as a GM I've allowed it in the past with a wizard. I could see a case for elementals being able to use verbal but not somatic components on the grounds that they're described as being able to speak, but since they are only "roughly humanoid" probably don't have the well-developed hands needed for gesturing. (Monkeys, interestingly, would probably be the opposite.)