Inspiration needed: learning how to wild shape

[Paulicus]

Hi all,

I'm currently playing a lizardman saurian druid in a Serpent's Skull game (great fun so far, just starting book 2). I'm on the cusp of gaining wildshape next level, and I'm trying to imagine ways that my character would go about practicing how to change forms before fully learning how. Unfortunately, I've hit a bit of a mental block. Any suggestions that might help fuel my creativity?

Thanks in advance!

[Douglas MacIntyre]

Animal study - tracking the bear or chasing the prey around the forest? Be thew animal before you take its shape type thing?

[santherus]

Paulicus wrote:

Hi all,

I'm currently playing a lizardman saurian druid in a Serpent's Skull game (great fun so far, just starting book 2). I'm on the cusp of gaining wildshape next level, and I'm trying to imagine ways that my character would go about practicing how to change forms before fully learning how. Unfortunately, I've hit a bit of a mental block. Any suggestions that might help fuel my creativity?

Thanks in advance!

So - as you'll be primarily saurian forms, you might roleplay this as acting upon advice from ancestors speaking to you in dreams, with your L2 Totem transformation ability actually showing your burgeoning alternate forms beginning - the totem Bite attack is a 1D6, as opposed to the standard lizardfolk 1D3 - your jaw taking upon the characteristics of a fiercer, larger ancestor, the +2 natural armour flavoured as plates and scales of a stegosaurus, etc.

Hope this helps.

[Paulicus]

Luckily, we encountered a crazy hermit-priest of gozreh during our travel, I figure my druid chatted with him for a while, at least.

I'm thinking I might go with some kind of torpor for a day. Maybe less, like being unable to wake for guard duty one night. And I'll use that dream idea, meet my scaled god or something.

I suppose it'd be much easier to play it as a gradual shift if I hadn't traded the totem transformation (I asked the GM to allow the natural armor bonus to stack, and we ended up with just boosting my natural armor by 1) :p

Thanks for the suggestions!