Wild Shape into medium sized tiger?

[Coinshot]

Is it possible to wild shape into a medium sized tiger? My understanding is that the Reduce Animal/Person spells won't work since polymorph specifically calls out size changes as not working when polymorphed. So, is it possible?

Note: I don't want to be a deinonychus, I'm asking specifically about medium tiger/dire tiger only.

[James Risner]

You may not template your wild shapes.

[Starbuck_II]

grifter730 wrote:

Is it possible to wild shape into a medium sized tiger? My understanding is that the Reduce Animal/Person spells won't work since polymorph specifically calls out size changes as not working when polymorphed. So, is it possible?

Note: I don't want to be a deinonychus, I'm asking specifically about medium tiger/dire tiger only.

Actually, what you can do is reduce your size first then wild shape. But you can't wild shape then reduce size.

But you can't directly change into a template tiger.

[GinoA]

Reduce/Enlarge and then Polymorph would accomplish nothing. Most Polymorph effects specify a resulting size, not a relative change.

Stated another way, if a human and a gnome both Wild Shape into a Tiger; are they the same size Tiger?

[Chromantic Durgon <3]

Eventually you can wild shape into a Su which is similar.

[Imbicatus]

You can wild shape into a medium Leopard, have some stripes instead of spots, and poof, you're a medium tiger.

[Saldiven]

Imbicatus wrote:

You can wild shape into a medium Leopard, have some stripes instead of spots, and poof, you're a medium tiger.

I was going to suggest re-skinning, too.

Find an animal of the size you want with roughly the abilities you want, then ask permission to say it's a X-animal instead of a Y-animal.

[Imbicatus]

It isn't even technically reskinning, as the medium cat entry tells you to use it for all medium cats, and includes leopards, panthers, pumas, mountain lions, and so on. Just say it's a small breed tiger and be done.

[DM Livgin]

There is an exception here for the Mooncursed Barbarian. It needs to create stats for a medium tiger. I'm guessing in this case you would just reduce it's size and reduce it's natural attack dice by one step. I don't see anything else changing.