Druid shapechange and metamagic feats

[Orlanth69]

Can a druid use metamagic feats to boost the ability for shapechange?

[awbattles]

No. Wildshape is a supernatural ability, not a spell. It's magical, so it won't work in an antimagic field, but it isn't a spell, so it can't be dispelled.

[Orlanth69]

What works with Shapechange?
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Animal growth

[blahpers]

Wild shape is a polymorph effect. Other polymorph effects do not work on a creature already under the influence of a polymorph effect. Furthermore, size altering effects also do not work on a creature under the influence of a polymorph effect, so that rules out things like enlarge person and animal growth. Though the latter is also ineffective because a druid using wild shape doesn't change type to animal; ergo, they are not a valid target for the spell.

Polymorph effects can be confusing! Read up on them here.

[Scott Wilhelm]

Orlanth69 wrote:

What works with Shapechange?

Enlarge Person
Animal growth

Metamagic Feats should work on them okay. Those are Spells, and should work with Metamagic Feats like they say they do on the label. Some of them wouldn't work. I don't think you could Maximize a Spell that doesn't inflict or cure damage, for instance.

[Diego Rossi]

Scott Wilhelm wrote:

I don't think you could Maximize a Spell that doesn't inflict or cure damage, for instance.

Mirror images images, enervation temporary negative levels and so on. Plenty of spells with "variable, numeric effects" that don't inflict or cure damage.

[avr]

Just in case you mean the spell shapechange and not the druidic ability wild shape - shapechange can have the extend spell metamagic, brisk spell and a few others, but generally only via metamagic rods. Shapechange is a 9th level spell and if metamagic raises it to 10th level or higher it can't be cast.