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First off please DON'T tell me I'm overthinking things I enjoy world building and am just looking for discussion on this not necessarily advice or house rules. Just a friendly discussion on would this work based on real world martial arts.
I was thinking about the fact that a lot of martial arts in the real world are based on observing and adapting the movements of animals and it got me wondering could it go the other way. That is take a monk with the cat, crane, dragon, boar, charging stag, kirin style and so on then use polymoprph/shapechagne/dragonshape/etc to turn them into that animal. Do you think they could use their martial arts style in their animal form? For example if the martial arts style is based on the movements of a cat and you turn the monk into a cat could they fight just as well as a cat using cat style martial arts?
shapeshift doesn't remove class abilities or feats that can still be used in the said form (so using a feat for a sword in a form that can't hold a sword won't work but using a feat like improved initiative should ).
as long as the form doesn't remove option to use specific benefits of the stance. it should still have it. even if the form is of a bear and the style is of a dragon.
an example for a from that remove the benefits would be a form that is immune to being prone (such as a snake's form) and a style benefit that effect what happen when you are prone. (i think one of the monkey style feats has a benefit when prone for example).
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shapeshift doesn't remove class abilities or feats that can still be used in the said form (so using a feat for a sword in a form that can't hold a sword won't work but using a feat like improved initiative should ).
as long as the form doesn't remove option to use specific benefits of the stance. it should still have it. even if the form is of a bear and the style is of a dragon.
an example for a from that remove the benefits would be a form that is immune to being prone (such as a snake's form) and a style benefit that effect what happen when you are prone. (i think one of the monkey style feats has a benefit when prone for example).
Not quite what I was after. I'm not asking about the mechanical aspects so much as the core concept. That is if I learnt dragon style and got turned into a dragon could I adapt that to fight using it or would it be designed for humans not dragons inspite of being adapted from the way a dragon fights. If this was a real world situation not an ingame one.