Negative healing and wild shape


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Imagine a dhampir druid in their wild shape battle form. Would that mess with negative healing?


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I don't see anything in Wild Shape or the Polymorph trait that would override Negative Healing. I also don't see anything in Animal Form that would either - but I haven't looked at any of the other Wild Shape spell options. I assume that none of them do either.

Horizon Hunters

Polymorph effects only add traits, they don't remove them (unless they say they do). It also doesn't say it would remove your Negative Healing, so it doesn't.


Cordell Kintner wrote:
Polymorph effects only add traits, they don't remove them (unless they say they do). It also doesn't say it would remove your Negative Healing, so it doesn't.

Should they replace things with worse ones, though? For example, darkvision with low-light vision?

Not exactly on topic, but that's interesting.


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Errenor wrote:
Cordell Kintner wrote:
Polymorph effects only add traits, they don't remove them (unless they say they do). It also doesn't say it would remove your Negative Healing, so it doesn't.

Should they replace things with worse ones, though? For example, darkvision with low-light vision?

Not exactly on topic, but that's interesting.

Darkvision and low-light vision are distinct abilities. One is not an upgraded version of the other. It is entirely possible to have both.


Ravingdork wrote:
Errenor wrote:
Cordell Kintner wrote:
Polymorph effects only add traits, they don't remove them (unless they say they do). It also doesn't say it would remove your Negative Healing, so it doesn't.

Should they replace things with worse ones, though? For example, darkvision with low-light vision?

Not exactly on topic, but that's interesting.
Darkvision and low-light vision are distinct abilities. One is not an upgraded version of the other. It is entirely possible to have both.

Good to know. Just in case a dwarf polymorphs into a human, say.

Horizon Hunters

Errenor wrote:
Cordell Kintner wrote:
Polymorph effects only add traits, they don't remove them (unless they say they do). It also doesn't say it would remove your Negative Healing, so it doesn't.

Should they replace things with worse ones, though? For example, darkvision with low-light vision?

Not exactly on topic, but that's interesting.

If you have Darkvision and take on a form with Low-Light vision, you would have both. Only with Morph spells would you lose the function of the part you are morphing (such as morphing your hands with Claw attacks into a different appendage), and even then it's up to the GM.


Good arguments, thanks. Just in case I ever need them for a dwarf druid Wild Shaping into low-light seeing animals.

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