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Does a picture or painting work with Wild Shape?
If you're listening to a voice recording, can you hear me?How does wild shape work when adjusting ability scores and performing natural attacks?Does Elemental Wild Shape work like regular Wild Shape?Do fey spirits in the form of creatures from the Conjure Animal Spell count towards creatures one has seen for Wild Shape?How does Rage interact with Wild Shape?Does magic armor resize with wild shape?Druids, wild shape, and armor check penaltiesHow does “round down” work with the Druid's moon circle wild shape?Do removed parts of a Druid's Wild Shape form persist after said Druid exits Wild Shape?How does wild shape interact with dominate beast?Do lingering effects vanish when you use Wild Shape?
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Technically, no.
(But it would probably be reasonable to allow it in many cases. Ask your DM.
Druid's Wildshape ability states:
Starting at 2nd level, you can use your action to magically assume the shape of a beast that you have seen before.
The text states that you must have seen the beast, not a picture of the beast.
However, given the simplistic nature of the rule in the context of nuanced gameplay, it is very reasonable to argue that a Druid could intuit some basic information about a creature from a picture and that Wildshape could therefore be used after seeing a picture or painting of the original creature.
After all, Wildshape is mostly concerned with the physical attributes of the creature and Beasts have fairly straightforward, non-magical abilities. Crag Cats' spell resistance/reflection come to mind as an example of an exception that would preclude using a simple image for Wildshape. The DM has final say in how flexible the rule can be interpreted.
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The idea behind having seen it, it seems to me, is that the druid has a clear idea of the shapes, textures, dimensions and behaviour of the creature. Especially as a druid, you are attuned to the interpretation of fauna.
Based solely on a picture, some things (especially movement) could be wrongly interpreted.
Including a penalty on certain checks to account for possible mistakes of the Wild Shape could be an agreeable compromise, however.
I would rule out 'reading a description', though, simply because 'seeing' is used explicitly and exclusively in the ruleset.
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Technically, no.
(But it would probably be reasonable to allow it in many cases. Ask your DM.
Druid's Wildshape ability states:
Starting at 2nd level, you can use your action to magically assume the shape of a beast that you have seen before.
The text states that you must have seen the beast, not a picture of the beast.
However, given the simplistic nature of the rule in the context of nuanced gameplay, it is very reasonable to argue that a Druid could intuit some basic information about a creature from a picture and that Wildshape could therefore be used after seeing a picture or painting of the original creature.
After all, Wildshape is mostly concerned with the physical attributes of the creature and Beasts have fairly straightforward, non-magical abilities. Crag Cats' spell resistance/reflection come to mind as an example of an exception that would preclude using a simple image for Wildshape. The DM has final say in how flexible the rule can be interpreted.
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Technically, no.
(But it would probably be reasonable to allow it in many cases. Ask your DM.
Druid's Wildshape ability states:
Starting at 2nd level, you can use your action to magically assume the shape of a beast that you have seen before.
The text states that you must have seen the beast, not a picture of the beast.
However, given the simplistic nature of the rule in the context of nuanced gameplay, it is very reasonable to argue that a Druid could intuit some basic information about a creature from a picture and that Wildshape could therefore be used after seeing a picture or painting of the original creature.
After all, Wildshape is mostly concerned with the physical attributes of the creature and Beasts have fairly straightforward, non-magical abilities. Crag Cats' spell resistance/reflection come to mind as an example of an exception that would preclude using a simple image for Wildshape. The DM has final say in how flexible the rule can be interpreted.
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Technically, no.
(But it would probably be reasonable to allow it in many cases. Ask your DM.
Druid's Wildshape ability states:
Starting at 2nd level, you can use your action to magically assume the shape of a beast that you have seen before.
The text states that you must have seen the beast, not a picture of the beast.
However, given the simplistic nature of the rule in the context of nuanced gameplay, it is very reasonable to argue that a Druid could intuit some basic information about a creature from a picture and that Wildshape could therefore be used after seeing a picture or painting of the original creature.
After all, Wildshape is mostly concerned with the physical attributes of the creature and Beasts have fairly straightforward, non-magical abilities. Crag Cats' spell resistance/reflection come to mind as an example of an exception that would preclude using a simple image for Wildshape. The DM has final say in how flexible the rule can be interpreted.
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Technically, no.
(But it would probably be reasonable to allow it in many cases. Ask your DM.
Druid's Wildshape ability states:
Starting at 2nd level, you can use your action to magically assume the shape of a beast that you have seen before.
The text states that you must have seen the beast, not a picture of the beast.
However, given the simplistic nature of the rule in the context of nuanced gameplay, it is very reasonable to argue that a Druid could intuit some basic information about a creature from a picture and that Wildshape could therefore be used after seeing a picture or painting of the original creature.
After all, Wildshape is mostly concerned with the physical attributes of the creature and Beasts have fairly straightforward, non-magical abilities. Crag Cats' spell resistance/reflection come to mind as an example of an exception that would preclude using a simple image for Wildshape. The DM has final say in how flexible the rule can be interpreted.
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The idea behind having seen it, it seems to me, is that the druid has a clear idea of the shapes, textures, dimensions and behaviour of the creature. Especially as a druid, you are attuned to the interpretation of fauna.
Based solely on a picture, some things (especially movement) could be wrongly interpreted.
Including a penalty on certain checks to account for possible mistakes of the Wild Shape could be an agreeable compromise, however.
I would rule out 'reading a description', though, simply because 'seeing' is used explicitly and exclusively in the ruleset.
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The idea behind having seen it, it seems to me, is that the druid has a clear idea of the shapes, textures, dimensions and behaviour of the creature. Especially as a druid, you are attuned to the interpretation of fauna.
Based solely on a picture, some things (especially movement) could be wrongly interpreted.
Including a penalty on certain checks to account for possible mistakes of the Wild Shape could be an agreeable compromise, however.
I would rule out 'reading a description', though, simply because 'seeing' is used explicitly and exclusively in the ruleset.
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The idea behind having seen it, it seems to me, is that the druid has a clear idea of the shapes, textures, dimensions and behaviour of the creature. Especially as a druid, you are attuned to the interpretation of fauna.
Based solely on a picture, some things (especially movement) could be wrongly interpreted.
Including a penalty on certain checks to account for possible mistakes of the Wild Shape could be an agreeable compromise, however.
I would rule out 'reading a description', though, simply because 'seeing' is used explicitly and exclusively in the ruleset.
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The idea behind having seen it, it seems to me, is that the druid has a clear idea of the shapes, textures, dimensions and behaviour of the creature. Especially as a druid, you are attuned to the interpretation of fauna.
Based solely on a picture, some things (especially movement) could be wrongly interpreted.
Including a penalty on certain checks to account for possible mistakes of the Wild Shape could be an agreeable compromise, however.
I would rule out 'reading a description', though, simply because 'seeing' is used explicitly and exclusively in the ruleset.
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