In the middle of a battle, whilst I'm wild shaped into a brown bear, I take 20 damage and drop to 14hp. I then wildshape into a dire wolf form. Does the damage carry over to my wolf form, or am I at full health again in wolf form?  It's very confusing to my players and me since it doesnt say in the PHB.
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Let's say I've used wild shape to assume the form of a mammoth that has 126 hit points. I take 26 points of damage, putting me at 100 hit points. If I use my next turn to take a bonus action to exit wild shape then an action to use wild shape to assume the form of a mammoth again, do I now have 126 hit points or 100 hit points?
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The game is released for a few days now. I have heard that you can turn into thoses beasts. I have a few questions about that   How do you turn into werewolf/vampire ? On the chat people said they can bite others but who bite them first? How long does the effect last ? Are there any cons ? Maybe if your are a vampire you take damage from the sun like in older Elder Scrolls ?
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Let us assume that Alice has 15 life, and Bob has 17. It's Alice's turn. Alice swings at Bob with a  and , a creature with dethrone.  In response to the dethrone ability, Bob casts a  targeting the Bear, and paying 4 life. He is now at 13, less life than Alice. Does the dethrone ability still give the Cutthroat a counter?
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The rules for the 5E druid's  ability simply say:     you can use your action to magically assume the shape of a beast that you have seen before   There is  asking if you can go beyond the exact form of a beast you've seen (like, if you want to be a dog, and you've only seen corgis, are you stuck with that?) but I think the general assumption tends to go the other way: once you've seen some example of a beast, you can become that type of beast, but only a generic form of it. For example, a  says:     you can't even wild shape into a specific kind of beast. You always become a generic, average representative of that species.   However, I don't see any wording around that. The  spell says:     You transform into an average example of that creature, one without any class levels or the Spellcasting trait.   ... but I don't see anything similar for Wild Shape (and for that matter, for any of the other transformation spells and abilities in the rules).  Can a druid look exactly like the watchdogs of a particular estate? And if she can, can she also choose sometimes to just be a generic dog? Somewhat related: the Monster Manual has a , but not other types of dogs — so, if you've seen  (challenge rating presumably somewhat less than zero), can you take the form of a mastiff? What about an Irish wolfhound, as CR ½ or 1 instead of the mastiff's ⅛? What about a wolf? What about a dire wolf? Where does it stop?  Or, not to get all fixated on dogs, if you've seen a garden spider, can you become the more dangerous  listed in the rules, with its lethal-to-many-commoners 1d4 poison bite? What about a  then?  Finally, if it's not in the 5E rules, where did this idea of "average representative" come from? I know 4E had this whole thing where shapeshifting and summoning worked on a sort of platonic-ideal spirit, not real animals at all, but that doesn't seem to have carried over here. Was there something in 3.5? I remember playing it that way, but can't find a specific rule there either.  That's a lot of text, I know. Summary questions:   Can you take the exact form of a specific, individual animal you've seen? Can you take the form of a "generic" animal of the same general species or name or categorization as a specific individual you've seen? If you can generalize, can you then vary from that generalization? What defines the platonic ideal of a given creature? What if there's no Monster Manual entry that comes close? If you can generalize, how far away can you go? Spider to Giant Spider? Tiny Lizard to Riding Lizard? Tapir to Elephant? Where did this idea of generic, average example come from, if not 5E rules?   ... and I'd like to see rules references for any answers, please.
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When I Wild Shape, I take a beast's STR, DEX, and CON scores. I  and my INT, WIS, and CHA scores. I will focus this question on the assumption I'm proficient in Athletics, and I'm turning into a beast also proficient with Athletics.    I have +0 STR and +3 Proficiency, so +3 in Athletics Beast has +2 STR and a +4 bonus in Athletics   What is my Athletics bonus now?  On one hand, I keep my +3 proficiency bonus (so if I calculated things from scratch, I should have Athletics = +2 STR + 3 Prof = +5). On the other, tweets like  claim I should just use the beast's modifier, a +4, since it is higher than my Druid's +3.     A druid in beast form uses his or her proficiencies, except when the beast has the same proficiency with a higher bonus.   But in this case, I'm now a creature with +2 STR, +3 Prof, and a +4 in an Athletics skill I'm proficient with. Can anyone confirm if I do or do not recalculate proficiency bonuses when I Wild Shape (or Shapeshift)? The rules are not explicit, and the way I've interpreted them is that you take the new STR, DEX, CON scores, and recalculate modifiers for your skills. After this, if the Beast had a better bonus than you now have, you then take its bonus.    Similar , but it mostly refers to interactions with Expertise and other edge-cases. I'm looking for an (preferably backed-up by RAW or official comment) answer on whether I should recalculate my stats to accommodation my Proficiency Bonus with my new STR, DEX, or CON modifiers.  Also keep in mind, from this , it seems a reasonable opinion that we should recalculate bonuses when scores change. But if you don't recalculate any proficiencies, how would this be affected? You could be cursed to negative STR and keep a massive athletic bonus.
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In D&amp;D 5E, does natural armor stack with Unarmored Defense? We have a level 2 player character who wild shaped into an animal. The player said they could stack its natural armor with Unarmored Defense, getting effectively 10 + natural armor + WIS + DEX = a super high AC. Does this work?
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says:     A humanoid killed by this spell rises at the start of your next turn as a zombie that is permanently under your command   If a player is hit by finger of death and dropped to 0hp, do they turn into a zombie immediately? If they subsequently fail death saves and die, do they then turn into a zombie?
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So, I bought the book, read it, but I have a question, and just to be sure:  The max level from an skill in rank can't be more than your level, so, a starting character can only have a skill on level 1 rank, right?  Later in the book, it says that the max rank on a skill can't be more than your hit dice, so, for example, a bard has a d8 hit die, so, does that means he can only rank his skill up to 8, once he leveled up once?
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The spell Armor of Agathys states:      You gain 5 temporary hit points for the duration. If a creature hits you with a melee attack while you have these hit points, the creature takes 5 cold damage.   Now, assume my buddy uses Inspiring Leader to give me 10 temporary hit points — does the effect end?
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Assume you cast Barkskin in humanoid form:     You touch a willing creature. Until the spell ends, the target’s skin has a rough, bark-like appearance, and the target’s AC can’t be less than 16, regardless of what kind of arm or it is wearing.   It is clear that under the rules of Wild Shape "transforming doesn’t break your concentration on a spell you’ve already cast", but does the effect of the spell carry over to your new skin?
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When I attack with a first strike creature, does it deal combat damage before normal combat damage is dealt?  Specifically, if I attack with  (has first strike and "Whenever Drana, Liberator of Malakir deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on each attacking creature you control.") and 5 other creatures with no counters on them, do I deal damage equal to the creatures' total power or damage equal to the creatures' total power + 5?
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So, last night i was cooking up a new character and had this in mind. While reading the Wild Shape topic from PHB, i couldn't find anything that rules out the option to turn into an Ape/Giant Ape that can wield a Spear/Club.   Is it possible?
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After the , the  spell description now reads:     A creature targeted by this spell must make a Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, the target takes 10d6 + 40 force damage. The target is disintegrated if this damage leaves it with 0 hit points.   If you were to polymorph an enemy into a rat and then disintegrate it, would the enemy be disintegrated or would it just return to its original form? I know that for Druids, it’s not an instant kill anymore, but is this the case for polymorph as well?
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Power Word Kill is a 9th level spell that "compel[s] a creature to die" as long as it has less than 100 hit points.  If this is cast on a druid in wild-shape form with less than 100 HP, does the druid die or does he only revert to his normal state? Is the "creature" the druid himself? Is wild-shape a creature on top of the druid, or is he always the same creature?  I realize that a druid is only knocked out of wild-shape if he hits 0 hit points or is knocked unconscious, so my personal take is that he would simply just die due to the wording of the spell, but I was curious if I was perhaps missing something.
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So me and a group of friends recently started to play D&amp;D. I became a sorcerer. My question is: can the enemy I am attacking, no matter what spell I use, make a saving throw for half damage or does that only apply for certain spells?  For example, when I use my cantrip fire bolt, does the targeted opponent get to roll a saving throw for half damage against the spell, even though the description doesn't say anything about saving throws?
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If a creature has "damage resistance" to non-magical weapons how does the final damage number break down?  Is the weapon damage halved only?  Is the total damage (weapon, STR/DEX dmg. bonus) halved?  Would a rogue attacking with a non-magical weapon and using Sneak Attack get the Sneak Attack dmg. halved?  Same question applies to "damage vulnerable" when damage is doubled.
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What happens if I dip below 1 life from an effect that will also heal me after the damage is dealt?  For example:   If I bolt myself while I'm at 3 or less with a  on the board? Will I die while at 3 or less if I -2 , targeting myself? Will I die if a creature with my  on it damages me? Will I die if I target myself with enough damage to 'kill' me with a ?   and so on and so forth. You get the idea. I'm pretty sure there's a relatively simple answer that I just don't know about.