Excluding domesticated chickens (for which there is no official statblock that I know of) birds don’t just go popping out eggs. They almost always need to be courted, mated with, and sometimes even require it to be a specific season to start producing eggs. I doubt you’ll be able to get that all done and then develop the eggs to the point they’re ready to lay in the limited time you have available in wildshape.
Also potentially relevant: a rule never explicitly stated anywhere but both clearly RAI and, so far as I know, part of our universal consensus of how we play 5E, your DM won't let you Wild Shape into a swarm. By the same logic, your DM shouldn't let you Wild Shape into something gravid.
Also potentially relevant: a rule never explicitly stated anywhere but both clearly RAI and, so far as I know, part of our universal consensus of how we play 5E, your DM won't let you Wild Shape into a swarm. By the same logic, your DM shouldn't let you Wild Shape into something gravid.
Swarms can have the beast creature type, but the justification is that swarms are "swarm of tiny beasts" and Wild Shape allows you to turn into "a beast."
Maybe, but recall that its a tweet, nothing more. He could tweet that no ones allowed to play paladin tomorrow but people would still do it. Some of jeremy's tweets don't always make the most logical sense.
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But in this case, the relevance of the tweet is the content of the tweet. Swarms do not have the correct creature type to be valid options for wild shape.
Hello, I am back, quick question, could you lay eggs while wildshaped?
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Excluding domesticated chickens (for which there is no official statblock that I know of) birds don’t just go popping out eggs. They almost always need to be courted, mated with, and sometimes even require it to be a specific season to start producing eggs. I doubt you’ll be able to get that all done and then develop the eggs to the point they’re ready to lay in the limited time you have available in wildshape.
Also potentially relevant: a rule never explicitly stated anywhere but both clearly RAI and, so far as I know, part of our universal consensus of how we play 5E, your DM won't let you Wild Shape into a swarm. By the same logic, your DM shouldn't let you Wild Shape into something gravid.
Swarms can have the beast creature type, but the justification is that swarms are "swarm of tiny beasts" and Wild Shape allows you to turn into "a beast."
Jeremy Crawford thread on the subject: https://www.sageadvice.eu/can-druid-wild-shape-become-a-swarm-of-bats/
that isnt sage advice and counts as a tweet, which hold no bearing
A tweet from the Lead Designer of the game holds a bit more bearing than a post from an anonymous rando in a forum, but OK.
Maybe, but recall that its a tweet, nothing more. He could tweet that no ones allowed to play paladin tomorrow but people would still do it. Some of jeremy's tweets don't always make the most logical sense.
"Anyone can smith at the cosmic anvil, yet only I can forge a weapon as good as thee."
My Homebrew Please click it, they have my family.
But in this case, the relevance of the tweet is the content of the tweet. Swarms do not have the correct creature type to be valid options for wild shape.
Which I agree with, as an expert on wildshape swarm is a no no.
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