Druid's ability to transform himself into an animal is magic?
I'm playing with a Druid character for a while now, but recently we were asked to search for the Beholder, and after some time researching we got the information about his Antimagic cone. With that, my mind begins to think am I possible to turn myself into an animal while I'm inside the anti-magic cone?
Is shapeshifting into an animal magic or something related to my connection with nature?
"Antimagic Cone. The beholder's central eye creates an area of antimagic, as in the anti magic field spell, in a 150-foot cone. At the start of each of its turns , the beholder decides which way the cone faces and whether the cone is active. The area works against the beholder's own eye rays.
It was confirmed by Jeremy Crawford in Sage Advice that Antimagic Field (and therefore the Beholder's Antimagic Eye Cone) suspends the Druid's Wild Shape. This means the effect is removed and the druid returns to humanoid form but the wildshape duration is still running and if the druid leaves the Antimagic Field or Beholder's Antimagic Eye Cone it returns to the chosen beast form.
I was just wondering this today, I’m going to run a level 20 one shot and one of my players is a Moon Druid. Glad to know the beholders and lich can actually challenge him.
As a Bit of a side note. The inherent magical nature of Wildshape is part of the reason that there is a divide on something like feeblemind blocking wildshaping as well. Though it's not always pointed to the outright magical nature of the changes when it is argued. People tend to argue more about whether the stat changes and the restriction of the spells themselves allow or disallow the ability, often with the assumption that it's just an ability and doesn't take casting a spell or use magic item to use.
As for challenging Level 20's. Lich's can do it very well. Since they have a paralyzing touch with a pretty strong DC. And Spells with an even Stronger DC. They have a pretty good chance of shutting down or even killing a level 20 druid if they really want to. Since they do have the ability to cast Power Word Kill on somebody and shape changed forms tend to be a bit of a weakness against such a spell if used with the right timing. (not that i'm advocating necessarily killing the druid. Just pointing out the possibility and a smart Lich might grasp at that possibility.)
Beholder's and Death Tyrants have a lot of ways to potentially shut down a characters action economy as well. though they are a bit easier to deal with for level 20 characters since they are only CR like 13 or 14. A fight with two. Or if you feel it necessary, even 3 of them, while an incredibly rare occurence could end up being a very challenging fight. Specially to somebody that just thinks they'll live forever by just always assuming animal forms. Specially since Beholder's also not only have quite a few ways to disable on a variety of saves. But they can also outright kill but with a much smaller window for doing so. But potentially in a much more available capacity than the Lich.
I was just thinking about this today because I'm running a level 20 one-shot with a Moon Druid as one of my players. I'm relieved to learn that the beholders and lich can genuinely compete with him.
Druid's ability to transform himself into an animal is magic?
I'm playing with a Druid character for a while now, but recently we were asked to search for the Beholder, and after some time researching we got the information about his Antimagic cone. With that, my mind begins to think am I possible to turn myself into an animal while I'm inside the anti-magic cone?
Is shapeshifting into an animal magic or something related to my connection with nature?
What are your thoughts and ideas about it.
The Wildshape feature says: "...you can use your action to magically assume the shape of a beast..." (emphasis mine), so yes, it is magical.
For reference: Antimagic Field spell.
It was confirmed by Jeremy Crawford in Sage Advice that Antimagic Field (and therefore the Beholder's Antimagic Eye Cone) suspends the Druid's Wild Shape. This means the effect is removed and the druid returns to humanoid form but the wildshape duration is still running and if the druid leaves the Antimagic Field or Beholder's Antimagic Eye Cone it returns to the chosen beast form.
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I was just wondering this today, I’m going to run a level 20 one shot and one of my players is a Moon Druid. Glad to know the beholders and lich can actually challenge him.
As a Bit of a side note. The inherent magical nature of Wildshape is part of the reason that there is a divide on something like feeblemind blocking wildshaping as well. Though it's not always pointed to the outright magical nature of the changes when it is argued. People tend to argue more about whether the stat changes and the restriction of the spells themselves allow or disallow the ability, often with the assumption that it's just an ability and doesn't take casting a spell or use magic item to use.
As for challenging Level 20's. Lich's can do it very well. Since they have a paralyzing touch with a pretty strong DC. And Spells with an even Stronger DC. They have a pretty good chance of shutting down or even killing a level 20 druid if they really want to. Since they do have the ability to cast Power Word Kill on somebody and shape changed forms tend to be a bit of a weakness against such a spell if used with the right timing. (not that i'm advocating necessarily killing the druid. Just pointing out the possibility and a smart Lich might grasp at that possibility.)
Beholder's and Death Tyrants have a lot of ways to potentially shut down a characters action economy as well. though they are a bit easier to deal with for level 20 characters since they are only CR like 13 or 14. A fight with two. Or if you feel it necessary, even 3 of them, while an incredibly rare occurence could end up being a very challenging fight. Specially to somebody that just thinks they'll live forever by just always assuming animal forms. Specially since Beholder's also not only have quite a few ways to disable on a variety of saves. But they can also outright kill but with a much smaller window for doing so. But potentially in a much more available capacity than the Lich.
I was just thinking about this today because I'm running a level 20 one-shot with a Moon Druid as one of my players. I'm relieved to learn that the beholders and lich can genuinely compete with him.
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