I have wanted to play a Changling Druid flavored as a Pooka. The animals they transform into would always be black with a white spot on the forehead. He would do all sorts of fey mischief and be a super fun shapechanger. I plan on becoming a horse, luring an innocent traveler onto my back, and then taking him on the most wild ride of his life.
I just thought about Changeling Druid recently. My previous idea was the nigh Immortal Warforge Druid (also circle of the moon). Looking at the rules of Changeling and Druid, I could not see a conflict. So long as your Wildshape followed the same body type and size requirement. Some examples I thought of to use:
Escaping from guards, zig-zagging through alleyways. Wildshape into a cat and jump behind crates, shapeshift into a rat and scurry away while the guards are looking for a cat. It would seem normal for a rat to run from a cat, so less likely to draw suspension if they even saw the rat.
I can also see this used to change the appearance of the type of animal you're Wildshape is using. Suppose you're identified and seen Wildshaping into an animal that's prevalent in an area... IE a Noble's hunting lodge, and they've 'dozens' of dogs. Shapeshift as you're breaking line of site into various colorations, before hiding among the kennels. If you're prepared, have speak with animals up, communicate with the dogs, they may help you hide among them.
Summon wolves and then Wildshape into a wolf, shapeshift into a larger, alpha, and appear a the leader of the pack (other pack animals work well to with this plan). You could even try blink dogs and then Wildshape into a dog, shapeshift into a blink dog. Just have to be careful yourself as you can't Blink (without multi-classing). Then again different spell there.
notably it says you can swap between medium and small. So if you're a medium wildshape you could shapechange to be small, and vise versa. But you couldn't make a large or larger beast medium, and you couldn't make a tiny beast small
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I have wanted to play a Changling Druid flavored as a Pooka. The animals they transform into would always be black with a white spot on the forehead. He would do all sorts of fey mischief and be a super fun shapechanger. I plan on becoming a horse, luring an innocent traveler onto my back, and then taking him on the most wild ride of his life.
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I just thought about Changeling Druid recently. My previous idea was the nigh Immortal Warforge Druid (also circle of the moon). Looking at the rules of Changeling and Druid, I could not see a conflict. So long as your Wildshape followed the same body type and size requirement. Some examples I thought of to use:
Escaping from guards, zig-zagging through alleyways. Wildshape into a cat and jump behind crates, shapeshift into a rat and scurry away while the guards are looking for a cat. It would seem normal for a rat to run from a cat, so less likely to draw suspension if they even saw the rat.
I can also see this used to change the appearance of the type of animal you're Wildshape is using. Suppose you're identified and seen Wildshaping into an animal that's prevalent in an area... IE a Noble's hunting lodge, and they've 'dozens' of dogs. Shapeshift as you're breaking line of site into various colorations, before hiding among the kennels. If you're prepared, have speak with animals up, communicate with the dogs, they may help you hide among them.
Summon wolves and then Wildshape into a wolf, shapeshift into a larger, alpha, and appear a the leader of the pack (other pack animals work well to with this plan). You could even try blink dogs and then Wildshape into a dog, shapeshift into a blink dog. Just have to be careful yourself as you can't Blink (without multi-classing). Then again different spell there.
notably it says you can swap between medium and small. So if you're a medium wildshape you could shapechange to be small, and vise versa. But you couldn't make a large or larger beast medium, and you couldn't make a tiny beast small