If a Druid is decapitated while wildshaped (by a Vorpal Sword for example) would it revert back to Humanoid form and take the extra damage or just die outright? I'm inclined to think it kills them outright in an animal form but revert to humanoid if they're in an Elemental form.
Sorry if this has been answered before, but some searching didn't turn up anything.
The rule for involuntarily wildshaping back to humanoid form is triggered by a loss of hit points. The vorpal sword decapitation doesn't function by reducing hit points to zero, but instead adds the condition that, "The creature dies if it can't survive without the lost head"
I can't think of a beast that a druid can wildshape into that can survive without a head.
The rule for involuntarily wildshaping back to humanoid form is triggered by a loss of hit points. The vorpal sword decapitation doesn't function by reducing hit points to zero, but instead adds the condition that, "The creature dies if it can't survive without the lost head"
I can't think of a beast that a druid can wildshape into that can survive without a head.
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If a Druid is decapitated while wildshaped (by a Vorpal Sword for example) would it revert back to Humanoid form and take the extra damage or just die outright? I'm inclined to think it kills them outright in an animal form but revert to humanoid if they're in an Elemental form.
Sorry if this has been answered before, but some searching didn't turn up anything.
I believe this twitter exchange is relevant:
https://www.sageadvice.eu/2015/01/12/power-word-kill-druid/
The rule for involuntarily wildshaping back to humanoid form is triggered by a loss of hit points. The vorpal sword decapitation doesn't function by reducing hit points to zero, but instead adds the condition that, "The creature dies if it can't survive without the lost head"
I can't think of a beast that a druid can wildshape into that can survive without a head.
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Outside of a worm or something else weird, I'd say maybe the elemental forms wouldn't necessarily need a head.
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Insects.
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