The werewolf can use its action to polymorph into a wolf-humanoid hybrid or into a wolf, or back into its true form, which is humanoid. Its statistics, other than its AC, are the same in each form. Any equipment it is wearing or carrying isn't transformed. It reverts to its true form if it dies.
does that mean i have to make my party fight the human form too if the polymorph wolf form dies? or is it a difrent polymorph than the polymorph spell?
Reverting to its true form means that if they kill the hybrid werewolf, it'll be dead but look like its humanoid form. So if it fought them in wolf form they might all the suddenly realize, "OMG! It's Tod from the village!"
It does not mean they also have to fight the human form.
There's various creatures in mythology that, upon death, will show what they really are. That's what that part of the statblock is getting at.
Reverting to its true form means that if they kill the hybrid werewolf, it'll be dead but look like its humanoid form. So if it fought them in wolf form they might all the suddenly realize, "OMG! It's Tod from the village!"
It does not mean they also have to fight the human form.
There's various creatures in mythology that, upon death, will show what they really are. That's what that part of the statblock is getting at.
I mean, technically, if Tod from the village also happened to have a friend that knows necromancy and is also close nearby, then yes, Tod might get resurrected and you would have to face him in human form (until he reverts to lycanthrope form, that is.)
The werewolf can use its action to polymorph into a wolf-humanoid hybrid or into a wolf, or back into its true form, which is humanoid. Its statistics, other than its AC, are the same in each form. Any equipment it is wearing or carrying isn't transformed. It reverts to its true form if it dies.
does that mean i have to make my party fight the human form too if the polymorph wolf form dies? or is it a difrent polymorph than the polymorph spell?
I don't have the description in front of me. If you had copied and pasted it we could actually read for ourselves what you are wanting to have explained.
The werewolf can use its action to polymorph into a wolf-humanoid hybrid or into a wolf, or back into its true form, which is humanoid. Its statistics, other than its AC, are the same in each form. Any equipment it is wearing or carrying isn't transformed. It reverts to its true form if it dies.
does that mean i have to make my party fight the human form too if the polymorph wolf form dies? or is it a difrent polymorph than the polymorph spell?
I don't have the description in front of me. If you had copied and pasted it we could actually read for ourselves what you are wanting to have explained.
Shapechanger. The werewolf can use its action to polymorph into a wolf-humanoid hybrid or into a wolf, or back into its true form, which is humanoid. Its statistics, other than its AC, are the same in each form. Any equipment it is wearing or carrying isn't transformed. It reverts to its true form if it dies.
it says this on the stat block
The werewolf can use its action to polymorph into a wolf-humanoid hybrid or into a wolf, or back into its true form, which is humanoid. Its statistics, other than its AC, are the same in each form. Any equipment it is wearing or carrying isn't transformed. It reverts to its true form if it dies.
does that mean i have to make my party fight the human form too if the polymorph wolf form dies? or is it a difrent polymorph than the polymorph spell?
Reverting to its true form means that if they kill the hybrid werewolf, it'll be dead but look like its humanoid form. So if it fought them in wolf form they might all the suddenly realize, "OMG! It's Tod from the village!"
It does not mean they also have to fight the human form.
There's various creatures in mythology that, upon death, will show what they really are. That's what that part of the statblock is getting at.
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I mean, technically, if Tod from the village also happened to have a friend that knows necromancy and is also close nearby, then yes, Tod might get resurrected and you would have to face him in human form (until he reverts to lycanthrope form, that is.)
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