So, I've run into a conundrum while creating a BBEG. They have legendary resistances, legendary actions, lair actions, damage immunities, condition immunities, magic resistance, and is an 18th-level spellcaster. Their 9th-level spell is shapechange, which they'll cast on themselves when running low on hit points (essentially their second boss-phase). However, I'm not sure about which features my BBEG would retain while shapechanged, since the spell states:
"Your game statistics are replaced by the statistics of the chosen creature, though you retain your alignment and Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores You also retain all of your skill and saving throw proficiencies, in addition to gaining those of the creature...You retain the benefit of any features from your class, race, or other source and can use them, provided that your new form is physically capable of doing so."
For example, would legendary resistances meet the qualification of the previous statement, and therefore be retained while shapechanged into a nonlegendary creature?
Would you consider those abilities to be granted by either race, class or some other source (DM say-so), that would allow them the benefit of said abilities?
You're the DM, how to do want it to work? Whenever the rules are vague, the DM must make a ruling.
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So, I've run into a conundrum while creating a BBEG. They have legendary resistances, legendary actions, lair actions, damage immunities, condition immunities, magic resistance, and is an 18th-level spellcaster. Their 9th-level spell is shapechange, which they'll cast on themselves when running low on hit points (essentially their second boss-phase). However, I'm not sure about which features my BBEG would retain while shapechanged, since the spell states:
For example, would legendary resistances meet the qualification of the previous statement, and therefore be retained while shapechanged into a nonlegendary creature?
Would you consider those abilities to be granted by either race, class or some other source (DM say-so), that would allow them the benefit of said abilities?
You're the DM, how to do want it to work? Whenever the rules are vague, the DM must make a ruling.
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.” - Mark Twain - Innocents Abroad