"you can use your action to magically assume the shape of a beast that you have seen before."
If a Druid "sees" a rat familiar. Can the Druid then use wild shape to turn into a rat? Or is a familiar not a true "beast"? Or if a Druid sees another Druid, wild shape into, let's say a wolf, does that count as seeing a wolf and allow the first Druid to now wild shape into a wolf?
I know the DM has the final say. Just wondering what your thoughts are if you want to go "by the book".
As far as I'm concerned, if the stats say it is a beast, it counts. Wildshapes count as beasts, the urchin's pet rat is a beast, familiars from find familiar are were the grey area begins since they don't technically count as beasts.
In my game. I allow the druid to wild shape into any beast that exists in their part of the world. Consider their mentor and the druid circle. They would wild shape for each other and therefore every druid knows every beast. Let the druid player have fun with wild shape.
I am in a campaign where dinosaurs only live in a part of the world I have never been to (like a druid that has never been to Chult in Faerun). The DM and I agreed that meant I can not wildshape into dinosaurs. Funny thing is RAW now I have reached level 7 I can polymorph my friends into dinosaurs in order to "see" them and then can use wildshape.
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Wild shape
"you can use your action to magically assume the shape of a beast that you have seen before."
If a Druid "sees" a rat familiar. Can the Druid then use wild shape to turn into a rat? Or is a familiar not a true "beast"? Or if a Druid sees another Druid, wild shape into, let's say a wolf, does that count as seeing a wolf and allow the first Druid to now wild shape into a wolf?
I know the DM has the final say. Just wondering what your thoughts are if you want to go "by the book".
Thanks in advance.
As far as I'm concerned, if the stats say it is a beast, it counts. Wildshapes count as beasts, the urchin's pet rat is a beast, familiars from find familiar are were the grey area begins since they don't technically count as beasts.
In my game. I allow the druid to wild shape into any beast that exists in their part of the world. Consider their mentor and the druid circle. They would wild shape for each other and therefore every druid knows every beast. Let the druid player have fun with wild shape.
I am in a campaign where dinosaurs only live in a part of the world I have never been to (like a druid that has never been to Chult in Faerun). The DM and I agreed that meant I can not wildshape into dinosaurs. Funny thing is RAW now I have reached level 7 I can polymorph my friends into dinosaurs in order to "see" them and then can use wildshape.