Forged during the First Age by druids who sought to understand all living things, the Amulet of Monstrous Transformation is an amulet of the purest emerald. Legends claim it was created from fragments of every creature that ever walked, swam, burrowed, or flew across the planes.
While attuned to this artifact, your connection to the natural and supernatural world transcends the limits of normal Wild Shape.
Living Bestiary
The artifact records every creature you have personally observed and studied.
To add a creature to your Bestiary, you must:
- Spend at least 1 week studying the creature.
- Learn its habits, anatomy, and behavior through observation, research, or magical means.
- The creature must be a living being or naturally occurring monster. Constructs, deities, and unique cosmic entities are excluded at the DM's discretion.
Once a creature is added to your Bestiary, it remains recorded forever.
Monstrous Wild Shape
While wearing this artifact, you can expend a use of Wild Shape to transform into any creature recorded within your Bestiary.
The following rules apply:
- You gain the creature's Strength, Dexterity, Constitution Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores, senses, movement speeds, traits, and actions.
- You cannot use Legendary Actions, Mythic Actions, Lair Actions, or Regional Effects.
- You gain temporary hit points equal to twice the creature's CR when transforming.
- Your equipment merges into the form unless it can logically be worn.
Perfect Mimicry
You may speak, cast spells, and maintain concentration while transformed.
If the form normally lacks speech, you may still communicate telepathically within 120 feet.
Primal Memory
When transformed into a creature from your Bestiary, you gain proficiency in all skills that creature is proficient in.
If already proficient, you gain expertise.
Master of Many Forms
At 20th level, you may expend one uses of Wild Shape to transform into a creature regardless of its Challenge Rating, provided:
- You have studied it for at least one week.
- It is not a deity or unique cosmic entity.
- The transformation lasts no longer than 10 minutes.
Artifact Property: Adaptive Evolution
Whenever you spend at least 24 hours studying a new creature, choose one:
- Gain resistance to one damage type the creature possesses.
- Gain proficiency in one skill the creature is proficient in.
- Gain one movement speed possessed by the creature (10 ft. minimum).
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