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circle of the moon uses spell attack modifier for hit

 I don't think that's correct. Wildshape does allow you to use your proficiency bonus instead of the creature's proficiency bonus to calculate "to-hit" values but that's it. You aren't making a spell attack so why would you think you use your spell attack modifier to hit?

My warlok has this as a familiar and uses it as a mount. 

This is NOT a monster for tier 1s, let alone CR3. ******* 72 max damage holy ****.

I'm DMing for my group for LMoP campagin. We make it to the first redbrand encounter. My wife is a level 2 Circle of the Moon Druid. She decides a Giant Scorpion seems cool to change into. She doesn't know what it does. I don't know what it does. We're both new. I look up the stat block and she makes her multi attack. She murders two redbrands in the most horrifying way possible. Clawing one to death, grappling the other and stabbing him through the eyes...

Circle of the Moon is disgusting early game. Why is this a CR 3 monster!? 🤣

LOL...well...technically, your wife couldn't be a Giant Scorpion at level 2. She would only have access to CR 1 Beasts, and the Giant Scorpion is CR 3...available to her at level 9. So that was a ridiculously huge buff she got in that encounter.

She could have transformed into a Deinonychus, however, and also mowed through your Redbrands. That's a very mean dinosaur.

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Quote from SirVonhalen >>

circle of the moon uses spell attack modifier for hit

 I don't think that's correct. Wildshape does allow you to use your proficiency bonus instead of the creature's proficiency bonus to calculate "to-hit" values but that's it. You aren't making a spell attack so why would you think you use your spell attack modifier to hit?

This is also not correct. You can use your druid's proficiency for skills and saving throws, but not attacks.

I like being this guy 

My party just adopted one

Its great!

Well you would alter it to use your proficiency bonus, so it would really be a +7 to hit

This thing should be cr4

I do not care what the dmg says, a cr3 should not knock a level 3 fighter out in 1 round, and the grapple makes this an epic moon druid form too. It is literally stronger than the cr4 elephant.

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How did she turn into a CR3 at level 2? That should only be available from level 9+

Why would you wildshape? just use Giant Insect and get one of these to pin your foes

Well, if you cast shillelagh as your bonus action, then wildshape as your action, then the cantrip applies to the scorpion form if you choose for your equipment to fuse with it. So then with a 20 wisdom (bc you’ll probably have that by lvl 10), you can get a +9 to hit instead. Sure it’s a crap cantrip in most other cases, but if you’re gonna be using the giant scorpion a lot, or really anything with a low hit bonus, it might be worth considering taking shillelagh.

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Well, if you cast shillelagh as your bonus action, then wildshape as your action, then the cantrip applies to the scorpion form if you choose for your equipment to fuse with it. So then with a 20 wisdom (bc you’ll probably have that by lvl 10), you can get a +9 to hit instead. Sure it’s a crap cantrip in most other cases, but if you’re gonna be using the giant scorpion a lot, or really anything with a low hit bonus, it might be worth considering taking shillelagh.

That's not how Shillelagh or Wild Shape work. The equipment merges into your form but it doesn't "become" your claws, it just means that the weapon is being carried "inside" the Wild Shape and will still be with you when you change back.

Although yes, it is way beyond the Scorpion's ability to plan, I enjoyed reading about it. I think that it was a great idea to give the Scorpion an IQ of 120 to realize that the player used his reaction to grab the ledge and that it was aware of its own stat block and thus was aware of its Multiattack feature so that it could grab the player and /yeet him off the cliff. Sounds like you guys had a lot of fun. If you and your pals want to try that same thing again, I would recommend making a Homebrew monster using the Giant Scorpion and upping the Brain Power(Intelligence) so you couldn't have someone arguing about what I just said about the scorpion being stupid. Speaking from experience here(Monsters in my private collection tho :)

Maybe because scorpions in the real world are burrowers, and are able to sense tremors and vibrations with very fine sensory "hairs". Not to mention they typically have terrible eyesight, but really well developed hearing!

Someone help me with the wording here, and it might be because English is my second language, but; does the claw-grapple mean that it can grapple 2 creatures at the same time, having 1 in one claw, and another creature in the other claw? 

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Someone help me with the wording here, and it might be because English is my second language, but; does the claw-grapple mean that it can grapple 2 creatures at the same time, having 1 in one claw, and another creature in the other claw? 

 Yes, that is exactly how it works. It is similar to the Crab, but this thing got a stinger. Clash of the Titans style scorpion is no joke.