![]() ![]() It writhes occasionally, when you see it out of the corner of your eye. This wooden relic is carved from bronzewood, in the shape of a serpent, and adjusts to fit snugly around your forearm. I can cordon it off by making its type Monstrosity rather than Beast (as with worgs, etc.), and the item is a specific exception to the rule that you can’t Wild Shape into monstrosity forms, but… I’m not thrilled with that either. There’s something to untangle here and I don’t have it yet. Let’s look at some other comparable implementations. Wild shape magic full#I’d suggest just releasing a monster supplement full of these alternate forms, but then Moon druids without the item could implicitly adopt that form. Especially when it needs to be more involved than the baseline monster block. Well, right off, I feel like writing a new stat block for each item is going to be more than any of us really want to see for a magic item’s entry. If the target is a creature, it must succeed on a DC 12 Strength saving throw or be knocked prone. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. The Greatmoon Hunter makes two bite attacks.īite. When the moon is visible, the Greatmoon Hunter gains resistance to radiant and necrotic damage. ![]() Pack Tactics. The Greatmoon Hunter has advantage on attack rolls against a creature if at least one of the Hunter’s allies is within 5 feet of the creature and the ally isn’t unconscious. Keen Hearing and Smell.The Greatmoon Hunter has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on hearing or smell. Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 13 If you belong to the Circle of the Moon and you’re at least 9th level, use the following statistics. The silver moon relic can grant you this form once, and regains the ability to do so at moonrise. If you hold this in your hand while you use the Wild Shape feature to adopt the shape of a wolf, you instead assume the form of the Greatmoon Hunter, a wolf of myth and legend. This two-foot-long wooden rod bears a silver wolf’s-head at the tip, and its length is inscribed with moon-sigils. For the moment, I’ve settled on “relic” as a term for “hand-portable item of religious significance that isn’t specifically a spellcasting implement.” If you don’t like that answer, please don’t fight me about it right now. In the middle of writing this post, I had a conversation on Twitter with the patient and kind who points out the ugly connotations around the word “totem” and several other options. Nathan Dowdell suggested that they might “grant specific, unique wildshape forms… this silver moon totem lets you transform into a specific type of magical wolf, rather than just a wolf, for example.” In this post, I’m seeing where that idea takes me. I suggested that they could be intended for druids, especially the Circle of the Moon, and might boost the stats of lower-CR Wild Shapes, so that if shapeshifting to a wolf or panther is your preferred style, you’re not missing out on the much better hit points and attacks of higher-CR shapes. Over in that Twitter thread, we were talking about the function of totems as 4e magic items. 7 Dec, 2018 in 4e conversion / 5e DnD / design ideas / magic items tagged Circle of the Moon / D&D 5e / druids / magic items / Wild Shape by Brandes Stoddard ![]()
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