Does Wild Shape Change Your Size?

Wild shape does not change your size from medium to small, as it only lets you turn into a beast and does not alter your size. The Wild Shape rule states that your game statistics are replaced by the statistics of the beast, but you retain your alignment, personality, and ** Intelligence**, *Wisdom*, and *Charisma* scores.

Understanding Wild Shape

To further clarify the concept of Wild Shape and its effects on a druid’s size and abilities, let’s dive into some frequently asked questions.

Wild Shape FAQs

1. How Long Can You Stay in Wild Shape?

You can stay in a beast shape for a number of hours equal to half your druid level (rounded down), with a limit of 2 uses per short rest.

2. Does Wild Shape Change Your HP?

When the druid wild shapes, he has the hit points of the chosen creature, and when he is dropped to 0 as the creature, he reverts back to his original form with the same amount of hit points that he had prior to wild shaping.

3. What Are the Benefits of Wild Shape?

One stellar benefit of Wild Shape is that a druid within an animal form is still capable of accessing their class features, allowing them to utilize many of their impressive subclass features.

4. What Stats Change in Wild Shape?

Your game statistics are replaced by the statistics of the beast, but you retain your alignment, personality, and Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores, as well as all of your skill and saving throw proficiencies.

5. What Happens When You Drop to 0 HP in Wild Shape?

Wild shape tells you that it ends when you are at 0 HP: You automatically revert if you fall unconscious, drop to 0 hit points, or die.

6. What Happens to Clothes During Wild Shape?

You choose whether your equipment falls to the ground in your space, merges into your new form, or is worn by it, with worn equipment functioning as normal.

7. How Many Times Can You Wild Shape a Day?

You can only Wild Shape twice per short rest, with the DMG’s expectation of a normal adventuring day being 6-8 encounters per day with 2 short rests.

8. Can You Concentrate While Wildshaped?

Normally, yes, assuming you maintain concentration on the spell after casting the spell, and you can continue to use any of the pre-cast spell actions.

9. Can You Sleep in Wild Shape?

As far as long rests go, wild shape ends if you go unconscious (including sleeping), but if you don’t need to sleep or if you don’t fall unconscious while you “sleep“, then you can complete a long rest just fine in wild shape.

10. Can a Shifter Shift in Wild Shape?

A shifter may choose one new form to wild shape into per level of shifter they have, but a shifter cannot be both shifted and wildshaped.

11. What is the Highest HP Druid Wild Shape?

Finally, at level 18, you’ll unlock CR 6 forms, with the mammoth becoming your best Wild Shape option, having 126 hit points, a +7 strength modifier, and multi-attack on two powerful strikes.

12. Does Wild Shape Break Rage?

You can Rage and then Wild Shape, but it’s not really worth it, as you lose your Unarmored Bonus.

13. Is Wild Shape Detectable?

Wild Shape is a magical effect, and therefore it can be detected by Detect Magic, which senses the presence of magic within 30 feet.

14. Can You Use Magic While in Wild Shape?

You may cast spells while in wild shape, even when in a battle form, but you are stupefied while in wild shape, and this condition cannot be removed by any means except by returning to your normal form.

15. Can You End Wild Shape Early?

You can revert to your normal form earlier by using a bonus action on your turn, allowing for more control over your Wild Shape ability.