Campaign Design - Base Classes: Vermin Wild Shape

Vermin Wild Shape

At 5^th level, a druid gains the ability to turn herself into any Small or Medium animal and back again once per day. Her options for new forms include all creatures with the animal type. This ability functions like the alternate form special ability, except as noted here. The effect lasts for 1 hour per druid level, or until she changes back. Changing form (to animal or back) is a standard action and doesn’t provoke an attack of opportunity. Each time you use wild shape, you regain lost hit points as if you had rested for a night.

Any gear worn or carried by the druid melds into the new form and becomes nonfunctional. When the druid reverts to her true form, any objects previously melded into the new form reappear in the same location on her body that they previously occupied and are once again functional. Any new items worn in the assumed form fall off and land at the druid's feet.

The form chosen must be that of an animal the druid is familiar with.

A druid loses her ability to speak while in animal form because she is limited to the sounds that a normal, untrained animal can make, but she can communicate normally with other animals of the same general grouping as her new form. The normal sound a wild parrot makes is a squawk, so changing to this form does not permit speech.

A druid can use this ability more times per day at 6^th, 7^th, 14^th, and 18^th level, as noted on the table below. In addition, she gains the ability to take the shape of a Large animal at 8^th level, a Tiny animal at 11^th level, and a Huge animal at 15^th level.

The new form’s Hit Dice can’t exceed the character’s druid level.

At 10^th level, a druid becomes able to use wild shape to change into a vermin creature with the same size restrictions as for animal forms. For obvious reasons, this makes this wild shape option popular among druids devoted to Kivutar and near-universal among druids devoted to Gangyn or Ninkurra.

At 12^th level, a druid becomes able to use wild shape to change into a plant creature with the same size restrictions as for animal forms. A druid can’t use this ability to take the form of a plant that isn’t a creature.

At 16^th level, a druid becomes able to use wild shape to change into a Small, Medium, or Large elemental (air, earth, fire, or water) once per day. These elemental forms are in addition to her normal wild shape usage. In addition to the normal effects of wild shape, the druid gains all the elemental’s extraordinary, supernatural, and spell-like abilities. She also gains the elemental’s feats for as long as she maintains the wild shape, but she retains her own creature type.

At 18^th level, a druid becomes able to assume elemental form twice per day, and at 20^th level she can do so three times per day. At 20^th level, a druid may use this wild shape ability to change into a Huge elemental.

Vermin Wild Shape
Druid Level	Wild Shape Forms	Wild Shape Size	Elemental Size	Wild Shape per Day	Elemental per Day
5th	Animal	Small or Medium	-	1	-
6th	Animal	Small or Medium	-	2	-
7th	Animal	Small or Medium	-	3	-
8th	Animal	Small, Medium, or Large	-	3	-
9th	Animal	Small, Medium, or Large	-	3	-
10th	Animal or Vermin	Small, Medium, or Large	-	3	-
11th	Animal or Vermin	Tiny, Small, Medium, or Large	-	3	-
12th	Animal, Plant, or Vermin	Tiny, Small, Medium, or Large	-	3	-
13th	Animal, Plant, or Vermin	Tiny, Small, Medium, or Large	-	3	-
14th	Animal, Plant, or Vermin	Tiny, Small, Medium, or Large	-	4	-
15th	Animal, Plant, or Vermin	Tiny, Small, Medium, Large, or Huge	-	4	-
16th	Animal, Elemental, Plant, or Vermin	Tiny, Small, Medium, Large, or Huge	Small, Medium, or Large	4	1
17th	Animal, Elemental, Plant, or Vermin	Tiny, Small, Medium, Large, or Huge	Small, Medium, or Large	4	1
18th	Animal, Elemental,  Plant, or Vermin	Tiny, Small, Medium, Large, or Huge	Small, Medium, or Large	5	2
19th	Animal, Elemental, Plant, or Vermin	Tiny, Small, Medium, Large, or Huge	Small, Medium, or Large	5	2
20th	Animal, Elemental, Plant, or Vermin	Tiny, Small, Medium, Large, or Huge	Small, Medium, Large, or Huge	5	3

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