Path of the Wildling

Path of the Wildling Features

Wildshape

Starting when you choose this path at 3rd level, you gain the ability to magically change your shape into that of a ferocious beast. You select one such shape, belonging to a beast which you have seen before, and gain a deep familiarity with it through an overnight ritual. You may shift into and out of this form at any time as an action, or as a free action when you begin raging.

The form you select must have Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution that total to no more than yours do. Initially, you may not use any other form of movement that it might possess, such as swimming, flying, or burrowing speeds.

You may perform an 8-hour ritual at any time to select a new form, which must be performed in a setting appropriate to the form being selected.

• At level 5, the CR limit increases to 2, and you may use it's Multiattack features.
• At level 8, the CR limit increases to 3, and you may use its swimming and climbing speeds.
• At level 11, the CR limit increases to 4, and you may use its flying speed.
• At level 14, the CR limit increases to 5, and you may use its burrowing speed.
• At level 17, the CR limit increases to 6, and you may use any form of movement it possesses.
• At level 20, the CR limit increases to 7, and you may leave or enter each form as a bonus action.

While you are transformed, the following rules apply:

• Your game statistics are replaced by the statistics of the beast, but you retain your alignment, personality, skill and saving throw proficiencies, and Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores. If the creature has the Multiattack action or any legendary or lair actions, you cannot use them.
• When you transform, you assume the shape's Hit Points and Hit Dice; when you revert to your normal form, you return to the number of Hit Points and Hit Dice you had before you transformed. Track HP/HD for your prepared form separately; they are persistent. You can use the form's Hit Dice to restore Hit Points to it during short rests, and its Hit Points and Hit Dice are fully restored during long rests, just like yours. If you revert as a result of dropping to 0 Hit Points while in a form, any excess damage carries over to your normal form. For example, if you take 10 damage in animal form and have only 1 Hit Point remaining, you revert and also take 9 damage. As long as the excess damage doesn't also reduce your normal form to 0 Hit Points, you aren't knocked unconcious.
• You retain the benefit of any features from your class, race, or other source that are not dependent on your physical form, and can use them if the new form is physically capable of doing so. However, you cannot use any of your special physical senses (such as darkvision) unless your new form also has that sense.
• When changing, you choose whether each piece of equipment falls to the ground in your space, merges into your new form, or is worn by it - worn equipment functions as normal, but the DM will decide whether is is practical for the new form to wear such equipment, based on their shape and size. Equipment that merges with your form is considered to be 'carried', but not worn - it can be used while it is merged with your form, but not interacted with or activated.

Primal Ferocity

After reaching level 6, your unarmed attacks or attacks with natural weapons (such as are used by your forms) deal magic damage, and critically strike on a 19-20.

Elemental Rage

Starting at level 10, you may choose an Elemental form alongside your Beast form when you perform the ritual (it must be performed for each new or changed form). This second form has separate Hit Points and Hit Dice, and you can enter one form from the other in the same ways that you enter a form from your original shape. If you reach zero Hit Points in either, you revert to your humanoid form.

Metamorphic Synthesis

When you reach 14th level, your chosen shapes begin to affect you even when they are not in use. You may perform any action or ability that your chosen forms have access to, so long as that form has not been reduced to zero hit points, even if that ability is clearly impossible because you are not in that shape. If you use an ability that requires you to have tentacles for example, your hand actually temporarily transforms into tentacles (in a most disturbing fashion). If you need to maintain that state longer than your turn (for example, if you have grappled somebody with your tentacles, and don't want to let them go immediately), you may do so.

You may perform or maintain a number of actions in this way equal to your Constitution Modifier. Maintaining such a change for longer than your turn is considered an additional use of the ability; the change can then be held until the end of your next turn, and potentially maintained again then. You regain all uses of this ability during a short or long rest.

Worth noting: this usually looks quite horrifying, even when it might be expected to be "cute". Any use of an ability from another form will result in some obvious physical change, even if it's something that could feasibly be done in human shape (like a bull rush from a Bull).