I've been looking into it, and holy cow, this is one of the greyest grey areas I've ever seen in 5e. But then there are a number of resources I don't own. It is the same reason why there is less discussion about general optimisation in the context of specific magic items - questions get asked about specific characters who have/can expect certain items but they are narrower." seemed to me to be a legitimate answer to your first question, and not the kind of thing that warrents frustration. "It's probably because use of such things would fall so far under DM discretion to allow that it becomes a very specific,rather than general optimisation problem. "Starting at 2nd level, you can use your action to magically assume the shape of a beast that you have seen before" - a reference to the rules text to make it clear that it wasn't just a comment side tracking your thread but rather an actual rule that could preven it. To be fair to you I could also have provided: Which does reference the rule that might stop it. I think the answers are pretty directly engaging with your questions. That's why I'm interested in templatesThat's clever, but I still think it has the same problems.Īpplying the template to create a half-dragon polar bear Stat block is as much a custom monster as going to the dmg and making a custom CR2 beast with whatever stats you want. The same applies if you cast Conjure Animals, Conjure Fey, Polymorph or Animal Shapes. According to the half-dragon template, a Half-White Dragon Polar Bear retains its Beast type and CR, meaning that if you're playing a Moon Druid there's no rule preventing you from wild-shaping into a half-dragon polar bear instead of a normal one. This is a template made for monsters, not player characters, and there's no rules compliant way to apply it to a character, but there ARE ways to apply it to monsters a player can summon or turn into.įor example, a Polar Bear is a Beast with a size of Large and a CR of 2. To give you an example of what I'm talking about, look at the Half Dragon template in the Monster Manual. That's not really what I'm discussing here.
They exist RAW, but aren't usually considered valid pc options.
DND beyond character creation) puts them in a grey area. The fact that they're (nearly) all-upside and not provided in an explicit "this is an option for players" context + the lack of official support (e.g.
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