Druids And items - WildShape

[Goolpsy]

I have never really used a Druid before, beither as a Pc nor as an Npc.
As i understand it, all the items the druid wear when using her wildshape ability, turns with her and still provide the bonus.. Am i correct in this assumption?

In 3.0 (which i am very familiar with) im not sure the items still worked after the use of wildshape, hence the 'Wild' ability to armors with a marked price '+3' to make your armor usable while Wildshaped.

Does Armors need a special ability in 3.5? Or do they just transform and work normally while wildshaped?

 

[Quidam]

Alter Self

The SRD says Wildshape is based on Polymorph, which is based on Alter Self.

From Alter Self:

"When the change occurs, your equipment, if any, either remains worn or held by the new form (if it is capable of wearing or holding the item), or melds into the new form and becomes nonfunctional. When you revert to your true form, any objects previously melded into the new form reappear in the same location on your body they previously occupied and are once again functional. Any new items you wore in the assumed form and can’t wear in your normal form fall off and land at your feet; any that you could wear in either form or carry in a body part common to both forms at the time of reversion are still held in the same way. Any part of the body or piece of equipment that is separated from the whole reverts to its true form."

IIRC, there was a Rules of the Game article on the subject of animals wearing items with a table of rough equivalences.

There's also many a thread on this board where the shots go back and forth.

 

[Perun]

IIRC, there was a Rules of the Game article on the subject of animals wearing items with a table of rough equivalences.

Here's the link to the article.