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<blockquote data-quote="airwalkrr" data-source="post: 6530054" data-attributes="member: 12460">The spells would seem to imply both no and yes. On the one hand it says your statistics are replaced with those of the new form, leading me to believe you lose any of your own spellcasting ability and gain spellcasting of the new form. On the other it mentions that you cannot cast spells if the new form lacks a mouth, hands, etc., leading me to believe that you retain spellcasting ability (otherwise why would this even be necessary)? Then there's the thorny issue of &quot;I polymorph myself into the form of the party cleric to dole out extra healing.&quot; Such absurdities lead me to believe spellcasting was not intended to be included in the term &quot;statistics,&quot; so what does &quot;statistics&quot; include? Is it just the ability scores and form? Does it include resistances and vulnerabilities? Special attacks like breath weapons? E.g. could I polymorph into a fire-breathing dragon whose CR is equal to or lower than my level, or would I lack the ability to breathe fire?Sorry if these seem like noob questions. I am only a couple months into actually playing 5e with my group.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="airwalkrr, post: 6530054, member: 12460"] The spells would seem to imply both no and yes. On the one hand it says your statistics are replaced with those of the new form, leading me to believe you lose any of your own spellcasting ability and gain spellcasting of the new form. On the other it mentions that you cannot cast spells if the new form lacks a mouth, hands, etc., leading me to believe that you retain spellcasting ability (otherwise why would this even be necessary)? Then there's the thorny issue of "I polymorph myself into the form of the party cleric to dole out extra healing." Such absurdities lead me to believe spellcasting was not intended to be included in the term "statistics," so what does "statistics" include? Is it just the ability scores and form? Does it include resistances and vulnerabilities? Special attacks like breath weapons? E.g. could I polymorph into a fire-breathing dragon whose CR is equal to or lower than my level, or would I lack the ability to breathe fire? Sorry if these seem like noob questions. I am only a couple months into actually playing 5e with my group. [/QUOTE]

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