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<blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 6726671" data-attributes="member: 58197">Here's my take, which is admittedly based mostly on how these things work in Magic. M:tG has a very robust framework for tackling this sort of question, which sometimes comes in handy in D&amp;D. (Other times, it leads to crazy results that have to be thrown out, but in this case it's reasonable.)Disintegrate and Wild Shape both have triggers that go off when the wild shaped druid hits 0 hp. The Wild Shape trigger reverts the druid to human form and nonzero hit points, and the Disintegrate trigger turns the druid into a dead pile of ash. It isn't clear which trigger goes off first, but it doesn't matter.If the Disintegrate trigger goes off first, the beast-druid becomes a dead pile of ash. Then the Wild Shape trigger goes off. The Wild Shape trigger explicitly does not restore you to life if you were somehow slain in beast form, so the dead pile of beast ash reverts into a dead pile of human ash or a dead human, depending on how you interpret &quot;form.&quot; Regardless, it's dead.If the Wild Shape trigger goes off first, the beast-druid becomes a human with positive hit points. The druid's hit points have now been raised above zero, but it's too late--the Disintegrate trigger was fired, it can't be un-fired. It goes off next, and turns the human druid into a dead pile of human ash.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dausuul, post: 6726671, member: 58197"] Here's my take, which is admittedly based mostly on how these things work in Magic. M:tG has a very robust framework for tackling this sort of question, which sometimes comes in handy in D&D. (Other times, it leads to crazy results that have to be thrown out, but in this case it's reasonable.) Disintegrate and Wild Shape both have triggers that go off when the wild shaped druid hits 0 hp. The Wild Shape trigger reverts the druid to human form and nonzero hit points, and the Disintegrate trigger turns the druid into a dead pile of ash. It isn't clear which trigger goes off first, but it doesn't matter. If the Disintegrate trigger goes off first, the beast-druid becomes a dead pile of ash. Then the Wild Shape trigger goes off. The Wild Shape trigger explicitly does not restore you to life if you were somehow slain in beast form, so the dead pile of beast ash reverts into a dead pile of human ash or a dead human, depending on how you interpret "form." Regardless, it's dead. If the Wild Shape trigger goes off first, the beast-druid becomes a human with positive hit points. The druid's hit points have now been raised above zero, but it's too late--the Disintegrate trigger was fired, it can't be un-fired. It goes off next, and turns the human druid into a dead pile of human ash. [/QUOTE]

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