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<blockquote data-quote="Zaruthustran" data-source="post: 6736882" data-attributes="member: 1457">The disintegrate spell says &quot;If this damage reduces the target to 0 hit points, it is disintegrated.&quot;The Wild Shaped druid is hit with disintegrate. Takes damage that reduces his animal form to 0 hit points, and is disintegrated.A disintegrated creature is dead. &quot;Die&quot; is one of the things that triggers reversion. So, the dust is Druid dust, not animal dust. Hooray! As a result of reversion, at least the Druid's magic items are recoverable.Think of the order of operations like this:Work At Disneyland: while you work at Disneyland, put on a Mickey Mouse costume. You have to take off the Mickey Mouse costume and get back into your regular clothes if your costume gets wet. If your costume gets dirty, your boss fires you. Someone throws a bucket of mud on you. Now you're wet. So you have to change out of your Mickey Mouse costume. But you're also dirty, so you're totally fired immediately.Work at Disneyland = wildshape ability. Wear costume = animal form. Get wet = Reach 0 hit points. Get fired = disintegrate.In other words, in the above example getting wet and getting dirty both happen--they're inextricably linked--and both consequences apply. Same with reaching zero hit points from disintegrate. The spell's damage reduces taget's HP to zero, so the target is disintegrated. That happens. The target was a wildshaped druid, and wildshaped druids revert when they die. So the (dead, pile-of-ash) druid reverts. That happens.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Zaruthustran, post: 6736882, member: 1457"] The disintegrate spell says "If this damage reduces the target to 0 hit points, it is disintegrated." The Wild Shaped druid is hit with disintegrate. Takes damage that reduces his animal form to 0 hit points, [B]and is disintegrated[/B]. A disintegrated creature is dead. "Die" is one of the things that triggers reversion. So, the dust is Druid dust, not animal dust. Hooray! As a result of reversion, at least the Druid's magic items are recoverable. Think of the order of operations like this: Work At Disneyland: while you work at Disneyland, put on a Mickey Mouse costume. You have to take off the Mickey Mouse costume and get back into your regular clothes if your costume gets wet. If your costume gets dirty, your boss fires you. Someone throws a bucket of mud on you. Now you're wet. So you have to change out of your Mickey Mouse costume. But you're also dirty, so you're totally fired immediately. Work at Disneyland = wildshape ability. Wear costume = animal form. Get wet = Reach 0 hit points. Get fired = disintegrate. In other words, in the above example getting wet and getting dirty both happen--they're inextricably linked--and both consequences apply. Same with reaching zero hit points from disintegrate. The spell's damage reduces taget's HP to zero, so the target is disintegrated. That happens. The target was a wildshaped druid, and wildshaped druids revert when they die. So the (dead, pile-of-ash) druid reverts. That happens. [/QUOTE]

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