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<blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 6644636" data-attributes="member: 2067">None of the above.There's one key phrase: &quot;The target's game statistics...are replaced by the statistics of the chosen beast.&quot;To me, that means no class features or feats or bonuses from any source apply - your statblock becomes the beast's statblock, period. Anything you knew how to do before, you don't know how to do now.That makes it a very situational buff, mostly useful for the extra HP's, and occasionally if your mage wants to tank or something odd. It's more useful with this interpretation as a debuff - a beholder turned into a slug or a banshee turned into a chicken don't retain their monstrous abilities, either. It's pretty explicit - the target can't cast spells in the new form. Even if you polymorph them into some weird beast that could cast spells for some reason, they couldn't.This may mean I am a buzzkill. I'm pretty comfortable with this only being a single-target enemy control spell in practice and not &quot;what weird junk can you come up with&quot; time.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="I'm A Banana, post: 6644636, member: 2067"] None of the above. There's one key phrase: "The target's game statistics...are replaced by the statistics of the chosen beast." To me, that means no class features or feats or bonuses from any source apply - your statblock becomes the beast's statblock, period. Anything you knew how to do before, you don't know how to do now. That makes it a very situational buff, mostly useful for the extra HP's, and occasionally if your mage wants to tank or something odd. It's more useful with this interpretation as a debuff - a beholder turned into a slug or a banshee turned into a chicken don't retain their monstrous abilities, either. It's pretty explicit - the target can't cast spells in the new form. Even if you polymorph them into some weird beast that could cast spells for some reason, they couldn't. This may mean I am a buzzkill. I'm pretty comfortable with this only being a single-target enemy control spell in practice and not "what weird junk can you come up with" time. [/QUOTE]

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