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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hriston" data-source="post: 9674527" data-attributes="member: 6787503">Change Shape (I'm looking at the 5.0 Night Hag action) is ambiguous. On one hand, it says "The hag magically polymorphs into a Small or Medium female humanoid". On the other, it says "Her statistics are the same in each form." The stat block lists the hag as a Medium fiend, so the first sentence would imply a change to the hag's creature type and perhaps to its size as well, if the hag chooses to transform into one of the small races. The second sentence, however, would seem to contradict this, which can be resolved in one of two ways. One can either treat the sizes and type mentioned in the first sentence as exceptions to the second sentence (i.e. the hag's statistics are the same except for the type and, possibly, size previously mentioned), or one can treat them as only describing the kind of creature the hag transforms into but as having no effect on the hag's stat block, so even if the hag chooses to transform into a Small humanoid, she would continue to be treated as Medium for all game purposes, such as not having disadvantage when wielding heavy weapons. Likewise she would continue to be treated as a fiend.Personally, I prefer the second resolution (not changing the fiend's creature type) for the same reason I prefer to change the fiend's creature type in the event of the shapechange spell being used. I.e. it treats the word statistics as encompassing type (and size) as is clearly supported in the "Monster Statistics" section of the rulebooks. But I could reasonably see another DM going the other way on this.</blockquote>

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