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<blockquote data-quote="Lancelot" data-source="post: 6664917" data-attributes="member: 30022">I think, thematically, the idea is to go all &quot;Hulk Smash!&quot;. Turn into a giant ape and go... ape... on the enemy. Turn into a T-rex, and re-enact Jurassic Park from the perspective of the &quot;good guys&quot; (i.e. the dinosaurs).You retain enough of your intelligence to know that you're maintaining concentration on the effect, and you become something else (something weaker... puny Bruce Banner... Hulk hate puny Banner!) if you cease concentration. But that's about it. As a DM, I'd certainly be looking hard at complex tactics or actions that would never occur to a rampaging beast.Also, if you're new to polymorph, I assume you're aware of the major drawback of turning into a beast yourself. Every hit requires a concentration check or you lose the spell. Our party wizard found that out the hard way when he turned into a T-Rex and charged a bunch of mook brigands. He was laughing when he took a dozen arrows for only 40 points damage... but then he realized it was 12 Constitution saving throws or the polymorph was gone. Even with the T-Rex's excellent Constitution, he was in a heap of trouble. Since then, he's stuck to polymorphing the party fighter into a T-Rex instead... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :-)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lancelot, post: 6664917, member: 30022"] I think, thematically, the idea is to go all "Hulk Smash!". Turn into a giant ape and go... ape... on the enemy. Turn into a T-rex, and re-enact Jurassic Park from the perspective of the "good guys" (i.e. the dinosaurs). You retain enough of your intelligence to know that you're maintaining concentration on the effect, and you become something else (something weaker... puny Bruce Banner... Hulk hate puny Banner!) if you cease concentration. But that's about it. As a DM, I'd certainly be looking hard at complex tactics or actions that would never occur to a rampaging beast. Also, if you're new to [I]polymorph[/I], I assume you're aware of the major drawback of turning into a beast yourself. Every hit requires a concentration check or you lose the spell. Our party wizard found that out the hard way when he turned into a T-Rex and charged a bunch of mook brigands. He was laughing when he took a dozen arrows for only 40 points damage... but then he realized it was 12 Constitution saving throws or the [I]polymorph[/I] was gone. Even with the T-Rex's excellent Constitution, he was in a heap of trouble. Since then, he's stuck to [I]polymorphing[/I] the party fighter into a T-Rex instead... :-) [/QUOTE]

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