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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shilsen" data-source="post: 1940798" data-attributes="member: 198">No, but it - and having seen a fair number of animals of the same species raised in the wild and in captivity - does tell me that your claim (that a lion's ability to claw and bite is based primarily on physical characteristics) is an unwarranted assumption.Why does Wildshape being a magical ability mean that it should confer all abilities? The spell Alter Self is magical too, but it doesn't confer all abilities. Same goes for Polymorph. And the Alternate Form ability. And the Change Shape ability. Since it's magical and essentially arbitrary, there's no "should" to it.I never said that a wildshaped druid doesn't gain Improved Grab. I was responding to the complaint in your post about the wildshaped druid not gaining multiattack. And those classes taught you that a lion hunting, for example, was a purely physical/instinctual skill and had no component of learning? Some professor needed to get chased down by a lion <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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Actually the PHB says that you gain all extraordinary special attacks but not the extraordinary special abilities. See the 3rd paragraph under the description of Polymorph, pg. 263.  And, as I mentioned above, I was responding to Treebore's comment about the druid needing to take the multiattack feat.True, which is why I wasn't referring to a movie. Treebore made a comment based on 'realism' (at least that's what I assume his comments about lions and wolves was), so I responded in kind.</blockquote>

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