• Aielman15
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    182 years ago

    Can the party’s resident druid wildshape into a cow, eat some grass, get milked, and then turn back into a human?

    My God, I’m asking questions that should never be answered.

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        22 years ago

        If a person can alter its body composition to become an entirely different species, I don’t think it would be a stretch to say that it can choose to become a member of that species that’s able to produce milk.

        For the same reason, in my world druids can choose the gender of the animal they become. You’re a person and you’re turning into a bear, and you can already choose to become a black, brown or white bear; there’s no reason you couldn’t choose if that bear has a dick or not, and I honestly don’t care either way.

        That being said, I was being sarcastic. Although it’s not specified RAW, RAI, it would work just like any other magical transformation: anything that detaches from, is produced by or is separated from the “main” magical body, disappears after a short while. Iirc somewhere on Twitter or the Sage Advice there’s confirmation of this (the context wasn’t milk produced by a cow-shaped druid, of course, but venom extracted by a viper-shaped druid).

        And if a druid asked to feed their party this way, or a party member asked the druid to do this (either with or without their consent) I wouldn’t allow it because that’s not something I (and probably someone else, too) would be comfortable with.

    • @[email protected]
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      22 years ago

      I like the thought that you could choose for what purpose when you select the thing you transform into.
      Is it for fighting, traveling, hiding, adventuring, reproduction, collecting materials off from etc

    • @[email protected]
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      72 years ago

      Can they become some giant beast and slough off their appendages for food? Does it disappear once they change back? What if it’s already metabolized by then? How about they just make some goodberries instead.

  • @[email protected]
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    522 years ago

    You can’t create calories that way, only transfer them. But if you have a skinny bard and a fat minotaur, it can work and also is definitely someone’s fetish.

    • @[email protected]
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      322 years ago

      Minotaurs, if anything like their brahman brethren, can get nutrition from all kinds of roughage that us puny primates can’t. So while we’re scrambling around for nuts and goodberries, they can make a meal of all the weeds sprouting in terrible soil, and the odd hay bale lying around to feed someone’s horses.

      TL;DR: They could feasibly turn what we consider indigestible garbage-plants into calorie-rich milk.

  • @[email protected]
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    332 years ago

    Mino-taur -> taurus -> bull

    Hate to break it to you, but that’s a different kind of “milk” then what you might be thinking of.

    • @[email protected]
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      32 years ago

      I’m pretty sure in D&D they call both sexes minotaurs. Minobous would technically make more sense for a girl, but nobody knows what that means. And we’re looking at etymology based on countries that probably don’t exist in your setting.

  • DarkenLM
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    242 years ago

    Cleric: Summons food from thin air with Create Food And Water.

    Funnily enough, the only time I used that spell, it was to use the food for ammunition and to turn the water into napalm.

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    2 years ago

    3 days of fasting isn’t a huge burden, especially for hardy adventuring types.

    3 days without water? bring out the milk