Lost Limb

[Stygofthedump]

A lv 9 druid has lost a limb while in giant octopus form. Does it revert to an arm on the ground? a finger?

Does he/she have an arm missing when returning to humanoid form?

Thanks in advance

[MadGreenSon]

A lv 9 druid has lost a limb while in giant octopus form. Does it revert to an arm on the ground? a finger?

Does he/she have an arm missing when returning to humanoid form?

Thanks in advance

Never seen a ruling on that one. But I'd let the Druid keep his own limbs once he de-shapes. From that form. Octopi lose tentacles all the time, they grow them back.
However, when in any form that does not routinely lose bits and he loses something then we decide what he's lost in base form.

Tiger/Wolf/Bear/Chimera loses a forelimb? You lose an arm. etc.

[rmnimoc]

Yay SRD!

First, over the arm turning back:

At 5th level, a druid gains the ability to turn herself into any Small or Medium animal and back again once per day. Her options for new forms include all creatures with the animal type. This ability functions like the alternate form special ability, except as noted here. The effect lasts for 1 hour per druid level, or until she changes back. Changing form (to animal or back) is a standard action and doesn’t provoke an attack of opportunity. Each time you use wild shape, you regain lost hit points as if you had rested for a night.


A creature with this special quality has the ability to assume one or more specific alternate forms. A true seeing spell or ability reveals the creature’s natural form. A creature using alternate form reverts to its natural form when killed, but separated body parts retain their shape. A creature cannot use alternate form to take the form of a creature with a template.

So your arm stays as an octo form.

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As for the second one:
The rules aren't very well spelled out for missing limbs, however I would rule that the druid still has all of his limbs when reverting. Wildshape rather blatantly throws away any idea of conservation of mass for the druid, so limb loss is negligible.

[NoACWarrior]

So wait...

We can have free Octopus all the time now right?

But that aside, you can have part of your hair be lopped off to express a tangible but not meaningful expression of what happened in your wildshape form.

[HaikenEdge]

So wait...

We can have free Octopus all the time now right?

But would that count as cannibalism, particularly if the druid ate it?