The “What the dm planned/what the players do” meme reminded me of this instance from a few months back while I one-shotted in a campaign break.
The “What the dm planned/what the players do” meme reminded me of this instance from a few months back while I one-shotted in a campaign break.
I don’t remember if this is still the case, but for most of D&D’s history, killing a polymorph to target with force it to revert immediately back to its original form. This can be illustrated by reciting to you in old story I read once, as best I can remember it, from back during the AD&D 2e days.
Their once was a gnome illusionist in the party who finally got to high enough level to cast polymorph. So one day they encountered a hill giant, at which point gnomey busts out his new spell, trying to polymorph the giant into the least dangerous thing he could think of - a grape. The giant failed his saving throw, after which he was turned into a grape. The gnome cheerfully picked up the grape, saying “I like grapes!” and popping it into his mouth to bite down on.
Kersplort.
It still works that way. Though they do take any extra damage, so a low level Wizard could be killed in one hit. Assuming the DM doesn’t give them death saves.