[RPG] Can a Shifter Druid use its racial Shifting feature in Wildshape

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The Shifter race from Eberron Rising from the Last War has the Shifting ability:

Once per short rest as a bonus action, you can assume a more bestial appearance. This transformation lasts for 1 minute, until you die, or until you revert to your normal appearance as a bonus action.

Druids have the Wildshape feature:

Starting at 2nd level, you can use your action to magically assume the shape of a beast that you have seen before. You can use this feature twice. You regain expended uses when you finish a short or long rest.

[…] You retain the benefit of any features from your class, race, or other source and can use them if the new form is physically capable of doing so […]

Obviously, a racial feature can be used in wildshape absent any conflict that prevents its use. Is there such a conflict in this case? For example with the clause "assume a more bestial appearance," given that a druid in beast form is already 100% bestial?

Can a Shifter that is a Druid use its shifting feature at the same time as its Wildshape class feature?

Best Answer

There is no conflict here. As you noted a wild shaped Druid keeps features from their class, race, or other source they have and can use them when they are wild shaped.

The correct order, depending on the leniency of the DM, would be to wild shape FIRST and then shift to get the bestial appearance and its bonuses so you're looking at 2 bonus actions in the order.

But nothing is stopping it from working.

Some issues might arise around what type of shifter you were and what you wild shaped into. While the Beasthide, Swiftstride and Wildhunt subtypes are OK, the Longtooth type might be restricted to certain wild shape forms to take advantage of its elongated fangs with their unarmed strike attack, again that's probably DM dependent.