first time posting. I encountered a spellweaver for the first time last night, and now I'm trying to figure out how to be one as a PC.
Five levels of Druid and you can Wild Shape to turn into animals.
Master of Many Forms lets you turn into Monstrous Humanoids at level 3, and assume Extraordinary Special Qualities while Wild Shaping at level 7.
Spellweavers can Spellweave, which is when you can cast up to 6 levels of spells at once by using multiple arms to cast. That's an Ex, so I'm pretty sure it's legit. I'm also pretty sure you still don't gain their spell-like abilities.
But the Spellweaver monster entry also says they can cast spells as a sorcerer two levels higher than their hit dice.
Can a Druid 5/Master of Many Forms 7 gain the ability to cast as a sorcerer when they Wild Shape into a Spellweaver?
Best Answer
RAW, yes, but no one lets that happen.
The spellweaver’s spellcasting ability is not marked Ex, Sp, or Su; that makes it a “natural ability” of the spellweaver. Natural abilities are defined thusly:
They are also explicitly placed in a category separate from Special Abilities. This is relevant to the text of Alternate Form.
Wild Shape is per Alternate Form, which means a number of things. For example:
This spellcasting is not a special quality, is not a spell-like ability or attack.
On the other hand, you do get the form of the alternate creature, by definition. You have the physical nature of the creature you become, and for the spellweaver, that includes spellcasting.
But no one plays that way
This breaks the game into itty bitty pieces. Don’t be the guy who makes your DM explicitly ban it; it’s not good for the game.