can Druids transform into Bacteria and Viruses?

>>55399398
... wut? Why?

Why would they be able to?

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>>55399398
>can Druids transform into Bacteria and Viruses?

No, they cannot.

They can however use magic to control Bacteria and make them temporarily large enough to see in order to fire massive swarms of them like how Naraku did in Inuyasha with all them squiggly, weird, Japanese Yokai. Giant Bacteria can't stay alive for very long; they're extremely fragile and quickly die from the experience, but that isn't the point: the attack is horrifying, giant Germs are fucking weird looking and scary, and each time you get bitten or scratched by one you get a horrible rotten, infected, necrotic/acid damaged wound.

So don't piss off the weirder, more immoral, Druids.

>Druid turns into a bacteria
>DM has to look up and create encounters based on the microscopic world of bacteria
Just because it's possible doesn't mean it's a good idea.

The cancer Mage from 3.5 can

>>55399398
Only Merlin can.

>>55399578
>each time you get bitten or scratched by one

HOW? They don't even have teeth and/or claws

>>55399602
Yeah I'm wondering how a single cell organism can do anything but burst from the pressure at that size. Even if we say fuck physics you're still only transforming into or creating a massive living water balloon that occasionally doubles itself.

>>55399398
>implying bacteria and viruses exist
Diseases are God's punishment, demons, curses from witches, anything but fucking science

can druids transform into creatures that are extinct?

>>55399398
They can't morph into a procariotes.
And viruses aren't really living organisms.

That's my house rule.

>>55399730
no

>>55399730
Nice, a "le viruses are le not alive le God doesn't exist" fedora.

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A virus is not an animal, so of course a druid can not transform into a virus. A virus is not even a living thing.

>>55399578
>bitten or scratched
By bacteria?

>>55401404
Of course it is

>>55399398
In my setting, germs are a hoax invented by Johnson and Johnson to sell soap.

My setting is called real life

>>55401468
if you've studied even basic biology you would know almost nobody considers viruses living in a scientific sense. It's basically just a script on repeat ad infinitum.

>>55399398
Theoretically, yes, but in practice the study of virology is so complex that the virii will die from any tampering.

>>55401562
In my university, it's taught that virus are inbetween living and not. But maybe that's because I'm from Russia.

>>55399398
Can Druids turn into demonically possessed creatures?

>>55399398

No. They aren't animals.

>>55401616
Don't be sad, anon. As long as your school is in top 3-5 for the country, you can get by on the big boy science job market well enough, if only through regulational arbitrage.

>>55399730
What about archeons?

>>55399398
No, but Wizards can transform into Bacteria and Viruses? .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h90ZrKj08Fc

>>55401616
Viruses act like living things despite not having the functions of living things so it's hard to just toss them into the non-living category.

Bacteria are Monera, not Animalia. People are still figuring out what the fuck virus are

>>55399578
But giant bacteria would be too big to infect the wound.

>>55399398
No, on account of germ theory not being a thing in the late medieval period.

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>>55399583

>>55399398
Cancer Mage. Which is the basis for Muscle Wizardry.

Not that turning yourself into a fine swarm of Madness fleas isn't the better option to fuck a country over, next to stacking this with Alienism and Pseudonatural templates, Hivemind via Vermin Lord and the Worm that walks template.

There's some serious shit you can do with tiny things.

>>55399398
depends on the setting

>>55401392
It's not fedora if it's the truth.

>>55401392
Are you retarded?

>>55404547
Are you talking about viruses or God?

>>55404645
Yes.

>>55401392
what DID he FUCKING mean by this

No, because in any setting I run where druids are a thing people don't know what Bacteria are.

The one exception is one setting that does have Germ theory, but the "Druids" there are just Psychic Warriors specializing in claw powers that worship nature. Not true, wild shaping druids.

>this is the most retarded thread on /tg/ right now

>>55399398
Why would bacteria or viruses exist in a fantasy world as we know them today, and how would anyone in that fantasy world be aware of them so as to want to become one if they did?

>>55405720
The same way we found them IRL. I mean people were observing microorganisms by the late 1600's.