The anti-magic is, in effect, a limitation on how large a creature could become. You can only become as big as the space allows. ( PHB, Chapter 11: Spells, Spell Descriptions, Enlarge/Reduce) If there isn't enough room for the target to double its size, the creature or object attains the maximum possible size in the space available. This is in line with a (somewhat but not exactly) analogous limitation described by Enlarge/Reduce:
The only form the druid can be in is one which does not enter the anti-magic field. Therefore, as long as the larger, shapeshifted form would intersect the anti-magic field and immediately suppress the effect, the transformation cannot occur/cannot persist in time. But if time still passes, as over the course of a turn, the druid must have some form, and if it can't be the dragon it must be the druid. Meanwhile the druid form can persist here.Įven if you favor an infinite loop of transforming back and forth, the druid cannot spend any time in dragon form here. But the Brass Dragon form cannot persist here, as the anti-magic effect prohibits it. So the transformations don't take up any time. The effects of shape-changing spells are immediate and there is no time spent in the transformation (by RAW cool narration may differ). I submit that there is a breakdown between steps 3 and 4. As no movement has occurred, the dragon's form once again intersects the anti-magic field, and the effect is suppressed again.
The druid, as a medium-sized creature, is no longer in the zone affected by the magic suppression, and so the suppressed effect stops being suppressed and the druid resumes dragon form. The anti-magic effect immediately ends the transformation, reverting the druid to its normal form. The druid-as-dragon moves such that part of its body enters the anti-magic area (or is already in an area which causes part of its body to be in the anti-magic field's area of effect when it is created). The order of events, as described in the question, is as follows: The druid can't take the Brass Dragon form when some portion of that form would intersect the region affected by the anti-magic field. If you maintain creature positions, the effect is simply suppressed and the druid remains in its typical form But shapechange, along with enlarge/reduce ( Player's Handbook, page 237), polymorph ( Player's Handbook, page 266), and any other spell that might increase the target's size run into this issue. If it were another buff spell, such as fire shield ( Player's Handbook, page 242), that doesn't affect the target's size, this would be a nonissue. So it should regain the effects of shapechange, transforming back into an ancient brass dragon-which immediately puts its form back into the antimagic field, repeating the process. Now the druid's smaller, Medium form, is no longer within the antimagic sphere. It seems clear-cut that shapechange is suppressed until the druid exits the antimagic field, and so reverts to its normal, medium form (figure 4). "Spells and other magical effects, except those created by an artifact or a deity, are suppressed in the sphere and can't protrude into it." To counteract this, the wizard casts antimagic field ( Player's Handbook, page 213) which creates a field of anti-magic in a 10-foot radius sphere around the wizard within To begin their battle, the druid casts shapechange, transforming into an ancient brass dragon, a Gargantuan creature (figure 2). In the following situation, how, if at all, would shapechange be suppressed?Ī level 20 wizard and a level 20 druid stand with 10 feet of space between them (figure 1). The shapechange spell ( Player's Handbook, page 274) only limits the form that its user can change into by Challenge Rating, rather than size. This is based on a situation that's happening in my current campaign, though the example below is simplified to remove unnecessary context.
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