Wild Shape Peculiarities

Wild Shape "movement" provoking attack of opportunity

The Concern

A druid dropping a Wild Shape that is larger than their usual size stops occupying several spaces. Leaving a threatened space provokes an attack of opportunity. Does changing size in this way provoke attacks of opportunity?

Details

RAW: "You can avoid provoking an opportunity attack by taking the Disengage action. You also don’t provoke an opportunity attack when you teleport or when someone or something moves you without using your movement, action, or reaction. For example, you don’t provoke an opportunity attack if an explosion hurls you out of a foe’s reach or if gravity causes you to fall past an enemy."

Ruling

As RAW - dropping Wild Shape uses a bonus action, so "movement" caused by it isn't subject to opportunity attack. A druid changing shape and "leaving a threatened area" by not occupying a space rather than moving doesn't provoke an attack of opportunity.

Wild Shape "movement" shoving other creatures

The Concern

A druid entering a Wild Shape that is larger than their usual size starts occupying several spaces. Does changing size in this way allow shove attacks on creatures occupying the space the druid "moves" into?

Ruling

Wild shape doesn't confer any kind of extra attack based on the change of shape, so it would not generate a shove attack. If the druid chose to combine the shape change with a shove attack, that might confer advantage on a situational basis.

Wild Shape temp hit points

The Concern

If a druid assumed a wild shape, how do their hit points from the shape, their normal form hit points, and the temp hit points interact?

Details

RAW: "When you transform, you assume the beast’s hit points and Hit Dice. When you revert to your normal form, you return to the number of hit points you had before you transformed. However, if you revert as a result of dropping to 0 hit points, any excess damage carries over to your normal form. For example, if you take 10 damage in animal form and have only 1 hit point left, you revert and take 9 damage. As long as the excess damage doesn’t reduce your normal form to 0 hit points, you aren’t knocked unconscious."

Ruling

As RAW - A wild shaped druid that takes damage would lose hit points in the following order:

1. Any temp hit points.
2. Wild shape form hit points
3. Normal form hit points

If any bucket is reduced to 0, the damage carries over to the next bucket.