Un-Wilding Shape While using wild shape, a druid retains their own proficiencies in the new form but does NOT gain the proficiencies of the form they have taken. They DO retain any innate physical traits of the new form, including the Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution scores, and any abilities derived from physical or physiological features of the new form. However, beginning at 3rd-level and on every odd level thereafter, a druid may select one of the shapes they have used previously and designate it as a Preferred Form. By inhabiting the form consistently enough to gain familiarity with its capabilities and even learning to go among beasts of that kind while in that shape, the druid is then able to gain the proficiencies and non-physiological traits of a Preferred Form. For example, a 3rd-level druid who wild shapes to the form of a wolf for the first time would not be proficient in Stealth or Perception simply by taking the wolf’s form, so her skill check for Stealth might be as low as the +2 granted from the form’s Dexterity bonus. Even if she is not proficient in Perception, as a natural wolf would be, she does have the Keen