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''2nd Level Druid Feature''<br> | ''2nd Level Druid Feature''<br> | ||
You spend 1 Wild Point to assume the Form of a beast as a Bonus Action. This Form lasts for a number of hours equal to half your Druid Level. After this time you revert to your normal form unless you spend another Wild Point as a Free Action to retain your Form. While in this Form you cannot cast Spells.<br> | You can spend 1 Wild Point to assume the Form of a beast as a Bonus Action. This Form lasts for a number of hours equal to half your Druid Level. After this time you revert to your normal form unless you spend another Wild Point as a Free Action to retain your Form. While in this Form you cannot cast Spells.<br> | ||
You revert to your original form early if you fall Unconscious, drop to 0 Hit Points, die, or choose to as a Free Action. When you revert to your original form, you retain the number of Hit Points you had before you used this Bonus Action to transform.<br> | You revert to your original form early if you fall Unconscious, drop to 0 Hit Points, die, or choose to as a Free Action. When you revert to your original form, you retain the number of Hit Points you had before you used this Bonus Action to transform.<br> | ||
When you assume this Form, choose one of the following Forms, each of which represent many types of animals: | When you assume this Form, choose one of the following Forms, each of which represent many types of animals: |
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Druid
Holding high a gnarled staff wreathed with holly, a loxodon summons the fury of the storm and calls down explosive bolts of lightning to smite the torch-carrying orcs who threaten her forest.
Crouching out of sight on a high tree branch in the form of a leopard, a goblin peers out of the jungle at the strange construction of a temple of the Cult of Dragonflesh, keeping a close eye on the cultists’ activities.
Swinging a blade formed of pure fire, a Halfling charges into a mass of skeletal soldiers, sundering the unnatural magic that gives the foul creatures the mocking semblance of life.
Whether calling on the elemental forces of nature or emulating the creatures of the animal world, druids are an embodiment of nature’s resilience, cunning, and fury. They claim no mastery over nature. Instead, they see themselves as extensions of nature’s indomitable will.
Druids revere nature above all, gaining their spells and other magical powers either from the force of nature itself or from a nature deity. Many druids pursue a mystic spirituality of transcendent union with nature rather than devotion to a divine entity.
Druid spells are oriented toward nature and animals—the power of tooth and claw, of sun and moon, of fire and storm. Druids also gain the ability to take on animal forms, and some druids make a particular study of this practice, even to the point where they prefer animal form to their natural form.
Druids are also concerned with the delicate ecological balance that sustains plant and animal life, and the need for civilized folk to live in harmony with nature, not in opposition to it. Druids accept that which is cruel in nature, and they hate that which is unnatural, including aberrations and undead. Druids sometimes lead raids against such creatures, especially when the monsters encroach on the druids' territory.
Druids are often found guarding sacred sites or watching over regions of unspoiled nature. But when a significant danger arises, threatening nature’s balance or the lands they protect, druids take on a more active role in combating the threat, as adventurers.
Level | Proficiency Bonus | Features | Experience Points |
---|---|---|---|
1st | +2 | Druidic, Spellcasting | 0 |
2nd | +2 | Nature Given Shape, Wild Shape, Wild Companion, Druidic Circle | 300 |
3rd | +2 | - | 1,000 |
4th | +2 | Ability Score Improvement | 3,000 |
5th | +3 | - | 6,000 |
6th | +3 | Druidic Circle Feature | 10,000 |
7th | +3 | - | 20,000 |
8th | +3 | Ability Score Improvement | 40,000 |
9th | +4 | - | 60,000 |
10th | +4 | Druidic Circle Feature | 80,000 |
11th | +4 | - | 100,000 |
12th | +4 | Ability Score Improvement | 120,000 |
13th | +5 | - | 140,000 |
14th | +5 | Druidic Circle Feature | 160,000 |
15th | +5 | - | 180,000 |
16th | +5 | Ability Score Improvement | 200,000 |
17th | +6 | - | 225,000 |
18th | +6 | Beast Spells, Timeless Body | 250,000 |
19th | +6 | Ability Score Improvement | 300,000 |
20th | +6 | Archdruid | 350,000 |
Class Information
Hit Dice. 1d8 per Druid Level
1st Level Hitpoints. 8 + your Constitution Modifier
Higher Level Hitpoints. 1d8 (or 5) + your Constitution modifier per Druid Level after 1st
Armor Proficiencies. Light Armor, Medium Armor, and Shields
Weapon Proficiencies. Clubs, Daggers, Darts, Javelins, Maces, Quarterstaffs, Scimitars, Sickles, Slings, Spears
Tool Proficiencies. One set of Artisan’s Tools
Saving Throw Proficiencies. Intelligence and Wisdom
Skill Proficiencies. Choose two from Arcana, Animal Handling, Insight, Medicine, Nature, Perception, Religion, and Survival
Equipment. A Round Shield or any Simple Weapon, any Simple Weapon, Leather Armor, an Explorer’s Pack, and a Druidic Focus
Spellcasting
1st Level Druid Feature
Spellcasting Ability. Wisdom
Spell Save DC. 8 + your Wisdom Modifier + your Proficiency Bonus
Spell Attack Bonus. Your Wisdom Modifier + your Proficiency Bonus
Ritual Casting. You can cast any Prepared Spell as a Ritual if it has the Ritual tag.
Spellcasting Focus. A Druidic Focus
Spell Learning Method. Whenever you finish a Long Rest, you prepare a number of Spells equal to your Druid Level + your Wisdom Modifier from the Druid Spell List. You can cast these Spells using your Spell Slots until the end of your next Long Rest.
Level | Cantrips Known | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1st | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
2nd | 2 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
3rd | 2 | 4 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
4th | 3 | 4 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
5th | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
6th | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
7th | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
8th | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - |
9th | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | - | - | - | - |
10th | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | - | - | - | - |
11th | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | - | - | - |
12th | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | - | - | - |
13th | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | - |
14th | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | - |
15th | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - |
16th | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - |
17th | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
18th | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
19th | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
20th | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Druidic
1st Level Druid Feature
You learn Druidic.
Nature Given Shape
2nd Level Druid Feature
You can use Khaagaazh to shape the world around you to change your shape and create companions. You gain a number of Wild Points equal to your Proficiency Bonus, which you use to fuel many of your Druid features.
Wild Shape
2nd Level Druid Feature
You can spend 1 Wild Point to assume the Form of a beast as a Bonus Action. This Form lasts for a number of hours equal to half your Druid Level. After this time you revert to your normal form unless you spend another Wild Point as a Free Action to retain your Form. While in this Form you cannot cast Spells.
You revert to your original form early if you fall Unconscious, drop to 0 Hit Points, die, or choose to as a Free Action. When you revert to your original form, you retain the number of Hit Points you had before you used this Bonus Action to transform.
When you assume this Form, choose one of the following Forms, each of which represent many types of animals:
- Form of the Behemoth. This form represents the large, slow, and beefy beasts, such as bears, rhinos, elephants, or hippos.
- Form of the Hunter. This form represents skillful, yet swift hunters, such as wolves, lions, cheetahs, and like.
- Form of the Stalker. This form represents the smaller, nimble, and skillful trackers of the animal kingdom, such as hyenas, bloodhounds or panthers.
- Form of the Spy. This form represents the small, unnoticed, quiet beasts, such as squirrels, bunnies, mice, or incests.
- Form of the Toxic. This form represents beasts with poison, venom, or other grisly forms of facing their foes, such as snakes, poisonous frogs, or lizards.
Initially, your Form is incapable of flying and swimming. (You can still transform into aquatic and avian Forms if you wish; they are simply restricted to land travel.)
When you reach 4th Level in this class, you can choose to grant your Form a Swimming Speed equal to its Walking Speed when you transform into it. If you do so, the Form's Walking and Climbing Speed is halved, and your Form can breathe both air and water.
When you reach 8th Level in this class, you can choose to instead grant your Form a Flying Speed equal to its Walking Speed when you transform into it. If you do so, the Form's Walking and Climbing speed (if any) is halved.
Wild Companion
2nd Level Druid Feature
You gain the ability to summon a spirit that assumes an animal form. You can spend 1 Wild Point as an Action to cast the Find Familiar Spell without Material Components. When you cast the Spell in this way, the Familiar is a Fey instead of a Beast, and it disappears after a number of hours equal to half your Druid Level.
Druidic Circles
2nd, 6th, 10th, and 14th Level Druid Feature
You choose one of the following Druidic Circles who's traits you take on.
Ability Score Improvements
4th, 8th, 12th, 16th, and 19th Level Druid Feature
Your skill and strength expands, choose one of the following:
- Increase one Ability Score of your choice by 3.
- Increase one Ability Score of your choice by 2 and one Ability Score of your choice by 1
- Increases three Ability Scores of your choice by 1.
- Gain one Feat of your choice.
No Ability Score increases or Feat gained from this feature can increase one of your Ability Scores beyond 20 unless stated otherwise.
Timeless Body
18th Level Druid Feature
The primal magic that you wield causes you to age more slowly. For every 10 years that pass, your body ages only 1 year.
Beast Spells
18th Level Druid Feature
You can cast any Spell that does not require a Material Component while in a Form you assume using your Wild Shape feature.
Archdruid
20th Level Druid Feature
You gain an unlimited number of Wild Points.
Additionally, your Druid Spells do not require Verbal or Somatic Components, and your Druid Spells do not require Material Components that do not have a GP cost.
Druidic Circles
Circle of Primevals
The Circle of Primevals teaches that, though the land may change over time, it never truly forgets. By tapping into the timeworn memory of the earth, these druids summon and bond with the spirit of a primeval behemoth—a hulking creature that once ruled the ancient world alongside the giants. The most well-known primeval behemoths are the dinosaurs, but spirits bonded with members of the Circle of the Primevals have also taken the form of ancient predecessors to today’s common beasts and other fantastical titanic creatures.
Working alongside their companion spirit, most druids of the Circle of Primevals spend their lives delving into long-forgotten places and preserving the remnants of bygone eras. As a druid’s power grows, so does their companion, the beast starting near equal in size to its druid partner before increasing in stature until it too towers over the land.
Keeper of Old
3rd Level Circle of Primevals
Your connection to the mighty primeval behemoths allows you new insight into the ancient world. You gain Proficiency in History. Additionally, when you make an Intelligence (History) Check, you roll a d4 and add the number rolled to the Check.
Primeval Companion
3rd Level Circle of Primevals
You can call upon the primeval creature whose spirit is bound to you. As an Action, you can spend 1 Wild Point to summon your Primeval Companion. The Companion appears in an unoccupied space of your choice within 30ft of you.
The Primeval Companion is friendly to you and your companions, and it obeys your commands. See its game statistics in the accompanying Primeval Companion stat block, which uses your Proficiency Bonus (PB) in several places.
In combat, the Primeval Companion shares your Initiative Score, but it takes its turn immediately after yours. It can move and use its Reaction on its own, but the only Action it takes on its turn is the Dodge Action, unless you use a Bonus Action on your turn to command it to take another Action. That Action can be one in its stat block or some other Action. If you are Incapacitated, the Companion takes the Action that would best protect itself and you.
The Companion remains until it is reduced to 0 Hit Points, until you use this feature to summon the Companion again, or until you die. Anything the Companion was wearing or carrying is left behind when the Companion vanishes.
Prehistoric Conduit
6th Level Circle of Primevals
You learn how to channel your magic through your primeval companion. When you cast a Druid Spell, you can cast it from the space of your Primeval Companion.
Additionally, you can shape your Spells to protect your Companion. When your Primeval Companion is forced to make a Saving Throw imposed by a Spell you cast, it has Advantage on the Saving Throw. If the Spell would have a target make a Saving Throw, taking half Damage on a successful Save, the Companion instead takes no Damage on a successful Save, and half Damage with no additional effects on a failed Save.
Titanic Bond
10th Level Circle of Primevals
The Primeval Companion grows to Large Size, and when you summon it, you can grant it either a Climbing Speed or a Swimming Speed (your choice) equal to its Walking Speed.
In turn, the Primeval Companion lends you some of its terrifying might. Once per turn while your Primeval Companion is summoned, when you hit a creature with an Attack or deal Damage to a creature you can see with a Spell you cast, you can force that creature to make a Wisdom Saving Throw against your Spell Save DC. On a failed Save, the creature is Frightened of you until the end of your next turn.
Scourge of the Ancients
14th Level Circle of Primevals
You have learned to fully harness the titanic legacy of your companion. As part of the Bonus Action you use to command your Companion, you can expend a Spell Slot of 1st Level or higher to heighten your Primeval Companion’s might, granting it the following benefits:
- The Companion becomes Huge and gains Temporary Hit Points equal to 10 x the Level of the Spell Slot expended. If there isn’t enough room for the Companion to become Huge, it attains the maximum possible Size in the space available.
- On a hit, the Companion’s Strike deals additional Damage equal to 1d8 + the Level of the Spell Slot expended.
- The Companion’s Walking Speed increases by a number of feet equal to 5 x the Level of the Spell Slot expended.
These benefits last for 1 hour, until the Companion vanishes, or until you expend a higher Level Spell Slot with this feature.
Circle of Unbreaking
The Circle of Unbreaking is an order of Druids who have abandoned the patient teachings of their predecessors, deciding instead to take up arms in defense of the wilderness. These combative druids form militias and harness the fury of nature itself to forcefully remove any encroaching evil that threatens their sacred lands.
While the chaotic bend of nature is found within these druids, their bodies and impulses are tamed through training and discipline. Originally from the unforgiving festerwood, this circle’s teachings are as rigorous as the forest, blending a mixture of offense and defense to stand up to all of the world’s challenges.
Improved Shillelagh
2nd Level Circle of Unbreaking Feature
You gain proficiency with Martial Weapons. In addition, you learn the Shillelagh Cantrip as a Druid Cantrip, but it doesn't count against your Cantrips Known. When you cast the Shillelagh Cantrip, you can use it to imbue any Melee Weapon you are holding with nature’s power. If you’re holding a Weapon under the effects of Shillelagh, you can use it as a Druid Spellcasting Focus.
Wild Recovery
2nd Level Circle of Unbreaking Feature
You gain the ability to recover using the wild, bestial magic that courses through you. As a Bonus Action, you can spend 1 Wild Point to regain a number of Hit Points equal to 1d10 + your Wisdom Modifier. Starting at 10th Level, you regain 2d10 + your Wisdom Modifier instead.
Extra Attack
6th Level Circle of Unbreaking Feature
You can perform an additional Attack as part of the Attack Action.
If you have multiple copies of this feature and achieve a certain level threshold, the number of Attacks you can perform increases. At 5th Level if you have one copy of the feature, you can perform one extra Attack, at 11th Level if you have two copies of the feature you can perform two extra Attacks, and at 20th Level if you have three copies of the feature you can perform three extra Attacks.
Shillelagh Master
6th Level Circle of Unbreaking Feature
When you cast the Shillelagh Cantrip, the Weapon’s Damage Die becomes a d10, instead of a d8. When you reach 14th Level in this class, the Damage Die becomes a d12.
War Druid
10th Level Circle of Unbreaking Feature
When you use your Action to cast a Druid Cantrip, you can make one Weapon Attack as a Bonus Action.
Nature Armor
14th Level Circle of Unbreaking Feature
Your connection to nature helps to shield you from harm. At the start of each of your turns, you gain a number of Temporary Hit Points equal to half your Druid Level.