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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.<br>

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.<br>

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.

| 1st || +2 || Druidic, Spellcasting || 0

| 2nd || +2 || Nature Given Shape, Wild Shape, Wild Companion, Druidic Circle || 300

| 4th || +2 || Ability Score Improvement || 3,000

| 6th || +3 || Druidic Circle Feature || 10,000

| 8th || +3 || Ability Score Improvement || 40,000

| 10th || +4 || Druidic Circle Feature || 80,000

| 12th || +4 || Ability Score Improvement || 120,000

| 14th || +5 || Druidic Circle Feature || 160,000

| 16th || +5 || Ability Score Improvement || 200,000

| 18th || +6 || Beast Spells, Timeless Body || 250,000

| 19th || +6 || Ability Score Improvement || 300,000

| 20th || +6 || Archdruid || 350,000

'''Armor Proficiencies.''' Light Armor, Medium Armor, and Shields<br>

'''Weapon Proficiencies.''' Clubs, Daggers, Darts, Javelins, Maces, Quarterstaffs, Scimitars, Sickles, Slings, Spears<br>

'''Equipment.''' A Round Shield or any Simple Weapon, any Simple Weapon, Leather Armor, an Explorer’s Pack, and a Druidic Focus

| 2nd || Animal Friendship, Beast Bond

| 3rd || Enhance Ability, Enlarge/Reduce

| 5th || Allegro, Haste

| 7th || Dominate Beast, Nature's Balance

| 9th || Awaken, Hold Monster

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.<br>

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.

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.

*The Companion’s Walking Speed increases by a number of feet equal to 5 x the Level of the Spell Slot expended.<br>

| 2nd || Create or Destroy Water, Fog Cloud

| 3rd || Dive, Drown, Knell of the Depths

| 5th || Tidal Wave, Wall of Water

| 7th || Maroon, Watery Sphere

| 9th || Cone of Cold, Water to Acid

The Reef lasts for 10 minutes, after which it crumbles to dust. The Reef crumbles early if you dismiss it as a Free Action, fall Unconscious, die, or spend a Wild Point.<br>

At 10th Level in this class, the Reef becomes a 20ft Moving Emanation, and the Piercing Damage dealt increases to 3d4. At 18th Level in this class, the Reef becomes a 30ft Emanation, and the Piercing Damage increases to 4d4.

Like a coral reef sifting through the ocean currents, you can filter harmful magic into healing energy. As a Reaction when you see a creature within 30ft of you casting a Spell, you can make an Spellcasting Check using your Wisdom to attempt to counteract the Spell. The DC of this Check equals 10 + the Spell’s Level. On a successful Check, the Spell fails and has no effect, and up to three creatures of your choice within 30ft of you regain Hit Points equal to twice the Spell’s Level.<br>

| 2nd || Animal Friendship, Find Familiar

| 3rd || Find Steed, Summon Beast

| 5th || Conjure Animals, Summon Fey

| 7th || Conjure Woodland Beasts, Find Greater Steed

| 9th || Awaken, Insect Plague

You gain the ability to converse with Beasts and many Fey. You learn to speak, read, and write Silvin. In addition, you are permanently under the effects of the Speak With Animals Spell.

You can call forth nature spirits to influence the world around you. You can spend 1 Wild Point as a Bonus Action, you can magically summon an incorporeal Totem Spirit to a point you can see within 60ft of you. The Spirit creates a 30ft Moving Emanation, and the Spirit is neither a creature nor an object, though it has the spectral appearance of the creature it represents. As a Bonus Action, you can move the Spirit up to 60ft to a point you can see. The Spirit remains for 1 minute or until you’re Incapacitated. Whenever you summon a Totem Spirit, choose one of the following Spirits to gain the benefits of:

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The nature spirits you commune with protect you when you are the most defenseless. If you are reduced to 0 Hit Points or are Incapacitated, you can immediately cast the Conjure Animals Spell at 9th Level. It summons four Beasts of your choice that are CR 2 or lower.<br>

The conjured Beasts appear within 20ft of you. If they receive no commands from you, they protect you from harm and Attack your foes. The Spell lasts for 1 hour, requiring no Concentration, or until you dismiss it early as a Free Action. Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a Long Rest.

These druids believe that life and death are parts of a grand cycle, with one leading to the other and then back again. Death isn’t the end of life, but instead a change of state that sees life shift into a new form.<br>

| 3rd || Blindness/Deafness, Wither and Bloom

| 5th || Animate Dead, Vampiric Touch

| 7th || Blight, Confusion

| 9th || Contagion, Danse Macabre

You are surrounded by invisible, necrotic spores that are harmless until you unleash them on a creature nearby. You Learn the Chill Touch Cantrip as a Druid Spell, which doesn't count against your Cantrips Known. Additionally, when a creature you can see moves into a space within 10ft of you or starts its turn there, you can use your Reaction to deal 1d4 Necrotic Damage to that creature.<br>

In combat, the Zombie’s turn comes immediately after yours. It obeys your mental commands, and the only Action it can take is the Attack Action, making one Melee Attack.<br>

The fungal spores in your body alter you: you can’t be Blinded, Deafened, Frightened, or Poisoned, and Crit against you becomes a normal hit instead.

Many druids of this circle keep records of the constellations and the stars’ effects on the world. Some groups document these observations at megalithic sites, which serve as enigmatic libraries of lore. These repositories might take the form of stone circles, pyramids, petroglyphs, and underground temples— any construction durable enough to protect the circle’s sacred knowledge even against a great cataclysm.

| 2nd || Faerie Fire, Sleep

| 3rd || Invisibility, Moonbeam

| 5th || Blink, Dream Reality

| 7th || Divination, Ice Storm

| 9th || Cone of Cold, Heavenly Pillar

You’ve created a Star Chart as part of your heavenly studies. It is a Tiny object and you can use it as a Druid Spellcasting Focus.<br>

While holding your Star Chart, you know the Guidance Cantrip, which counts as a Druid Spell for you but does not count against your number of Cantrips Known. You also always have the Guiding Bolt Spell Prepared, which counts as a Druid Spell for you and doesn't count against your number of Spells Prepared.<br>

You can cast the Guiding Bolt Spell without expending a Spell Slot a number of times equal to your Proficiency Bonus, regaining expended uses at the end of a Long Rest.<br>

If you lose your Star Chart, you can ceremony a 1-hour ritual to magically create a replacement. This ceremony can be performed during a Short or Long Rest, and it destroys the previous Start Chart. The Star Chart turns to glowing dust when you die.

While in your Starry Form, your body becomes luminous as your joints glimmer like stars, and glowing lines connect them as on a star chart. This form sheds Bright Light to to a Range of 10ft, and Dim Light an additional 10ft. The Starry Form lasts for 10 minutes. It ends early if you dismiss it as a Free Action, are Incapacitated, die, or use this feature again. Whenever you assume your Starry Form, choose which of the following Constellations you represent and glimmers over your body:

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| 2nd || Thunderwave, Witchbolt

| 3rd || Air Strike Shield, Warding Wind

| 5th || Lightning Bolt, Thunder Step

| 7th || Cyclone, Destructive Resonance

| 9th || Blazing Thunderbolt Strike, Fingers of Lightning

You also learn the Shocking Grasp Cantrip, which has a Range of 30ft for you, rather than Touch, as powerful arcs of electricity shoot from your fingers when you cast the Spell.

*The Range of your Shocking Grasp Cantrip is 60ft, instead of 30ft.

*When you’re hit by a Melee Attack, the Attacker takes Lightning Damage equal to half your Druid Level.

You are an embodiment of the storm. You gain Resistance to Thunder Damage and can’t be Deafened. You also can’t be moved against your will by wind or water, and your Shocking Grasp Cantrip has a Range of 60ft. While you have Temporary Hit Points, your Shocking Grasp Cantrip has a Range of 120ft. In addition, magical and non-magical fog doesn’t impede your vision, and if you’re in a rainstorm, you can choose where the rain lands within a 30ft Radius of you.

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.

| 2nd || Armor of Faethon, Sudden Spark

| 3rd || Magic Weapon, Shadow Blade

| 5th || Elemental Weapon, Haste

| 7th || March of Blades, Frost Armor

| 9th || Blazing Thunderbolt Strike, Steel Wind Strike

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.

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.

You can perform an additional Attack as part of the Attack Action.<br>

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.  

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.

| 2nd || Burning Hands, Hellish Rebuke

| 3rd || Flame Blade, Flaming Sphere,

| 5th || Fireball, Flame Arrows

| 7th || Death Ward, Fire Shield

| 9th || Blazing Thunderbolt Strike, Reincarnate

In combat, the Wildfire Spirit 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 Spirit takes the Action that would best protect itself and you.<br>

You gain the ability to turn death into magical flames that can heal or incinerate. When a Small or larger creature is reduced to 0 Hit Points within 30ft of you or your Wildfire Spirit, a harmless spectral flame springs forth in the dead creature’s space and flickers there for 1 minute. When a creature you can see enters that space, you can use your Reaction to extinguish the spectral flame there and either heal the creature that just entered that space or deal Fire Damage to it. The Healing or Damage equals 2d10 + your Wisdom Modifier.<br>

Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a Long Rest.