Druid

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Class Features

Druidic

You know Druidic, the secret language of druids. You can speak it and use it to leave hidden messages. You and other who know this language automatically spot such a message. Others spot the presence of such a message with a successful DC 15 Wisdom (Perception) check but can't decipher it without magic.  

Wild Shape

At 2nd level, you can use your action to magically assume the form of a beast you have seen before. You can use this feature twice. You regain expended use when you finish a short or long rest. Your druid level determines the beasts you can turn into, as shown on the table below. You can stay in this form for a number of hours equal to half your druid level (rounded down). You then revert to your normal form unless you expend another use of this feature. You may revert back to your normal form earlier by using a bonus action on your turn. You automatically convert if you fall unconscious, drop to 0 hit points, or die.

Level	Max. CR	Limitations	Example
2nd	1/4	No flying or swimming speed	Wolf
4th	1/2	No flying speed	Crocodile
8th	1	—	Giant Eagle

While transformed, the following rules apply:   • Your game statistic are replaced by the beast's, except as follows: you retain your alignment, personality, and Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores. You also retain your skill and saving throw proficiencies, in addition to gaining those of the creature. If you both have the same proficiency, use the beast's bonus if it is higher. You cannot use any legendary or lair action of the creature.   • When you transform, you assume the beast's hit point and HD. When you revert to your normal form, you return to the number of hit points you had when you transformed. However, if you revert as a result of dropping to 0 hit points, any excess damage carries over to your natural form. For example, if you have 1 hit point left in animal form and take 10 damage, you revert and your natural form takes 9 damage. As long as your normal form still has more then 0 hit points, you remain conscious.   • You can't cast spells, and your ability to speak or take any action that require hands is limited to the capabilities of your beast form. Transforming doesn't break your concentration for any spells you have already cast, however, or prevent you from taking any actions that are part of a spell you have already cast.   • You retain the benefit of any feature gained from your class, race, or other source, and can use them if your beast form is physically capable of doing so. However, you can't use special senses, such as darkvision, unless your new form also has that sense.   • You choose whether your equipment falls to the ground, merges into your new form, or is worn by it. Worn equipment functions as normal, but the DM decides whether it is practical for the new form to wear. Your equipment doesn't change size or shape to match your new form. Merged equipment has no effect until you leave the form.  

Druid Circle

You choose the circle from which you draw your connection to the world at this level. This choice grants you features at 2nd, 6th, 10th, and 14th level.  

Ability Score Improvement

At 4th level, and again at 8th, 12th, 16th, and 19th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or increase two ability scores by 1 each. As usual, you cannot increase an ability score above 20 using this ability.   Alternatively, you can choose to gain a single feat of your choice.  

Timeless Body

At 18th level, the primal magic you wield slows down your aging. For every 10 years that pass, you only age 1 year.  

Beast Spells

At 18th level, you can cast many of your spells while in a shape assumed by using Wild Shape. You can provide somatic and verbal components of a druid spell while in a beast shape, but you cannot provide material components.  

Archdruid

At 20th level, you can use your Wild Shape an unlimited number of times.

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Starting Equipment

• Choose: a wooden shield; or any simple weapon   • Choose: a scimitar; or any simple melee weapon   • Leather armor, an explorer's pack and a druidic focus

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Spellcasting

Cantrips

You know two cantrips from the Druid Spell List. You learn an additional cantrip at 4th and 10th level.  

Preparing and Casting Spells

The table above shows how many spell slots you have to cast spells of 1st level and higher. To cast one of these spells, you must expend a slot of the spell's level or higher. You regain all expended slots when you finish a long rest.   You prepare the list of druid spells that are available for you to cast, choosing from the druid spell list. When you do so, choose a number of spells equal to your Wisdom modifier + your druid level (min. 1 spell). These must be of a level for which you have spell slots. You may change your list of prepared spells whenever you finish a long rest; doing so requires 1 minute of prayer or meditation per spell level of the chosen the spells.  

Spellcasting Ability

Wisdom is your casting ability for druid spells. Your magic comes from your devotion and attunement to nature. When a spell refers to your spellcasting ability, you use Wisdom. In addition, you use your Wisdom to determine the save DC of any druid spell which requires one, and when making an attack roll with one.   Spell save DC= 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Wisdom modifier   Spell attack modifier= your proficiency bonus + your Wisdom modifier  

Ritual Casting

You may cast any druid spell you have prepared as a ritual if it has the ritual tag. A spell cast as a ritual takes an additional 10 minutes to cast, but does not require you to expend a spell slot.  

Spellcasting Focus

You may use a druidic focus as a spellcasting focus for your spells. Druidic foci include mistletoe, totem carvings, yew wands, or oaken staves.

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Subclass Options

Circle of Spores

  Druids of the Circle of Spores find beauty in decay. They see within mold and other fungi the ability to transform lifeless material into abundant, albeit somewhat strange, life.     These druids believe that life and death are portions of a grand cycle, with one leading to the other and then back again. Death is not the end of life, but instead a change of state that sees life shift into a new form. Druids of this circle have a complex relationship with the undead. Unlike most other druids, they see nothing inherently wrong with undeath, which they consider to be a companion to life and death. However, these druids believe that the natural cycle is healthiest when each segment of it is vibrant and changing. Undead that seek to replace all life with undeath, or avoid passing to a final rest, violate the cycle and must be thwarted.

Halo of Spores

  Starting at 2nd level, you are surrounded by invisible, necrotic spores that are harmless until you unleash them on a creature nearby.    When a creature you can see moves into a space within 10 feet of you or starts its turn there, you can use your reaction to deal 1d4 necrotic damage to that creature unless it succeeds on a Constitution saving throw against your spell save DC.    The necrotic damage increases to 1d6 at 6th level, 1d8 at 10th level, and 1d10 at 14th level.    

Symbiotic Entity

  At 2nd level, you gain the ability to channel magic into your spores.    As an action, you can expend a use of your Wild Shape feature to awaken those spores, rather than transforming into a beast form, and you gain 4 temporary hit points for each level you have in this class.    While this feature is active, you gain the following benefits: • When you deal your Halo of Spores damage, roll the damage die a second time and add it to the total. • Your melee weapon attacks deal an extra 1d6 poison damage to any target they hit.   These benefits last for 10 minutes, until you lose all these temporary hit points, or until you use your Wild Shape again.    

Fungal Infestation

  At 6th level, your spores gain the ability to infest a humanoid corpse and animate it. If a beast or humanoid that is Small or Medium dies within 10 feet of you, you can use your reaction to animate it, causing it to stand up immediately with 1 hit point. The creature uses the zombie statistics. It remains animate for 1 hour, after which time it collapses and dies.   In combat, the zombie's turn is immediately after yours. It obeys your mental commands, and the only action it can take is the Attack action, making one melee attack.   You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Wisdom modifier (minimum of once), and you regain all expended uses of it when you finish a long rest.    

Spreading Spores

  At 10th level, you gain the ability to seed an area with deadly spores. As a bonus action while your Symbiotic Entity feature is active, you can hurl spores up to 30 feet away, where they swirl in a 10-foot cube for 1 minute. The spores disappear early if you use this feature again, if you dismiss them as a bonus action, or if your Symbiotic Entity feature is no longer active. Whenever a creature moves into the cube or starts its turn there, that creature takes your Halo of Spores damage, unless the creature succeeds on a Constitution saving throw against your spell save DC. A creature can take this damage no more than once per turn.   While the cube of spores persists, you can't use your Halo of Spores reaction.  

Fungal Body

  At 14th level, the fungal spores in your body alter you: you can’t be blinded, deafened, frightened, or poisoned, and any critical hit against you counts as a normal hit, unless you are incapacitated.   Circle Spells   Your symbiotic link to fungus and your ability to tap into the cycle of life and death grants you access to certain spells. At 2nd level, you learn the Chill Touch cantrip. At 3rd, 5th, 7th, and 9th level you gain access to the spells listed for that level in the Circle of Spores Spells table. Once you gain access to one of these spells, you always have it prepared, and it doesn’t count against the number of spells you can prepare each day. If you gain access to a spell that doesn’t appear on the druid spell list, the spell is nonetheless a druid spell for you.  

Druid Level	Circle Spells
3rd	Blindness/Deafness, Gentle Repose
5th	Animate Dead, Gaseous Form
7th	Blight, Confusion
9th	Cloudkill, Contagion

 
 

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