Druid

Power of Nature

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, while others serve gods of wild nature, animals, or elemental forces. The ancient druidic traditions are sometimes called the Old Faith, in contrast to the worship of gods in temples and shrines.

Druid spells are oriented toward nature and animal — 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.

Preserve the Balance

For druids, nature exists in a precarious balance. The four elements that make up a world — air, earth, fire, and water — must remain in equilibrium. If one element were to gain power over the others, the world could be destroyed, drawn into one of the elemental planes and broken apart into its component elements. Thus, druids oppose cults of Elemental Evil and others who promote one element to the exclusion of others.

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 (such as beholders and mind flayers) and undead (such as zombies and vampires). 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.

Hit Points

Hit Dice: 1d8
Hit Points at 1st Level: 8 + your Constitution modifier
Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d8 (or 5) + your Constitution modifier per Druid level after 1st

Proficiencies

Armor: light armor, medium armor, shields (druids will not wear armor or use shields made of metal)
Weapons: simple weapons, scimitars
Tools: Herbalism kit

Saving Throws: Intelligence, Wisdom
Skills: Choose two from Animal Handling, Arcana, Insight, Medicine, Nature, Perception, Religion, and Survival.

Starting Equipment

You start with the following items, plus anything provided by your background.

• (a) a wooden shield or (b) any simple weapon
• (a) a scimitar or (b) any simple melee weapon
• Leather armor, an explorer's pack, and a druidic focus

Alternatively, you may start with 2d4 × 10 gp to buy your own equipment.

Druidic

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

Cantrips

At 1st level, you know two cantrips of your choice from the druid spell list. You learn additional druid cantrips of your choice at higher levels, as shown in the Cantrips Known column of the Druid table.

Preparing and Casting Spells

The Druid table shows how many spell slots you have to cast your druid spells of 1st level and higher. To cast one of these druid spells, you must expend a slot of the spell's level or higher. You regain all expended spell 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 druid spells equal to your Wisdom modifier + your druid level (minimum of one spell). The spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots.

For example, if you are a 3rd-level druid, you have four 1st-level and two 2nd-level spell slots. With a Wisdom of 16, your list of prepared spells can include six spells of 1st or 2nd level, in any combination. If you prepare the 1st-level spell cure wounds, you can cast it using a 1st-level or 2nd-level slot. Casting the spell doesn't remove it from your list of prepared spells.

You can also change your list of prepared spells when you finish a long rest. Preparing a new list of druid spells requires time spent in prayer and meditation: at least 1 minute per spell level for each spell on your list.

Spellcasting Ability

Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for your druid spells, since your magic draws upon your devotion and attunement to nature. You use your Wisdom whenever a spell refers to your spellcasting ability. In addition, you use your Wisdom modifier when setting the saving throw DC for a druid spell you cast and when making an attack roll with one.

Druid Circles

Though their organization is invisible to most outsiders, druids are part of a society that spans the land, ignoring political borders. All druids are nominally members of this druidic society, though some individuals are so isolated that they have never seen any high-ranking members of the society or participated in druidic gatherings. Druids recognize each other as brothers and sisters; like creatures of the wilderness, however, druids sometimes compete with or even prey on each other.

Circle Spells

Starting when you join this circle at 2nd level, your deep affinity to the Feywild and its sister realms grants you access to some spells when you reach certain levels in this class, as shown in the Circle of Dreams 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.

Balm of the Summer Court

At 2nd level, you become imbued with the blessings of the Summer Court. You are a font of energy that offers respite from injuries. You have a pool of fey energy represented by a number of d6s equal to 1 + your druid level.

As a bonus action, you can choose one creature you can see within 120 feet of you and spend a number of the dice in your pool. Roll the dice you spend, add them together, and the target regains a number of hit points equal to the total. The target also gains 1 temporary hit point per die spent.

The maximum number of dice you can spend at once equals your proficiency bonus. You regain all expended dice when you finish a long rest.

Hearth of Moonlight and Shadow

At 6th level, home can be wherever you are. During a short or long rest, you can invoke the shadowy power of the Gloaming Court to help guard your respite. At the start of the rest, you touch a point in space, and an invisible, 30-foot-radius sphere of magic appears, centered on that point. Total cover blocks the sphere.

While within the sphere, you and your allies gain a +5 bonus to Dexterity (Stealth) and Wisdom (Perception) checks, and any light from open flames in the sphere (a campfire, torches, or the like) isn't visible outside it.

The sphere vanishes at the end of the rest or when you leave the sphere.

Hidden Paths

Starting at 10th level, you can use the hidden, magical pathways that some fey use to traverse space in the blink of an eye. As a bonus action on your turn, you can teleport up to 60 feet to an unoccupied space you can see. Alternatively, you can use your action to teleport one willing creature you touch up to 30 feet to an unoccupied space you can see.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Wisdom modifier (a minimum of once), and you regain all expended uses of it when you finish a long rest.

Walker in Dreams

At 14th level, the magic of the Feywild grants you the ability to travel mentally or physically through dreamlands.

When you finish a short rest, you can cast one of the following spells, without expending a spell slot or requiring material components: dream (with you as the messenger), scrying, or teleportation circle.

This use of teleportation circle is special. Rather than opening a portal to a permanent teleportation circle, it opens a portal to the last location where you finished a long rest on your current plane of existence. If you haven't taken a long rest on your current plane, the spell fails but isn't wasted.

Once you cast one of these spells using this feature, you can't cast that spell again in this way until you finish a long rest.

Arctic

Coastal

Desert

Forest

Grassland

Mountain

Swamp

Combat Wild Shape

When you join this circle at 2nd level, you gain the ability to use Wild Shape on your turn as a bonus action, rather than as an action. (You must still use your action to assume a beast shape with your Animal Form.)

Additionally, while you are transformed by Wild Shape, you can use a bonus action to expend one spell slot and regain 1d8 hit points per level of the spell slot expended, plus an additional number of hit points equal to your Wisdom modifier (minimum of 1 hit point).

Circle Spells

Starting at 2nd level, your spiritual bond with natural creatures grants you access to some spells when you reach certain levels in this class, as shown in the Circle of the Moon 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.

Circle Forms

At 2nd level, the rites of your circle grant you the ability to transform into more dangerous animal forms. Starting at 2nd level, you can use your Wild Shape to transform into a beast with a challenge rating as high as 1/2 (you ignore the Max. CR column of the Beast Shapes table, but must abide by the other limitations there, as shown on the Circle of the Moon Beast Shapes table below).

Starting at 6th level, you can transform into a beast with a challenge rating as high as your druid level divided by 3, rounded down.

Primal Strike

Starting at 6th level, your attacks in beast form count as magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage.

Elemental Wild Shape

At 10th level, you can expend two uses of Wild Shape at the same time to transform into an air elemental, an earth elemental, a fire elemental, or a water elemental.

Night's Harvest

When you join this circle at 2nd level, you gain the power to augment your spells with life-stealing energy. This power of yours is represented by a pool of d8s, and the number of dice in your pool equals 1 + your druid level.

You can spend the dice in your pool when you deal damage to one or more creatures with a druid spell you cast of 1st level or higher. Roll the dice you spend, add them together, and deal extra necrotic damage to one of the spell's targets equal to the total + your Wisdom modifier (minimum of 1 damage), in addition to the spell's damage. If the target is an undead or a construct, it takes an additional 1d8 damage. If your spell augmented in this way reduces the target to 0 hit points, you gain temporary hit points equal to the spell's level + half your druid level.

The maximum number of dice you can spend at once equals your proficiency bonus. Your pool regains all expended dice when you finish a long rest.

Circle Spells

Starting at 2nd level, your link to the night grants you access to some spells when you reach certain levels in this class, as shown in the Circle of Night 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.

Eyes of the Dark

Starting at 2nd level, you can see through the deepest gloom. You have darkvision out to a range of 120 feet. If you already have darkvision from your race, its range becomes 150 feet.

Wild Gloaming

Starting at 6th level, you can harness the gloam to destroy your foes. When you deal damage to a creature, you can choose to have that damage ignore all of the target's damage resistances.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Watcher at the Threshold

At 10th level, you exude a protective veil imbued with the wonder of the cosmos. You gain resistance to necrotic and radiant damage. In addition, while you aren't incapacitated, any ally within 30 feet of you has advantage on death saving throws.

Bountiful Harvest

Starting at 14th level, you use the stolen energy of your harvests to ward death from your allies. When you deal the extra necrotic damage of your Night's Harvest to a target, you can select a different creature you can see within 30 feet of you. The chosen creature regains hit points equal to half the extra necrotic damage dealt, provided it has at least 1 hit point. This ability can restore a creature to no more than half of its hit point maximum, and it has no effect on undead or constructs.

Circle Spells

Starting when you join this circle at 2nd level, your connection to the world's energy grants you access to some spells when you reach certain levels in this class, as shown on the Circle of Roots 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.

Emboldening. A creature that consumes the brew gains the following benefit, which it can use once within the next 10 minutes: when the creature misses with an attack roll or fails an ability check or saving throw, it can reroll the d20 and must use the new roll. Once the creature uses this benefit, the brew's effect on it then ends.

Fortifying. When you create this brew, choose one of the following damage types: acid, cold, fire, necrotic, poison, or radiant. A creature that consumes the brew gains resistance to the chosen damage type for 10 minutes.

Quickening. A creature that consumes the brew regains 2d4 hit points, and one disease or condition afflicting the creature ends (the creature's choice when it consumes the brew). The condition can be charmed, frightened, paralyzed, poisoned, or stunned.

Toxifying. Instead of consuming the brew, a creature uses an action to apply the brew to a simple or martial weapon, which the weapon retains for 10 minutes. The next time a creature is hit with a weapon attack using the weapon, or a piece of ammunition fired from the weapon, the target takes an extra 2d8 poison damage and must succeed on a Constitution saving throw against your spell save DC or be poisoned for 1 minute.

Speech of the Woods

When you join this circle at 2nd level, you gain the ability to converse with beasts and many fey. You learn to speak, read, and write Sylvan.

In addition, beasts can understand your speech, and you gain the ability to decipher their noises and motions. Most beasts lack the intelligence to convey or understand sophisticated concepts, but a friendly beast could relay what it has seen or heard in the recent past. This ability doesn't grant you friendship with beasts, though you can combine this ability with gifts to curry favor with them as you would with any nonplayer character.

Circle Spells

Starting at 2nd level, your spiritual bond with natural creatures grants you access to some spells when you reach certain levels in this class, as shown in the Circle of the Shepherd 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.

Spirit Totem

Starting at 2nd level, you can call forth nature spirits to influence the world around you. As a bonus action, you can expend a use of your Wild Shape to magically summon an incorporeal spirit to a point you can see within 60 feet of you. The spirit creates an aura in a 30-foot radius around that point. It counts as neither a creature nor an object, though it has the spectral appearance of the creature it represents.

The spirit persists for 1 minute, until you're incapacitated, or until you use your Wild Shape again. As a bonus action on each of your turns while the spirit persists, you can move it up to 60 feet to a point you can see.

The effect of the spirit's aura depends on the type of spirit you summon from the options below.

Bear Spirit. The bear spirit grants you and your allies its might and endurance. Each creature of your choice in the aura when the spirit appears gains temporary hit points equal to 5 + your druid level. In addition, you and your allies gain advantage on Strength checks and Strength saving throws while in the aura.

Hawk Spirit. The hawk spirit is a consummate hunter, aiding you and your allies with its keen sight. When a creature makes an attack roll against a target in the spirit's aura, you can use your reaction to grant advantage to that attack roll. In addition, you and your allies have advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks while in the aura.

Unicorn Spirit. The unicorn spirit lends its protection to those nearby. You and your allies gain advantage on all ability checks made to detect creatures in the spirit's aura. In addition, if you cast a spell using a spell slot that restores hit points to any creature inside or outside the aura, each creature of your choice in the aura also regains hit points equal to your druid level.

Mighty Summoner

Starting at 6th level, beasts and fey that you conjure are more resilient than normal. Any beast or fey summoned or created by a spell that you cast gains the following benefits:

• The creature appears with more hit points than normal: 4 extra hit points per level of the spell cast to summon or create it.
• The damage from its natural weapons is considered magical for the purpose of overcoming immunity and resistance to nonmagical attacks and damage.

Guardian Spirit

Beginning at 10th level, your Spirit Totem safeguards the beasts and fey that you call forth with your magic. When a beast or fey that you summoned or created with a spell ends its turn in your Spirit Totem aura, that creature regains a number of hit points equal to half your druid level.

Faithful Summons

Starting at 14th level, 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 against your will, you can immediately gain the benefits of the summon beast spell as if it were cast using a 9th-level spell slot. The conjured spirit appears within 20 feet of you. If it receives no commands from you, it protects you from harm and attacks your foes. The spell lasts for 1 hour, requiring no concentration, or until you dismiss it (no action required).

Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.

Circle Spells

Starting when you join this circle at 2nd level, your symbiotic link to fungus allows you to tap into the cycle of life and death. You learn the chill touch cantrip; for you, this cantrip counts as a druid cantrip. This link also grants you access to some spells when you reach certain levels in this class, as shown 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.

Circle Spells

Starting at 2nd level, your attunement to the cosmos grants you access to some spells when you reach certain levels in this class, as shown in the Circle of Stars 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.

Star Map

When you join this circle at 2nd level, you create a star chart as part of your heavenly studies. It is a Tiny object and can serve as a spellcasting focus for your druid spells. You determine its form by rolling on the Star Map table or by choosing one.

Starry Form

Starting at 2nd level, you can channel starlight into your body. As a bonus action, you can expend a use of your Wild Shape feature to take on a starry form, rather than transforming into a beast.

While in your starry form, you retain your game statistics, but your body becomes luminous; your joints glimmer like stars, and glowing lines connect them as on a star chart. This form sheds bright light in a 10-foot radius and dim light for an additional 10 feet. The form lasts for 10 minutes. It ends early if you dismiss it (no action required), are incapacitated, die, or use this feature again.

Whenever you assume your starry form, choose which of the following constellations glimmers on your body; your choice gives you certain benefits while in the form:

Archer. A constellation of an archer appears on you. When you activate this form, and as a bonus action on your subsequent turns while it lasts, you can make a ranged spell attack, hurling a luminous arrow that targets one creature within 60 feet of you. On a hit, the attack deals radiant damage equal to 1d8 + your Wisdom modifier.

Circle Spells

Starting when you join this circle at 2nd level, you have formed a bond with a wildfire spirit, a primal being of creation and destruction. Your link with this spirit grants you access to some spells when you reach certain levels in this class, as shown in the Circle of Wildfire 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.

Summon Wildfire Spirit

At 2nd level, you learn how to summon the primal spirit bound to your soul. As an action, you can expend one use of your Wild Shape feature to summon your wildfire spirit, rather than assuming a beast form.

The spirit appears in an unoccupied space of your choice that you can see within 30 feet of you. Each creature within 10 feet of the spirit (other than you) when it appears must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw against your spell save DC or take 2d6 fire damage.

The spirit is friendly to you and your companions and obeys your commands. See this creature's game statistics in the Wildfire Spirit stat block, which uses your proficiency bonus (PB) in several places. You determine the spirit's appearance. Some spirits take the form of a humanoid figure made of gnarled branches covered in flame, while others look like beasts wreathed in fire.

Wildfire Spirit

Small elemental, unaligned

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• Armor Class 13 (natural armor)
• Hit Points 5 + five times your druid level
• Speed 30 ft., fly 30 ft. (hover)

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
10 (+0)	14 (+2)	14 (+2)	13 (+1)	15 (+2)	11 (-0)

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• Damage Immunities fire
• Condition Immunities charmed, frightened, grappled, prone, restrained
• Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 12
• Languages understands the languages you speak
• Proficiency Bonus (PB) equals your bonus

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Actions

Flame Seed. Ranged Weapon Attack: your spell attack modifier to hit. Hit: 1d6 + PB fire damage.

Fiery Teleportation. The spirit and each willing creature of your choice within 5 feet of it teleport up to 15 feet to unoccupied spaces you can see. Each creature within 5 feet of the space that the spirit left must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw against your spell save DC or take 1d6 + PB fire damage.

Enhanced Bond

Starting at 6th level, the bond with your wildfire spirit enhances your destructive and restorative spells. Whenever you cast a spell that deals fire damage or restores hit points while your wildfire spirit is summoned, roll a d8, and you gain a bonus equal to the number rolled to one damage or healing roll of the spell.

In addition, when you cast a spell with a range other than self, the spell can originate from you or your wildfire spirit.

Cauterizing Flames

At 10th level, you gain the ability to turn death into magical flames that can heal or incinerate. When a Small or larger creature dies within 30 feet 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 or deal fire damage to it. The healing or damage equals 2d10 + your Wisdom modifier.

You can use this reaction a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Blazing Revival

From 14th level, the bond with your wildfire spirit can save you from death. If the spirit is within 120 feet of you when you are reduced to 0 hit points but not killed outright, you can dismiss the spirit and have its power return to you. You then regain half your hit points and immediately rise to your feet amid a whirl of flames, and each creature of your choice within 10 feet of you takes fire damage equal to your druid level.

Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.

Circle of Dreams

The changes to the Circle of Dreams are listed below.

Balm of the Summer Court. The number of dice in this feature's pool equals 1 + the druid's class level (previously equal to the druid's class level). In exchange, the maximum number of dice that can be spent at once equals the druid's proficiency bonus, instead of half their druid level. This brings the feature more in line with similar features from other classes.

Circle of the Land

The changes to the Circle of the Land are listed below.

Circle Spells. In addition to the new spells granted to the druid at 2nd level, there are changes to the list of circle spells for several land types.

The Coast grants access to the spell maelstrom at 9th level, instead of conjure elemental.

The Desert grants dust devil at 3rd level, instead of blur; wall of sand at 5th level, instead of protection from energy; and transmute rock at 9th level, instead of wall of stone.

The Forest grants guardian of nature at 7th level, instead of freedom of movement.

The Grassland grants wrath of nature at 9th level, instead of dream.

The Mountain grants Maximillian's earthen grasp at 3rd level, instead of spider climb; and transmute rock at 9th level, instead of passwall.

The Swamp grants blindness/deafness at 3rd level, instead of darkness; sickening radiance at 7th level, instead of freedom of movement; and seeming at 9th level, instead of scrying.

The Underdark grants contagion at 9th level, instead of insect plague.