Optional Druid Features

Circle of the Forest

While most druids have a kinship with the woods and forests, druids who belong to the Circle of the Deep Forest have such an affinity that many wonder where the forest ends and the druid starts. Legends say that the first of these druids were treants who took human form, but such things are lost to legend.

These druids feel most comfortable deep in the green wilderness, and place great value in its unspoiled form, sharing a world view more in common with dyrads and treants than other mortals. At your option, you can pick from or roll on the Circle of the Forest Quirks table to create a quirk for your character.

Circle Spells

2nd-level Circle of the Forest feature

Your magical attunement with the power of root and leaf and branch grants you access to certain spells. At 2nd level, you learn the shillelagh cantrip.

At 3rd, 5th, 7th, and 9th level you gain access to the spells listed for that level in the Circle of the Forest 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 of the Forest Spells

Druid Level	Spells
2nd	shillelagh, ensnaring strike, entangle
3rd	barkskin, spike growth
5th	create food or water, plant growth
7th	grasping vine, guardian of nature
9th	tree stride, wrath of nature

Oaken Fortitude

2nd-level Circle of the Forest feature

At 2nd level, your body is infused with the magic of root and and branch through your body, hardening your limbs into gnarled branch-like clubs. Your gnarled, branchlike limbs are natural weapons, which you can use to make unarmed strikes. If you hit with them, you can deal bludgeoning damage equal to 1d4 + your Strength modifier, and they count as clubs for the purposes of spells such as shillelagh.

Additionally, parts of your skin are covered by a magical layer of sturdy bark. When you aren’t wearing armor, your AC equals 10 + your Constitution modifier + your Wisdom modifier.

Forest Form

2nd-level Circle of the Forest feature

Also at 2nd level, you gain the ability to activate the deep magic of old forests that infuses your body. As a bonus action, you can expend a use of your Wild Shape feature to assume a treelike form; your skin turns to bark, you sprout moss and vines, and leaves and flowers unfurl in your hair.

While this feature is active, you gain the following benefits:

• If you are smaller than Large, you become Large, along with anything you are wearing. If you lack the room to become Large, your size doesn’t change.
• You can use your Wisdom modifier in place of your Strength modifier when making Strength ability checks and saving throws.
• When you hit a creature with an unarmed strike on your turn, you can use a bonus action to attempt to grapple the target.

These benefits last for 1 minute or until you use your Wild Shape again.

Extra Attack

6th-level Circle of the Forest feature

You can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.

Old Growth

10th-level Circle of the Forest feature

You gain the endurance of the of the ancient forests. When you activate your Forest Form feature, you gain temporary hit points equal to half your druid level + your Wisdom modifier.

Additionally, if you are exposed to direct sunlight for at least one hour, you don’t need to eat for the next 24 hours, and you can drink by absorbing water directly through your skin.

Crushing Grasp

14th-level Circle of the Forest feature

Your intimate connection to the ancient forests of the world allows you to stimulate wild plant growth at will. While your Forest Form feature is active, you grow a number of grasping roots and branches equal to your Wisdom modifier. These roots and branches function as rudimentary limbs that can grapple enemies.

Additionally, any creature grappled or restrained by you (by a grapple or a spell such as entangle) takes bludgeoning damage equal to 2d6 + your Wisdom modifier at the start of their turn as your grasp crushes them.

Circle of Growth

Druids of the Circle of Growth draw their power from the energizing power of plant growth, wielding the power of blossom and bloom.

These druids use the boisterous magic of wild growth to invigorate their allies.

At your option, you can pick from or roll on the Circle of Growth Quirks table to create a quirk for your character.

Lashing Vines

At 2nd level, you learn the thorn whip cantrip if you don't already know it, and it gains the following enhancements in addition to its normal effects:

• You can target and pull a willing creature using the whip without damaging it.
• You can use the whip to manipulate an object, open an unlocked door or container, stow or retrieve an item from an open container, or pour the contents out of a vial. It can't activate magic items or carry more than 10 pounds.
• When you cast thorn whip, it deals an additional 1d6 damage. In addition, you can have the whip originate from any creature that you can see that is benefiting from flowers grown by your Bloom Form feature.

Bloom Form

Also at 2nd level, you have learned to assume a form in which you draw on the power of growth to aid your allies. As a bonus action, you can expend a use of your Wild Shape feature to assume your Bloom Form for 1 minute or until you use your Wild Shape again. Leaves and vines spiral through your hair, and lush grass and gorgeous flowers blossom all over your body.

While this feature is active, you can use a bonus action to summon a cluster of magical flowers that bloom across the body of you or a creature within 30 feet of you that you can see. You summon these flowers as part of the bonus action used to assume your Bloom Form. Whenever you summon flowers, you can also grow them on yourself as part of the same bonus action. You select the type of bloom, with the chosen type of flowers granting their listed benefit to the creature:

• Lavender. These purple flowers symbolize power. The creature can add 1d4 to Strength checks, Strength saving throws, and attacks rolls using Strength. Additionally, if it rolls a 1 on a damage die for a melee weapon attack using Strength, it can reroll the die and must use the new roll, even if the new roll is a 1.
• Chamomile. These small white flowers embody speed and agility. The creature can add 1d4 to Dexterity checks, Dexterity saving throws, and attacks rolls using Dexterity. Additionally, if it rolls a 1 on the d20 for an ability check or saving throw to avoid being grappled or knocked prone, it can reroll the die and must use the new roll.
• Dandelion. These small yellow flowers stand for hope. The creature can add 1d4 to its Constitution checks and saving throws, and if it rolls a 1 on the d20 for a saving throw against being poisoned or diseased, it can reroll the die and must use the new roll.
• Lily. These flowers, often white or pink, personify honor. The creature can add 1d4 to its Wisdom checks, Wisdom saving throws, and attacks rolls using Wisdom. Additionally, if it rolls a 1 on the d20 for a Wisdom (Insight) or (Perception) check, it can rerthe FOrestoll the die and must use the new roll.
• Iris. These elegant violet and purple flowers symbolise learning and thoughtfulness. The creature can add 1d4 to its Intelligence checks, Intelligence saving throws, and attacks rolls using Intelligence. Additionally, if it rolls a 1 on the d20 for a saving throw against a spell or magical effect, it can reroll the die and must use the new roll.
• Sunflower. These bright yellow flowers reflect the sun and inspire joy. The creature can add 1d4 to its Charisma checks, Charisma saving throws, and attacks rolls using Charisma. Additionally, if it rolls a 1 on the d20 for a saving throw against being charmed or frightened, it can reroll the die and must use the new roll.

The flowers last until your Bloom Form ends, and a creature can only benefit from one type of flower growing on it at a time; if a new type of flower is grown on a creature, the previous flowers wither and die.

Toxic Blossoms

At 6th level, your blossoms empower the spells and weapons of your allies with toxic barbs and poisonous spores.

Whilst your Bloom Form is active, when a creature who is benefiting from flowers from that feature deals damage with an attack or spell, the attack or spell deals an extra 1d4 poison damage to the target. The target can take this extra damage only once per turn, and the poison damage increases to 1d6 at 10th level, 1d8 at 14th level and 1d10 at 18th level.

Deep Roots

At 10th level, you are further empowered by the exuberance of growth. You gain resistance to poison and necrotic damage and you are immune to being paralyzed or poisoned.

Unfettered Growth

At 14th level, the boisterous flowers you summon protect your allies from harm. Whilst your Bloom Form is active, any creature who is benefiting from flowers from that feature gains temporary hit points equal to your Wisdom modifier at the start of each of its turns.

Circle of the Shaman

Druids of the Circle of the Shaman commune with the spirits of nature, especially the spirits of beasts, and call to those spirits for aid. These druids recognize that all living things play a role in the natural world, yet they focus on protecting creatures that have difficulty defending themselves. Shamans work to keep spirits and creatures in harmony with civilization. They ward off monsters that threaten forests, rebuke hunters who kill more prey than necessary, and prevent civilization from encroaching on rare animal habitats. At your option, you can pick from or roll on the Circle of the Shaman Quirks table to create a quirk for your character.

Spirit Totem

Starting at 2nd level, you can call forth nature spirits to influence the world around you. As a bonus action, you can you can expend a use of your Wild Shape feature to magically summon an incorporeal spirit to a point you can see within 60 feet of you for 1 minute or until you use your Wild Shape again. It counts as neither a creature nor an object, though it has the spectral appearance of the creature it represents. The spirit creates an aura in a 30-foot radius around itself.

Mighty Summoner

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

• The creature appears with more hit points than normal: 2 extra hit points per Hit Die it has.
• The damage from its natural weapons is considered magical for the purpose of overcoming immunity and resistance to nonmagical attacks and damage.
• 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.

Spirit-Talker

Beginning at 10th level, you enhance your ability to consult and commune with ancient spirits. You can speak, read, and write Primordial. Additionally, whenever you make a Charisma check when interacting with elementals, your proficiency bonus is doubled if it applies to the check.

Additionally, you can cast augury, commune or commune with nature as a ritual, even if you don’t have the spell prepared. When you cast any of these spells in this way, a spirit of nature appears to you to convey the information you seek, rather than a deity.

Spirit Form

Starting at 14th level, the nature spirits you commune with lend you their power. When you summon your Spirit Totem, you have a flying speed equal to your walking speed, and you can hover.

Additionally, while you have your Spirit Totem summoned, if you are hit by an attack you can use your reaction to deal 2d6 force damage to your attacker unless it succeeds on a Dexterity saving throw against your spell save DC.

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