Wildshifter

Wild Bond

Wildshifters develop close bonds with particular beasts of the wild, drawing upon their natural essence to integrate their power into themselves. They revere nature and beasts and often belong to the ancient traditions of the druidic circles.
    Compared to druids, wildshifters develop a greater ability to intricately shapeshift, either partially or completely, into creatures they have bonded with, but lack the ability to produce spells. Powerful wildshifters gain great control over their shapeshifting, allowing them to take on the aspects of multiple creatures at once and even change their own appearance at will.

Class Features

As a Wildshifter, you gain the following class features:

Nature's Empathy

Beginning at 3rd level, your attunement to wild beasts makes you more adept at interacting with the creatures of nature. You have advantage on skill checks involving interactions with beasts. If a beast is one of your wild aspects (or is closely related at your DM's discretion), you automatically add double your proficiency bonus to those checks regardless of your normal proficiencies.
    In addition, while you are shapeshifted into the major form of a creature, you can communicate with that kind of beast as if you shared a language.

Ability Score Improvement

When you reach 4th level, and again at 8th, 12th, 16th, and 19th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. As normal, you can’t increase an ability score above 20 using this feature.
    Using the optional feats rule, you can forgo taking this feature to take a feat of your choice instead.

Extra Attack

Beginning at 5th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the attack action on your turn.

Chimeric Form

At 5th level, you learn to draw upon two of your wild aspects at a time. When you shapeshift into one of your wild aspects (using either the "wild aspect" or "wild form" features), you may choose one of your other wild aspects and gain the benefits of its minor form as well, influencing your shapeshifted appearance in minor ways.

As you gain levels, you learn to integrate more wild aspects into your form. You may choose up to two additional minor forms at 9th level, three at 13th level, and four at 17th level.

Druidic Claws

Beginning at 6th level, your natural wildshifter weapons count as magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage.
    In addition, you gain a bonus to damage dealt with your natural wildshifter weapons equal to half your wisdom modifier (rounded up).

Evasion

Beginning at 7th level, your malleable form helps you avoid area effects, such as a dragon's fiery breath or a lightning bolt spell. When you are subjected to an effect that allows you to make a dexterity saving throw to take only half damage,
you instead take no damage if you succeed on the saving throw, and only half damage if you fail.

Land's Stride

Beginning at 8th level, moving through nonmagical difficult terrain costs you no extra movement. You can also pass through nonmagical plants without being slowed by them and without taking damage from them if they have thorns, spines, or a similar hazard. In addition, you have
advantage on saving throws against plants that are
magically created or manipulated to impede
movement, such as those creature by the entangle spell.

Feral Fury

Beginning at 11th level, you take inspiration from the feral techniques used by your favored beasts. When you take the attack action with natural weapons on your turn, you may choose to attack wildly. When you do so, you may attack two additional times with your attack action, but you have disadvantage on all attack rolls until the end of your turn.

Thousand Faces

At 15th level, your shapeshifting ability becomes far more versatile. You gain the ability to change your appearance at will, as a bonus action.
    Your altered appearance must have the same basic arrangement of limbs and be roughly the same size as your current form. Performing this feature does not require expending a use of shapeshifting.

Timeless Body

Beginning at 18th level, the primal magic that permeates your being causes you to age more slowly. For every 10 years that pass, your body ages only 1 year.

Avatar of the Wilds

At 20th level, you effortlessly draw upon your wild aspects at a moment's notice. As a bonus action, you may switch one of your current minor forms for another minor form from one of your wild aspects, without expending a use of shapeshifting.

In addition, you can now choose a total of five additional minor forms as part of the chimeric form feature.

Wild Aspects

A wildshifter forms bonds with a select few creatures, allowing the wildshifter to transform into those creatures and gain their attributes for themselves. These bonds are known as wild aspects, each of which grants unique capabilities to the wildshifters that use them.

Minor Form

You gain a climb speed equal to your base speed.

Major Form

You gain a climb speed of 50 feet. In addition, a number of times between short rests equal to your wisdom modifier (minimum of once), you can take the disengage action as a bonus action.

Crawler Aspect

Example Creatures: Ants, Roaches, Spiders
Those with the bug aspect are unperturbed by difficult terrain, tight conditions, and darkness.

Minor Form

You ignore difficult terrain, and cannot be stuck or restrained in webs.

Beginning at 15th level, you gain tremorsense with a range of 15 feet.

Major Form

Your available sizes for this form additionally include diminutive or tiny. You gain a climb speed equal to your base speed and darkvision to a range of 60 feet. You are not considered squeezing when moving through a space large enough for a creature one size smaller than you.

In addition, while you are not moving, you have a bonus to stealth checks equal to your wisdom modifier.

Darting (Flight) Aspect

Example Creatures: Bats, Dragonflies, Hummingbirds
The aspect of the darting flight offers the ability to make quick, subtly effective attacks at foes.

Minor Form

If you entered the reach of a creature on your turn, you may freely leave that creature's reach without provoking an attack of opportunity.

Major Form

You gain a flight speed of 40 feet that can be used for a number of minutes equal to your wisdom modifier between short or long rests. In addition, if you move at least 30 feet on your turn, you gain a +2 bonus to AC until the beginning of your next turn.

Beginning at 10th level, you can fly indefinitely in this form.

Dexterous Aspect

 Example Creatures: Cats, Deer, Wolves
 Those with the aspect of dexterity are a powerful, yet
    graceful hunters, avoiding predators and taking down prey
    with ruthless efficiency.

Minor Form

     You gain a +2 bonus to your dexterity score.

Major Form

            Your speed increases by 10 feet, and you gain a bonus
                to stealth checks equal to your wisdom modifier.

Electric Aspect

                Example Creatures: Catfish, Eels, Rays
             The aspect of electricity imparts the ability to charge
               attacks with electricity and move in water
               effortlessly.

Minor Form

                   Your melee attacks with natural weapons deal an
                     additional 1 point of lightning damage. This
                     damage increases to 1d4 at 7th level, 1d6 at 13th
                    level, and 1d8 at 17th level.

Major Form

                       Your normal speed is replaced by a swim speed
                         of 30 feet. You can breathe underwater
                        indefinitely. In addition, when you are hit by a
                          melee attack within 5 feet, your attacker
                            automatically takes the lightning damage
                             from the minor form.

Minor Form

You gain a +2 bonus to your constitution score. This increases your current hit points and hit point maximum by an amount equal to your current level. If you lose the benefits of this minor form, your current hit points and hit point maximum decrease by the same amount.

Major Form

You reduce any bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage by an amount equal to your wisdom modifier. In addition, you can reroll the damage die for melee attacks you make, but you must use the new result when you do so.

Minor Form

At the beginning of your turn, you may choose to grant yourself advantage on your attacks. If you do so, attacks targeting you have advantage until the beginning of your next turn.

Hunter (Aquatic) Aspect

Example Creatures: Dolphins, Sharks, Seals
The aquatic hunter aspect grants mastery over underwater pursuits and the powerful ability to track and kill wounded prey.

Intelligent Aspect

Example Creatures: Dogs, Monkeys, Pigs
Those with this aspect are cunning hunters, able to use their wits to overcome foes.

Jumping Aspect

Example Creatures: Frogs, Kangaroos, Rabbits
The aspect of the jumping grants great mobility in leaping through the air.

Lunging Aspect

Example Creatures: Mantises, Scorpions, Snakes
The aspect of the mantis imparts uncanny patience and unsettling speed in their lunging attacks.

Nocturnal (Flight) Aspect

Example Creatures: Bats, Nightingales, Owls
The aspect of the nocturnal flier imparts mastery over darkness and the night. Those who take this aspect become adept at stalking in darkness from the air.

Perceptive Aspect

Example Creatures: Cheetahs, Deer, Goats
Those with the aspect of perception are rarely caught unaware, able to spot both predator and prey alike with ease.

Perceptive (Flight) Aspect

Example Creatures: Eagles, Hawks, Owls
Those with the perceptive flight aspect have powerful senses to hunt down even the most elusive prey.

Minor Form

You have advantage on stealth checks.

Major Form

You gain darkvision to a range of 60 feet and a flight speed of 30 feet that can be used for a number of minutes equal to your wisdom modifier between short or long rests. In addition, your first hit against a surprised creature deals additional damage equal to four times your wisdom modifier.

Beginning at 10th level, you can fly indefinitely in this form.

Minor Form

When reduced to 0 hit points, you may choose to gain a level of exhaustion instead of falling unconscious. If you choose to do so, you do not fall unconscious from having 0 hit points until the end of your next turn.

Major Form

Your speed increases by 10 feet. In addition, when you enter this form, you gain temporary hit points equal to your wildshifter level plus your wisdom modifier. You may only gain these hit points once between short or long rests. If you complete a short or long rest in this form, you immediately regain the temporary hit points.

Minor Form

Your speed increases
by 10 feet.

Major Form

Your speed increases by an additional 10 feet. If you move at least 20 feet in a straight line on your turn, creature have disadvantage on attack rolls against you until the beginning of your next turn.

Minor Form

You gain a +2 bonus to your wisdom score.

Major Form

You have advantage on intelligence, wisdom, and charisma saving throws. In addition, once per long rest, when you fail one of these saving throws, you may choose to succeed instead.

Minor Form

Your melee attacks with natural weapons deal an additional 1 point of poison damage. This damage increases to 1d4 at 7th level, 1d6 at 13th level, and 1d8 at 17th level.

Major Form

When you hit a creature with a melee attack, they must make a constitution saving throw (DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your wisdom modifier). On a failed save, a creature is poisoned and may repeat the saving throw at the end of each of their turns, ending the effect on a success. On a successful save, a creature is immune to
this poison for 24 hours.

Animal Bond

At 2nd level, your close spiritual bond with the beasts of the wild grants you an additional wild aspect.

Recuperating Shift

Beginning at 6th level, you are able to mend some of your wounds through your shapeshifting. When you use your bonus action to shift forms, you restore an amount of hit points equal to one roll of your natural weapon die. You may do this a number of times between long rests equal to your wisdom modifier (minimum of once).

Greater Chimera

Beginning at 10th level, when you use the chimeric form feature to benefit from multiple minor forms, you may choose one additional minor form to benefit from.

At 20th level, with the "Avatar of the Wilds" feature, you benefit from a total of six of your minor forms at once.

True Chimera

Beginning at 14th level, you draw up on the greater powers of two beasts at once combining them into a true amalgamation of their appearance and abilities.

When you use your bonus action to shapeshift into one of your wild aspects, you may choose one of your bonus minor forms granted by the chimeric form feature. You benefit from the major form of the chosen aspect in addition to the wild aspect you are shapeshifting into, effectively granting you two major forms at once. Your shape changes to become a bizarre combination of the two aspects and you take on the size of whichever major form is larger (if applicable).

Spellcasting

At 2nd level, you draw upon your connection to the land in which you became a wildshifter to cast spells. Choose that land – arctic, coast, desert, forest, grassland, mountain, swamp, or Underdark.

Starry Form

At 2nd level, you gain the ability to harness constellations' powers to alter your form. Once per long rest, when you use your bonus action to shapeshift into a new form, you may choose to take on a starry version of the wild aspect.

       Your starry form has the same statistics as your
          shapeshifted form, 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. In addition, while in this form, you
                 may choose to deal radiant damage with your
                   natural melee weapons. The starry form ends after
                   10 minutes, reverting to the non-starry version of
                your current form. Alternatively, the form ends early
          if you dismiss it (no action required) or shapeshift into
            a new form.

        Whenever you assume your starry form, choose which
            of the following constellations glimmers on your body:

Fiery Form

At 2nd level, you learn to harness the power of fire in your shapeshifting. Once per long rest, when you use your bonus action to shapeshift into a new form, you may choose to take on a fiery version of the wild aspect.

Your fiery form has the same statistics as your intended shapeshifted form, but you emanate fire, shedding bright light in a 10-foot radius and dim light for an additional 10 feet. In addition, while in this form, you may choose to deal fire damage with your natural melee weapons. The form ends after 10 minutes, reverting to the normal version of your current form. Alternatively, the form ends early if you dismiss it (no action required) or shapeshift into a new form.

    While in this form, whenever you are hit with an attack
               within 5 feet, the attacking creature takes
                       fire damage equal to one roll of
                              your natural weapon die.

Soul of Fire

Beginning at 6th level, you learn to produce fiery attacks regardless of your current form. When you hit a creature with a natural weapon attack, you may choose to deal fire damage or your normal damage type.

In addition, you gain resistance to fire damage, and your attacks ignore resistance to fire damage.

Consuming Flame

Beginning at 10th level, your fire consumes the forms of the dead to bestow new life. While in your fiery form, when a small or larger creature dies within 10 feet, you may choose to incinerate its body as a reaction. When you do so, you heal a number of hit points equal to two rolls of your natural weapon die plus your wisdom modifier.

You may do this a number of times equal to your wisdom modifier (minimum of once) between long rests.

Incinerating Blaze

At 14th level, your fire grows ever hotter and more
powerful. Whenever you deal fire damage with
                  your natural weapons, you add
                        1d6 to the damage dealt.

Circle of Dreams

The circle of dreams has close ties with the Feywild and good-aligned Fey. The goals of the circle center on filling the world with dreamy wonder where the wounded can find healing and the weary can find rest. However, such a world is impossible while the wicked are allowed to roam, and so the wildshifters of the circle are charged with finding and rooting out these sources of evil.

Agent of the Summer Court

At 2nd level, you become imbued with the blessings of the Summer Court. You become a source of fey energy that can disrupt and disorient evildoers.

When you touch a creature, whether through a melee attack or otherwise, you may use your reaction to force that creature to make a wisdom saving throw (DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your wisdom modifier). On a failed save, the creature is disoriented by dreamy visions and is blinded until the end of your next turn. You may do this a number of times between long rests equal to your wisdom modifier (minimum of once).

Fey Cunning

                At 6th level, the fey power within you makes you
             more naturally resistant to manipulation and cloaks
       you in disorienting energy, granting you the following
    benefits:

• You have advantage on saving throws to resist being charmed or frightened.
• You gain a bonus to stealth checks equal to your wisdom modifier.

Hidden Paths

Beginning 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, 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.

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.

Cloaked in Shadows

At 14th level, you learn to hide yourself in the shadowy powers of the Gloaming Court when you shapeshift. Once per short rest, when you use your bonus action to shapeshift using the wild aspect or thousand faces features, you may choose to make your new form invisible for one minute. Your invisibility ends early if you shapeshift into a new form.

Wild Beacon

Beginning at 2nd level, whenever you shapeshift you attract beast spirits that assist you and your allies. Once per short rest, when you shapeshift into one of your wild aspects, you may choose one of the minor forms you are now benefiting from. Spirits of that animal flood into the area, granting the benefits of the chosen minor form to all creatures of your choice within 30 feet.

These spirits persist for one minute, after which the chosen creatures no longer benefit from the minor form.

Feral Speech

At 6th level, you learn to communicate with all beasts of the wild. Regardless of your current form, you can communicate with beasts as if you shared a language. Beasts you communicate with are still limited by their inherent intelligence. Most 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.

In addition, you gain proficiency in animal handling if
you are not already proficient. If you already have
         proficiency, you add your proficiency bonus
                 twice when you make an animal
                              handling check.

Summon Beasts

Beginning at 10th level, you can more deliberately control your bond with animal spirits to summon them in your time of need. Once per long rest, you can use your action to cast the conjure animals spell at 5th level. When you reach 14th level, you can cast the spell at 7th level.

The spell requires maintaining concentration and lasts up to one hour, as if it were cast normally.

Faithful Summons

Beginning 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 conjure animals spell as if it were cast at 9th level. It summons four beasts of your choice that are challenge rating 2 or lower. The conjured beasts appear within 20 feet 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.

Once you use this feature, you can not
use it again until you complete a
long rest.