Dungeons & Dragons 5e Class Features : Druid
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Druid
hit dice:
1d8 per druid level
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
armor proficiencies:
Light armour, shields
weapon proficiencies:
Clubs, daggers, darts, javelins, maces, quarterstaffs, scimitars, sickles, slings, spears
tools:
Herbalism kit
saving throws:
Intelligence, Wisdom
skills:
Choose two from Arcana, Animal
Handling, Insight, Medicine, Nature, Perception,
Religion, and Survival
starting equipment:
You start with the following equipment, in addition to
the equipment granted 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
You start with the following equipment, in addition to
the equipment granted 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
spellcasting:
Drawing on the divine essence of nature itself, you can cast spells to shape that essence to your will. 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 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 Close 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.
Drawing on the divine essence of nature itself, you can cast spells to shape that essence to your will. 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 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 Close 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.
Spell save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus +
your Wisdom modifier
Spell attack modifier = your proficiency bonus +
your Wisdom modifier
Ritual Casting
You can cast spells from the Druid column of the Ritual Spell List, so long as you have the spell prepared.
Spellcasting Focus
You can use a druidic focus as a
spellcasting focus for your druid spells.
class features:
Druidic You know Druidic, the secret language of druids (understood by spriggans). 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 spot the message’s presence with a successful DC 15 Wisdom (Perception) check but can’t decipher it without magic. Wild Shape Starting at 2nd level, you can use your action to magically assume the shape of a beast that you have seen before. You can use this feature twice. You regain expended uses when you finish a short or long rest. Your druid level determines the beasts you can transform into, as shown in the Beast Shapes table. At 2nd level, for example, you can transform into any beast that has a challenge rating of 1/4 or lower that doesn’t have a flying or swimming speed. Beast Shapes
You can stay in a beast shape 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 can revert to your normal
form earlier by using a bonus action on your turn. You
automatically revert if you fall unconscious, drop to
0 hit points, or die.
While you are transformed, the following rules apply:
• Your game statistics are replaced by the statistics of
the beast, but you retain your alignment, personality,
and Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores. You
also retain all of your skill and saving throw proficiencies, in addition to gaining those of the creature. If
the creature has the same proficiency as you and the
bonus in its stat block is higher than yours, use the
creature’s bonus instead of yours. If the creature has
any legendary or lair actions, you can't use them.
• When you transform, you assume the beast’s hit
points and Hit Dice. When you revert to your normal
form, you return to the number of hit points you had
before you transformed. However, if you revert as a
result of dropping to 0 hit points, any excess damage
carries over to your normal form. For example, if you
take 10 damage in animal form and have only 1 hit
point left, you revert and take 9 damage. As long as
the excess damage doesn’t reduce your normal form
to 0 hit points, you aren’t knocked unconscious.
• You can’t cast spells, and your ability to speak or
take any action that requires hands is limited to the
capabilities of your beast form. Transforming doesn’t
break your concentration on a spell you’ve already
cast, however, or prevent you from taking actions that
are part of a spell, such as Lightning Storm, that you’ve
already cast.
• You retain the benefit of any features from your class,
birthsign, or other source and can use them if the new
form is physically capable of doing so, racial special features however, do not carry over. However, you
can’t use any of your special senses, such as darkvision, unless your new form also has that sense.
• You choose whether your equipment falls to the
ground in your space, 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 a piece of equipment, based on the creature’s shape and size. Your equipment doesn’t change
size or shape to match the new
form, and any equipment that
the new form can’t wear
must either fall to the
ground or merge with it.
Equipment that merges
with the form has no
effect until you leave
the form.
Druid Circle
At 2nd level, you choose to
identify with a circle of druids:
the Circle of Kyne or the Circle of Hircine, both
detailed at the end of the class description. Your choice
grants you features at 2nd level and again at 6th, 10th,
and 14th level.
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.
Timeless Body
Starting at 18th level, the primal magic that you wield
causes you to age more slowly. For every 10 years that
pass, your body ages only 1 year.
Beast Spells
Beginning at 18th level, you can cast any of your druid
spells in any shape you assume using Wild Shape.
Archdruid
At 20th level, you can use your Wild Shape an additional two times before a short or long rest.
Druidic You know Druidic, the secret language of druids (understood by spriggans). 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 spot the message’s presence with a successful DC 15 Wisdom (Perception) check but can’t decipher it without magic. Wild Shape Starting at 2nd level, you can use your action to magically assume the shape of a beast that you have seen before. You can use this feature twice. You regain expended uses when you finish a short or long rest. Your druid level determines the beasts you can transform into, as shown in the Beast Shapes table. At 2nd level, for example, you can transform into any beast that has a challenge rating of 1/4 or lower that doesn’t have a flying or swimming speed. Beast Shapes
| 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 |
subclass options:
Circle of Kyne:
As a member of this circle, your magic is derived from a divine connection to the goddess Kyne, known as Kynareth to the Imperials. You have a mystical connection to animals and spriggans and are less likely to be attacked by them, you will find it easier to form kinship with them as a member of this circle.
Bonus Cantrip
When you choose this circle at 2nd level, you learn one
additional druid cantrip of your choice.
Natural Recovery
Starting at 2nd level, you can regain some of your
magical energy by sitting in meditation and communing
with nature. During a short rest, you choose expended
spell slots to recover. The spell slots can have a
combined level that is equal to or less than half your
druid level (rounded up), and none of the slots can be
6th level or higher. You can’t use this feature again until
you finish a long rest
For example, when you are a 4th-level druid, you can
recover up to two levels worth of spell slots. You can
recover either a 2nd-level slot or two 1st-level slots.
Circle Spells
Your divine connection to Kyne infuses you with
the ability to cast certain spells. At 3rd, 5th, 7th, and
9th level you gain access to circle spells connected
to the land where you became a druid. Choose that
land—arctic, coast, desert, forest, grassland, mountain,
swamp, or cavern—and consult the associated
list of spells.
Once you gain access to a circle spell, 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.
Arctic
Coast
Desert
Forest
Grassland
Mountain
Swamp
Cavern
Land's Stride
Starting at 6th 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 those created by the entangle spell.
Nature's Ward
When you reach 10th level, you are automatically recognised as a friendly creature by spriggans, they are far less likely to attack you and even likely to come to your aid. You are also immune to
poison and disease.
Nature's Sanctuary
When you reach 14th level, creatures of the natural
world sense your connection to nature and become
hesitant to attack you. When a beast or spriggan
attacks you, that creature must make a Wisdom saving
throw against your druid spell save DC. On a failed save,
the creature must choose a different target, or the attack
automatically misses. On a successful save, the creature
is immune to this effect for 24 hours.
The creature is aware of this effect before it makes its
attack against you.
Circle of Hircine:
As a member of this circle, your magic is derived from a mystical connection to the Daedric Prince of the Hunt, Hircine. Your connection to nature is of a different nature to the Circle of Kyne, but argueably equally as important. Your wild shapes will be strengthened by your mystic connection, becoming more lyncanthopic in nature.
Combat Wild Shape
When you choose 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.
Additionally, while you are transformed by Wild
Shape, you can use a bonus action to expend one
spell slot to regain 1d8 hit points per level of the spell
slot expended.
Circle Forms
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 (you ignore
the Max. CR column of the Beast Shapes table, but must
abide by the other limitations there).
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.
Hircine's Gift
At 10th level, you can expend two uses of Wild Shape
at the same time to transform into a Were-beast for the duration. This tranformation does not count against your number of transformations if you have taken the Barbarian Path of the Werewolf, though any werewolf bonuses from that subclass will still apply. This specific transformations duration is still governed by the rules of Wildshape if you have taken both classes (you will not need to rage to use and maintain this tranformation).
Beast Forms
By 14th level, your connection to Hircine can alter
your physical form in more subtle ways. You can cast the
alter Alter Self at will without costing a spell slot. However any changes in appearance when using the spell in this way must be beastial.
| Druid Level | Circle Spells |
| 3rd | Hold Person, Spike Growth |
| 5th | Sleet Storm, Slow |
| 7th | Freedom of Movement, Ice Storm |
| 9th | Commune with Nature, Blizzard |
| Druid Level | Circle Spells |
| 3rd | Mirror Image, Misty Step |
| 5th | Water Breathing, Sea Stride |
| 7th | Control Water, Freedom of Movement |
| 9th | Maelstrom, Scrying |
| Druid Level | Circle Spells |
| 3rd | Blur, Silence |
| 5th | Create Food and Water, Protection from Energy |
| 7th | Blight, Hallucinatory Terrain |
| 9th | Insect Plague, Wall of Stone |
| Druid Level | Circle Spells |
| 3rd | Oakflesh, Spider Climb |
| 5th | Lightning Storm, Plant Growth |
| 7th | Vision of the Tenth Eye, Freedom of Movement |
| 9th | Commune with Nature, Tree Stride |
| Druid Level | Circle Spells |
| 3rd | Invisibility, Pass Without Trace |
| 5th | Daylight, Haste |
| 7th | Vision of the Tenth Eye, Freedom of Movement |
| 9th | Commune with Nature, Tree Stride |
| Druid Level | Circle Spells |
| 3rd | Spider Climb, Spike Growth |
| 5th | Lightning Bolt, Meld into Stone |
| 7th | Shape Stone, Stoneflesh |
| 9th | Passwall, Wall of Stone |
| Druid Level | Circle Spells |
| 3rd | Darkness, Acid Arrow |
| 5th | Sea Stride, Stinking Cloud |
| 7th | Freedom of Movement, Locate Creature |
| 9th | Insect Plague, Scrying |
| Druid Level | Circle Spells |
| 3rd | Spider Climb, Web |
| 5th | Gaseous Form, Stinking Cloud |
| 7th | Greater Invisibility, Shape Stone |
| 9th | Cloudkill, Insect Plague |
| Level | Proficency Bonus | Features | Cantrips Known | Spell Slots per Spell Level - 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | +2 | Drudic, Spellcasting | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 2nd | +2 | Wild Shape, Circle of Kyne/Circle of Hircine | 2 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 3rd | +2 | - | 2 | 4 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 4th | +2 | Wild Shape Imporvement, Ability Score Improvement | 3 | 4 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 5th | +3 | - | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 6th | +3 | Circle of Kyne Feature/Circle of Hircine Feature | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 7th | +3 | - | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 8th | +3 | Wild Shape Improvement, Ability Score Improvement | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 9th | +4 | - | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | - | - | - | - |
| 10th | +4 | Circle of Kyne Feature/Circle of Hircine Feature | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | - | - | - | - |
| 11th | +4 | - | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | - | - | - |
| 12th | +4 | Ability Score Improvement | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | - | - | - |
| 13th | +5 | - | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | - |
| 14th | +5 | Circle of Kyne Feature/Circle of Hircine Feature | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | - |
| 15th | +5 | - | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - |
| 16th | +5 | Ability Score Improvement | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - |
| 17th | +6 | - | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 18th | +6 | Timeless Body, Beast Spells | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 19th | +6 | Ability Score Improvement | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 20th | +6 | Archdruid | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
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