Druid

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Overview & Creation

Holding high a gnarled staff wreathed with holly, an elf summons the fury of the storm and calls down explosive bolts of lightning to smite the torch-carrying orcs who threaten her forest.

Crouching out of sight on a high tree branch in the form of a leopard, a human peers out of the jungle at the strange construction of a temple of Evil Elemental Air, keeping a close eye on the cultists’ activities.

Swinging a blade formed of pure fire, a half-elf charges into a mass of skeletal soldiers, sundering the unnatural magic that gives the foul creatures the mocking semblance of life.

Whether calling on the elemental forces of nature or emulating the creatures of the animal world, druids are an embodiment of nature’s resilience, cunning, and fury. They claim no mastery over nature. Instead, they see themselves as extensions of nature’s indomitable will.

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 animals—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.

Creating a Druid
When making a druid, consider why your character has such a close bond with nature. Perhaps your character lives in a society where the Old Faith still thrives, or was raised by a druid after being abandoned in the depths of a forest. Perhaps your character had a dramatic encounter with the spirits of nature, coming face to face with a giant eagle or dire wolf and surviving the experience. Maybe your character was born during an epic storm or a volcanic eruption, which was interpreted as a sign that becoming a druid was part of your character’s destiny.   Have you always been an adventurer as part of your druidic calling, or did you first spend time as a caretaker of a sacred grove or spring? Perhaps your homeland was befouled by evil, and you took up an adventuring life in hopes of finding a new home or purpose.  
 

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Class Features

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
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Giant eagle


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 call lightning, that you’ve already cast. You retain the benefit of any features from your class, race, or other source and can use them if the new form is physically capable of doing so. 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 the Land detailed at the end of the class description or one from the Player's Handbook or other sources. Your choice grants you features at 2nd level and again at 6th, 10th, and 14th level.

Wild Shape Improvement
At 4th level, you can use your action to magically assume the shape of a beast that you have seen before of challenge rating 1/2 or lower that doesn't have a flying speed. You can use this feature twice. You regain expended uses when you finish a short or long rest.   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.   Wild Shape Improvement At 8th level, you can use your action to magically assume the shape of a beast that you have seen before of challenge rating 1 or lower. You can use this feature twice. You regain expended uses when you finish a short or long rest.

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 many of your druid spells in any shape you assume using Wild Shape. You can perform the somatic and verbal components of a druid spell while in a beast shape, but you aren’t able to provide material components.

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

Additionally, you can ignore the verbal and somatic components of your druid spells, as well as any material components that lack a cost and aren’t consumed by a spell. You gain this benefit in both your normal shape and your beast shape from Wild Shape.

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.

At a local scale, druids are organized into circles that share certain perspectives on nature, balance, and the way of the druid.

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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

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Spellcasting

Drawing on the divine essence of nature itself, you can cast spells to shape that essence to your will. See Spells Rules for the general rules of spellcasting and the Spells Listing for the druid spell list.

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 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.

Spell save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Wisdom modifier

Spell attack modifier = your proficiency bonus + your Wisdom modifier

Ritual Casting
You can cast a druid spell as a ritual if that spell has the ritual tag and you have the spell prepared.

Spellcasting Focus
You can use a druidic focus (see the Adventuring Gear section) as a spellcasting focus for your druid spells.

Colliatur Reavor

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Overview & Creation

Run, you puny undead monstrosity—you shall not escape the radiant wrath of the chosen agents of the colloid! The colliatur reaver is a lethal adversary unlike any other—with crystal-suffused skeletons, these master of their own, strange fighting style can exert superb control over their crystalline components, shaping them into truly deadly claws. More importantly, they can generate crystalline, razor-sharp filaments they can emit and wield with a precision unknown in the realms above, cutting undead and the foes of the reaver into deadly ribbons.   Contents [show]   Creating a Colliatur Reaver When you make your colliatur reaver, think about your awakening as a colliatur. Do you remember your life before the transformation? Perhaps you once were a true blackguard, a dastardly foe, now mellowed out by the influence of the colloid. Or you once were a divine champion of good, now struggling to adapt to a new world-view. Your ability to control your crystalline parts is impressive and beyond what other colliatur can accomplish—so how were you chosen? Do you simply have a talent for the art? Or were you groomed in a strange process within the colloid’s crystalline depths to be its executioner? Perhaps you have deliberately sought the art and transformation to execute your own revenge against the forces of darkness? The existence as a colliatur reaver may be a journey to self-awareness via combat, an enlightenment arising from conflict or it may be a revenge-driven quest to annihilate undead.   Work with your GM to make the unique concept of your character shine as brightly as the crystalline filaments you’ll use to wreck your foes.   Quick Build: You can make a colliatur reaver quickly by following these suggestions. First, make Dexterity your highest ability score, followed by Constitution. Second, choose the hermit or urchin background.

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Class Features

Level	Proficiency Bonus	Martial Arts	Crystal Points	Features
1	+2	1d4	-	Unarmored Defense, Martial Arts, Claws of Crystal
2	+2	1d4	2	Crystal Powers, Jack-in-the-Limb
3	+2	1d4	3	Reaving Tradition
4	+2	1d4	4	Ability Score Improvement
5	+3	1d6	5	Extra Attack, Pacifying Strike
6	+3	1d6	6	Colloid’s Blessing, Reaving Tradition feature
7	+3	1d6	7	Evasion, Stillness of the Colloid
8	+3	1d6	8	Ability Score Improvement
9	+4	1d6	9	Thunder Adaption
10	+4	1d6	10	Pure as Crystal
11	+4	1d8	11	Reaving Tradition feature
12	+4	1d8	12	Ability Score Improvement
13	+5	1d8	13	Tongue of the Mortals
14	+5	1d8	14	Diamond Soul
15	+5	1d8	15	Live by Light
16	+5	1d8	16	Ability Score Improvement
17	+6	1d10	17	Reaving Tradition feature
18	+6	1d10	18	Colloid’s Body
19	+6	1d10	19	Ability Score Improvement
20	+6	1d10	20	Avatar

  Class Features As a colliatur reaver, you gain the following class features.   Unarmored Defense Beginning at 1st level, while you are wearing no armor and not wielding a shield, your AC equal 10 + your Dexterity modifier + your Charisma modifier.   Martial Arts At 1st level, your skills with deadly, crystalline martial arts grant you mastery of combat styles that emphasize crystalline claws and monk weapons, which are shortswords and any simple melee weapons that don’t have the two-handed or heavy property. You gain the following benefits while you are unarmed or wielding only monk weapons and you aren’t wearing armor or wielding a shield:   You can use Dexterity instead of Strength for the attack and damage rolls of your unarmed attacks and monk weapons. You can roll a d4 in place of the normal damage of your unarmed strikes or monk weapon. This die changes as you gain Colliatur Reaver levels, as shown in the Martial Arts column of the Colliatur Reaver table. When you use the Attack action with an unarmed strike or monk weapon on your turn, you can make one unarmed strike as a bonus action. For example, if you take the attack action and attack with a quarterstaff, you can also make an unarmed strike as a bonus action, assuming you haven’t already taken a bonus action this turn. Colliatur Reavers tend to train with monk weapons that emphasize piercing and slashing damage, featuring strange and often alien weaponry. These weapons have a lot of variations in name and specific design, but utilize the game statistics provided for simple weapons, only changing the damage type as appropriate.   Claws of Crystal Also at 1st level, you learn to exert a level of control over your crystalline claws. You may cause the crystals of your body to cover your hands in razor-sharp claws. You can change the damage type inflicted with your claws as a bonus action. Your claws can inflict either bludgeoning, piercing or slashing damage and you are proficient with them. Crystalline Claws are treated as unarmed attacks for the purposes of the Martial Arts class feature.   Crystal Powers Starting at 2nd level, the structures of crystal underlying your physiology enhance your potency in combat, granting you wondrous powers. These powers are represented by a number of crystal points.   Your Colliatur Reaver level determines the number of crystal points you have, as shown in the crystal points column of the colliatur reaver table. You can spend these points to fuel various crystal powers. You start knowing three such features: Flurry of Blows, Patient Defense and Crystal Refraction. You gain more crystal powers as you gain levels in this class. When you spend a crystal point, it is unavailable until you finish a short or long rest, at the end of which your body regenerates its potent powers. You must spend at least 30 minutes of the rest and eat and drink, since your metabolism fuels your powers. Some of your features require your target to make a saving throw to resist the feature’s effect. The saving throw DC is calculated as follows:   Crystal Powers save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Constitution modifier   Crystal Refraction You may expend a crystal point as a bonus action on your turn to recharge your Crystal Refraction racial feature and use it an additional time before requiring a long rest. When you do, you also negate the exhaustion level increase incurred by using your Crystal Refraction racial feature.   Flurry of Blows Immediately after you take the Attack action on your turn, you can spend 1 crystal point to make two unarmed strikes as a bonus action.   Patient Defense You can spend 1 crystal point to take the Dodge action as a bonus action on your turn   Jack-in-the-Limb Also at 2nd level, you gain the Jack-in-the-Limb feat.   Reaving Tradition When you reach 3rd level, you commit yourself to a reaving tradition: The Crystal Cannonade or the Reaving Vortex, all detailed at the end of this class description. Your tradition grants you features at 3rd level and again at 6th, 11th and 17th 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.   Extra Attack Beginning at 5th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.   Pacifying Strike Starting at 5th level, you can interfere with an opponent’s body and mind, instilling a sense of the profound quietude and calmness of the colloid inside them. When you hit another creature with a weapon granted or modified by the class features of the colliatur reaver, you may spend 1 crystal point to attempt to calm the creature. The target must succeed on a Constitution or Wisdom saving throw (target’s choice) or become charmed until the end of your next turn. If the creature is subject to a spell or effect that instills murderous rages, subject to the confused condition or similar effects that are based on an emotional response, the target receives another save against these effects. Additionally, barbarian rages and similar features are suppressed for as long as the target is charmed.   Colloid’s Blessing At 6th level, all your attacks with weapons modified or granted by this class are treated as magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage. Additionally, any attacks made with the Claws of Crystal class feature receive +1 to attack and damage rolls. This bonus increases to +2 at 10th level and +3 at 15th level.   Evasion Beginning at 7th level, you can nimbly dodge out of the way of certain area effects, such as a red dragon’s fiery breath or devastating spells due to your enhanced reflexes. 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.   Stillness of the Colloid Also at 7th level, you can use your action to end one effect on yourself that is causing you to be frightened. Additionally, you may spend 1 crystal point as part of using this feature to immediately end one type of ongoing damage you suffer from, as your crystalline physiology supports your mortal parts.   Thunder Adaptation Starting at 9th level, you lose your racial vulnerability to thunder damage.   Pure as Crystal At 10th level, you can touch upon the pristine beauty refracted through your crystal components to destroy your foes. Your may now also choose to deal radiant damage with your Claws of Crystal class feature.   Tongue of the Mortals Starting at 13th level, you learn to touch the primal longing and sense of aesthetics in other minds, so that you can understand all spoken languages of mortal creatures. Any creature that can understand a language can understand what you’re saying. However, immortal creatures with no natural maximum life span seem to be curiously exempt from this: You can’t communicate with such beings in this way. You may spend 1 crystal point as part of uttering any statement to render your speech completely intelligible gibberish to immortal creatures.   Diamond Soul Beginning at 14th level, your strange physiology grants you proficiency in all saving throws. Additionally, whenever you make a saving throw and fail, you can spend 1 crystal point to reroll it and take the second result.   Live by Light At 15th level, your crystalline components support your whole physiology, drawing sustenance from exposure to bright lights like those emitted by the colloid’s crystals. If you spend at least 1 hour during a long rest soaking in light from a very bright source, you do not need to eat, drink or sleep for 24 hours.   Colloid’s Body Beginning at 18th level, you can use your action to spend 4 crystal points to generate a crystalline sheathe of exoskeleton-like armor that lasts for one minute.   While this armor is active, you have resistance to all damage types except thunder and you are immune against the frightened and charmed conditions.   Avatar Beginning at 20th level, you become one of the avatars of the colloid. Whenever you roll for initiative and have no crystal points remaining, you regain 2 crystal points. Additionally, when using your Colloid’s Body class feature, you may expend an additional 2 crystal points (for a total of 6) to become immune against all damage types except thunder for the duration.   However, if you do, you incur one level of exhaustion once the duration of Colloid’s Body elapses.

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Starting Equipment

You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background: (a) shortsword or (b) any simple weapon 10 darts (a) dungeoneer’s pack or (b) an explorer’s pack