Travelers entering a forest might catch a glimpse of a feminine form flitting through the trees. Warm laughter hangs on the air, drawing those who hear it deeper into the emerald shadows. Powerful fey will sometimes bind lesser fey spirits to trees, transforming them into dryads. This is sometimes done as a punishment when the fey spirit falls in love with a mortal and that love is forbidden. Dryads are always females.
- Ability Score Increase. Your Charisma score increases by 2, and your Wisdom score increases by 1.
- Age. Dryads will never age if their tree they were born from never dies.
- Size. Dryads range from under 5 to over 6 feet tall and have slender builds. Your size is Medium.
- Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.
- Darkvision. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can't discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.
- Treebound. A dryad can emerge from the tree and travel the lands around it, but the tree remains her home and roots her to the world. As long as the tree remains healthy and unharmed, the dryad stays forever youthful and alluring. If the tree is harmed, she suffers. If the tree is ever destroyed, the dryad descends into madness.
- Dryad Magic. You know the Druidcraft cantrip. When you reach 2nd level, you can cast the Speak with Animals spell once with this trait and regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest. When you reach 5th level, you can cast the Speak with Plants spell once and regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest. Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for these spells.
- Tree Stride. Once on your turn, you can use 10 feet of your movement to step magically into one living tree within your reach and emerge from a second living tree within 60 feet of the first tree, appearing in an unoccupied space within 5 feet of the second tree. Both trees must be Large or bigger.
- Fey. Your creature type is fey, rather than humanoid.
- Keen Senses. You have proficiency in the Perception skill.
- Languages. You can speak, read, and write Sylvan and Common.
