The Warden

Creating a Warden

When creating a Warden, consider your background, and history and connection to nature. Were you born were natural powers? Were you trained by a Druid or Ranger? Did you develop the connection over time? Or was it sudden? How does being a manipulator of nature affect your relationship with society?

Quick Build

You can make a Warden quickly by following these suggestions. First make Strength or Wisdom your highest ability score, depending on whether you want to focus on weapon-fighting or spellcasting. Second, chose Outlander as your background.

Class Features

Cantrips

At 1st level, you know two cantrips of your choice from the warden spell list. You learn additional warden cantrips of your choice at higher levels, as shown in the Cantrips Known column of the Warden table.

Spell Slots

The Warden table shows how many spell slots you have to cast your warden spells of 1st level and higher. To cast one of these 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.

For example, if you know the 1st-level spell Absorb Elements and have a 1st-level and a 2nd-level spell slot available, you can cast Absorb Elements using either slot.

Spells Known of 1st Level and Higher

You know three 1st-level spells of your choice from the warden spell list.

The Spells Known column of the Warden table shows when you learn more warden spells of your choice. Each of these spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots. For instance, when you reach 5th level in this class, you can learn one new spell of 1st or 2nd level.

Additionally, when you gain a level in this class, you can choose one of the warden spells you know and replace it with another spell from the warden spell list, which also must be of a level for which you have spell slots.

Spellcasting Ability

Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for your warden spells, since your magic draws on your 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 ranger 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

Spellcasting Focus

At 1st level, you can use a druidic focus as a spellcasting focus for your warden spells. A druidic focus might be a sprig of mistletoe or holly, a wand or rod made of yew or another special wood, a staff drawn whole from a living tree, or an object incorporating feathers, fur, bones, and teeth from sacred animals.

Additionally, you can perform a minute long ritual on a weapon to have the weapon act as a druidic focus. The effects of the ritual lasts until the end of the next long rest you take or if you die.

Wild Die

Nature’s Strength and other class features use your Wild Die. At level 2, your Wild Die is a d4. This improves to a d6 at level 5, a d8 at level 15, and a d12 at level 20.

Might of the Earthguard

Might of the Magma Brute

Mighty Spells

Shifting Sands

Starting at level 3, you can use your bonus action to Dash and Disengage. You can also use your Primal Ward to allow the affected creature to move their half of their movement, provoking no opportunity attacks.

Sandstorm Strength

Additionally at level 3, when you use Nature’s Strength, you can use Wild Swing and Wild Element as if you were standing in the place of a creature you dealt damage to this turn.

Extra Attack

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

Ravaging Spells (Optional)

Instead of Extra Attack, you can instead choose to have the feature Ravaging Spells. Beginning at 5th level, when you cast a spell that does damage, you can deal additional damage equal to your Wild Die, once per turn.

Dune Burrowing

Starting at level 9, you always gain the benefit of 60 feet burrowing speed feature from Wild Wayfarer, in addition to a different benefit.

Reaching Power

Beginning at 14th level, when you use Nature's Wrath, the range of your weapon attacks and spells increase by 10 feet.

Line in the Sand

Beginning at 18th level, when you use Nature's Strength, you can choose one creature you can see. That creature must make a Dexterity saving throw against your spell DC whenever it ends its turn within 30 feet of you. If failed, they are moved 5 feet back, and take Wild Die magical bludgeoning damage. If that creature dies before your Nature's Strength ends, you can choose another creature.

Mighty Spells

Bolstering Spirit

Starting at level 3, when you use Primal Ward, the affected creature gains a number of temporary hit points equal to your warden level + Wild Die.

Lifecycle Strength

Additionally at level 3, when you use Nature's Strength, you gain a new bonus action to take:

• Wild Heal: You heal a creature within 60 feet as a bonus action a number of Hit Points equal to your Wild Die + your bonus damage from Nature's Strength, if applicable.

Spells of Life and Death

Beginning at level 5, whenever you use a spell that deals damage or heals hit points, you can choose a creature within 30 feet and deal damage or heal hit points equal to a roll of your Wild Die.

Deathcycle Strength

Starting at level 9, when you use Nature's Strength, you can use your bonus damage on spells that deal damage.

Wrath of Life

Beginning at 14th level, when you use Nature's Wrath, you heal maximum amount of Hit Points whenever you use a healing spell or Wild Heal.

Outside the Cycle

At 18th level, you are not incapacitated when you fall to 0 hit points. You still roll death saving throws.

Mighty Spells

Elemental Magic

Beginning at level 3, at the end of a rest, you can choose one of the following damage types. You can choose to use that damage type instead of the normal damage dealt for a spell, weapon attack, Wild Swing and Wild Element.

• Acid
• Cold
• Fire
• Lightning
• Thunder

Storm Strength

Additionally at level 3, when you use Nature's Strength, you exude an aura that has a 20 feet radius. When using Wild Element, you can use a Primal Ward use to target up to 5 additional creatures within your aura. Any creature that fails are moved 5 feet in a direction you choose for each creature.

Dangers of the Storm

Starting at level 5, when you use a spell that targets multiple creatures, you can choose to have the area of effect be within a radius of 10 feet around yourself. If you are using Nature's Strength, the radius extends to 20 feet.

Flying Storm

Starting at level 9, you always gain the benefit of 30 ft fly speed and hover feature from Wild Wayfarer, in addition to a different benefit.

Hurricane Wrath

Beginning at 14th level, when you use Nature's Wrath, you can change your Elemental Magic choice. Additionally, your flying speed becomes 60 feet when using Nature's Wrath.

Stronger Elemental Magic

Starting at 18th level, you gain new damage types to choose from:

• Radiant
• Necrotic
• Psychic

Additionally, the aura from Storm Strength, and the radii of Dangers of the Storm double.

Mighty Spells

Sylvan Spirit

You magically summon a sylvan spirit, which draws strength from your bond with nature. The spirit is friendly to you and your companions and obeys your commands. It uses your proficiency bonus (PB) in several places in its Stat Block. You also determine the appearance of the spirit.

In combat, the spirit acts during your turn. It can move and use its reaction on its own, but the only action it takes is the Dodge action, unless you take a bonus action on your turn to command it to take another action. That action can be one in its stat block or some other action. If you are incapacitated, the spirit can take any action of its choice, not just Dodge. The spirit can inhabit your space and not be considered difficult terrain.

If the spirit has died within the last hour, you can use your action to touch it and expend a spell slot of 1st level or higher. The beast returns to life after 1 minute with all its hit points restored. The spirit vanishes if you die.

Spirit's Strength

Additionally at level 3, when you use Nature's Strength, nature magic surges through your sylvan spirit and gain the following benefits for the duration:

• Your sylvan spirit can use the bonus damage from Nature's Strength
• Your spirit gains 5 x Warden level temporary hit points
• Your sylvan spirit has advantage on all saving throws for the duration.
• Your sylvan spirit's size increases one size.

Extra Attack

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

Greater Spirit (Optional)

Instead of Extra Attack, you can choose to take Greater Summoner instead. Your Sylvan Spirit becomes stronger. It gains the following benefits permanently:

• Your spirit's Armor Class increases by 2
• Your spirit's hit points increases by 10
• The spirit's Constitution and Wisdom scores increase by 1
• Your spirit's size increases to Small.

Movement of the Woodland

Starting at level 9, your Sylvan Spirit benefits from your choice of Wild Wayfarer and Land's Stride. You and your Sylvan Spirit can also magically teleport 60 feet to a point you can see as an action. When either of you teleport, you can choose to teleport either one or both of you to the point selected (if you teleport both, they appear safely within 5 feet of the chosen point).

Spirit's Wrath

Starting at 14th level, your Sylvan Spirit benefits from Nature's Wrath. Additionally, when you use Nature's Wrath, your spirit's size increases one size until the start of your next turn. Also, your Sylvan's spirit reach increases to 10 feet.

Strong Spirit

Starting at 18th level, your Sylvan Spirit gains the following benefits from Nature's Strength:

• Your spirit gains 10 * Warden level temporary hit points
• Your spirit can attack twice with Wild Swing, and may replace one attack with Wild Element
• Your spirit can target 2 creatures with Wild Element