D&D 5e Tweaks & Fixes

Preface

This document contains homebrew material that has been developed from my own observations as well as common player criticisms and suggested fixes made by various players and dungeon masters alike. However, this material has not been completely play-tested and should be carefully considered before implementing it into your own game. My hopes are simply to address features and traits that are considered lackluster and poorly balanced by the community and help by offering alternatives so that Players will suffer less frustration and gain more enjoyment out of the game.

Use as many or as little of these revisions as you like while keeping the overall balance of your game in mind. The Dungeon Master has final say on whether or not any of this material can be implemented into your game.

Natural Shifter

(Added 12th level feature)

Starting at 12th level, your connection to nature allows you to effortlessly adopt the forms of its simplest denizens.

You can transform into a beast of CR 0 at will without expending a use of your Wildshape feature for as long as you can maintain concentration (as if you were concentrating on a spell). All the other rules for Wildshape still apply.

Circle Spells

(Added 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 7th, and 9th level feature)

When you join this circle at 2nd level, your connection to the Feywild grants you access to some spells when you reach certain levels in this class, as shown on the Circle of Dreams Spells table.

Once you gain access to one of these spells, 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.

Walker in Dreams

(Re-written 14th level feature)

At 14th level, the magic of the Feywild grants you the ability to travel mentally or physically through dreamlands. When you finish a short rest, you can cast one of the following spells, without expending a spell slot or requiring material components: Dream (with you as the messenger), Scrying, or Teleportation circle.

This use of the teleportation circle spell is special. Rather than opening a portal to a permanent teleportation circle, you magically mark a surface on which you are standing that your teleportation circle will bring you to anytime you decide to cast it. Once you teleport to the marked location, the mark vanishes. If the mark isn't on the same plane as you, the spell fails.

Once you mark a location, you can't do so again until you finish a short or long rest. If you mark another location while you already have a mark, the previous mark vanishes.

Environment Attunment

(Re-written 2nd level "Circle Spells" feature)

At 2nd level, you are infused with the ability to cast certain spells based on your environment. These spells are listed in the Environment Spells table. When you finish a long rest, you can attune to one of the following options based on the environment around: arctic, cave, coast, desert, forest, grassland, mountain, or swamp.

While you are attuned to that environment you gain access to the spells in the corresponding column of the Environment Spells table below. They count as druid spells for you and you always have them prepared, but they don't count against the total number of druid spells you can prepare each day.