Druid
Druid
| level | Proficiency Bonus | Features | Wild shape | cantrips | Prepared spells | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | +2 | Druidic, Primal Order, Spellcasting | — | 2 | 4 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2nd | +2 | Wild Companion, Wild Shape | 2 | 2 | 5 | 3 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 3rd | +2 | Druid Subclass | 2 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 4th | +2 | Ability Score Improvement | 2 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 3 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 5th | +3 | Wild Resurgence | 2 | 3 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 6th | +3 | Subclass Feature | 3 | 3 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 7th | +3 | Elemental Fury | 3 | 3 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 8th | +3 | Ability Score Improvement | 3 | 3 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 9th | +4 | Commune with Nature | 3 | 3 | 14 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | — | — | — | — |
| 10th | +4 | Subclass Feature | 3 | 4 | 15 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | — | — | — | — |
| 11th | +4 | — | 3 | 4 | 16 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | — | — | — |
| 12th | +4 | Ability Score Improvement | 3 | 4 | 16 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | — | — | — |
| 13th | +5 | — | 3 | 4 | 17 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | — | — |
| 14th | +5 | Subclass Feature | 3 | 4 | 17 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | — | — |
| 15th | +5 | Improved Elemental Fury | 3 | 4 | 18 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | — |
| 16th | +5 | Ability Score Improvement | 3 | 4 | 18 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | — |
| 17th | +6 | — | 4 | 4 | 19 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 18th | +6 | Beast Spells | 4 | 4 | 20 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 19th | +6 | Ability Score Improvement | 4 | 4 | 21 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 20th | +6 | Archdruid | 4 | 4 | 22 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Class Features
As a Druid you gain the following class features.
Hit Points
- Hit Dice: 1d8 per Druid level
- Hit Points at 1st Level: 8 + Constitution modifier
- Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d8 (or 5) + Constitution modifier per Druid level after 1st
Proficiencies
- Saving Throws: Intelligence, Wisdom.
- Skills (Choose 2): Arcana, Animal Handling, Insight, Medicine, Nature, Perception, Religion, Survival.
- Weapons: Simple Weapons
- Tools: Herbalism Kit
- Armor Trainig: Light Armor, Shields
Starting equipment
As a level 1 character, you start with the following equipment, or you can forgo it and spend 50 GP on equipment of your choice:
Druidic Focus (Quarterstaff), Explorer’s Pack, Herbalism Kit, Leather Armor, Shield, Sickle and 9 GP.
Druidic
You know Druidic, the secret language of Druids. While learning this ancient tongue, you also unlocked the magic of speaking to animals; you always have the Speak with Animals spell prepared.
You can use Druidic to leave hidden messages. You and others who know Druidic automatically spot such a message. Others spot the message’s presence with a successful DC 15 Intelligence (Investigation) check but can’t decipher it without magic.
Primal Order
Starting at 1st level, You have dedicated yourself to one of the following sacred roles of your choice:
- Magician: You know one extra cantrip from the Druid spell list (see your Spellcasting feature for information on preparing spells). In addition, your mystical connection to nature gives you a bonus to your Intelligence (Nature) checks. The bonus equals your Wisdom modifier (minimum of +1).
- Warden: Trained for battle, you gain Martial Weapon proficiency and armor training with Medium Armor.
Spellcasting
You have learned to cast spells through studying the mystical forces of nature. See the Player’s Handbook for the rules on spellcasting. The information below details how you use those rules as a Druid.
Cantrips. You know two cantrips of your choice from the Druid spell list. Rather than choosing, you may start with the Druidcraft and Produce Flame cantrips. Whenever you gain a Druid level, you can replace one of your cantrips with another cantrip of your choice from the Druid spell list.
When you reach levels 4 and 10 in this class, you learn another cantrip of your choice from the Druid spell list, as shown in the Cantrips column of the Druid table.
Spell Slots. The Druid table shows how many spell slots you have to cast your spells of level 1 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.
Prepared Spells of Level 1+. You prepare the list of spells of level 1 and higher that are available for you to cast with this feature. To start, choose four level 1 spells from the Druid spell list. Rather than choosing, you may start with the Animal Friendship, Cure Wounds, Faerie Fire, and Thunderwave spells.
The number of spells on your list also increases as you gain Druid levels, as shown in the Prepared Spells column of the Druid table. Whenever that number increases, choose additional spells from the Druid spell list until the number of spells on your list matches the number on the table. The chosen spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots. For example, if you’re a level 3 Druid, your list of prepared spells can include six spells of levels 1 and 2 in any combination.
If another Druid feature gives spells that you always have prepared, those spells don’t count against the number of spells on the list you prepare with this Spellcasting feature, but those spells otherwise follow the rules in this feature.
Changing Your Prepared Spells. Whenever you finish a Long Rest, you can change your list of prepared spells, replacing one or more of the spells there with other Druid spells for which you have spell slots. Preparing a new list requires time spent in meditation: at least 1 minute per spell level for each spell you add to the list.
Spellcasting Ability. Wisdom is your Spellcasting Ability for your Druid spells.
Spellcasting Focus. You can use a Druidic Focus as a Spellcasting Focus for the spells you prepare for this class.
Wild Companion
At 2nd level, You can summon a nature spirit that assumes an animal form to aid you. As a Magic action, you can expend a spell slot or a use of Wild Shape to cast the Find Familiar spell without material components.
When you cast the spell in this way, the familiar is a Fey, and it disappears when you finish a Long Rest.
Wild Shape
At 2nd level, The power of nature infuses you, allowing you to assume the form of an animal. As a Bonus Action, you transform into a Beast form that you have learned for this feature (see “Known Forms” below). You stay in that form for a number of hours equal to half your Druid level or until you use Wild Shape again, have the Incapacitated condition, or die. You can also leave the form early as a Bonus Action.
Known Forms. You know a number of forms for this feature equal to 2 plus half your Druid level (round up), chosen from among Beast stat blocks in the Player’s Handbook that have a maximum Challenge Rating of 1/4 and that lack a Fly Speed. Rather than choosing, you may start with the Riding Horse, Spider, and Wolf. Whenever you finish a Long Rest, you can replace one of your known forms with another eligible form.
When you gain certain Druid levels, the maximum Challenge Rating for your forms increases, as shown in the Beast Shapes table. In addition, starting at level 8, you can adopt a form that has a Fly Speed.
When choosing a new form, you may look in the Monster Manual or elsewhere for eligible Beasts if the DM permits you to do so.
Best Shapes
| Druid level | Max CR | Fly speed |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 1/4 | No |
| 4 | 1/2 | No |
| 8 | 1 | yes |
Number of Uses. You can use Wild Shape twice. You regain one expended use when you finish a Short Rest, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a Long Rest. You gain additional uses when you reach certain Druid levels, as shown in the Wild Shape column of the Druid table.
Rules While Transformed. While in a form, you retain your personality, memories, and ability to speak, and the following rules apply:
- Game Statistics. Your game statistics are replaced by the statistics of the Beast, but you retain your Hit Points; Hit Dice; Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores; class features; languages; and feats. You also retain your skill and saving throw proficiencies and use your Proficiency Bonus for them, 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.
- Temporary Hit Points. When you assume a Wild Shape form, you gain a number of Temporary Hit Points equal to your Druid level.
- No Spellcasting. You can’t cast spells, but transforming doesn’t break your Concentration on a spell you’ve already cast or prevent you from taking actions that are part of a spell, such as the Call Lightning spell, that you’ve already cast.
- Objects. Your ability to handle objects is determined by the form’s limbs rather than your own. In addition, 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 size and shape. 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 Subclass
At 3rd level, You gain a Druid subclass of your choice: Circle of the Land, Circle of the Moon, Circle of the Sea, or Circle of the Stars. The Circle of the Moon subclass is detailed after this class’s description.
A subclass is a specialization that grants you special abilities at certain Druid levels. For the rest of your career, you gain each of your subclass’s features that are of your Druid level and lower.
Ability Score Improvement
When you reach 4th level, You gain the Ability Score Improvement feat or another feat of your choice for which you qualify.
As shown on the Druid table, you gain this feature again at levels 8, 12, 16, and 19.
Wild Resurgence
Beginning at 5th level, If you have no uses of Wild Shape left, you can give yourself one use by expending a spell slot (no action required). You can do so only once per turn.
In addition, you can expend one use of Wild Shape (no action required) to give yourself a level 1 spell slot, and you can’t do so again until you finish a Long Rest.
Elemental Fury
At 7th level, The might of the elements flows through you. You gain one of the following options of your choice:
- Potent Spellcasting. You add your Wisdom modifier to the damage you deal with any Druid cantrip.
- Primal Strike. Once on each of your turns when you hit a creature with an attack roll using a weapon or a Beast form’s attack in Wild Shape, you can cause the target to take an extra 1d8 Cold, Fire, Lightning, or Thunder damage (choose when you hit).
Commune with Nature
Beginning at 9th level, You are an expression of nature itself and can commune with the natural world all around you; you always have the Commune with Nature spell prepared.
Improved Elemental Fury
At 15th level, The option you chose for Elemental Fury grows more powerful:
- Potent Spellcasting. When you cast a Druid cantrip with a range of 10 feet or greater, the spell’s range increases by 300 feet.
- Primal Strike. The extra damage of your Primal Strike increases to 2d8.
Beast Spells
Beginning at 18th level, While using Wild Shape, you can cast spells in Beast form, except for any spell that has a Material component with a cost specified or that consumes its Material component.
Archdruid
At 20th level, The vitality of nature constantly blooms within you, granting you the following benefits:
- Evergreen Wild Shape. Whenever you roll Initiative and have no uses of Wild Shape left, you regain one expended use of it.
- Nature Magician. You can convert uses of Wild Shape into a spell slot (no action required). Choose a number of your unexpended uses of Wild Shape and convert them into a single spell slot, with each use contributing 2 spell levels. You must then finish a Long Rest before you can do so again. For example, if you convert two uses of Wild Shape, you produce a level 4 spell slot.
- Longevity. The primal magic that you wield causes you to age more slowly. For every 10 years that pass, your body ages only 1 year.
Druid Subclasess
A Druid subclass is a specialization that grants you special abilities at certain Druid levels, as specified in the subclass.
Druids form loose associations, which they call circles, to facilitate their gatherings and preserve their traditions. This section presents three circles: Circle of the Land, Circle of the Moon, and Circle of the Sea.
Circle of the Moon
Druids of the Circle of the Moon draw on the magic of the moon to transform themselves and to guard the wilds. Their order gathers under the full moon to share news and perform rituals. They wander the deepest parts of the wilderness, where they might go for weeks before crossing paths with another person, let alone another Druid.
Changeable as the moon, a Druid of this circle might prowl as a great cat one night, soar over the treetops as an eagle the next day, and crash through the undergrowth as a bear to drive off a trespassing monster. The wild is in the Druid’s blood.
Circle Spells
Starting at 3rd level, Your connection to this circle ensures that you always have certain spells ready. When you reach a Druid level specified in the Circle of the Moon Spells table, you thereafter always have the listed spells prepared.
In addition, you can cast the spells from this feature while you are in Wild Shape form.
Circle of the Moon Spells
| Druid level | Prepared spells |
|---|---|
| 3 | Cure Wounds, Moonbeam, Starry Wisp* |
| 5 | Vampiric Touch |
| 7 | Fount of Moonlight* |
| 9 | Dawn |
Circle Forms
At 3rd level, You have learned ancient techniques that allow you to channel lunar magic when you assume a Wild Shape form, granting you the following benefits:
- Challenge Rating. The maximum Challenge Rating for the form equals your Druid level divided by 3 (round down).
- Armor Class. Your AC equals 13 plus your Wisdom modifier until you leave the form.
- Temporary Hit Points. You gain a number of Temporary Hit Points equal to three times your Druid level.
Improved circle Forms
Starting at 6th level, While in a Wild Shape form, you gain the following benefits:
- Lunar Radiance. Each of your attacks in a Wild Shape form can deal its normal damage type or Radiant damage. You make this choice each time you hit with those attacks.
- Increased Toughness. You can add your Wisdom modifier to your Constitution saving throws.
Moonlight Step
When you reach 10th level, You magically transport yourself, reappearing amid a burst of moonlight. As a Bonus Action, you teleport up to 30 feet to an unoccupied space you can see, and you have Advantage on the next attack roll you make before the end of this turn.
You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Wisdom modifier (minimum of once), and you regain all expended uses when you finish a Long Rest. You can also regain uses by expending a spell slot of level 2 or higher for each use you want to restore (no action required).
Lunar Form
When you reach 14th level, The power of the moon suffuses you, granting you the following benefits:
- Improved Lunar Radiance. Each of your attacks in a Wild Shape form deals an extra 1d10 Radiant damage on a hit.
- Shared Moonlight. Whenever you use Moonlight Step, you can also teleport one willing creature. That creature must be within 10 feet of you, and you teleport it to an unoccupied space you can see within 10 feet of your destination space.
Circle of the Land
The Circle of the Land is made up of mystics and sages who safeguard ancient knowledge and rites through a vast oral tradition. These Druids meet within sacred circles of trees or standing stones to whisper primal secrets in Druidic. The circle’s wisest members preside as the chief priests of communities that hold to the Old Faith and serve as advisors to the rulers of those folk.
Circle Spells
Your connection to nature infuses you with the ability to cast certain spells. Whenever you finish a Long Rest, choose one type of land: arid, polar, temperate, or tropical. Consult the table below that corresponds to the chosen type; you have the spells prepared there that are listed for your Druid level and lower.
Arid Land
| Druid level | Prepared spells |
|---|---|
| 3 | Blur, Burning Hands, Fire Bolt |
| 5 | Fireball |
| 7 | blight |
| 9 | Wall of stone |
Polar Land
| Druid level | Prepared spells |
|---|---|
| 3 | Fog Cloud, Hold Person, Ray of Frost |
| 5 | sleet storm |
| 7 | ice strom |
| 9 | cone of cold |
Temperate Land
| Druid level | Prepared spells |
|---|---|
| 3 | Misty Step, Shocking Grasp, Sleep |
| 5 | Lightning Bolt |
| 7 | Freedom of Movement |
| 9 | Tree Stride |
Temperate Land
| Druid level | Prepared spells |
|---|---|
| 3 | Acid Splash, Ray of Sickness, Web |
| 5 | Stinking Cloud |
| 7 | Polymorph |
| 9 | Insect Plague |
Land's Aid
At 3rd level, You can channel the power of the land itself to bolster friends and harm foes. As a Magic action, you can expend a use of your Wild Shape and choose a point within 60 feet of yourself.
Vitality-giving flowers and life-draining thorns appear for a moment in a 10-foot-radius sphere centered on that point. Each creature of your choice in that area must make a Constitution saving throw, taking 2d6 Necrotic damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.
In addition, one creature of your choice in that area regains 2d6 Hit Points.
When you reach certain Druid levels, the damage and healing increase by 1d6: 10th level (3d6) and 14th level (4d6).
Natural Recovery
Starting at 6th level, Tapping into nature, you can conserve and recover your magical power. You can cast one of the spells of 1st-level or higher that you have prepared from your Circle Spells feature without expending a spell slot, and you must finish a Long Rest before you do so again.
In addition, when you finish a Short Rest, you can 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 (round up), and none of the slots can be 6th level or higher. For example, if you’re a 6th-level Druid, you can recover up to three levels worth of spell slots. You can recover a 3rd-level spell slot, a 2nd-level spell slot and a 1st-level spell slot, or three 1st-level spell slots. Once you recover spell slots with this feature, you can’t do so again until you finish a Long Rest.
Nature's Ward
When you reach 10th level, Your bond with the land protects you. You are immune to the Poisoned condition, and you have resistance to a damage type associated with your current land choice in the Circle Spells feature, as shown in the Nature’s Ward table.
| Land Type | damage resistance |
|---|---|
| Arid | fire |
| Polar | Cold |
| Temperate | Lighting |
| Tropical | Poison |
Nature's Sanctuary
When you reach 14th level, Nature can rise up to protect you and your allies. As a Magic action, you can expend a use of your Wild Shape and cause spectral trees and vines to appear in a 15-foot cube on ground within 120 feet of yourself. They last there for 1 minute or until you have the Incapacitated condition. You and your allies have Half Cover while in that area, and your allies gain the current damage resistance of your Nature’s Ward while there.
As a Bonus Action, you can move the cube up to 60 feet to ground within 120 feet of yourself.
Circle of the Sea
Druids of the Circle of the Sea draw on the tempestuous natural forces of the world’s oceans and storms. Some view themselves as embodiments of nature’s wrath, seeking vengeance against those who despoil the natural world. Others seek mystical unity with nature by attuning themselves to the ebb and flow of the tides, following the rush of currents and waves, and listening to the inscrutable whispers and roars of the winds.
Circle spells
At 3rd level, Your connection to this circle ensures that you always have certain spells ready. When you reach a Druid level specified in the Circle of the Sea Spells table, you thereafter always have the listed spells prepared.
| Druid level | Prepared Spell |
|---|---|
| 3rd | Fog Cloud, Gust of Wind, Ray of Frost, Shatter, Thunderwave |
| 5th | Sleet Storm, Lightning Bolt |
| 7th | Control Water, Ice Storm |
| 9th | Conjure Elemental, Hold Monster |
Wrath of the Sea
At 3rd level, As a Bonus Action, you can expend a use of your Wild Shape to manifest an aura that takes the form of ocean spray that surrounds you. The aura lasts for 10 minutes. It ends early if you have the Incapacitated condition, dismiss it (no action required), or manifest the aura again.
At the end of each of your turns, you can choose another creature you can see within 10 feet of yourself. The target must succeed on a Constitution saving throw against your Spell Save DC or take Thunder damage and, if the creature is Large or smaller, be pushed up to 15 feet away from you. To determine this damage, roll a number of d6s equal to your Wisdom modifier (minimum of one die).
Aquatic Affinity
Starting at 6th level, You always have the Water Breathing spell prepared. In addition, you gain a Swim Speed equal to your Speed. If you use Wild Shape to assume a form that lacks a Swim Speed, that form gains your Swim Speed.
Stormborn
When you reach 10th level, Your Wrath of the Sea confers two more benefits while active:
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Flight. You gain a Fly Speed equal to your Speed.
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Resistance. You have resistance to Cold, Lighting, and Thunder damage.
Oceanic Gift
When you reach 14th level, Whenever you use Wrath of the Sea, you can manifest the aura around one willing creature within 60 feet of you rather than manifesting it around yourself. The creature gains all the benefits of the aura and uses your Spell Save DC and Wisdom modifier for it.
In addition, you can manifest the aura around both the other creature and yourself if you expend two uses of your Wild Shape, instead of one, when manifesting the aura.