Druid
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, but see themselves as extensions of nature’s indomitable will.
Druids use the powers of nature in various ways, such as summoning roots or lightning, transforming into animals or powerful healing magic.
Based on the mystics of ancient Celtic Britain, but less terrifying.
Druid Circles
Subclasses for Druids are called “Circles”. Druids tend to gather in communities focused around a certain way of life.
Circle of Dreams
Druids who are members of the Circle of Dreams hail from regions that have strong ties to the Feywild and its dreamlike realms. The druids’ guardianship of the natural world makes for a natural alliance between them and good-aligned fey. These druids seek to fill the world with dreamy wonder. Their magic mends wounds and brings joy to downcast hearts, and the realms they protect are gleaming, fruitful places, where dream and reality blur together and where the weary can find rest.
The feywild is a realm of dreams. Strange creatures make their home there, fae creatures, such as faeries and centaurs. A mystical place and these druids channel that power.
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. As a member of this circle, your magic is influenced by the land where you were initiated into the circle’s mysterious rites.
Land druids are basically the generic druid. Protectors of the land, living with nature, wielders or nature’s power.
Circle of the Moon
Druids of the Circle of the Moon are fierce guardians of the wilds. Their order gathers under the full moon to share news and trade warnings. They haunt the deepest parts of the wilderness, where they might go for weeks on end before crossing paths with another humanoid creature, 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 in bear form to drive off a trespassing monster. The wild is in the druid’s blood.
Moon druids are focused on the power to transform. hey can transform into anything from great beasts, birds, dinosaurs and even into elemental forces eventually!
Circle of the Spores
Druids of the Circle of Spores find beauty in decay. They see within mold and other fungi the ability to transform lifeless material into abundant, albeit somewhat strange, life. These druids believe that life and death are parts of a grand cycle, with one leading to the other and then back again. Death isn’t the end of life, but instead a change of state that sees life shift into a new form.
In DnD there is a strage species of mushroom/fungus people called myconids. Myconids communicate telepathically, can use dangerously potent fungal spores and can reanimate to help build their colonies etc.
Spore druids are typically druids with a close connection to these creatures and can wield similar powers.
Circle of the Stars
The Circle of Stars allows druids to draw on the power of starlight. These druids have tracked heavenly patterns since time immemorial, discovering secrets hidden amid the constellations. By revealing and understanding these secrets, the Circle of the Stars seeks to harness the powers of the cosmos.
Star druids are masters of astrology (not astronomy), the study or the constellations. The typical “Star signs” associated with your birthday are an example of this.
In the world of DnD this knowledge allows them to wield mystical powers, acquiring a ghostly form like the night sky, bearing constellations on their skin granted them power.
Circle of the Wildfire
Druids within the Circle of Wildfire understand that destruction is sometimes the precursor of creation, such as when a forest fire promotes later growth. These druids bond with a primal spirit that harbors both destructive and creative power, allowing the druids to create controlled flames that burn away one thing but give life to another.
The main feature of wildfire druids is their Wildfire Spirit. This can be anything, from bear to a piqeon, or even a small Owlbear pictured here!
Wildfire druids combine powerful fire magic with healing powers of nature.