Druid

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.

Starting at 6th level, moving through nonmagical 3 costs you no extra movement. You can also pass through nonmagical plants without being slowed by them and without taking damage from them if they have thorns, spines, or a similar hazard.

In addition, you have advantage on saving throws against plants that are magically created or manipulated to impede movement, such as those created by the entangle spell.

When you reach 10th level, you can't be charmed or frightened by elementals or fey, and you are immune to poison and disease.

When you reach 14th level, creatures of the natural world sense your connection to nature and become hesitant to attack you. When a beast or plant creature attacks you, that creature must make a Wisdom saving throw against your druid spell save DC. On a failed save, the creature must choose a different target, or the attack automatically misses. On a successful save, the creature is immune to this effect for 24 hours.

The creature is aware of this effect before it makes its attack against you.

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.

Starting at 6th level, your attacks in beast form count as magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage.

At 10th level, you can expend two uses of Wild Shape at the same time to transform into an air elemental, an earth elemental, a fire elemental, or a water elemental.

By 14th level, you have learned to use magic to alter your physical form in more subtle ways. You can cast the alter self spell at will.

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.

At 6th level, home can be wherever you are. During a short or long rest, you can invoke the shadowy power of the Gloaming Court to help guard your respite. At the start of the rest, you touch a point in space, and an invisible, 30-foot-radius sphere of magic appears, centered on that point. 3 blocks the sphere.

While within the sphere, you and your allies gain a +5 bonus to Dexterity (Stealth) and Wisdom (Perception) checks, and any light from open flames in the sphere (a campfire, torches, or the like) isn't visible outside it.

The sphere vanishes at the end of the rest or when you leave the sphere.

Starting at 10th level, you can use the hidden, magical pathways that some fey use to traverse space in the blink of an eye. As a bonus action on your turn, you can teleport up to 60 feet to an unoccupied space you can see. Alternatively, you can use your action to teleport one willing creature you touch up to 30 feet to an unoccupied space you can see.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Wisdom modifier (minimum of once), and you regain all expended uses of it when you finish a long rest.

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 teleportation circle is special. Rather than opening a portal to a permanent teleportation circle, it opens a portal to the last location where you finished a long rest on your current plane of existence. If you haven't taken a long rest on your current plane, the spell fails but isn't wasted.

Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.

Druids of the Circle of the Shepherd commune with the spirits of nature, especially the spirits of beasts and the fey, and call to those spirits for aid. These druids recognize that all living things play a role in the natural world, yet they focus on protecting animals and fey creatures that have difficulty defending themselves. Shepherds, as they are known, see such creatures as their charges. They ward off monsters that threaten them, rebuke hunters who kill more prey than necessary, and prevent civilization from encroaching on rare animal habitats and on sites sacred to the fey. Many of these druids are happiest far from cities and towns, content to spend their days in the company of animals and the fey creatures of the wilds.

Members of this circle become adventurers to oppose forces that threaten their charges or to seek knowledge and power that will help them safeguard their charges better. Wherever these druids go, the spirits of the wilderness are with them.

Starting at 6th level, beasts and fey that you conjure are more resilient than normal. Any beast or fey summoned or created by a spell that you cast gains the following benefits:

• The creature appears with more hit points than normal: 2 extra hit points per Hit Die it has.
• The damage from its natural weapons is considered magical for the purpose of overcoming immunity and resistance to nonmagical attacks and damage.

Beginning at 10th level, your Spirit Totem safeguards the beasts and fey that you call forth with your magic. When a beast or fey that you summoned or created with a spell ends its turn in your Spirit Totem aura, that creature regains a number of hit points equal to half your druid level.

Starting at 14th level, the nature spirits you commune with protect you when you are the most defenseless. If you are reduced to 0 hit points or are incapacitated against your will, you can immediately gain the benefits of conjure animals as if it were cast using a 9th-level spell slot. It summons four beasts of your choice that are challenge rating 2 or lower. The conjured beasts appear within 20 feet of you. If they receive no commands from you, they protect you from harm and attack your foes. The spell lasts for 1 hour, requiring no concentration, or until you dismiss it (no action required).

Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.

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.

Druids of this circle have a complex relationship with the undead. Unlike most other druids, they see nothing inherently wrong with undeath, which they consider to be a companion to life and death. But these druids believe that the natural cycle is healthiest when each segment of it is vibrant and changing. Undead that seek to replace all life with undeath, or that try to avoid passing to a final rest, violate the cycle and must be thwarted.

At 6th level, your spores gain the ability to infest a corpse and animate it. If a beast or a humanoid that is Small or Medium dies within 10 feet of you, you can use your reaction to animate it, causing it to stand up immediately with 1 hit point. The creature uses the zombie stat block in the Monster Manual. It remains animate for 1 hour, after which time it collapses and dies.

In combat, the zombie's turn comes immediately after yours. It obeys your mental commands, and the only action it can take is the Attack action, making one melee attack.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Wisdom modifier (minimum of once), and you regain all expended uses of it when you finish a long rest.

At 10th level, you gain the ability to seed an area with deadly spores. As a bonus action while your Symbiotic Entity feature is active, you can hurl spores up to 30 feet away, where they swirl in a 10-foot cube for 1 minute. The spores disappear early if you use this feature again, if you dismiss them as a bonus action, or if your Symbiotic Entity feature is no longer active.

Whenever a creature moves into the cube or starts its turn there, that creature takes your Halo of Spores damage, unless the creature succeeds on a Constitution saving throw against your spell save DC. A creature can take this damage no more than once per turn.

While the cube of spores persists, you can't use your Halo of Spores reaction.

At 14th level, the fungal spores in your body alter you: you can't be blinded, deafened, frightened, or poisoned, and any critical hit against you counts as a normal hit instead, unless you're incapacitated.

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.

Many druids of this circle keep records of the constellations and the stars' effects on the world. Some groups document these observations at megalithic sites, which serve as enigmatic libraries of lore. These repositories might take the form of stone circles, pyramids, petroglyphs, and underground temples-any construction durable enough to protect the circle's sacred knowledge even against a great cataclysm.

6th-level Circle of the Stars feature

Whenever you finish a long rest, you can consult your Star Map for omens. When you do so, roll a die. Until you finish your next long rest, you gain access to a special reaction based on whether you rolled an even or an odd number on the die:

• Weal (even): Whenever a creature you can see within 30 feet of you is about to make an attack roll, a saving throw, or an ability check, you can use your reaction to roll a d6 and add the number rolled to the total.
• Woe (odd): Whenever a creature you can see within 30 feet of you is about to make an attack roll, a saving throw, or an ability check, you can use your reaction to roll a d6 and subtract the number rolled from the total.

You can use this reaction a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

10th-level Circle of the Stars feature

The constellations of your Starry Form improve. The 1d8 of the Archer and the Chalice becomes 2d8, and while the Dragon is active, you have a flying speed of 20 feet and can hover.

Moreover, at the start of each of your turns while in your Starry Form, you can change which constellation glimmers on your body.

14th-level Circle of the Stars feature

While in your Starry Form, you become partially incorporeal, giving you resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage.

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.

6th-level Circle of Wildfire feature

The bond with your wildfire spirit enhances your destructive and restorative spells. Whenever you cast a spell that deals fire damage or restores hit points while your wildfire spirit is summoned, roll a d8, and you gain a bonus equal to the number rolled to one damage or healing roll of the spell.

In addition, when you cast a spell with a range other than self, the spell can originate from you or your wildfire spirit.

10th-level Circle of Wildfire feature

You gain the ability to turn death into magical flames that can heal or incinerate. When a Small or larger creature dies within 30 feet of you or your wildfire spirit, a harmless spectral flame springs forth in the dead creature's space and flickers there for 1 minute. When a creature you can see enters that space, you can use your reaction to extinguish the spectral flame there and either heal the creature or deal fire damage to it. The healing or damage equals 2d10 + your Wisdom modifier.

You can use this reaction a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

14th-level Circle of Wildfire feature

The bond with your wildfire spirit can save you from death. If the spirit is within 120 feet of you when you are reduced to 0 hit points and thereby fall unconscious, you can cause the spirit to drop to 0 hit points. You then regain half your hit points and immediately rise to your feet.

Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.

When the malandanti arrived long ago and began destroying people's crops and livestock, the benandanti rose to combat them. As those baleful witches rode their sorghum brooms and spread ill fortune, the benandanti wielded fennel wands and took to the skies, in animal forms or riding animal spirits, and in so doing kept the evil at bay.

You are a member of the circle of "Good Walkers," benandanti, gentle yet vigilant folk who travel out of their bodies to struggle against the malandanti, malevolent witches who threaten to destroy the crops and livelihoods of the folk of Friuli, a region in Venice's mainland domains.. Originally your Circle could only perform these rites while sleeping at night, but over the years, as strife has encircled the land, your community has tapped into more powerful magic and found ways to extend spirit shifts to waking moments as well.

Now the tradition has grown even further afield beyond the borders of Friuli as the specter of evil has metastasized: you may have joined the circle after you were born with a caul and chosen. Perhaps you joined and trained as an apprentice. Or perhaps you were a druid of a different land, and upon arriving in Terraferma, you saw fit to join a more pressing fight against darkness.

Circle Spells

Your powers unleashed by your soul and ability to influence the material realm grant you access to certain spells. At 2nd level, you learn the chill touch cantrip. At 3rd, 5th, 7th, and 9th level you gain access to the spells listed for that level in the Circle of Benandanti 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.

Circle of Benandanti Spells

Starting at 2nd level, your power over your spirit is unleashed on the material world. You gain the ability to temporarily leave your body and act as your spirit or a version of your wildshape. As a bonus action during your turn in combat, you can transport your spirit up to 30 ft. away from your body. Your body stays stationary (its speed is 0) and cannot act independently of your spirit. It can take damage as normal. Your spirit form gains your movement types and speed..

In your Spirit Form, you are resistant to piercing, slashing, and bludgeoning damage from nonmagical sources. You can attack or cast spells while in Spirit Form, and your Spirit Form has hit points equal to your druid level + your Wisdom modifier. You can enter the Spirit Form a number of times equal to your Wisdom modifier + 1 before taking a long rest. If you transport into a Wild Shape form, it does not count against your Wild Shape uses while in Spirit Form. At the end of your next turn, your spirit must return to your body. Any excessive damage to your Spirit Form does not transfer to your original body.

Your attacks in this form are considered magical even if your weapons normally are not.

Optional Feature for all Druids: They can use their Wild Shape to turn into a specific spirit shape by following the rules of Wild Shape stated in the core rules. Each time their proficiency bonus increases, they can choose one more shape that they can turn into.

Note: This optional rule applies to all druids, not only the Circle of the Benandanti. It is printed alongside this subclass in Echoes of Renaissance and attached here for reference.

Your Spirit Form grows in power as your devotion to protecting the people and the harvest does. You can use Spirit Shift while in your Wild Shape form.

In addition, choose one from the following options when you enter your Spirit Form:

Spirit of Reunion: If you are within 60 ft. of your body while in Spirit Form when it ends, your body is teleported to the point your spirit occupies and you are reunited with your body.

Spirit of Retribution: When your spirit returns to your body, creatures caught in the line your spirit travels must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or take 3d10 force damage, half on a success.

Spirit of Sanctuary: While your spirit is outside your body, your physical form has a protective caul around it. This makes it harder for enemies to target your physical form, and any enemies which do target it will pay the price. Enemies have Disadvantage on attack rolls against your original body, and if an attacker hits your body, they must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or take 4d6 psychic damage as your caul attempts to suffocate them. They take half damage on a successful save.

Spirit of Recovery: While your spirit goes forth from your body or returns, you can choose any allies within 5 ft. of the line your spirit travels, and they regain hit points equal to your druid level.

By the time you reach Level 10, your Spirit Form grows ever more powerful. You can choose two abilities from Level 6 when you enter a Spirit Form.

You are now able to pick up small objects while in your Spirit Form.

Additionally, by tapping into the night visions of your Circle, your powers have become stronger in darkness:

• Your spirit can now travel up to 60 ft. from your body.
• You can now choose to stay away from your body for longer periods of time. As a bonus action, you can return. You can stay away from your body for a number of minutes equal to your Wisdom modifier. If you want to extend your time as a spirit beyond that, you run the risk of harming yourself. Once your spirit shift time is expended, you begin taking damage until you return to your body. For the first minute you are not back in your body, you take 1d6 psychic damage, and the damage increases by 1d6 for each passing minute. You can't regain hit points until you return to your body.

At Level 14, you stand as an epitome of the good walkers and gain the following benefits:

• You can now fly as part of your Spirit Shift. Your flying speed is equal to your walking speed.
• You can stay out of your body for a number of days equal to your Wisdom modifier. If you want to extend your time as a spirit beyond that, you run the risk of harming yourself. Once your spirit shift time is expended, you have a number of minutes equal to your Constitution modifier to return, otherwise you risk organ failure and death. After the time is up, you must succeed on a DC 20 Constitution saving throw or take one level of exhaustion each round.
• Your spirit is wreathed in the primordial power of the moon in the face of darkness, of spring in the face of a late frost. Once per day while in Spirit Form, you can erupt in a shimmering caterwaul of energy. As a bonus action, choose a number of creatures equal to your Wisdom modifier within 60 feet of you. These creatures must make a Wisdom saving throw or take 5d10 psychic damage and 5d10 force damage, half on a success. Additionally, those creatures who failed the save find their souls have left their bodies momentarily, and they are stunned until the end of their next turn.