Before you start commenting, I'd like to remind you all that this video is a complete joke. I'm going to go on record saying that this class is hella fun and no one should stop you from playing it. These rules don't matter, and it's a outlet for me to make some jokes. Wizards did a fine job making 5th edition and I'm not here to change anyone's mind about that. Play how YOU want to play. Don't listen to me I'm here to be a dumb dumb for your entertainment.
XP to Level 3 what would you say is the most fun classes to multi class? (Druid seems very interesting but I was wondering if their was anything crazy I could add to it)
@@catoticneutral That's bad, because it destroys player agency, and if your players have stuck around from low level to level 20 then by gosh darnit they deserve their class' capstone ability
5:00 "Imagine... someone brand new to the game just wanting to... turn into animals and cast nature spells." me, sweating, watching this as my first d&d video cause i wanted to play a druid.
Yeah picking druid as your first class is a huge mistake. I just wanted to be a little owl but no I had to remake the character 3 times because I kept ruining encounters.
I'm a biologist, so I thought I'd try out druid as my first class and use my knowledge to maximize wild shape. I abandoned that idea rather quickly when I found out that a wolf somehow has a higher armor class than a boar.
@@Niggurath-n4h No, but frankly there's no way to spec a boar accurately that doesn't make it incredibly overpowered. They're like nature's own mini tanks powered by raw hatred of you in particular.
I played a rogue that was so good at stealing things and convincing others he almost never had to fight. And when he did his dexterity was so high he could just absolutely destroy enemies. This was at level one, we never got any farther, but if we did... dear lord there would be no survivors Conclusion: rogue’s are too powerful for their own good and should be feared.
Me a few weeks ago, preparing to DM for the first time: "oh man, I'm still new to this game, druids seem pretty complicated, and my party has never played before. Hopefully none of them pick druid" 3 of the 5 players in the party: "I'm a half-elf druid who grew up alone in the woods"
Oh man, they should've communicated. Having 3 players be the same race, not to mention the same class as well, sounds like it could get boring real quick. Especially as it's not a very well-balanced party with only druids in my (limited) experience ^^
@@nicodifictional540 From what I've heard, everyone being the same race can be pretty fun if done right. And even having the same class can work as long as they use different subs.
@@nicodifictional540 update: the party dynamic is now that the elves have taken to the gnome and halfling as if they were pets. The little ones are cool with it because they fuck with the elves all the time, and the elf players are awesome for not meta gaming and instead pretending to be clueless that it's the little ones
Go to my local hobby shop to play D&D for the first time on Adventure League night Me: Could I play Dragonborn Druid? Store DM: First time ever playing D&D? Me: Yes. Store DM: So you said you wanna play Human Barbarian right?
imagine an entire party of druids and they only speak in druidic so when you design that one encounter with somebody trying to eavesdrop on the party they just hear ritualistic chanting
Imagine having a rogue dip for thieves cant so that when druids that aren't members of your party try to eavesdrop on your ritualistic chanting they just hear you reciting your grocery list.
Fun fact: Xannathar's guide has a whole section on animals you can turn into based on CR and region (it's super helpful if you plan on being a druid a lot)
Bleh, Most of those are just tree-hugging hippies (them and those blasted pointy-ears). Druids are made to be more of an extension of nature's power/action (hunting down malformed or inadapted animals and burning old rotting trees included) than animal right's activists Jokes aside tho, you do your character man, good luck
@@Greencheez-y You can turn into any animal that you've seen before, but the list of environments allows you to maximize the capabilities of your wild shape in any given situation. This is more for the player's benefit...
@@Greencheez-y It's just a list to help players figure out what animals they might have seen before the start of the campaign, so as a player you can just ignore it if you think it doesn't feel right
Yeah I think they should have limited the choices. I mean, a barbarian only has a few animal paths to choose right, like bear or wolf. They should have made like only a few land based, water based and air based creatures that get stronger with levels which you can wild shape, so you don’t have to change every few levels. As an optional rule, let players choose what they want, respecting CR.
All joking and hyperbole about how good the rogue lvl 20 ability is, it is nothing compared to a druid capstone. The druid capstone ability is literally the most INSANELY over powered ability in existence. A lvl 20 circle of the moon druid could, and this is no joke, solo the Tarrasque. Or basically any monster. Or any encounter. They just straight up cannot be beaten in combat.
Flimpeen Flarmpoon Yea campaigns rarely even make it to lv 15 at all (highest lv I’ve gotten too with a char is only lv 8 sadly). The best way I could think of if u wanna play a lv 20 char is join a campaign where u start at lv 15 or above (most likely a one shot campaign) and u should be lv 20 by the end.
Circle of the Land, in my experience, is only useful in Gritty Realism campaigns, when you're taking lots of short rests between long ones, and there could be several weeks, even, between long rests. In that context, though, the Circle of the Land Druid is the only healing caster that gets spell slots back on a short rest, making them the single most reliable healer in the game. Plus, if memory serves, Druids get the lowest-level revival spell - Reincarnate.
@@AllThingsFascinate A surprisingly large amount of people, many claimed that she stole the spotlight from Sam when she saved everyone at the end of the first season
@@snappedsquire8479 Happily, she seems to be one of the more popular characters in the second campaign as Beau the Monk. The poor treatment she received by some fans was NEVER deserved.
@@MrUmakemelaff Agreed. While there were some things that I did not like about Keyleth, I did not let that blind me from the amazing things that she did for the group, such as the clutch feeblemind she did on Raishan.
@@MrUmakemelaff Never is a strong word. She was clearly the worst player in attitude, rules knowledge and roleplaying ability, at least in the first season. As others have said she seems to have gotten better. I suspect the goldfish incident and offline discussions may have helped. Yes, yes, as a public figure on the internet she's received more flak than she deserves, but I find it hard pressed to say it was never deserved whatsoever.
Seeing that hydra page brings back memories. We had a party of 7 PCs and we were level 5. Our DM wanted a few of us to die so he we would have to leave the table (it was really crowded and we were getting nothing done each session). So, the DM decided to give a stupidly hard encounter. We started by fighting 7 ghouls and 7 ghast, so yay paralysis. That was terrible, but then there were hydras who were a little further out and two turns into combat they show up. One of them had 7 heads and one of them had 11. ELEVEN. That means eighteen attacks between the both of them per turn. Our entire party was freaking out because we couldn’t run away due to the swamp we were in halving our movement speed, but not the the movements speed of the ghouls or ghasts, and the hydra’s movement speed is pretty high. But frankly, the worst part of the situation was that 2/7 members or our party were really weak. They were new players and they built their characters strangely which made them largely useless in combat. So we were basically fighting two hydras and 14 ghouls and ghasts with 5.5 lvl 5 characters. The ghouls and ghasts were giving us some trouble, but we could probably have beaten them. They had our tank paralyzed and were hitting him with cries every attack, but he wasn’t dead yet. In the end. Our party got saved by our bard with one spell: “plant growth. He trapped all of the enemies in plants while we just shot at many projectiles as possible and we killed every single monster, because plant growth is op. Needless to say, our DM hated our bard for the next few sessions.
By all means, it sounds like your Bard has every reason to hate the DM. Applaud creativeness and quick thinking. Not punish it. Also bravo for making it out alive! Now face a bunch of intellect devourers and you have a prime incorrect CR experience.
Matthew Porter Yeah your DM is a douche, and you should get a new DM for your game. “Hey, it’s getting crowded so instead of discussing the issue ooc at the table like an actual adult, I’m just gonna kill off some of the party members in a bullshit fight they can’t win!” Yeah, that wouldn’t fly with me, nor should it fly with you or anyone else at the table.
"I'm gonna play druid" DM: ".... Okay, we are playing an undead apocalypse campaign!" (Good luck finding an animal to turn in to!) "NOOOO!!!" Everybody except Paladins and Clerics grumble
I mean. Does that effect warlocks much? Eldritch blast will blow a zombie apart pretty easily. And that pact of the sword weapon is pretty sweet in close range since you're always proficient
I like how when he was defending Keyleth for not always doing the best thing, he showed a momment where she singehandedly ended an encounter against a green dragon
Not listening to your dm and only reading spell names instead of descriptions arent really excused by a druid being complicated.. neither is throwing yourself off a cliff and thinking landing in water will be just fine as long as you're a fish lol
@@alyero6341this is an old comment but I'm going to reply anyways lol in defense of her playing on air is not easy and you get prone to panic, you have to pick stuff quickly and think on the spot in order to make the right move, which doesn't help when you have a bajillion spells. i think it's fair to be frustrated though, she definitely (along with the rest of the gang) have made plenty of bad decisions haha
Oh, man, this really helps and is also spot on. I am new to D&D, just joined my first party and we are all new. No one played before (not even the DM), but we are all trying our best. I thought druid would be easy to play for the first time, and I ended up having a mild breakdown trying to understand all of the info on it (especially because the reading level of the party is below the crust of the Earth and we all interpret everything differently, leading to misunderstandings and redos in actions). You saved my life and my brain. Thank you. (also sorry if there are errors in spelling or sentence making, English isn't my first language.)
Practically impossible to kill a 20th level druid Circle of the Moon. Rocks fall, the druid becomes a beetle and crawls out. Thrown into a volcano! The druid becomes a fire elemental. Tell me one way anything can genuinely kill a level 20 druid Circle of the Moon.
Way of the Open hand monk and they fail there saving throw? What would that do to a druid in beast shape. Would they drop to 0 as a beast and then transform or are they just at 0? This isn't a statement more trying to think of a way.
The druid's level 20 ability is pretty OP. Unless you can drop them in one round (either eating through both beast shape and base hp or finishing their beast shape with an ability that insta kills at reaching 0), they are pretty much impossible to bring down. Also, Druid players are pretty much always going to make a mistake at some point. There is a lot to keep track of and to learn.
@@skulltechstuff2530 you do realize they Are casters and if you've got a 20th level party they would just shut the portal and rain death on the tarrasques. And if that fails the Druid has access to planeshift :/
I was about to argue that no, Power word kill would likely not be able to drop a 20th level character after they come out of beasty boy mode, but yeah, that's a little terrifying. Just kills the druid and the beast form all in one fell swoop...
While any other druid has to spend 10 min to cast speak with animals at anytime they want, no spell slot cost just 10min Ritual? I like Circle of the Land more. Not only do you get a one spell more from 3 to 4 you gain permanent access to certain supportive skills like Spike Growth which is good for blocking exits and what nots. Enemies want to flee? Good luck... I have started to worship supporting spells after playing Bard and Druid is probably only choice with lvl1 Area of Effect Crowd Control (AOE CC) spell :D Controlling the enemies is controlling the fight in your favor most used comment from me "What are the enemies wearing? Does it look like they could fight at range?" If they are melee I Entangle in front of them and if they are ranged behind them. This allows Fighter, Barbarian and Rogue to either stay and wait making enemies waste a turn for free range attacks OR makes it easier for Fighter to run at the enemies while they try to flee and keep their distance. Goblins get hit most as 25ft speed becomes 10ft speed 😂 when you must spend 10ft movement but you only have 5ft Can you move? Don't know :3
First class I ever played was druid. I can confirm it was pretty complicated and it took me way longer to figure out my character than the other players, but at least now I have a really good understanding of it.
the most fun you'll have as a druid is if you convince your dm to let you use half your level rounded down instead of 1/3. then you can turn into a cave bear at level 4 and a giant scorpion at level 6. It also gives you access to the giant ape form at level 14 and ofcourse the T-rex at level 16. whereas if you do the standard COM the highest cr beast you can turn into is a mammoth...and that sucks ass.
On the subject of the level 20 ability: While being able to constantly re-up temp HP by wildshaping into everything on the planet alphabetically and being able to cast any spell you like, only being restricted by action limits, preparation, and spell slots IS incredibly overpowered and I imagine that trying to DM such a thing is a nightmare and a half, I DO think that it actually fits well thematically. At 20th level, the Druid is so in tune with nature that they can be any animal they want with but a thought and whatever spell they want to cast is cast as if by the planet itself, only the fact that they're keeping their consciousness separate from nature by only the barest of margins limiting them to their own pool of magic. Mother Earth doesn't need sulfur and bat crap to create fire, Mother Earth just makes it happen.
I still think that thematically - a 20th level druid should also have all the spells from the druid list prepared and not be limited in that regard. He/she should just ask the nature to do anything that nature can do, supply the pool of magic ang voila - the nature takes care of it. But i understand that it would be too OP.
Me: What is the main feature exclusive to the Druid? The Druid: *can turn into animals* Me (for my 1st game): oh boi, that sounds cool! Lemme play a subclass where i don't! *plays circle of Spores, never turns into an animal. Ever. *
@@GodessAsh Polymorph to friend is stronger and you can concentrate to the spell while wild shaped, so being moon druid is till useful... tough flying off as a bird lvl8 druid after polymorph is also an option :D
I think the animal list part of druid is the most fun. Going around finding animals and also I like making my own stats for all de animals beyond the MM. cause there's a lot of animals out there *never underestimate a sunfish..*
As someone that is playing Druid for my first time in the DnD universe, this video was very informative fun! I've listened to countless videos but this one at least put a smile to my face! I appreciate the "complicated" versus "easy" descriptions- keep it up!
One of my favorite things to do is playing a druid ninja Take the circle of the land and then you get some amazing spells for assassinating people like heat metal produce flame and a lot more You can use some great strategy's like the heat metal and wild shape into a mouse and run the hell away Or The hollow out at egg paint it Black and instead of filling it with shards of glass fill it with seeds And then throw it at someone and cast plant growth Or Pour oil on someone and then try to hide your casting of produce flame under a table or a cloak Or if all else fails Just use flame blade and stab them
With people willing to play together you take one Druid casting Entangle after asking is the enemies have any range options to know if you cast it in front slowing them to reach you or behind preventing them to flee so fast 😂 You can after that shape shift to the animal and just wait there 😁 Amazing combination with door blocking and other annoying tactics which DM is not allowed to use 😈 Player's hate when orc shaman uses entangle on fighter while his Orc friends throw rocks at him 😂 a way to lose players. Same as Gobblins taking short bow and always using movement to move behind trees for cover to shoot...
This whole video was hilarious, but honestly, I completely burst out laughing at the dice ad in the middle. Product placement. This is really how you're supposed to do it.
Me, a new player making my first character: “oh I’ll play Druid! I can do cool nature stuff and turn into animals :D” Me now: “WHAT IS THIS BULLSHIT, HOW MANY SPELLS DO I HAVE? CAN I JUST PERMANENTLY TURN INTO A FROG, HEY PALADIN YEET ME INTO THE SWAMP”
So an elf can live up to 750 years. If that elf is a Druid then they can live... 7,500 years!? That's way longer then a tree. That's longer than the U.S has been a country.
You would need to be born as a level 18 druid for that, you age at 1/10 rate only from the moment of you reaching that level, so you would probably be like at least a 100 years old (elfs mature more slowly than humans), that means you would die of old age aproximately after your 6600th birthday (not 7500th birthday)
I actually love the cleric's and the druid's way of preparing spells. You can try out new spells without need to commit a whole level up feature to them, and you can always change the spells to fit the missions you'll be on that day, if you know before hand
4:15 I recommend reading the actual text from the book here :P You can definitely still do stuff with a spell you're concentrating on while in wild shape. The book gives a concrete example such as Call Lightning. Personally, I really want to try a high level moon druid and combine wild shape with the elemental Investiture spells. Imagine a cave/polar bear clad in stone/ice armor, a dire wolf flying on a tornado or a giant eagle with flames swirling around its wings like some kind of phoenix. Hell, it can be extra fun to combine it with a different elemental form. A fire elemental with investiture of stone cast would basically look like a magma elemental
The investiture spells would be worth concentrating on if only the damage were better or you could use the new attack as a bonus action instead of a standard action.
I wonder though, as druids are said to get power from nature itself or a nature deity, but if you have a druid that has a nature deity grant you powers, how does that work? Do they just form a bond with the deity? If they worship it, they'd be more of a cleric. If they form a pact with it, they are a warlock and if they swear an oath to it, they are a paladin, and if they are blessed/cursed with magic, they'd be a sorcerer and wizards just study the stuff.
One of my players is playing a cleric and the way we’ve organized spells is 1. Most commonly used spells and what they do 2. Less common but prevelant spells, I have what they do as a DM 3. A list of unusual or useless spells from the list that if they need to they can look it up real quick, but since it will almost never writing down what they do it just extra work
Chaotic good teifling Druid with an Alcolyte background who is so incredibly devoted to his god that he will temporarily throw his life away over it. Desert land circle because he has lived in a desert his whole life with his family. He had a GOOD CHILDHOOD AND IS CLOSE WITH HID FAMILY. And level one tier stats at level five. (Which is to say oh my god how has he not died yet? He has an AC of 14 and 21 hp.) But, hey… I can turn into camels. Not any camels. Me and my DM worked out this thing where, since the god who rules over the desert is a psychopath, there are no normal camels. No… because there’s so many, I have no control over what type of camel I turn into. My DM decides for me. This was never going to be easy.
If you cast a spell that requires extra actions and then wild shape, you can perform those extra actions. For example, if you use flaming sphere and then use wild shape, you can still move it as a bonus action
Thanks to a character creator app I actually found more sub classes for the druid. The one I use for one of my characters is actually called “circle of twilight” It gives you the ability called (harvest’s scythe) that can add a little extra damage (1D10 per lvl) and if you kill an enemy with it it actually gives you a Health pool.
im currently playing a Druid(circle of the land) in the game im currently playing great video i love it Edit: also it’s obvious that this video is a joke people can be so serious at times
Before you start commenting, I'd like to remind you all that this video is a complete joke.
I'm going to go on record saying that this class is hella fun and no one should stop you from playing it.
These rules don't matter, and it's a outlet for me to make some jokes. Wizards did a fine job making 5th edition and I'm not here to change anyone's mind about that.
Play how YOU want to play. Don't listen to me I'm here to be a dumb dumb for your entertainment.
XP to Level 3 what would you say is the most fun classes to multi class? (Druid seems very interesting but I was wondering if their was anything crazy I could add to it)
Druid Barbarian is amazing
XP to Level 3 thanks 😁
XP to Level 3 will you ever do a HOW TO PLAY RANGER or should we all pretend it doesn't exist?
I like clerics maybe y'all can do a cleric one maybe
Artificier lvl 20: You get +4 to all saving throws
Druid lvl 20: You become immortal and have infinite health
Wizard lvl 20: You get free fireballs (when at that point clerics are summoning gods like its an average saturday)
@@funninoriginal6054 but it’s _free fireballs_
@@mystic1029
Good point
@@mystic1029 is it really free though?
Bards at lvl 20: If you happen to not have a bardic inspiration, you get another one.
Warlock at lvl 20: Get your spell slots back... all 4 of them
Fun fact: the cat meowing in the end of the video is actually Logan using beast shape.
True
so cute
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20th level druid, also known as infinite health
And if you chose Circle of the Moon, all for the cost of a bonus action
Until you get hit with a banishment because you're an elemental
No because your native plane doesn't change
I made a 20th lvl druid and asked my dm to throw at me 3 tarrasques. I won.
Halforc Druid. Nope i dont take the excess damage, i go down to 1.
“You can’t turn into anything good at level 2”
*laughs in Moon Circle*
Heyooo!
OMG RIGHT HAHAHAHA
*AS A BONUS ACTION!*
Also extra 60 Hp moon circle
Moon Circle, AKA ruclips.net/video/GprOS09Ctao/видео.html
Druid's level 20 ability in a nutshell;
"Make your DM commit seppuku as a free action"
Here's a great way to avoid 20th level abilities: house rule that ALL PLAYERS HAVE TO MULTICLASS :D
*sudoku
@@catoticneutral That's bad, because it destroys player agency, and if your players have stuck around from low level to level 20 then by gosh darnit they deserve their class' capstone ability
@@adamka-1 *make your DM kermit sudoku as a free action
@Ayslin Fletcher I'll look it up for you: www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/joke
5:00 "Imagine... someone brand new to the game just wanting to... turn into animals and cast nature spells." me, sweating, watching this as my first d&d video cause i wanted to play a druid.
Just pick moon druid and Hope your DM is dumb
Although i Guess this doesnt matter since you commented this a year ago
@@Chris_winthers ah, I hate to disappoint but I did end up rolling a monk. it was a fun time being a cc bot for my party lol.
Yeah picking druid as your first class is a huge mistake. I just wanted to be a little owl but no I had to remake the character 3 times because I kept ruining encounters.
@@zethy3698Its about to be my first class... help...?
@@BrandonTheOne2 just don’t die at first level, and when you get to fifth level, spam conjure animals
DRUID. YOU WERE THE ROGUE. THE WHOLE TIME. God bless lmao.
Thanks for ruining it
@@JasperForge why would look at comments before watching the vid
read it and weep
As you read the 20th ability, the wind blew so hard outside that my house creaked.
I fear the Druid.
Never get on a druids bad side
You're right to fear the druid. No man can control the forces of nature. (Apart from the dutch, those fuckers fought the ocean and won)
menno graafmans What if the Dutch are druids.
The answer to your problem is lv 20 cleric. Just use divine intervention
Fear the Deer
I'm a biologist, so I thought I'd try out druid as my first class and use my knowledge to maximize wild shape.
I abandoned that idea rather quickly when I found out that a wolf somehow has a higher armor class than a boar.
I think its based on the dex. The reason the ac is higher isn't cus a wolfs skin is thicker, its cus its really good at dodging
@@justsomeogrewithinternetac1494 exactly. AC is a combination of armor and your ability to dodge simplified into 1 stat
Did dnd remove dc?? For defence?
@@Niggurath-n4h No, but frankly there's no way to spec a boar accurately that doesn't make it incredibly overpowered. They're like nature's own mini tanks powered by raw hatred of you in particular.
@@nomisunrider6472 ah ok. Last time I played was in 3rd edition. By then I knew that boar is like a mini tank in my opinion.
Just made my first guy, and i made him a druid. Im so confused and scared. I just want to hug a tree.
will reeves That is me right at this moment, creating my character now, hope it’s going well!!
I hope it hugs back!
*angry typing
I’m a Druid Dragonborn
two sessions in as a 2nd lvl Shepherd Circle Druid in my first ever campaign; I wish the forrest would give me clues on how to properly druid
2:50
True druid won't use metal dice.
I dont see why not. Most metals are just refined and purified rocks, and most importantly naturally occurring
Druids can't wear metal armour or use metal weapons - it's just a joke based on that.
TTIOttio
Wrong. They can use metal weapons.
@@stellaraevum799 Fuck your metal weapon. The club is superior.
If your druid uses metal man-manufactured equipment, you better drop your druidic rite and call yourself a ranger sorcerer build
Too bad we all know the Rogue dodged
Dodge? I bet he wasn't even actually there, and that was just an illusion spell or something.
uncannily
UNCANNY DODGE
Naw, in a split second, the rouge dodged, killed the dm, and took his identity
I played a rogue that was so good at stealing things and convincing others he almost never had to fight. And when he did his dexterity was so high he could just absolutely destroy enemies. This was at level one, we never got any farther, but if we did... dear lord there would be no survivors
Conclusion: rogue’s are too powerful for their own good and should be feared.
Me a few weeks ago, preparing to DM for the first time: "oh man, I'm still new to this game, druids seem pretty complicated, and my party has never played before. Hopefully none of them pick druid"
3 of the 5 players in the party: "I'm a half-elf druid who grew up alone in the woods"
Oh man, they should've communicated. Having 3 players be the same race, not to mention the same class as well, sounds like it could get boring real quick. Especially as it's not a very well-balanced party with only druids in my (limited) experience ^^
@@nicodifictional540 From what I've heard, everyone being the same race can be pretty fun if done right. And even having the same class can work as long as they use different subs.
All moon druids. The monsters didnt know they would have to fight 6 grizzly bears are level 2... ffs
@@nicodifictional540 update: the party dynamic is now that the elves have taken to the gnome and halfling as if they were pets. The little ones are cool with it because they fuck with the elves all the time, and the elf players are awesome for not meta gaming and instead pretending to be clueless that it's the little ones
Damn I just started playing a new campaign and I’m the only Druid, and the only healer. I guess I should count myself lucky. 🍀
Me: I’m gonna be a Druid with 0 knowledge of dnd!
Dnd rules: I’m gonna end this whole mans career
BB Wolf What career lol jk
Go to my local hobby shop to play D&D for the first time on Adventure League night
Me: Could I play Dragonborn Druid?
Store DM: First time ever playing D&D?
Me: Yes.
Store DM: So you said you wanna play Human Barbarian right?
What is the spell turning into animals?
@@creterb2659 Wild Shape
This is me. This is why I’m here at Tis video. I do not understand druid spells but I am really trying.
imagine an entire party of druids and they only speak in druidic so when you design that one encounter with somebody trying to eavesdrop on the party they just hear ritualistic chanting
Imagine having a rogue dip for thieves cant so that when druids that aren't members of your party try to eavesdrop on your ritualistic chanting they just hear you reciting your grocery list.
Fun fact: Xannathar's guide has a whole section on animals you can turn into based on CR and region (it's super helpful if you plan on being a druid a lot)
Is there images of this section I can’t afford the book
@@onionyxtv7864 you can just download the pdf of the book
@@onionyxtv7864 You can search on anyflip, there are the PHB, the dungeon master manual, XGTE, Mordekainen's tome of foes ecc
@@onionyxtv7864 or just check 5etools, in the druid class there's a list of animals by CR you can turn into
Oh, so that's why EVERYBODY has a nature subclass,
So you can play a druid without having to deal with being a druid
It all makes sense now
Bleh, Most of those are just tree-hugging hippies (them and those blasted pointy-ears). Druids are made to be more of an extension of nature's power/action (hunting down malformed or inadapted animals and burning old rotting trees included) than animal right's activists
Jokes aside tho, you do your character man, good luck
am a bear... am low on hp.... bonus action: wild shape bear. Action: Am a happy bear.
Actually, in Xanathar’s there’s a list in the Druid section that sorts animals you can transform into by environment(ie; desert, forest, ect)and by CR
Does that mean you can only turn into animals based on the environment that's currently around you? Or based on your background/circle?
@@Greencheez-y You can turn into any animal that you've seen before, but the list of environments allows you to maximize the capabilities of your wild shape in any given situation.
This is more for the player's benefit...
@@Greencheez-y It's just a list to help players figure out what animals they might have seen before the start of the campaign, so as a player you can just ignore it if you think it doesn't feel right
YEP I GOT THAT THERE’S A LIST OF ANIMALS IN XANATHARS GUIDE. THAT WASN’T THE POINT BUT THANK YOU 👌
We know its you Rogue!!!!
The point sucks, screw the point!
I know that this is unrelated but I am sad that I can’t buy your merch because I live in Canada, I might donate to your patreon soon though
Yeah I think they should have limited the choices. I mean, a barbarian only has a few animal paths to choose right, like bear or wolf. They should have made like only a few land based, water based and air based creatures that get stronger with levels which you can wild shape, so you don’t have to change every few levels. As an optional rule, let players choose what they want, respecting CR.
i had to find one online, but its SUPER helpful. they organised it by how useful each creature is at what.
All joking and hyperbole about how good the rogue lvl 20 ability is, it is nothing compared to a druid capstone. The druid capstone ability is literally the most INSANELY over powered ability in existence. A lvl 20 circle of the moon druid could, and this is no joke, solo the Tarrasque. Or basically any monster. Or any encounter. They just straight up cannot be beaten in combat.
Unless you cast power word kill on them while they're in animal form. Then they revert back to their normal form and remain dead.
Pyro Druid main here
BOW DOWN TO MY INFINITE POWER MWAHAHAHA
How long do you u have to play to get to level 20? I've only done 2 campaigns so I'm quite new to it but it feels impossible to reach that point.
A beholder
Flimpeen Flarmpoon Yea campaigns rarely even make it to lv 15 at all (highest lv I’ve gotten too with a char is only lv 8 sadly). The best way I could think of if u wanna play a lv 20 char is join a campaign where u start at lv 15 or above (most likely a one shot campaign) and u should be lv 20 by the end.
I’m playing a circle of the land. All I can say is pick circle of the moon.
That's a strange misspelling of shepherd.
Genroy Noisis my DM let me pick another subclass and I picked Shepherd. It is fantastic
Circle of the Land, in my experience, is only useful in Gritty Realism campaigns, when you're taking lots of short rests between long ones, and there could be several weeks, even, between long rests.
In that context, though, the Circle of the Land Druid is the only healing caster that gets spell slots back on a short rest, making them the single most reliable healer in the game. Plus, if memory serves, Druids get the lowest-level revival spell - Reincarnate.
@@genroynoisis6980 im glad someone finally gets it. at least if youre going for a support shepherd is awesome.
I actually like Circle of the Shepherd way more. You can build him as a heavy hitter, a support class or both!
I've just started with a Circle of Spores druid. Ho boy, this one's going to be a trip... and I'm not just saying that because its a shroom druid.
Moonshine from Naddpod ^^
Is your only weakness getting stomped on the head by a guy in red overalls?
Your character sounds like a fun guy!
Ah, circle of spores aka how my druid took over a death cult.
I made one too and I am excited to use it.
I’m so glad I chose Druid and Cleric in my first two campaigns... they’re so simple and straightforward!
Also my Druid has turned into a pyromaniac.
My druid is also a pyromaniac but is good so that has been interesting
as all should be
The defense of Marisha is 10/10 quality content
How can anyone dislike Marisha?
@@AllThingsFascinate A surprisingly large amount of people, many claimed that she stole the spotlight from Sam when she saved everyone at the end of the first season
@@snappedsquire8479 Happily, she seems to be one of the more popular characters in the second campaign as Beau the Monk. The poor treatment she received by some fans was NEVER deserved.
@@MrUmakemelaff Agreed. While there were some things that I did not like about Keyleth, I did not let that blind me from the amazing things that she did for the group, such as the clutch feeblemind she did on Raishan.
@@MrUmakemelaff Never is a strong word. She was clearly the worst player in attitude, rules knowledge and roleplaying ability, at least in the first season. As others have said she seems to have gotten better. I suspect the goldfish incident and offline discussions may have helped.
Yes, yes, as a public figure on the internet she's received more flak than she deserves, but I find it hard pressed to say it was never deserved whatsoever.
Seeing that hydra page brings back memories. We had a party of 7 PCs and we were level 5. Our DM wanted a few of us to die so he we would have to leave the table (it was really crowded and we were getting nothing done each session). So, the DM decided to give a stupidly hard encounter. We started by fighting 7 ghouls and 7 ghast, so yay paralysis. That was terrible, but then there were hydras who were a little further out and two turns into combat they show up. One of them had 7 heads and one of them had 11. ELEVEN. That means eighteen attacks between the both of them per turn. Our entire party was freaking out because we couldn’t run away due to the swamp we were in halving our movement speed, but not the the movements speed of the ghouls or ghasts, and the hydra’s movement speed is pretty high. But frankly, the worst part of the situation was that 2/7 members or our party were really weak. They were new players and they built their characters strangely which made them largely useless in combat. So we were basically fighting two hydras and 14 ghouls and ghasts with 5.5 lvl 5 characters. The ghouls and ghasts were giving us some trouble, but we could probably have beaten them. They had our tank paralyzed and were hitting him with cries every attack, but he wasn’t dead yet. In the end. Our party got saved by our bard with one spell: “plant growth. He trapped all of the enemies in plants while we just shot at many projectiles as possible and we killed every single monster, because plant growth is op. Needless to say, our DM hated our bard for the next few sessions.
By all means, it sounds like your Bard has every reason to hate the DM. Applaud creativeness and quick thinking. Not punish it. Also bravo for making it out alive! Now face a bunch of intellect devourers and you have a prime incorrect CR experience.
Matthew Porter
Yeah your DM is a douche, and you should get a new DM for your game.
“Hey, it’s getting crowded so instead of discussing the issue ooc at the table like an actual adult, I’m just gonna kill off some of the party members in a bullshit fight they can’t win!”
Yeah, that wouldn’t fly with me, nor should it fly with you or anyone else at the table.
@@sanddry738 My first campaign as a DM ended because of an Intellect devourer. My part of 4 lvl 5's died to one intellect devourer.
Ironically, the first character I played was a Druid.
And I never used Wild Shape once.
You monster!
second character i played was a druid and same.
also not trying to one-up you but i never cast a spell either.
RavenclawBoi if you pick the moon circle you can turn into cr lvl 1 creatures at lvl 2
RavenclawBoi or 3 I forgot
...
"I'm gonna play druid"
DM: ".... Okay, we are playing an undead apocalypse campaign!" (Good luck finding an animal to turn in to!)
"NOOOO!!!"
Everybody except Paladins and Clerics grumble
Well, to be fair, druids wouldn't grumble too, as they also pray to gods and get powers from gods too at times.
I mean. Does that effect warlocks much? Eldritch blast will blow a zombie apart pretty easily. And that pact of the sword weapon is pretty sweet in close range since you're always proficient
And barbarians, and fighters, and rogues, and monk, and rangers, and wizards, and sorcerers
@@afropaintguy1758 So basically, only bards would grumble because you can't charm a rotting corpse... Legally anyways.
I'm playing a shepherd druid in Curse of strahd. Never had so much fun
I like how when he was defending Keyleth for not always doing the best thing, he showed a momment where she singehandedly ended an encounter against a green dragon
I'm playing a tiefling druid right now. He's bug themed and has a pet giant scorpion named pins.
Hope the merch comes in fat boy sizes.
Druid is my favorite class. I didnt even realize how powerful the class was until this video 😂 i love this video
Best strat for Druid is summoning a rhino then riding while wielding a flame blade and cast barkskin to become a Druid melee knight
Flame Blade and Barkskin are both Concentration, though a Shillelagh’d weapon would do the trick :)
When you coming from 3.5e edition after so long :D Wow, what a simple class we have here!
Yeah but 3.5 was so beefy compared to 5e
Thats the joke here
As soon as I actually took a look at druid, I stopped getting frustrated with Marisha.
Not listening to your dm and only reading spell names instead of descriptions arent really excused by a druid being complicated.. neither is throwing yourself off a cliff and thinking landing in water will be just fine as long as you're a fish lol
@@alyero6341this is an old comment but I'm going to reply anyways lol
in defense of her playing on air is not easy and you get prone to panic, you have to pick stuff quickly and think on the spot in order to make the right move, which doesn't help when you have a bajillion spells. i think it's fair to be frustrated though, she definitely (along with the rest of the gang) have made plenty of bad decisions haha
Druid "you thought I was the rouge the whole time, but no it's me Dio!"
And come 20th level, I shall rule ZA WARUUUUUDOOOOOO!!!!
lol kars is the true druid not dio
*Loads Tommygun*
Here’s a challenge try and do the mystic class .
hahahahahahaha HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!!
The mystic class is great, and not complicated at all...
*sigh*
Fine.
Challenge Accepted.
XP to Level 3 YEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSS!!!
If you need any help with that you know where to find me
Mountain Giant: Hit me with your best shot.
Druid (Wildshapes into a T-Rex)
Oh, man, this really helps and is also spot on. I am new to D&D, just joined my first party and we are all new. No one played before (not even the DM), but we are all trying our best. I thought druid would be easy to play for the first time, and I ended up having a mild breakdown trying to understand all of the info on it (especially because the reading level of the party is below the crust of the Earth and we all interpret everything differently, leading to misunderstandings and redos in actions).
You saved my life and my brain.
Thank you.
(also sorry if there are errors in spelling or sentence making, English isn't my first language.)
Practically impossible to kill a 20th level druid Circle of the Moon. Rocks fall, the druid becomes a beetle and crawls out. Thrown into a volcano! The druid becomes a fire elemental. Tell me one way anything can genuinely kill a level 20 druid Circle of the Moon.
Yeah, I don't think there is one
meteor swarm
That will knock them out of wild at least, but druids can get a lot of hit points. Then they just wild shape into a mammoth again
Or an earth elemental. Or fire elemental.
Way of the Open hand monk and they fail there saving throw? What would that do to a druid in beast shape. Would they drop to 0 as a beast and then transform or are they just at 0? This isn't a statement more trying to think of a way.
The druid's level 20 ability is pretty OP. Unless you can drop them in one round (either eating through both beast shape and base hp or finishing their beast shape with an ability that insta kills at reaching 0), they are pretty much impossible to bring down.
Also, Druid players are pretty much always going to make a mistake at some point. There is a lot to keep track of and to learn.
thehulkster94 Simple Solution: A Portal that constantly and endlessly spits out Tarrasqes.
@@skulltechstuff2530 you do realize they Are casters and if you've got a 20th level party they would just shut the portal and rain death on the tarrasques. And if that fails the Druid has access to planeshift :/
Felix Rivera You do realise that the DM can easily say that the portal can't be closed?
One power word: Kill
I was about to argue that no, Power word kill would likely not be able to drop a 20th level character after they come out of beasty boy mode, but yeah, that's a little terrifying.
Just kills the druid and the beast form all in one fell swoop...
Really not sure how Wizards thought the level druid 20 druid ability was comparable to any of the other classes...
Looking at you sorcerer and bard.
and warlock
and ranger... and monk
When it comes to Circle of the Shepherd, it is easily my favourite because of the effective PERMANENT SPEAK WITH ANIMALS AT LEVEL 2
While any other druid has to spend 10 min to cast speak with animals at anytime they want, no spell slot cost just 10min Ritual?
I like Circle of the Land more. Not only do you get a one spell more from 3 to 4 you gain permanent access to certain supportive skills like Spike Growth which is good for blocking exits and what nots. Enemies want to flee? Good luck... I have started to worship supporting spells after playing Bard and Druid is probably only choice with lvl1 Area of Effect Crowd Control (AOE CC) spell :D Controlling the enemies is controlling the fight in your favor
most used comment from me "What are the enemies wearing? Does it look like they could fight at range?" If they are melee I Entangle in front of them and if they are ranged behind them. This allows Fighter, Barbarian and Rogue to either stay and wait making enemies waste a turn for free range attacks OR makes it easier for Fighter to run at the enemies while they try to flee and keep their distance. Goblins get hit most as 25ft speed becomes 10ft speed 😂 when you must spend 10ft movement but you only have 5ft Can you move? Don't know :3
him: YoU NeEd TO TuRn In To AnImAL, BuT HArD.
Me: haha Shillelagh
make club go bonk.
Same, I picked my first druid for Shillelagh and a secondary healer...
magic stone gaming
I thought the Druidic gag at 1:00 was going to be Loss
First class I ever played was druid. I can confirm it was pretty complicated and it took me way longer to figure out my character than the other players, but at least now I have a really good understanding of it.
"Cause we have to pay our rent."
lol
Love this kind of shameless advertisement
Honesty is the best policy, after all!
Right? This is the best ad i've ever seen
I made a Mountain Dwarf Circle of the Land Druid. He protects his mountains with the magic they give him.
6:15 I wanna play as the Unit Circle.
DONT TELL ME MATH ISNT NATURE!
the most fun you'll have as a druid is if you convince your dm to let you use half your level rounded down instead of 1/3. then you can turn into a cave bear at level 4 and a giant scorpion at level 6. It also gives you access to the giant ape form at level 14 and ofcourse the T-rex at level 16. whereas if you do the standard COM the highest cr beast you can turn into is a mammoth...and that sucks ass.
What about the brotosaurus
Robo Drago what about the brontosaurus? it's still not a great ape or a T-rex.
True
That’s why you also have the polymorph spell, you don’t get the benefits of wild shape but you can still be a t-Rex.
ninja34744 Hence the lack of benefits from Druid shape.
The other day we met an elf druid which is currently 4000 years...
elf druids are essentially doubley immortal
Still hoping for How To Cleric
Cleric is a hard one to cover because with so many domains they can be played so drastically different.
It happened
On the subject of the level 20 ability:
While being able to constantly re-up temp HP by wildshaping into everything on the planet alphabetically and being able to cast any spell you like, only being restricted by action limits, preparation, and spell slots IS incredibly overpowered and I imagine that trying to DM such a thing is a nightmare and a half, I DO think that it actually fits well thematically.
At 20th level, the Druid is so in tune with nature that they can be any animal they want with but a thought and whatever spell they want to cast is cast as if by the planet itself, only the fact that they're keeping their consciousness separate from nature by only the barest of margins limiting them to their own pool of magic. Mother Earth doesn't need sulfur and bat crap to create fire, Mother Earth just makes it happen.
I still think that thematically - a 20th level druid should also have all the spells from the druid list prepared and not be limited in that regard. He/she should just ask the nature to do anything that nature can do, supply the pool of magic ang voila - the nature takes care of it. But i understand that it would be too OP.
Sun shines, birds fly, and brotha, I'm a force'a'nature
BONK!
Me: What is the main feature exclusive to the Druid?
The Druid: *can turn into animals*
Me (for my 1st game): oh boi, that sounds cool! Lemme play a subclass where i don't! *plays circle of Spores, never turns into an animal. Ever. *
Unless you get to lvl 7 and then can use polymorph. Way better than wild shape for combat at least imo
@@GodessAsh Polymorph to friend is stronger and you can concentrate to the spell while wild shaped, so being moon druid is till useful... tough flying off as a bird lvl8 druid after polymorph is also an option :D
Omg Jacob I've been waiting for this video for too long, the lvl 20 skit was just perfect 👌
I think the animal list part of druid is the most fun. Going around finding animals and also I like making my own stats for all de animals beyond the MM. cause there's a lot of animals out there *never underestimate a sunfish..*
As someone that is playing Druid for my first time in the DnD universe, this video was very informative fun! I've listened to countless videos but this one at least put a smile to my face! I appreciate the "complicated" versus "easy" descriptions- keep it up!
Honestly, the ending scene was tense and hilarious. Loved the arc for hooded, sunglasses guy.
Circle of Spores is the best subclass and I’m sad it wasn’t out when this was made.
One of my favorite things to do is playing a druid ninja
Take the circle of the land and then you get some amazing spells for assassinating people like heat metal produce flame and a lot more
You can use some great strategy's like the heat metal and wild shape into a mouse and run the hell away
Or
The hollow out at egg paint it Black and instead of filling it with shards of glass fill it with seeds
And then throw it at someone and cast plant growth
Or
Pour oil on someone and then try to hide your casting of produce flame under a table or a cloak
Or if all else fails
Just use flame blade and stab them
With people willing to play together you take one Druid casting Entangle after asking is the enemies have any range options to know if you cast it in front slowing them to reach you or behind preventing them to flee so fast 😂 You can after that shape shift to the animal and just wait there 😁
Amazing combination with door blocking and other annoying tactics which DM is not allowed to use 😈 Player's hate when orc shaman uses entangle on fighter while his Orc friends throw rocks at him 😂 a way to lose players. Same as Gobblins taking short bow and always using movement to move behind trees for cover to shoot...
Crop circles
Neil Armstrong
Inception
Mass effect.
XD hahahaha
This is my first video I've seen of yours and it cracked me up right away. I'm playing dnd for the first time and I found this funyy and informative!
This whole video was hilarious, but honestly, I completely burst out laughing at the dice ad in the middle.
Product placement. This is really how you're supposed to do it.
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Me, a new player making my first character: “oh I’ll play Druid! I can do cool nature stuff and turn into animals :D”
Me now: “WHAT IS THIS BULLSHIT, HOW MANY SPELLS DO I HAVE? CAN I JUST PERMANENTLY TURN INTO A FROG, HEY PALADIN YEET ME INTO THE SWAMP”
I just realised, as a lv 20 elf druid, you can live for 8 fucking centuries!!!!!
So an elf can live up to 750 years. If that elf is a Druid then they can live... 7,500 years!? That's way longer then a tree. That's longer than the U.S has been a country.
The regular elf also lives way longer than a tree or the USA.
The oldest tree is 9550 years old and that’s not accounting for some fantasy trees that live for longer
You would need to be born as a level 18 druid for that, you age at 1/10 rate only from the moment of you reaching that level, so you would probably be like at least a 100 years old (elfs mature more slowly than humans), that means you would die of old age aproximately after your 6600th birthday (not 7500th birthday)
At this point I think the ultimate d&d villain is a multiclassed druid rogue that is level 20 and has seen all the animals.
That scene with the Rogue made me picture a D&D version of the Green Goblin from the 2000's Spiderman movie.
Beat you to it
neener neener
I find it weird that this hasn’t been replied to by anyone
CR being inaccurate is true cause I sent a group of rust monsters at my party and it was dangerous for obvious reasons the warforge to die
I actually love the cleric's and the druid's way of preparing spells. You can try out new spells without need to commit a whole level up feature to them, and you can always change the spells to fit the missions you'll be on that day, if you know before hand
4:15
I recommend reading the actual text from the book here :P
You can definitely still do stuff with a spell you're concentrating on while in wild shape. The book gives a concrete example such as Call Lightning.
Personally, I really want to try a high level moon druid and combine wild shape with the elemental Investiture spells. Imagine a cave/polar bear clad in stone/ice armor, a dire wolf flying on a tornado or a giant eagle with flames swirling around its wings like some kind of phoenix. Hell, it can be extra fun to combine it with a different elemental form. A fire elemental with investiture of stone cast would basically look like a magma elemental
This is true.
I just want to see a rabbit casting 9th circle fireball
The investiture spells would be worth concentrating on if only the damage were better or you could use the new attack as a bonus action instead of a standard action.
Lol I choose a druid for my first time playing dnd. It was tough but I regret nothing!
18th druid Drow be like: Aging? What is it? Never heard of !
I wonder though, as druids are said to get power from nature itself or a nature deity, but if you have a druid that has a nature deity grant you powers, how does that work? Do they just form a bond with the deity? If they worship it, they'd be more of a cleric. If they form a pact with it, they are a warlock and if they swear an oath to it, they are a paladin, and if they are blessed/cursed with magic, they'd be a sorcerer and wizards just study the stuff.
One of my players is playing a cleric and the way we’ve organized spells is
1. Most commonly used spells and what they do
2. Less common but prevelant spells, I have what they do as a DM
3. A list of unusual or useless spells from the list that if they need to they can look it up real quick, but since it will almost never writing down what they do it just extra work
Ummmmm so I'm kinda starting out as a Druid. I'm a couple sessions in and I've found the easiest solution is just never wild shape
Xanathar's guide has a list of animals you have seen based on environment you grew up in. Just sayin
Run into blue dragon
You can see the blue dragon
Transform into it
Kill it
that is actually a 9th level spell that a druid can cast. it only works on some adult dragons, though, not all.
@@TheLeprechaun99 at 20th level, there are some ancient dragons that you can turn into
Why am I watching this an hour before our session zero and I'm planning on choosing druid and I have never played dnd before
9:33 was a perfect Luke scream from Empire Strikes Back
Druid's, the hippy rogue. Who knew
Wait so the DRUID MYSTIC ROGUE ARE ALL AGAINST THE DM CONFIRMED lol ur the best I love rewatching this vid
The Rogue didn’t die, he used dodge and had an AC of 450...
...it’s barrage of Magic Missile
Chaotic good teifling Druid with an Alcolyte background who is so incredibly devoted to his god that he will temporarily throw his life away over it. Desert land circle because he has lived in a desert his whole life with his family. He had a GOOD CHILDHOOD AND IS CLOSE WITH HID FAMILY. And level one tier stats at level five. (Which is to say oh my god how has he not died yet? He has an AC of 14 and 21 hp.)
But, hey… I can turn into camels. Not any camels. Me and my DM worked out this thing where, since the god who rules over the desert is a psychopath, there are no normal camels. No… because there’s so many, I have no control over what type of camel I turn into. My DM decides for me.
This was never going to be easy.
That jab at the Ranger class seriously made me LOL, I love your format and you are really funny. Earned yourself a sub from me!
Druids: when hippies fight back!
Hands down most powerful class in the game assuming you took circle of the moon
Bard is still the best Spellcaster class.
Hell yeah dude. Cleric is still my personal favorite though, especially if I’m going Ur-priest
Doesn't mean you and other people shouldn't play other spellcaster classes asshole!!! Not that you're right anyway!
well... I would say a tie between bard and wizard. Wizard has more spell choices but Bards can pick from any class spell list
@@matthewvillanueva4420
I'd still give it to Wizard because of the flexibility.
funny way to spell warlock
You forgot that moon druids at lvl 20 can become elementals as a bonus action an unlimited amount of times...PEASANT!!!
If you cast a spell that requires extra actions and then wild shape, you can perform those extra actions. For example, if you use flaming sphere and then use wild shape, you can still move it as a bonus action
Just got me some rainbow dice with that discount, thanks so much guys!! More to my dice hoard >:D
All in all, I honestly think Wizards did a great job of balancing all of the classes so far.
DRUID BEST CLASS
Jacob saw into the future and predicted the wild fire druid
Thanks to a character creator app I actually found more sub classes for the druid.
The one I use for one of my characters is actually called “circle of twilight”
It gives you the ability called (harvest’s scythe) that can add a little extra damage (1D10 per lvl) and if you kill an enemy with it it actually gives you a Health pool.
I think circle of twilight is UA.
im currently playing a Druid(circle of the land) in the game im currently playing great video i love it
Edit: also it’s obvious that this video is a joke people can be so serious at times