BUILD A BETTER DRUID | 10 Unique Ideas For Your Next Dungeons and Dragons Druid Character
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- Опубликовано: 3 июл 2024
- Normally, Druids are magical through their connection to nature. But what if instead their abilities came through science, reincarnation, blood, or curses?
Make the shape of your Druid more wild by exploring character background and world building concepts for both DM and player! Watch your unique druid and play style come full "circle"!
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0:00 Shape of Your Druid
1:17 The City
2:37 The Biomancer
3:16 The Beast
4:04 The Dragon
5:04 The Dryad
5:48 The Planar
6:52 The Cursed
7:52 The Reincarnate
8:32 The Starborn
9:18 The Consumer
10:00 What's Next?
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A really fun druid concept I have is the Awakened Mimic, where your wildshape comes from the innate shapeshifting ability of mimics and all the magic comes from magic items you've digested
I was thinking changeling. But tomato tomato.
The Cursed Druid is legitimately one of the most inspired concepts I've heard for a Druid. Looking forward to more ideas like all of these!
Glad to have you around!! Got a sorcerer one coming this weekend! 😊
I once played a druid in a one shot that was born from a then defunct royal family. The family was infamous for every few generations or so spawning a natural born druid. These natural borns wielded the magic of nature through sheer emotional outbursts, mainly manifested as heat spells (ice and fire). She in particular was built to be a druid with a focus on the speed stat and jumping ability (our dm let us pick a couple magic items). The thing is, provided magic or an ability doesn't have some kind of extra requirement, it stacks with wildshape. So I took a handful of levels in Barbarian as well as the Mobile feat. Long story short I had an ice druid furiously dominating the battlefield with control spells only to cast Guardian of Nature and then Wildshape into a Dire Wolf when things got serious, only to add in Rage if Guardian of Nature ran out. With the bonuses to Jumping, a massive Speed stat, the abilities and hp provided by the wolf, and a greatclub my dm let me use in wolf form with my mouth, I managed to scare the hell out of the villain of the game. Mainly by opening up his castle hall and jumping from its entrance to behind him only to club him twice for 40 something damage and skip his evil monologue.
"Where did you get your gift, my friend?"
"I don't know, I ate these weird mushrooms."
This video was unlisted, how did you see this?? 😅
I actually made a Druid where they use technology to create animal mechs that they pilot (they are also multiclassed with Artificer)
See this is the stuff I'm talking about!! That's awesome!
@@TheClericCorner thank you 💕
Now that's thinking outside of the box and I love it.
YOU ARE AWESOME! ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
I'm making a tortle named nortle, a druid of the circle of the stars, for curse of strahd. And working in something about the tortles thinking of the sun and moon as vigilant eyes and about what of the stars and what of the unnatural stuff in the curse of strahd. I'm excited and thank you for the great video!!!!
dropping that Mistborn statement. love me some brando sando
For my first character, I'm making a Dragonborn Shaman apprentice (Circle of Land Druid - Mountain) heavily drawing inspiration from the "pop-culture Native Americans", getting forced to move throughout the transitional ritual of adulthood. His Druidic focus, meditation focus and musical instrument is all at once gonna be his shamanistic drum and he's gonna adopt the party as his new tribe, aiding them as the tribe's shaman should.
This is my first time watching your videos, and I love your energy and content! This is exactly how I like to build my characters, outside of the norm. Great job, you have another subscriber!
the cursed and reincarnated druids are amazing, now i can be a therian druid to my hearts content :)
I made but never got the chance to play a druid who was essentially an ecoterrorism Pinocchio. She had been carved from magical wood from the oldest and wisest tree in the forest to be animated by a wizard. She maintained a spark of life through the tree's magic and hated her maker, manifesting dtuid powers and destroying all his other work. He fled, lighting the workshop on fire on his way out, but she survived and will stop at nothing to a.) avenge the tree and the forest by killing or otherwise punishing the wizard (maybe binding him into his staff and planting it as a new central tree, to feed off his life force to energize the forest?), and b.) find or develop a shampoo that can protect her hair from bird droppings. she still reads "tree" to birds, so its an occupational hazard.
I have done something like your cursed druid. He was attacked by a wolf that was to smart in it s actions. His druidic magic is different then most by finding fruit that matures rapidly for good berry and guidance to just focus on what he is doing. But the different part is reskinning Primal savagery into a claw attack and using wild shape to be an Ape to be his werewolf form even having a thumb to manipulate some thing most animals can not
With 5e not having tons of lycanthrope rules, this is perfect!
These are some really great concepts!
Biomancer and Starborn are right out of MTG! Love those flavors specifically. I also really like the flavor of the Cursed and the Reincarnate. These are great ideas. Excited to see what you come up with for Warlocks.
I LOVE biomancers. Mixes well with my other passion of sci fi. Which universe of MTG is that one?
@@TheClericCorner Ravnica! Specifically, the Simic
@@ClassesandConstructs oh duh, I knew that 😂
Dang! So many cool ideas - thanks! Those we're really inspirational - especially the cursed druid... I might play around with that
Thanks! Do it!!
Love the Werewolf-Druid idea! I've had a druid in our first campaign who was basically the Dryad druid, he was a satyr whose animals I flavored as sentient plants that he controlled and fought for him!
Ok now that's COOL!! Like the beasts they summoned were a tangle of plant matter? I may steal that 😂
@@TheClericCorner Yes, exactly!
Fun ideas! Thank you!
Wow. I was excited to watch the video but wasn’t expecting so many unique ideas. Great video.
Thank you!! 😊
I'd love to know if you had one that stood out to you most!
@@TheClericCorner the dragon inspired Druid. I love reflavouring classes and I just bought Fizban’s. 😆
@@TheDMNMOR perfect timing! 😂
Amazing creativity and adaptation, I’ll be watching your career with great interest
Thank you!! You and me both! 😂
I once played with a character that was the fungus druid one, but with the flavour of INSECTS! All spells were insects and bugs, crawling and biting the enemies!
She was Belzebub after they had amnesia and was sent to the Physical Realm.
I loved my tiefling druid, all wacky and covered in bugs
I created a character that was hexed into a frog by a grand wizard. Escaped in the forest where stumbled into the faye world. He gets initiated into the circle of dreams and gains a bit of his humanoid form, while retaining the appearance of a frog. 5 foot frog thats needs to take regular baths to avoid drying up and dying.
He also has, as a character trait, the tendency to fall asleep in weird places and have premonitory dreams!
I dont know if you played other editions but in the Dragonlance setting the Bronze Dragons could shape change but only into animals and only Gold and Silver could take humanoid form naturally other dragons had to use spells to. I debated on making a circle of the shepherd for a character.
Yes a perfect day for druid flavors! I'm starting a homebrew campaign tomorrow with a lot of interplanar mingling so my wildfire druid takes his power from the plane of fire. my spirit is a fire elemental that lives in the lantern I carry and my wild shapes are fire elemental themed.
I'm taking that Reincarnate for a future druid. Thanks!
Oooh, ok the visual of the lantern is so cool! I'm happy other people are thinking so out of the box! Glad my video helped some new concepts!
The cursed one also reminds me of princess mononoke, well rather the dude from it, suffering from the curse, but still ^^
I really liked the reencarnate, but maybe wiith a twist, you shapeshift into your pets. So you are always looking to make friends with different beasts because if you create an emotional conection with them then you can shapeshift into that form.
I’m going to be playing a Wildfire Druid with a Jack-O-Lantern head and a viney body. His flames are going to come from the ever burning flames in his head, and the plant themed abilities match him as well. I’m also reflavoring Shillelagh as him creating shadow scythe blades on his Quarter Staff.
I was considering reflavoring Scourge Aasimar to have flames billowing from his head, scorching enemies, but the DM ultimately allowed me to use a HB plant race that would make the whole vine body thing have more of a mechanical effect (without going for Plasmoid). Still reflavoring his fire aura from the Phoenix Soul Sorcerer ability from the multiclassing the same way though.
Wild Shape is also be reflavored as him condensing his vines into a different body shape, and the healing from spells is him bolstering his friends with necromancy.
Yesss I decided to make a druid that is a shadow summoner. Not gonna lie I took inspiration from an anime by having him use shadow puppets to bring creatures of the shadowfell into being. I just made them perversions of what the actual creature should be. Its been a lot of fun so far having creepy monsters being summoned constantly, especially with the find familiar spell now being available with all druids.
This is before watching the full video. But at the moment I'm playing a druid who is more akin to a bender from avatar the last air bender. Since druid get a ton of elemental spells, I've flavored it as my guy is simply honing his abilities. His motions to cast the spells being that of earth benders, but as he gains more elements, he will simply learn new bending abilities as he grows. The wildshape, however... I have yet to find a way to flavor that. Lol
Also, he's a land druid!
Edit: after watching the vid. Really great content. Love the concepts!
For playing as a dryad I'd suggest reflavoring a warforged! :)
Tashas cauldron introduced an optional rule for druids; instead of transforming yourself, wildshape can be used to cast the spell find familiar. I think that would work pretty well for an avatar-style character
Quite creative flavors! I always wanted to play scholary Druid oppose to traditional ones.
Ooh ya! Like a studious druid that reads book about horticulture or agriculture? :)
@@TheClericCorner More of a scholar who approaches Druidic Magic as science or mathmatics.
His excuse for avoiding metal armor would be "His normal Druid buddies cast Heating Metal on him as "tradition"".
@@kwaksea oh I like that! The science of nature. You might like the Strixhaven lore coming out next week!
I have a Fire Genasi Wildfire Druid concept I want to use that's like the dryad in that he's just a wildfire spirit incarnated in humanoid form to clear away the old to make way for new growth. Which can be taken metaphorically and lead to a revolutionary attitude with general disdain for old money type nobility and entrenched bureaucracy. Could even end up being a champion of technological innovation! 😅 OK, at this point I'm just writing up his personality, but it's just an evocative idea.
I also really want to play a Spores Druid totally reflavored as a spirit medium with all their magic just being favors from their friends on the other side. Halo of Spores is instead a swirling cloud of spirits. The spell Entangle being spectral or even skeletal hands reaching up from the ground. Van Richten's Guide to Raventloft has some nice options for this for extra mechanical oomph.
Relating bees to a city Druid is brilliant. Do you come up with your ideas yourself? Your videos are sharp.
Thank you! The ideas are my own, but I'm sure there are others who've had similar ideas. I do some research before hand and watch class videos to brainstorm :) I actually have your rogue video on my watch list to prep for a rogue video!
@@TheClericCorner keep it up! I always appreciate ideas that are fresh.
@@FlutesLoot ok, just because you said so 😉
Another good video
I liked the idea of the starborn and Reincarnate druids, especially the Reincarnate as reincarnation is how the afterlife works in my world setting.
Really? I have yet to hear anyone do that! Do you revive your players that way?
@@TheClericCorner
Yes and No.
Resurrection magic is not a simple or universal thing within my world and there is more to the cost then that listed in the spell which I have increased significantly more then standard but also a physical cost to the priest/ess performing the ritual and the soul being resurrected.
Reincarnation is used a lot more though it isn't a random body but creates a new body of the same race that the PC was before but with a 50/50 on the physical gender.
Raise dead is only available to six different priesthoods (of the almost 50 gods and goddess I have in my world) with a much higher cost and lower time limit.
Resurrection and True Resurrection though are only available to priest/ess of my Death Goddess as only she can grant access to the souls in her Halls if they haven't already reincarnated or being judged by her to ascend or to be obliviated.
Reincarnation is more important and more accepted then resurrection especially within some communities with a stigma on those that are raised instead of reincarnated as resurrection is seen as breaking the natural order of the cosmos.
I hope that wasn't too long winded for you
Cheers
@@scottburns4458 I like that alot. Sounds like you have a really flushed out death system that matches your lore! I definitely think it's weird that every cleric deals with resurrection and turning undead no matter the domain. I'd like some flexibility there. I bet your players love the depth!
@@TheClericCorner
Thank you
It started in 2e AD&D as not all priests would have access to the same spheres (schools of cleric magic) so you could really tailor the spell selection to the God/ess of your world. And honestly I have carried in into each edition since 3/3.5 and now 5e (yes I skipped 4e and stayed with 3.5 and Pathfinder until 5e) but only with some spells like not all.
My players like it because there is meaning even those that have only played 5e that have joined my table in recent years.
My players pick a God/ess first then look at their domain available as it should be
The RP aspects of seeking to bring back a companion can be truly amazing.
Keep up the good work with the channel as your content is refreshing
@@scottburns4458 yeah I think I actually find myself doing the same anyways, only picking spells according to my domain and sticking with them. So it's good you have the table expectation. And will do for sure! 😁
So in theory with the dryad Druid could they be half- eladrin elf and not know that they have that dryad lineage. I’ve built this eladrin elf Druid already and I think that would be a cool twist. I wanted too make their mother missing but I feel like if she were a dryad and maybe had a curse put on her to remain as a tree would be a good reason for her missing. And the father know what happened and just not want to talk about. Maybe she being the centerpiece of the fathers garden(I have them as nobles). Idk need opinions though
Let me know which druids stand out most to your playstyle!
I really like the city shaman idea as a representative to and for nature and civilization. Just making sure neither side forgets to consider the other's point of view.
@@andrewtyrell4795 yeah! A great mediator for sure!
@@TheClericCorner Mediator! I spent ten minutes trying to think of the word.
I'm surprised there isn't a Druid Circle that's more Plant focused, one that focuses more of flora instead of fauna. A Circle of the Green Druid would change their Wild Shape from taking on a Beast form but the form of a plant-like monsters like Shambling Mounds or Treants.
Also when you brought up the Consumer my mind went to Sun Eater from MHA.
There absolutely should be!!
Druid’s can turn into plants at level 12 in 3.5
I re-flavoured Wildfire Druid for my goblin who accidentally got chosen by the spirit during a ceremony. Having fun being a healer and firey death dealer.
Hexblood would make for an accursed druid. Especially since they can potentially become a hag.
My character I’m going to run soon is a Druid that’s an alchemist that used potions and elixirs
Simic Hybrid is Ravnica, not Eberron.
I know it was an honest mistake. I’d like to see some more Eberron content on YT.
Thanks for the video, I liked it overall
I had a idea with a Warforged, who saw several colossus fight while he was stationed to guard a ridge and not move unless the enemy is spotted.
These colossui wasn't his enemy so he watched them first land in a flying ship, and immediately dig up strange glowing crystals.
Just as they found these crystals a scream of something came from the sky, strange giant birds shot fire and energy at the colossui. Then the colossui changed them selves into what the Warforged could describe as armored carts and animals, Metal Animals!
Then he appeared from within the ship, a inspiring Red and Blue Colossus. It's words Boomed across the valley, his weapons spit energy so hard at the birds that the Warforged could feel it in it's chest at every shot.
The Red/Blue one rallied the others and even carried a smaller yellow back into the ship.
The Warforged could only watch as one of the retreating birds breathed a beam at the cluster of crystals.
The Warforged reawakened much later, and after excavation it's self from the ground, he found his post/valley/everything just gone. A blackened crater was left and with no post the Warforged went for reassignment. But the war was over, been over for 200 years.
With no war, no orders, the Warforged looked back in the crater for anything. It found chunks of metal, a colossal finger, a few crystal shards, and a sheet of metal plating with a face symbol that the Red/Blue one had on.
'Colossui that could change into animals, could I do that?', the Warforged pondered as it carved the Autobot Symbol onto it's right shoulder.
Here's a challenge for you: What about a druid who join the Orzhov Syndicate in Ravnica? Easy answer would be the "City", but i have no idea how could i build on that. Maybe a Sheperd Druid modded to convoke phantoms instead of fey spirits? Greeting from Spain!
My druid (stars) is an alien, when she dies an aberrant sorc hatches out of her
-> was used as an engine battery to absorb starlight, but when the ship crashed she woke up (reborn lineage) when she dies (playing a little reckless, not suicidal tho) shell crack open my next character will be a changeling aberrant sorcerer, to continue the shapeshifter theme, but making her a destroyer instead of a seed of life. She started out naive, willing to learn and live in symbiosis with the material plane, feeding the earth with her magic. I have an arc lined up for her to either regain her humanity or set her up to become something similar to an elder evil.
Druids are the best witches. They heal with herbs, shapeshift, command the elements and conjure powerful spirits, and many folkloric witches do the same. Also one older name for the Pentagram shape was the Druid's Foot
I don’t know why I decided to actually listen to you but I tallied the nature count and it came out to 33 (34 if you include the videos description)
My first Druid was basically a stoner. Not even subtle about it, that was 75% of his personality.
Some ideas.
The Changling: Pick custom Lineage. You are a moldable creature. Perhaps you're made of, clay, hair, mud, rubber, sand, water etc. All of your spells are just manipulating the material your body is made of. So perhaps you're a sand daemon who sends out sand minions to their beck and call (Shepard Druid) . Perhaps you're a being of pure fire who can send out bursts of flames (Wild Fire Druid). Maybe you are a clay monster who can mimic animals (Moon Druid). Custom Lineage, and Changling are good picks here.
The Florist: Some people actually find that singing to plants helps them grow. You have taken this to the extreme, composing all kinds of music to serenade flowers. This is basically a Nature Bard.
The Machine: You are a machine designed to cultivate the land and grow crops. However you were repurposed into a conservationist. You don't cast spells. You are a highly advanced piece of technology that can protect nature. All spells a flavoured as hardware and software functions.
The Renegade: You are a persuasive individual who learnt how to persuade Fey spirits into casting spells. You use this to assist in your own goals. Only trouble is, the Fey Spirits expect you to do tasks for them. Much like a Warlock.
The Summoner: You don't summon plants and animals. No. You summon humanoids to perform various effects. Maybe shape change is summoning a humanoid to take the heat for you whilst you run away. Perhaps Conjure Woodland Beings is actually you summoning humanoids to fight for you. Maybe healing spells are you calling a medic. Trapping people with plant growth? Your militia throw a net of barbed wire onto the battlefield.
The Temple: This is the classic Druid. In earlier editions of D&D the Druid was actually a priest who had divine magic. This flavouring basically makes you a Cleric of Nature.
Your videos are so inspirational. Had a brain wave as i lay in bed this morning, months after this video and the artificer one but now I'm going to build a moon druid but flavoured like an alchemist. Guantlets that directly inject chemicals to create transformations and spells. Chemicals growing vines out from you to whip or entangle. Love it. Keep it up. Love to see you branch out into homebrew rules and races.
I’m going to play circle of stars soon, i want to here more of your ideas surrounding a circle of stars druid
Ooh! I love that subclass. I want to do videos specific to certain subclasses. Trying one out this weekend and if it goes well, I'll keep this one in mind!
@@TheClericCorner Please please do, I promise to like and share
@@nicholasarosemena3829 haha deal! 🤗
One thing like to do is take out key descriptive words and replace them. Like star form. What if stars wasn’t your thing but stories, or planets or souls. What if your dragon star from was story form of the Spartan. Have fun with it
Some of these are more warlock or sorcerer concepts, like the hag. Druids gain their power from understanding nature not in a fully scholarly way, but rather in a deep, intuitive almost innate way, like how we just understand that the sky is blue or grass is green. A Druid might understand a given animal’s needs. Though it’s different than Charisma like a sorcerer or warlock does it. (Bards still need to practice and learn their songs, as they are just that: songs). It’s through understanding and respect for nature that they in turn wield it. If they connect more with the nature in cities, that’s still nature. If they connect more with a dragon’s ability to affect it and be a destructive force of it, that’s also fine, but they don’t get it through clandestine deals. They are taught it. A hag could in theory be your mentor, however, and teach you a twisted, corrupted view and understanding of nature and you can be a Druid through that, wielding curses, hexes, spores, decay, and other dark forms of nature.
Ah but then if your a sorcerer or Warlock you don't get wild shape! I respect that everyone has their own way of playing and lore. In my opinion, classes are just mechanics that can be applied in any capacity. Besides, if we want to talk about real druid lore in Celtic origins, all of them should be clerics.
Let's not hinder others creativity on what we think the lore should be :)
Ironic that you're doing warlocks next when a lot of these felt like warlocks....
I also really like the idea of someone being cursed into being a Druid. It would also explain why you are low level, but an adult lol. That is always kind of a meta issue for me. Example I’m a 80 yr old Druid with level 2 stats lol.
Yeah I think druids should have a dragon focused class too… but what about a dragon that becomes a druid? Becomes part plant as it masters the ways of a druid, it’s hoard the nature it protects.
If a player tried to bring astrology to my DnD table.... like even if I believed in it theres no gemini constellation in Eberron, Sarah
Red dragon inspired wildfire druids for the win!
Look at that, still managed to talk about dragons after all 😂
@@TheClericCorner I always love a good dragon dnd video lol
Nurgle
I do like a druid that works to balance nature and civilization. I mean like you said there are animals that build communities and alter their surroundings for that purpose. Look at ants, termites, or bees. Another big thing I wish would be changed as an actual canon rule, get rid of the stupid no metal rule. That makes no sense when you allow earth Druids and earth shapes. Like how would druids, or WHY would they completely avoid it. They could manipulate ore or molten metal deposits just like they alter wood, and nature for armor and weapons. Also how is it better to wear a dead animal vs a naturally alter ore into a knife?
34 times you said "Nature", can i get a pin for this?
Or a druid that's really just a kid wearing a leshy as a symbiote suit
heres the story to my current druid
he was a simple stone mason hill dwarf
wanted a simple life
make statues, make / give components like jade, agate, onyx etc to wizards and other magic folk
just wanted to take over the family buisness and do his family name proud
one day a woman comes in with a commission for a special stone to be located, then carved with specific patterns
my characters father agrees and send him off to locate this stone
well my character finds it
a strange glowing blue orb the size of a grapefruit buried beneath the snow and trees of a deep forest, right where the woman estimated it to be
But as soon as my guy touches it BOOM
the universe seems to reveal itself in his head
he knows the planets, the cosmos, the stars and their secrets
freaked out by this he tries to rush home via airship but get shot down by pirates and orb is gone
him and the other survivors of thr attack (the party) now have to get their stuff back, then for my dwarf has to learn to understand the magic he has
and get answers from the mysterious woman
was he set on this path on purpose?
was he a fluke? never meant to obtain this gift?
or is it a curse or an unknown pact with a greater power?
he doesn't know
but he's going to find out
BTW this proccess took him from a CR 0 Commoner to a Lvl 3 circle of stars druid in the span of 1 second due to touching that orb
Dinosaur druid yes
Dinomancer for life
100% 🦕🦖
@@TheClericCornergot any suggestions for a dinomancer pathfinder 2e and dnd 5e build?
How often did you say "nature" - based on the chapters of the video.
Nr. 1 Shape of Your Druid: 4 times
Nr. 2 The City: 11 times
Nr. 3 The Biomancer: 2 times
Nr. 4 The Beast: 0 times
Nr. 5 The Dragon: 0 times
Nr. 6 The Dryad: 4 times
Nr. 7 The Planar: 0 times
Nr 8 The Cursed: 3 times
Nr. 9 The Reincarnate: 0 times
Nr. 10 The Starborn: 2 times
Nr. 11 The Consumer: 4 times
Nr. 12 What's Next?: 0 times
Overall: 30 times
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Oooh, that's what I'm talking about!! 🤗
:D
blink twice if you need help
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