We'd love to hear about your favourite characters from novels, movies, television, and mythology who you think would be great inspiration for a Druid character!

@THELUBINTHEMORNING

6 жыл бұрын

Branden Stark, as he wrestles with the version of himself that he becomes when warging.

@arctycfox1924

6 жыл бұрын

I have always loved the Dresden Files book series by Jim Butcher. There is a character named Injun Joe who has amazing skill with magic and can shapeshift, total circle of the land Druid in my opinion

@thomashearne4670

6 жыл бұрын

Obligatory Malfurion Stormrage from the Warcraft universe

@markdavies3700

6 жыл бұрын

Hern the Hunter from Robin of Sherwood is an excellent piece of inspiration for a Druid character.

@zeedevil4409

6 жыл бұрын

Ang is a great example

One of my favorite druids was a game starting character from a while back. My friend and I were getting ready to start a long campaign and decided to try and create a fun duo to add to the party. He created a dwarven fighter that was specialized and obsessed with mechination and steel work. So I created a half elf druid to be the other half. We took some liberties with class description, especially with the druid. Basically, his character and mine were best friends. His dwarf was fascinated by the concept of evolution and how nature would change to solve it's own problems. My druid was enthralled by cities and the creations of intelligent races. We justified this by saying that his dwarf recognized that he could not mold and craft without the forces and complexities of nature, whether he we using fire to forge or wind to sail, etc. My druid viewed cities and machines as just another by product of nature. How is that tower, built by a human, any different that a nest built by a bird? It was a lot of fun from a role playing perspective and also at later levels had quite a bit of functionality.

@davlamin0459

5 жыл бұрын

My mind is blown. Wow. Never thought of a druid with that point of view before, or even a fighter, that way before. It makes sense.

@Bogrin

4 жыл бұрын

Very cool concept!

@DoctorFireFarts

4 жыл бұрын

This is how I RP my war forged druid. My DM brought up how contradictory it is to be a druid that is literally made out of metal, and I just pointed out that Metal is still a product of nature even if it is a product of humans. In a sense, the War Forged are one of Nature's most complex and interesting creations.

@longdangley

4 жыл бұрын

I like it if it was strictly city druid like rats and etc but to regular nature their clueless. Like understanding sewer life but not river life. They are similar but not the same. So it should be ruled as similar not same

@DoctorFireFarts

4 жыл бұрын

@@longdangley Well, full disclosure, I based the character very loosely off of the MTG card "Golos, Tireless Pilgrim" and have made him to be essentially that, a pilgrim that never needs to stop for food or water, is on alert when resting, and can cross bodies of water easily since he doesn't need to breath. His aptitude with nature comes from centuries of traveling the land after abandoning his post when he gained sentience, and over the years has learned to accept the origin of his creation and focus on attuning himself with the land. It's still a work in progress as I've only played him in a one-shot, so I'll flesh out the story a bit more when he gets dropped into a full campaign. I like that take on it, though. Would make for a very interesting city dweller druid.

Was expecting Beast Boy to make the list of pop culture reference for the Druid since he would be close to a Circle of the Moon Druid

@Karagianis

5 жыл бұрын

I was surprised not to see Getafix the druid from the Asterix and Obelix stories.

@lolbots686

3 жыл бұрын

i was expecting the guys to at least refrence cadeucous who is like the best druid ever

@quietshift

3 жыл бұрын

@@lolbots686 If you are referring to Caduceus Clay from CR, he was a Nature Cleric, not a Druid. He makes a good nature themed vibe but I would not say Druid.

When challenged with making a druid villain, I made a circle of druids that grow poppies in a "sacred" forest and used the woodland creatures to work the land and distribute the product. Mary Hadalamb, the Kingpin, talked and acted like a Disney princess but talked like scar face in private. Made for really fun role playing.

@ConstantChaos1

4 жыл бұрын

You could also just have a neutral druid with a town that isnt eco-friendly

@atomicbuttocks

Жыл бұрын

ha, i see what you did there with mary

@destructionindustries1987

2 ай бұрын

I love this idea

Did a play as a stealth druid. Since giant crabs have +4 to stealth, you can wild shape a giant crab for creative stealth checks.

@AshenDust_

5 жыл бұрын

Jacob Fletcher why not a panther, they have +6

@hackdeen8854

5 жыл бұрын

Are you worried the DM will force you to walk sideways, like some scuttling rook?

@cookie0955

5 жыл бұрын

2 lvl moon circle druid can be a giant spider and it have +7 to stealth.

@cookie0955

5 жыл бұрын

And you dont need to hide if you are a tiny fly or as a rat in a dungeon or sewer. No body cares them in their biom.

@brifox

5 жыл бұрын

They also don't have any fantastic pluses to stealth, but there is 0.0001% chance that the enemies will pay any attention to the spider climbing across corner of the the dungeon ceiling.

Warforged druids are just transformers: beastwars.

@simsamsammie

3 жыл бұрын

There's a druid subclass in Dark Matter where your wildshape is a construct. So a warforged circle of configuration druid is straight up a transformer

@N0LoveNoPain

2 жыл бұрын

I play a druid warforged and all my wild shapes are metalic beasts which is pretty cool when you do a surprise round with a metallic wolf.

@nattymo7835

Жыл бұрын

🙄

Too bad Rage breaks concentration, or you could be a Bear Totem Barbarian Bear with conjured Bears.

@awillaway015

6 жыл бұрын

Planar binding when you get that high

@energyscholar

6 жыл бұрын

A Barbarian/Druid with War Caster can do this. At 5th level, when this first becomes possible, you make your Concentration Save 96%+ of the time.

@tefranger

5 жыл бұрын

Bruce Stephenson cant concentrate on spells while raging. Thats what hes getting at.

@agsilverradio2225

5 жыл бұрын

That's ausome! :D You know what even worked even better though? A druid and an artificer, with the same sort of relationship. ;)

@Quandry1

5 жыл бұрын

Rage itself states concentration can't be maintained. Wolf would be better because your going to want to level mostly druid and wolf totem is advantage for nearby allies attacks which makes your summons better by hitting more. However caveat to this kind of build, do it for flavor and not power. The two classes are stronger single class. They have the strongest level 20 capstone abilities there are. The Druid also gives up the strong abilities of casting while shape changed (with a couple restrictions) and Moon Druids give up attaining CR6 forms

"What is your druid's connection to nature?" Drugs. Lots of psychedelic drugs.

@CousinJesse1

4 жыл бұрын

DMT.

@dontbanmerage416

4 жыл бұрын

i sell longbottom leaf XD

@SnoochyB

4 жыл бұрын

Circle of spores!

@mattk6719

4 жыл бұрын

@@SnoochyB "Circle of Spores" Exactly.

@mattk6719

4 жыл бұрын

@Elliott Marks We actually did that--put a whole alchemy system together. It was a homebrewed background feature called "unlicensed pharmacist"

Imagine a druid/necromancer combo a Necrobotanist if you will, uses Vines to strengthen the joints of skeletons, use parasitic plants to reanimate corpses, make a dying corpses bacteria grow exponentially until corpse explosion spreading poison everywhere. Could even do a golem type creature of dead bodies off a battlefield held together by semi sentient plant life a flesh/nature golem

@jamesperkins5468

5 жыл бұрын

You should check out the circle of spore druid in Ravnica. They do a lot of that.

@upsidedownpyramid7617

5 жыл бұрын

Am I hearing a multiclass for Druid Circle of Spores subclass and Wizard School of necromancy, that sound amazing

@brennangray8712

5 жыл бұрын

@@jamesperkins5468 yes why did they not mention that

@lutinblanc

5 жыл бұрын

@@brennangray8712 it wasn't out when this video came out

@theretropanda5612

4 жыл бұрын

There's one of the Faction villians from ESO is basically a NecroDruid. It's really interesting and when you meet him later on after his defeat (he's trapped in Molag Bal's realm) he's the only one of the villians who shows remorse for his actions and actually tries to better himself.

We were facing a balor in the Underdark, way under level. We were supposed to be running from it, but our Druid decided he wasn't going to run, so he cast Erupting Earth on the ceiling causing the cave to collapse on the balor, then cast entangle on the rocks. So, yeah. Our level 8 Druid solo'd a balor. Like a freaking boss. Another fun thing to do with Polymorph and wildshape is to turn into a giant eagle, grab an enemy, fly upabove the rest of the enemies, dropping wildshape, polymorphing the enemy into a whale, and wildshaping back. There are few things more satisfying that whale-bombing your foes.

@zackjohnson9928

6 жыл бұрын

Shirotora Godsbane or even better polymorph into a giant eagle climbing to 120 ft and drop it and turn into an Earth elemental and drop on your enemy... Leaveing a giant creator

@jordanwolfe607

4 жыл бұрын

He Gandalf'd that shit

@tiffanymorgan1059

3 жыл бұрын

Such a great idea I’m stealing now...

@ShirotoraGodsbane

3 жыл бұрын

@@tiffanymorgan1059 By all means. Let me know how it works out for you.

@ironocy496

3 жыл бұрын

I mean that's pretty cool but shouldn't it have only done like 3d12 damage?

You've been summoned by the great arch-druid of the Faerie Forest. "Greetings children, I am Bok, Champion of the Wild, I shall assign you 3 challenges. And for your first challenge you must..." Turns into a Dire Wolf and goes belly up "... rub the belly".

@himboghost629

4 жыл бұрын

*My bard, Brock, gives the requested belly rubs* "um... Now what"

@galaxygold5939

3 жыл бұрын

He turned into a Dire Wolf before saying thqt last part though so all they would hear is growl bark bark

Have recently returned to d&d...last played in 1994...and these vids have been a crash course in 5e. Thank you!

@ConstantChaos1

4 жыл бұрын

What edition did you start in ?

My girlfriend played a druid for a one-on-one session we had and she played her as a nature wizard, which is really cool. She chose the cloistered scholar Background and literally played like a bookworm who befriended animals everywhere because she was kinda shy and favored animals over people.

Ace ventura is a modern day druid

The Firbolg from Volvo’s is hands down the best race choice. +2 to wisdom and the inate ability to communicate with beasts and plants.

@TerrariaGolem

5 жыл бұрын

Lizard Folk are runner ups. For more agressive Druids whom are forces of the circle of life.

@trollzynisaacjohan1793

4 жыл бұрын

I feel from a RP perspective, wood elves are the best.

@lakkakka

4 жыл бұрын

Trollzyn/Trazyn (Isaac) that is lotr influencing you

@justanotherenthusiast1550

4 жыл бұрын

I didn’t know firbolgs drove cars...

@justanotherenthusiast1550

4 жыл бұрын

Trollzyn/Trazyn (Isaac) With the inate ability to communicate with animals, that opens up a lot of rp that normally wouldn’t happen without a spell

Steve Irwin is definitely a druid with a few levels in ranger

@thothheartmaat2833

3 жыл бұрын

sticks thumb up owlbears bum.. its super effective...

@SpiritStoneWarrior94-yx3gs

3 жыл бұрын

@@thothheartmaat2833 crikey! This is a big one mate 😂👌

@angelalewis3645

Жыл бұрын

🙌🏻

My druid, Torgga Craghelm (hill dwarf) was raised to love smithing and mining, in the tradition of her clan. However, she always felt more connected to the beasts and plants of the deep caves and foothills. When she came of age, her father surprised her by arranging for her to join a local druid circle, she left her home for a life of service to nature. A year later she returned to find her village destroyed. She tracked the group of raiders and eventually found them, a savage band of goblins and kobolds led by a creature she did not recognize but which wore her ancestral shield (the one that her many-times-great grandfather had forged when they settled in the valley and which had hung above her family's hearth since she was a child) as a breastplate. Her fists clenched in rage as tears stung her eyes. He vision was drowned in red and black. The next thing she knew she was on her back, staring up at a cloudy sky just starting to rain. Her shoulder hurt, she reached up and felt it, when she looked at it it was slick with blood, and was not a hand but a large bear's paw. Before her very eyes it shrank, the hair receding into her skin, the gore-stained claws becoming fingernails. The pain in her shoulder ceased. She stood shakily, looking around. The camp was in ruins. Tents and shelters lay in heaps of rubble. Bodies, parts of bodies and unrecognizable piles of gore littered the site. All was carnage and desolation. She vomited, and saw several goblinoid fingers in the sick. She retched again and again until nothing was left. She searched the scene for the remains of the thing wearing her family's shield. It was not there, it had escaped. With nowhere else to go she returned to her circle. Her mentor sensed her recent rage and admonished her that emotion must never drive her actions, balance was what kept them from descending into the mindless, savage outbursts of the barbarian. He sent her to meditate while he conferred with the circle to decide what to do with her. She decided not to wait for their verdict. Taking what she could carry she abandoned the only family left to her, she went out into the world swearing vengeance upon that creature which had taken everything from her. So that's her backstory. She dislikes goblins and kobolds, but was forced to save a town of goblins in the first mission of the campaign (far in the future, more civilized but still clearly goblins) because she found common ground with their desire to save their town and families. She does not adopt animal forms unless under severe stress or as a reaction of sustaining heavy trauma, she took to heart her mentor's warning about succumbing to her emotions. In a recent prize-fight against a barbarian she used strategy and pushed him out of the ring with repeated thunderwaves instead of using wildshape to easily best him in combat. The only time she has wildshaped was when she had been beaten unconscious and healed. Afterwards she was very upset and had to be restrained from beating a prisoner to death so that the party could get information. For my roleplay the DM gave me auto-success on intimidation checks during the interrogation. Angry dwarf lady wins!

In the original, pre-Christianity version of the Arthurian lore, Merlin WAS a Druid.

@Sirfinchyyy

4 жыл бұрын

I have a series of novels based on the Pagan Merlin.

@jotougas2211

4 жыл бұрын

pascal greer what’s the series called?

@Babbling_Wizard

4 жыл бұрын

It's TRUE, but applause for your research

@zoesequeira5388

4 жыл бұрын

@@Sirfinchyyy What is the name of this series? i want to read it

@lunarcat4278

3 жыл бұрын

Hell even after the Christian synchrotism Morgan le Fay was still very much a typical Druid. Which while was a step down from her initial status as a fae (her name literally meaning Morgan the Fairy) and then even further back just actually being the Morrigan, she still has her initial druidic elements to this day

One of my favorite characters I've ever played is an ecoterrorist swamp druid who got her equipment off a corpse in a bog ("Bog armor is free!"), has mold growing in her hair and on her clothes, polymorphs annoying enemies into ducks, and recently became an envoy of Cthulu. I describe her as an elfin personification of the word "moist" and she is amazingly fun to roleplay.

A couple of important points to mention about Circle of Dreams - specifically the Balm of the Summer Court power: First, it's useable at a range of 120 feet, and only requires a bonus action. This makes it something like a Cure Wounds spell (albeit a little less potent), but doesn't require touch - giving it a huge tactical advantage. This is especially true when an ally falls; you can typically get to them for healing before they even get to their first death save. Secondly, because it is a class feature and not a spell, you can use it while Wild Shaped. This means you can take the opposite tactic: take on wild form and fight alongside your melee combatants, utilizing your Balm of the Summer Court healing dice at the start of the fight. Then, once your beast form's hit points start to dwindle, you fall back and take on a more passive roll as a healer with traditional spells like Cure Wounds, Healing Word, etc. Either way, I consider Dream Druids among the best healers in the game. Their often whimsical nature also makes them a bright and fun addition to a party when it comes to roleplaying.

"Summon an army of rabbits. Turn them into T-Rexes." - Karen, the Supervillain's Secretary

@robertsilvermyst7325

3 жыл бұрын

Would you need to turn them into anything? Have you seen what rabbits can do in Monty Python films and Re: Zero? They are more dangerous than the deadliest dragon.

Thanks Dude’s! This is by FAR the best druid class explanation I’ve seen, and has really clarified for me what the role of the druid is. Already watched twice and probably will again. This has sparked heaps of character ideas. How about a forest gnome with faction agent background, who is a messenger boy for the Emerald Enclave? They could even have him deliver a sealed message to an adventuring party that reads “Please give this young druid some life experience in the wider world”. I know a gnome is not ideal for a druid, but I really like the idea of a character that is not at all intimidating, that when cornered can turn into something truly terrifying... Keep up the great work guys!

For a more modern spin on druids, there's Atticus O' Sullivan of the Iron Druid Chronicles. And he's also an interesting juxtaposition against Harry Dresden. Dresden can't help saving people. He's a chronic hero. Atticus on the other hand cares more about nature than people. He'll express sorrow for people he knows that got caught in the crossfire, but on the whole he really doesn't care what happens to people until nature itself is threatened. So that's a good inspiration for how to play the expected Neutral alignment of druids.

@DungeonDudes

6 жыл бұрын

A friend of mine is reading the Iron Druid books now and speaks very highly of them. I'll have to check them out!

@jggsunshine

6 жыл бұрын

I've been blasting through the audiobooks over the last couple weeks and they are great, I literally created a druid based on him on d&d beyond while watching this video lol

@1217BC

5 жыл бұрын

The series is great, but do yourself a favor and just don't read the last book. Such a weird tone change and unfitting, extremely unsatisfying ending. Really wish I'd never read that last book. Any way I imagined the series might end was better than what Hearne wrote.

@cmdrwraithe1857

5 жыл бұрын

Hell yes! Love that series! That series is satisfying my Dresden fix since who knows when the next Dresden novel will be out!

@ryancampbell2192

4 жыл бұрын

@@1217BC 100% agreed. The final book ruined the series for me.

You mentioned the story of the druid who summons eight pixies who turn the party into tyrannosaurus rexes. I've witnessed something similar once, where a druid in a Curse of Strahd campaign summoned eight pixies who then all proceeded to cast Confusion on Strahd, with the idea being he's bound to fail at least one of the eight saving throws.

You dudes really capture the spirit of the Druid class! I've played a variety of Druids, and I love the range of possibilities, as you describe so well.

I'm am eating this class series up! The druid is one of my all time favorites!

Thank you guys so much for this video. I'm playing my first campaign and i chose druid as my character. This has helped me decide my circle, backstory, what type of druid i want to be, and has helped me figure out what kind of roleplay i want to take with him. Thank you for making my first time much easier. You guys are great!

Love the videos! Just a tip of you Dudes would have it - move your chairs further apart and angle them toward each other. That way you can look at the camera and each other more naturally.

You mention Kenku from Volo's but not Firbolg?!

@DungeonDudes

6 жыл бұрын

D'oh! They are GREAT druids too!

@lolbots686

3 жыл бұрын

@@DungeonDudes you should have mentioned caduceous hes like the archetype for spore druids

These are some really great ideas. Particularly love that "maybe your druid has to eat an animal to turn into it" idea haha. I've got a very new player playing a druid for the first time ever and I've got to encourage them to use their beast form more! They chose Moon Circle, after all~

@DungeonDudes

6 жыл бұрын

I hope this gives your players lots of great ideas :)

@ticozayas6430

6 жыл бұрын

early moon druid shapes that are easy and work well, lvl 2-4 brown bear (multi attack), lvl 5 giant hyena (rampage is awesome for clearing a crowd), and where i'm at right now at lvl 6 zeloraptor (pack tactics and multi attack)

Druid/Monk subclass = kungfu panda

@talongreenlee7704

5 жыл бұрын

ooga booga especially when you keep the wisdom modifier addition to your AC from monk when in wild shape

@Laurender

5 жыл бұрын

do note the AC will be EITHER natural armor + dex OR 10 + dex + wis. No mixing them together :)

@talongreenlee7704

5 жыл бұрын

Laurender do some beast type creatures even have a natural armor class above 10 when you ignore their dex mod? I don’t have the monster manual or anything, just the phb, so I wouldn’t know.

@Laurender

5 жыл бұрын

some have at least 11

@Laurender

5 жыл бұрын

Went through it quick. Crocodile, Dire Wolf, Giant Boar, Killer Whale, Polar Bear, Rhinoceros, Winter Wolf and Worg have a 12. Elephant, Giant Crab, Giant Fire Beetle and Giant Shark a 13, Giant Scorpion and Mammoth a 14 and Giant Crocodile a 15

I'm re-watching this video quite a bit later because I just started a campaign with a Druid and this was an inspiring video! Thank you. As always, you're the best D Dudes!

Just starting a Hill Dwarf Druid last week! You've given me s lot of help and inspiration for my backstory and play style! Thanks so much! Thumbs up!

When your dm says only creatures you’ve seen... you go far traveler background

@Breadmaster16

4 жыл бұрын

Captain kiwi my caimpaighn does not use that rule

@Tricerapops

4 жыл бұрын

I helped my daughter make her character. I gave her the spy background assuming she is far traveled. Seeing as I'm the DM I allow this.

@brianlav1

4 жыл бұрын

@@Tricerapops I would also allow a nature check to see the druid is familiar with that animal.

@davidhayes9657

3 жыл бұрын

@@brianlav1 i only started playing recently, and the campaign we did, we didn't come across the animals that the moon druid can take advantage of, and our DM didn't allow me to make nature checks etc. I just went around tanking everything and using Shilliegh. 😂

@mrp782

3 жыл бұрын

@@davidhayes9657 got to love telling everything, don't make me beat you with my shilliegh. Lols

Moon Druid Barbarian multiclass: it is totally ridiculous. Raging bear with unarmoured defense, extra damage and reckless attack are just insane. Not to mention the resistance to damage while having an extra stack of hit points on top of your normal hit points. Currently playing one and it is a blast. Really fun to have a super wise barbarian who's rage is so in tune with nature it makes him turn into a bear. (At least that is how I play him). Normally I'm not really a munchkin, but this one is both conceptually awesome and mechanically super powerful.

@Quandry1

5 жыл бұрын

Its power hits a bit of a wall if you get into high level.

@jacobhamilton2473

5 жыл бұрын

So, he's the d&d equivalent of the Incredible Hulk?

@Quandry1

5 жыл бұрын

@@jacobhamilton2473 nope. More the d&d equivalent of a pro wrestler. Only looks great against your average peasant or in controlled environments designed to show it off, often accompanied by attempts of grappling cheese. It's still going to get nuked from orbit and be unimpressive against the murder machines of high level.

@Alphadog2064

4 жыл бұрын

Quandry1 yeah, the best abilities of each class are at high levels and so the multi class doesn’t get too much.

I love this video! Thankyou! Im starting D&D for the first time tonight with some more experienced players. And I feel connected to the druid and very excited to start. Thanks for the info!

I’m playing my first Druid right now and he’s so fun! This helped, I wasn’t sure what to do with all of the spell options, thank you!

Thanks Dungeon Dudes. I’m going to play a Druid in a future campaign and you guys really helped out!

I’ve just recently started as a Tabaxi Druid, Circle of the Moon - he loves turning into a tiger or giant spider, and I’m having great fun playing as him! This video was really helpful to learn more about how druids work, thanks guys!

I TRULY APPRECIATE this video and the other associated content... I've come back to this video to give myself a refresher because you two have helped me quite a bit with my current/upcoming Druid Character... So I'm restarting your various Druid Related Videos so I can get a pretty solid idea and hopefully some answers to questions that I have about a particular Druid based Multiclass.... Almost done with this one, so on to the Subclass Video...

Thank you so much!! I am brand new to dnd, and o decided to make a wood elf druid. I made a background that I loved, but I didn't want a hippy type of thing. Your poison ivy reference really helped me flesh out the personality of my character!! I appreciate your videos!

I realy dig your guy's style you put out some good D&D videos

@DungeonDudes

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

I just had a really fun idea for a changeling Druid because you could play it like the wild shape is an extension of their shapeshifting capabilities. It definitely would not be optimized but I feel like it is a really cool concept

i played a druid in a campaign that got cut a lil short and i was at a sort of turning point just before that where i had character defining decisions to make that i didnt get to make in the end. what a great discussion, served as kind of a debriefing for me to sum up my character for now. and gave me more hope and inspiration for my next character rather than bein sad that i didnt get to play out my last one. thanks for the vid so much

Reallyy good, I'll pla my first Druid tomorrow night and this video give me so much inspiration! Thanks dudes!

Shaping into a gorilla (eventually) would enable you to use tools and interact with things like doors etc. Just need to encounter one in the game to learn about them.

@HistorysRaven

3 жыл бұрын

Forget wildshaping. Conjure Animals allows you to conjure multiple gorillas and lets them do all the dangerous stuff. I have one Druid who fears death because he fears facing all the gorilla fey killed after he summoned them.

I love the Druid of the Land for its flavour and role play potential. In the right campaign, with a DM that keeps your chosen terrain in mind, it can be really, really powerful! A coastal druid in a campaign with many bodies of water? Basically Aquaman and S Tier. Forest Druid in a Jungle setting? Tarzan! The specific spells also feel amazing. Give it a try! 💚

Thank you both for an awesome video! You've been a hug inspiration for my mew character. I'm currently playing a human druid, with the curse of wolf lycanthropy. I'm only starting out with her, but am taking on a lot about what you said with the darker side of nature.

I'm working on a half elf druid character for my first ever campaign tonight, this helped a fair bit and I hope it helps me play the character well!

Druid is my favorite class to play. The usual role playing approach I have is that there is something upsetting the balance and I am going out to try and reset the balance. I am not really into the shapeshifting side of the druid for combat as much as having nature assist me, such as entangle and summoning. I am the mediator between nature and society.

I wanna play as a Changeling Druid of the Moon. He'll have no real form. When asked what he is, he'd just say "We are an individual that exists as a group." or something like that.

@DungeonDudes

6 жыл бұрын

They might view themselves as an expression of the ever-changing natural world, changing like the seasons.

@theonlymatthew.l

5 жыл бұрын

"We are Legion, for we are many..."

This really did bring light to the idea of my beloved Druid I’m starting to play in our Curse of Strahd campaign. His name is Madrid and he’s actually a tiefling, in which I did keep in mind on “How could a devil cursed line possibly be a druid?” Well, he is highly in tune with the chaotic natural drives in nature that you guys talked about. Not necessarily violence, but more with passions, lust, need and greed that comes with food, a mate and with survival. His story is pretty complicated I’d say but I worked with my DM and we have his basics set in the story now. Thank you so much for continuing making super useful videos on your insights on parts and pieces of D&D!!

Starting my first campaign tomorrow and this really helped me figure out what to do as a druid! I'm going to be a Tiefling druid, but I'm looking forward to it!

Dire wolf is my favorite for moon druid at low level. Pack tactics is great, and trip attempts on bites makes good front line support.

Fantastic video. I wanted to be a Druid, and hearing a lot of the same reasons in this video, it confirms my original thought: playing a Druid will be freakin’ awesome! Thanks for the vid.

Awesome videos Dungeon Dudes! Had an exercise to put together a trio of favourite characters So Concrete was my Barbarian, Hobbes was my Rogue and Getafix was my Druid.

I'm the druid for my group's campaign. I Just wanted to comment that I loved your video and it made me want to look a little closer at the spells that I bring to the table for my group. I'm currently level 7(the rest of my group is lv5 or lv6) and one of the front line characters in the party. My main focus is damage dealing. I don't need to heal much, since we have a cleric dedicated to it, as well as a bard(she mostly does crowd control/buffs with backup heals). My character is from a long forgotten island where he worked as part of the militia protecting the island, with a focus on keeping the more dangerous wildlife away from the inhabited areas. Now that he's off on his adventure, his main quirk is he doesn't really understand just how powerful he is, and sometimes goes a bit overboard with powerful magic, when something more...simple would suffice. Think casting Tidal Wave when Create or Destroy Water would work just fine. He also sees himself(especially when backed by his friends) as more powerful than he actually is, so he tends to disregard stealth in favor of just going nuts.

I can't believe I just found you guys. Your videos are amazing! Hope to see you grow to a lvl 20 channel! Definitely subscribed!

@DungeonDudes

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

You guys are the absolute best!! I always love learning from you!

Thanks a ton for this video. Playing my very first campaign tomorrow night. Was told I’d make a really good Druid, I am so excited.

@DungeonDudes

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! So glad it helped! Stay tuned for this weeks video. It may also interest you. *hype*

I love the idea of a Paleonthologist Druid, who's got an entire book full of notes on all kinds of ancient creatures to pick from, but it takes them time to reach a point, where they can use all of them! For flavor, I could see an early Wildshape being a Compsognatus, instead of a lizard and just giving them the lizard stats, maybe slightly buffed as compies were faster?

Ah, yes fond memories of Baeshra, my Lizardfolk Circle of the Moon Druid. His tribe was slaughtered by worshippers of Tiamat (We were playing the Tyranny of Dragons Campaign), and he was the only survivor. As was his tribe's way, he had a strong preference for turning into dinosaurs. Long story short, he spent the majority of the final battle as a brontosaurus.

Great guide. One race I really like for druids is the Ghostwise Halfling. They are very thematic and a lot of fun.

I really enjoy these videos great info. I'm also playing a Druid for the frist time in DnD "only played a druid in WoW" and must say I'm loving it. he is a C.G. Wood elf that is a acolyte. I also love transforming into the giant hyena the rampage special ability is amazing.

The way I handle beast-shaping into animals that a druid has never actually seen before is I allow them to "study" an animal that they wouldn't normally come across in some kind of text and I give them a new one every couple of levels or so.

I’m playing as a druid right now.(It’s my first game) and there was this one instance where my friend and I (at that time we were the only ones in the party) came up with a good battle strategy in where I distract sone dragon creatures so that she can investigate the portal they’re coming out of. My other friend who was the DM sabotaged our plan. So I was supposed to distract them by flaling my arms and legs, then once they noticed me I woukd turn into a cheetah and lead them away from my friend. It worked but they were apparently faster than me, and ended up catching up. So, I morphed into a mole to hide underground, then next a bird to fly away when they coukdnt find me. I never knew that druids were adaptive, but in the back of my mind I was really in character

A table of contents with timestamp links would be awesome in the details. I keep coming back to these videos but have to keep skipping around to find what I need. Love the videos, keep it up!

Thank you for making these guides, Dudes, they are fun, informative and well made :D

i've always considered granny weatherwax from Terry Pratchett's Discworld a druid

I did a myconid druid in the circle of the spore it was an amazing character. I called him a fungalmancer because he could control living and the dead

@tiffanymorgan1059

3 жыл бұрын

I’m playing a circle of spores Druid right now! Lvl 5. It’s getting really fun 😁

Another great video! You guys nailed it!

Fantastic video, thank you. So glad I've found you. Instant subscription!

it specifically states in the PHB that it has to be an animal that you have seen for wild-shape

How can you forget to mention Firbolg when you are talking about Druids Q.Q

@jesusflores3256

4 жыл бұрын

How would you build one? Which circle and spells would you use?

@northmelody1783

4 жыл бұрын

@@jesusflores3256 My druid is focused on healing and circle of dreams ^^ Firbolgs are such good druids!

Thanks for the video guys, great work. Two comments. I was a bit surprised that it wasn’t mentioned one of the most (I think) ridiculous aspects of shapeshifting HP Pool. The fact that if the Druid is “killed” in animal form the revert back and only take any carry over damage. That to me is crazy especially when you play for bear tank style. To you point of savage druids. I’m currently playing Trag a Half-Orc Druid with a circle of the shepherd subclass. As you describe he understands that nature is a brutal place. It isn’t a world where words or politics makes headway, it is a world where the strong, cunning, and crafty survive and ultimately thrive. And yet it is also a place where life and death are in balance and there is as much to be found in the celebration of bringing something into the world as there is when something goes out. I really like the tribal aspects that tie into the Half-orc heritage (his back story includes growing up in a full orc clan). I also like the subtle shift off of the classic Shaman that would exist in an Orc tribe. I worked with the DM to decide that the Druid of the clan was not a common thing and only came around every few generations - someone from the clan with the aptitude for it. It has been really fun to play a Druid who uses shapeshift much more for utility and relies on the summoning of creatures and buffing of allies as a kind of war commander style. Thanks again, and keep up the great work.

Great channel guys. Thanks for putting in the effort!

My first ever character was a Druid in a 3.5e ed campaign. My favourite moment was when I had reached the level that I could wildshape into large animals and I suprised my DM by wildshaping into a Rhino whilst I was flying as an eagle (my other favourite wildshape) above one of the enemies that came at us. Im not quite sure how she decribed it but after calculating how much damage the creature would suffer the jist of it was: yeah its not coming back from this one xD

@ConstantChaos1

4 жыл бұрын

3.5 druid is so different from 5th

@demoulius1529

4 жыл бұрын

@@ConstantChaos1 yeah it really is. And for the better tbh. I was OP as heck compared to the rest of my party xD

@ConstantChaos1

4 жыл бұрын

@@demoulius1529 I agree that it was super needed but, maybe just because of who I played with, the power was needed to entice people to play, I knew alot of religious games who drew the line at cleric and ranger but considered druid a step too far

@kdaviper

4 жыл бұрын

I have a friend that played a druid in a 5v5 pvp tournament(3.5 rules I believe). His party had died except for him so he turned the landscape into a forest, than himself into a tree. He then summoned an elemental swarm to kill his enemies while they frantically chopped down trees looking for the right one. Gary gygax then shook his hand and told him he was the scariest druid he'd ever seen

@ConstantChaos1

4 жыл бұрын

@@kdaviper that sounds bad ass

I think Beorn from The Hobbit is a pretty straightforward druid character, albeit a little OP in the story.

This will be my first druid and spell caster. Thanks for the vids

Great videos, lads. Really enjoyed it.

I feel like the Circle of the Shepherd subclass doesn't get as much love as it should. I feel like it's an awesome subclass to play and I find managing my summons while dealing damage from far away quite enjoyable! The Unicorn Totem helps a lot!

I'm rewatching this a year later as I'm running a quest with an antagonistic druid NPC and need more info to get the right feel.

This is so accurate and useful. I'm subscribing right now. May the spirit of Dornoll enlighten your life path.

I'm actually building a druid/fighter build. I wanted to build a pure fighter but wanted to add something else and since pirates love the sea, I figure, give it a druid side cause of their connection to the sea. This guide is very helpful. I'll implement some of it as I go along

Circle of the moon ftw, especially at level 18+. I have a circle of the moon druid that I made for a high level one-shot and she is pretty much unstoppable. At higher level she almost never use her magic in battle, her array of shape shift form capable of adapting to any enemy that the party encounters. Cons doesn't matter that much for her as she can just shape shift into something that have a ton of cons score. She can be the secondary tank for the party and just use her spell mostly out of combat or in wild form using beast spell once in a while. Because of wild form, I find myself using more concentration spell more than other spell casting class before I get the ability to cast magic in wild form. After I saw your ranger video I have a thought that monster hunter ranger is a great match with moon circle druid for RP. Imagine, someone who know all about the monster he/she encounter and then transform as something that are the natural enemy of that monster. Sadly I don't think that I will be making any multiclass druid any time soon. That 20th level feature is really really strong and usefull. Even if I don't play them until they reach level 20, I like to think that they still continues to go to adventure but I don't see it. So I always make the 20th level character sheet for them and I want my druid achieve that feature.

@mrknarf4438

6 жыл бұрын

Jovan Adriel Monster Hunter Ranger seems like ton of fun! Perhaps a character that doesn't care and isn't tuned for fighting normal races, but truly shines against Dragons/Beholders/Any kind of weird monster you can think of. In the right environment it would be cool to roleplay.

@DungeonDudes

6 жыл бұрын

Perhaps you could imagine a Monster Hunter Ranger and a Moon Druid working together instead? At our tables, we encourage players to develop interconnected backstories and pre-existing relationships. We've had player characters who were childhood friends, prison buddies, twins, brothers-in-law, and more. Creative "pairings" between PCs that work in both thematic and tactical ways create some of the coolest group dynamics you can find.

I'm currently playing a female Halfling moon druid named Yuki Tanuki. She wears a raccoon dog themed onesie pajama and when she transforms she keeps the coloration of a Tanuki (raccoon color scheme wolf, bear and T-Rex). Since she's closely tied to the life of raccoon dogs she is one of the few city druids, Yuki gets advantage rolls on checks to see which garbage cans have the best scraps in them.

@TerrariaGolem

5 жыл бұрын

Y E S

Played a lot of D20 and Starwars first time playing DND and im going druid. Was confused at first but this video helped a bunch and now im super excited.

You guys kinda make me want to play a Druid! You do a good job of making all classes seem fun and viable

Morrigan the love of my childhood

You guys forgot Firbolg, they live in the woods and get wisdom and nature bonuses!

Huzzah! Love watching your videos, my dudes! Always so full of information. I am currently playing a bugbear Revised ranger4/Druid 3, and boy, is he loads of fun! He's a beast conclave ranger with a chimpanzee companion named Caesar, the bugbear is named Julius! xD But, they work so well! I am diving more into druid with him, so was checking out this video... again.. for like the 4th time. Lol. Keep up the amazing work, dudes!

Just started playing as a spore druid! My character has a dark history but no one in my party knows yet. Great video as I'm just hitting level 3 so im excited to look into the spells mentioned!

another inspiration - the animagus from the Harry Potter series

I did a warforged druid who came to this class after spending time contemplating what his perpose in life was after the war

@jaw322

4 жыл бұрын

I'm doing something similar but he was killed in battle and after many years the forest regrew and the spirits reawakened him to be it's guardian, and he is trying to atone for the destruction and death he brought forth when he was alive

From movies, the women from In the Name of the King, that protect the forests basically controlling all the vines as weapons and transportation. But I myself love that in my group's aquatic adventure I saved my ship's crew as the ship was sinking by casting Conjure Animals to summon Dolphins then become a Giant Squid, to drop defensive ink to cover our get-a-way as the other ship came looking for us. ;)

I'm excited.. I think I relate to this class the most ♡

I feel like it was a missed opportunity for the intro to not be "Perfectly balanced... as all things should be."

@AshenDust_

5 жыл бұрын

Yea

Wild Seed by Octavia Butler has a character that must consume the flesh of an animal before she can transform into said animal form.

Great video guys! I'm currently playing a Moon Elf Druid of the land.

So much fun has been had by my rogue with the party druid giving him Magic Stones to use in his sneak attacks with his sling.