New Druid | 2024 Player's Handbook | D&D

Druid

0:00 What's new in the Druid
13:23 Circle of the Moon
20:30 Circle of the Land
26:29 Circle of the Sea
31:41 Circle of the Stars

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[corbanbausch]

Finally, Druids can actually make Nature checks lol

[UltimateRandomness]

Druids of the Sea brought to you by Wizards of the Coast

[cprince]

Find Familiar = Raven, Wildshape = Small/Tiny Animal, hitch a ride on your familiar for a fly speed wildshape at Level 2.

Now we can understand the scene when Doric escape in the movie Honor Among Thieves! She has put all her spell slot into Wild Shapes!

[EmeraldUsakaze]

Let's be real. Wild Shape HP being turned into a temp HP gain instead of getting the creature's HP pool isn't because of any potential "drop to 0 HP" mechanics abuse. It's because of Moon Druids having a bonus action button to suddenly gain triple digit HP to abuse.

[apjtv]

15:53 "A number of issues for the game system"

*Looks over at Moon Druid chilling in a Tarrasque stomach* yeah, I'd say so.

[stephenlewis]

I have really enjoyed all of these videos and want to give a shoutout to the team who put them together both on screen and off!

[krschu]

Talk in wildshape is good. I RP'd a lot less than companions because I couldn't talk half the time.

[ryank]

Wouldn't have Shaman made more sense than Magician?

[SmileyTrilobite]

On my commute, I’d been listening to the Mabinogion, a famed collection of Welsh legendry and part of Celtic literature that may have inspired the D&D druid. There’s a lot of wild shape going on, and bards using magic. Furthermore, in one tale, King Arthur even amasses his lads to discuss in what order to retrieve all the magic items they’re quested with (as certain items might make getting certain others easier). True strategic gamers!

[ReadingDave]

Thank you for solving Aquaman problems.

[joshuamaloney]

I’m just so happy that stars didn’t get nerfed

[ethanc]

I am more interested now in playing a Druid than I ever have been. I am excited to check out the circle of the Sea!

[winterwolfcr]

I really hope high level Moon druids have more Wild Shape options. It really sucked that they were either Mammoths or go for lower CR. Even if we just get a bunch of Dire animals, that's still better - if not very interesting. Or even expanding it to something like Monstrous or draconic options.

[emotionalnpc]

The Druid was my first class and is still my favorite class to play. I’m really excited for these new changes and I can’t wait to play yet another Druid

[guardiantree]

How long oh DM till we have a plant based Druid subclass, the Sun Druid?

I wanna turn into a Treant lol.

[AkeishaLeighanneRoberts]

I am SO ecstatic about the "Circle of the Sea" option for Druids!! 🥰🥰🥰

[LunaLongbottomLove]

As someone who enjoys a little bit of 'mushroom necromancy' flavor I'd be interested to see a '2024 version' of Circle of Spores to see what (if anything) they'd adjust in that Circle
Seeing as the 'temp hitpoints instead of getting whatever hitpoints the creature you change into has' feature is being used for circle of the Moon now (along with now not being knocked out of wildshape when you *lose* those temp hitpoints
that then transfer back to Circle of Spores? 👀
Perhaps no longer having the caveat of losing all your Symbiotic Entity perks once the temp hitpoints are depleated??? 👀👀👀

[nadirku]

I probably should have asked this in the Rogue video... but one thing that bugged me from the UA was that RAW you could get a druid proficient with pistols, and Rifles without needing to multi-class, or take any feats, but a Rogue would need to multi-class, or take a feat to get proficiency with those weapons...

Good for Druids, but it does feel like a slap in face to Rogues for them to be a weapons based martial class that is more restricted in its weapon proficiencies than the base class of full-caster classes like Druids, and Clerics... and I am curious if that is still true in the final release.

[matthewdavis]

I know it doesn’t really need it, but, for the sake of symmetry, I wish the Stars Druid got Circle Spells like the other 3 subclasses