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Circle of the Land

Druid: Druid Subclass
Source: Player’s Handbook (2024) p. 84. Available in the SRD and the Free Rules (2024)

Class and Feature Progression

LevelPBFeatures
1st+2
2nd+2
3rd+2Circle of the Land
4th+2
5th+3
6th+3Natural Recovery
7th+3
8th+3
9th+4
10th+4Nature's Ward
11th+4
12th+4
13th+5
14th+5Nature's Sanctuary
15th+5
16th+5
17th+6
18th+6
19th+6
20th+6

Celebrate Connection to the Natural World

The Circle of the Land comprises mystics and sages who safeguard ancient knowledge and rites. These Druids meet within sacred circles of trees or standing stones to whisper primal secrets in Druidic. The circle’s wisest members preside as the chief priests of their communities.

Subclass Features

Circle of the Land Spells (Level 3)

Whenever you finish a Long Rest, choose one type of land: arid, polar, temperate, or tropical. Consult the table below that corresponds to the chosen type; you have the spells listed for your Druid level and lower prepared.

Arid Land

Druid LevelCircle Spells
3rdBlur, Burning Hands, Fire Bolt
5thFireball
7thBlight
9thWall of Stone
^arid-land

Polar Land

Druid LevelCircle Spells
3rdFog Cloud, Hold Person, Ray of Frost
5thSleet Storm
7thIce Storm
9thCone of Cold
^polar-land

Temperate Land

Druid LevelCircle Spells
3rdMisty Step, Shocking Grasp, Sleep
5thLightning Bolt
7thFreedom of Movement
9thTree Stride
^temperate-land

Tropical Land

Druid LevelCircle Spells
3rdAcid Splash, Ray of Sickness, Web
5thStinking Cloud
7thPolymorph
9thInsect Plague
^tropical-land

Land’s Aid (Level 3)

As a Magic action, you can expend a use of your Wild Shape and choose a point within 60 feet of yourself. Vitality-giving flowers and life-draining thorns appear for a moment in a 10-foot-radius Sphere centered on that point. Each creature of your choice in the Sphere must make a Constitution saving throw against your spell save DC, taking 2d6 Necrotic damage on a failed save or half as much damage on a successful one. One creature of your choice in that area regains 2d6 Hit Points.

The damage and healing increase by 1d6 when you reach Druid levels 10 (3d6) and 14 (4d6).

Natural Recovery (Level 6)

You can cast one of the level 1+ spells that you have prepared from your Circle Spells feature without expending a spell slot, and you must finish a Long Rest before you do so again.

In addition, when you finish a Short Rest, you can choose expended spell slots to recover. The spell slots can have a combined level that is equal to or less than half your Druid level (round up), and none of them can be level 6+. For example, if you’re a level 6 Druid, you can recover up to three levels’ worth of spell slots. You can recover a level 3 spell slot, a level 2 and a level 1 spell slot, or three level 1 spell slots. Once you recover spell slots with this feature, you can’t do so again until you finish a Long Rest.

Nature’s Ward (Level 10)

You are immune to the Poisoned condition, and you have Resistance to a damage type associated with your current land choice in the Circle Spells feature, as shown in the Nature’s Ward table.

Nature’s Ward

Land TypeResistance
AridFire
PolarCold
TemperateLightning
TropicalPoison
^natures-ward

Nature’s Sanctuary (Level 14)

As a Magic action, you can expend a use of your Wild Shape and cause spectral trees and vines to appear in a 15-foot Cube on the ground within 120 feet of yourself. They last there for 1 minute or until you have the Incapacitated condition or die. You and your allies have Half Cover while in that area, and your allies gain the current Resistance of your Nature’s Ward while there.

As a Bonus Action, you can move the Cube up to 60 feet to ground within 120 feet of yourself.

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