Druid

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Defenders of the wild places, druids draw their power and abilities from the natural world around them.

Level	Wild Shape Polymorph Lvl	Combat Proficiency Bonus	New Abilities
1st	--	+0	Spells, summon nature's ally, bonus languages, standard technique, cantrips, wild empathy
2nd	--	+1	Nature's Bond
3rd	--	+2	Skill focus, standard technique
4th	Level 3	+3	Nature's mastery, ability score increase
5th	Level 3	+3	Druid technique
6th	Level 4	+4	Standard technique
7th	Level 4	+5	Druid technique
8th	Level 5	+6	Ability Score Increase, extra attack
9th	Level 5	+6	Standard technique
10th	Level 6	+7	Druid technique
11th	Level 6	+8	Druid technique
12th	Level 7	+9	Standard technique, ability score increase
13th	Level 7	+9	Druid technique
14th	Level 7	+10	Druid technique
15th	Level 7	+11	Standard technique, extra attack
16th	Level 7	+12	Ability score increase
17th	Level 7	+12	Druid technique
18th	Level 7	+13	Standard technique
19th	Level 7	+14	Druid technique
20th	Level 7	+15	Home ground, ability score increase

Level	Wild Shape Polymorph Lvl	Combat Proficiency Bonus
1st	--	+0
2nd	--	+1
3rd	--	+2
4th	Level 3	+3
5th	Level 3	+3
6th	Level 4	+4
7th	Level 4	+5
8th	Level 5	+6
9th	Level 5	+6
10th	Level 6	+7
11th	Level 6	+8
12th	Level 7	+9
13th	Level 7	+9
14th	Level 7	+10
15th	Level 7	+11
16th	Level 7	+12
17th	Level 7	+12
18th	Level 7	+13
19th	Level 7	+14
20th	Level 7	+15

Level	New Abilities
1st	Spells, summon nature's ally, bonus languages, standard technique, cantrips, wild empathy
2nd	Nature's bond
3rd	Skill focus, standard technique
4th	Nature's mastery, ability score increase
5th	Druid technique
6th	Standard technique
7th	Druid technique
8th	Ability Score Increase, extra attack
9th	Standard technique
10th	Druid technique
11th	Druid technique
12th	Standard technique, ability score increase
13th	Druid technique
14th	Druid technique
15th	Standard technique, extra attack
16th	Ability Score Increase
17th	Druid technique
18th	Standard technique
19th	Druid technique
20th	Home ground, ability score increase

Level	Spell Slots Per Day
	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th
1st	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2nd	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
3rd	3	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
4th	3	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
5th	3	2	1	-	-	-	-	-	-
6th	3	3	2	-	-	-	-	-	-
7th	4	3	2	1	-	-	-	-	-
8th	4	3	3	2	-	-	-	-	-
9th	4	4	3	2	1	-	-	-	-
10th	4	4	3	3	2	-	-	-	-
11th	4	4	4	3	2	1	-	-	-
12th	4	4	4	3	3	2	-	-	-
13th	4	4	4	4	3	2	1	-	-
14th	4	4	4	4	3	2	2	-	-
15th	4	4	4	4	4	3	2	1	-
16th	4	4	4	4	4	3	2	2	-
17th	4	4	4	4	4	3	2	2	1
18th	4	4	4	4	4	3	3	2	1
19th	4	4	4	4	4	3	3	2	2
20th	4	4	4	4	4	3	3	3	2

Class Features

Starting Proficiencies

Spells

You cast spells that are drawn from the Druid, Animal, Plant, or Weather domains. You may also choose one of the following domains to complete your spell list: Air, Earth, Fire, Ice, Lightning, or Water.

Each day, you choose and prepare spells from these domains at a specific time each day--usually a time with sunrise or sunset. During this time, you spend 1 hour in quiet supplication, allowing you to renew your daily allotment of spells. Unlike some casters, time spent resting has no effect on whether you can prepare spells. You may prepare a number of spells per day equal to 2 + your level + Wis Bonus.

To cast your prepared spells, you expend a spell slot of the appropriate level. The prepared spell remains in your repertoire, and you may continue to re-cast the same spell over again provided you have spell slots available. The number of spell slots you get per day is dependent of your character level (see the table above).

Cantrips

Some spells are so minor or intuitive that they don't require spell slots. At level 1 you start by knowing three cantrips of your choice. Once chosen, you cannot change these, though you gain a new cantrip at level 5 and every fifth level afterward. Cantrips are cast like normal spells, except they don't require spell slots. You can cast them as many times as you wish. See cantrips.

Summon Nature’s Ally

You can intuitively cast Summon Animal. You have this spell automatically prepared, and it doesn’t count toward your daily allotment of prepared spells. This spell still uses a spell slot when cast. At level 3, you may choose to swap Summon Animal for Summon Swarm, or at level 5, you may swap it out for Summon Elemental. Once you choose to swap, the choice is permanent and cannot be reversed.

Bonus Languages

All druids know Druidic as one of their primary languages. Druidic is a secret language known only to druids, and they are forbidden to teach this language to nondruids. You may also choose to have Language Proficiency (Sylvan) as one of your secondary languages. This proficiency is acquired free at level 1 and doesn't require any training costs.

Wild Empathy (Ex)

You gain the Wild Empathy ability ability.

Nature's Bond

At level 2, you develop a strong bond with nature. You may choose one of the following abilities.

• Animal Companion: You form a close bond with an animal companion. Unlike normal animals of its kind, an animal companion levels up. Your companion's level is always one less than your own. Choose from the following: badger, bird, camel, cat, dire rat, dog, horse, pony, snake (viper or constrictor), or wolf. You GM may allow other animal choices as well. If you release your companion from service, you may gain a new one by performing a ceremony requiring 24 uninterrupted hours of prayer in the environment where the new companion typically lives. This ceremony can also replace an animal companion that has perished. See Animal Companions.
• Bonded Item: You form a bond with an item that you can use to channel your connection to nature. Your item may be a staff, mask, bracelet, ring, or other worn item. Once per day you can use your bonded item to cast any spell in one of your domains at a level you can normally cast. The spell does not have to be prepared and does not use a spell slot. The spell is treated like a normal spell, except that it can't be modified by metamagic. Aside from this, your bonded object functions like a wizard's bonded object.
• Charm Animals and Plants: Twice per short rest you can attempt to charm an animal or plant. This is a spell-like ability that functions like the charm spell.

Nature Skills (Ex)

At level 3 you gain the Skill Focus common ability for two of the following skills: Animals, Arcana, Dungeoneering, Medicine, Nature, Planes, Poison, or an appropriate Craft skill.

Nature's Mastery

At level 4 you begin to gain mastery over nature. You may choose one of the following abilities.

• Elemental Domain: select one new elemental domain (air, earth, fire, ice, lightning, or water). You can now cast spells from this domain. Once per day, you can also use one of the cleric abilities from this domain. Disregard any cleric energy pool requirements.
• Many Lives: After you are killed, you reincarnate 1 day later (as per the spell). Over the next 7 days, you can sense the location of your former body as per the locate spell. You do not auto-reincarnate if you die during this seven-day period or if you are ever killed by a death effect. With many lives, you can no longer be resurrected, though the reincarnation spell still works normally.
• Meditation Master: You gain the meditation master common ability.
• Wild Shape: You gain the ability to turn yourself into any small or medium animal. This functions like a level 3 Polymorph spell, except that it is limited to animals that you are familiar with. At level 6 and above, wild shape begins to function as higher level polymorph spells (see table above), though your choice of form is always limited to animal, plant, and elemental forms. You can use wild shape twice per short rest. The effect lasts for 1 hour per druid level, or until you change back. Changing form (to animal or back) is a standard action. While in animal form, you lose your ability to speak and can only make the sounds a normal animal of that type can make.

Druid Techniques

At level 5 you learn a druid technique. You learn additional druid techniques automatically at levels 7, 10, 11, 13, 14, and 17, and 19.

Extra Attacks (Ex)

At level 8 and again at level 15, you gain an extra attack that you can make when making a full attack. In a full attack, all attacks except for your first ones are made at a -5 penalty.

Home Ground (Su)

At 20th level, select a specific area relevant to the campaign, such as a prominent forest, mountain, or even a patch of sea. You know every tree, every deer, every blade of grass, and every scuttling beetle in that area. While in this area you:

• You are constantly under the effect of commune with nature
• Can wild shape as often as you wish without rest
• Can use summon nature's ally (spell level 4) as a spell-like ability at will without expending spell slots.