D&D 5E Druid spells .... gone?
BookBarbarian
Expert Long Rester
I'd love to see a druid a bit more divorced from animal shapeshifting.
Plant shapeshifiting would be neat. Or more plant based abilities and no shapeshifting would be neat too.
Plant shapeshifiting would be neat. Or more plant based abilities and no shapeshifting would be neat too.
Tony Vargas
Legend
They were even cooler (arguably less broken, no CoDzillas) in 1e!
Warp wood was always a goofy spell - really /only/ good for 'getting creative' with. The on-label uses - springinig doors and ruining spears & arrows? Really?
Newfangled stuff, anyway.
At least you've got 8th & 9th level spells.
But, yeah, compared to 3.5, everything's dialed down a bit.
One thing to consider is that with 5e's neo-Vancian spellcasting system, situational spells are easier to bring to bear - you don't 'waste' slots/day in preparing them, and some can be used as rituals. That consideration may have made some of the odder corner-case-usage spells problematic to retain. (Though, really, I can't think why, specifically, either.)
ccs
41st lv DM
Why? In my experience the best games always involve conversations with the DM.
Mouseferatu
Hero
It's a little off-topic, but I have to disagree with this.
1) Gods weren't required in 3E or 4E, either.
2) While there's technically no alignment restriction, the requirements of the Oath of Devotion (which is the "standard" paladin of prior editions) comes pretty close to enforcing Lawful Good. I mean, at a stretch, you could play one as Lawful Neutral or Neutral Good, but LG is pretty clearly the only alignment that fully embraces every aspect of the Oath's requirements.
Mouseferatu
Hero
It was a spell, IIRC. And it's a spell that still exists in 5E.
Enevhar Aldarion
Hero
Maybe some of this stuff is not in 5E because they held it back to make some sort of Wood Druid subclass, where these missing things would be abilities rather than spells, but they have just not had the chance to release it yet.
Between warping wood, shaping wood, traveling between trees, animating and commanding trees (or other plant life), maybe even shapeshifting into a tree (think Treant) at high level, you could come up with a very interesting subclass for Druid.
Between warping wood, shaping wood, traveling between trees, animating and commanding trees (or other plant life), maybe even shapeshifting into a tree (think Treant) at high level, you could come up with a very interesting subclass for Druid.
Mouseferatu
Hero
I do like the idea of a subclass that includes shifting into a plant or plant creature, and I would love the warp/shape wood spells back. But everything else in that list is something druids can already do in 5E.
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