D&D 5E Druids seen in the Wild (Shape?)

[Paul Farquhar]

I've seen a couple of land druids and a Shepard druid (multiclass). Never seen a moon druid.

 

[cbwjm]

My sample size is very small, in all my 5e life I can remember 2 druids, one was a land druid, another a moon druid.

 

[DeviousQuail]

Early on in the 5e life cycle it was mostly moon with my one land Druid in a one shot as the exception. Post Tasha's, star has become the popular pick at my table. At this point I think moon and star are tied overall. Dream is the only one that hasn't been picked.

Side note: Shephard was easily the strongest to ever grace the table. Our unspoken agreement to only use Tasha's summons nerfed it back into a respectable power level. I fear the day someone uses it while I'm DMing.

 

[mellored]

Early on in the 5e life cycle it was mostly moon with my one land Druid in a one shot as the exception. Post Tasha's, star has become the popular pick at my table. At this point I think moon and star are tied overall. Dream is the only one that hasn't been picked.

Side note: Shephard was easily the strongest to ever grace the table. Our unspoken agreement to only use Tasha's summons nerfed it back into a respectable power level. I fear the day someone uses it while I'm DMing.

The Conjure spells got completely resigned for 2024. They are now zones.

They will still have the Tasha's summons.

 

[Azzy]

In the past 10 years, there's only been two druid characters. One from a previous campaign was a land druid, the other is a moon druid (this is my current character—because I wanted to play a Eberron halfling that could turn into dinosaurs).

 

[James Gasik]

At current, it does look like there's a pretty even mix of Druids out there. Lot of mentions of Stars Druids. So I guess while Moon still seems to be the majority, there's apparently more caster Druids than I thought.

 

[jmartkdr2]

I think I've seen two moon druids, one spores, one stars, and one wildfire.

Moon druid is overrated on reddit, but actual played characters rarely look like what reddit tends to talk about.

 

[Longspeak]

I have seen not only more Moon Druids than any other circle, but in nearly six years since I returned to D&D, I have seen more Moon Druids than all other circles combined.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

Molotov Cockatiel

Well... you can consider THAT stollen, thenkewverramuch.

 

[Vael]

Most Druids I've seen have been Moon Druids. I've played one twice. We had a Shepard in Curse of Strahd before the player dropped out, my last 5e campaign had a Wildfire Druid specifically because the player "hates hunting through the MM to Wildshape". There may have been a few more non-Moon Druids, but I would say it is by far and away the most frequent.

That said ... I still think templates are the way to go, not MM scraping. Between one player who played a Moon Druid and got annoyed that .... all he wanted was to use Wolf forms and they quickly fell behind in power, and the aforementioned player that chose a non-Moon Druid because the current implementation of Wildshape is too much bookkeeping.