D&D (2024) New One D&D Playtest Shows Us The New Druid & Paladin

WotC has released the fourth One D&D playtest document. This 29-page PDF includes the druid and the paladin with Circle of the Moon and Oath of Devotion subclasses.

Druid. The Druid class and Circle of the Moon subclass are ready for playtesting here.

Paladin. The Paladin class and Oath of Devotion subclass are ready for playtesting here.

Feats. Several revised feats appear here for your feedback, with more revised feats coming in future articles.

Spells. More spells are ready for playtesting, with a focus on smite spells, Find Familiar, and Find Steed.

Rules Glossary. The rules glossary has been updated again and supersedes the glossary in previous Unearthed Arcana articles. In this document, any underlined term in the body text appears in that glossary, which defines game terms that have been clarified or redefined for this playtest or that don’t appear in the 2014 Player’s Handbook.

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[Kobold Stew]

Of all the full casters, I do think druids make the most sense thematically to not have Plane Shift, as they seem the most focused on the material plane. There are of course some connections elsewhere that pop up in the class (Feywild mostly).

As for if they NEED Plane Shift? Probably not. Plenty of classes don't have access to it, so it's not something the Druid cannot do without. Should they have lost it? I dunno.

For what it's worth, the spell only appears on the Arcane and Divine spell lists (not on Primal), which means henceforth (if this stays, as I expect it would) it will not be available to Druids.

It's also unavailable to Bards, who do not have access to it either in PHB 2014 or in the playtest (since it is a level 7 conjuration spell).
EDIT: it is available through Magical Secrets at level 15.

PHB 2014 has Plane Shift available for Sorcerers and Warlocks; if there were specialist school assignments (a la Bards) for those classes in DDOne, it is possible they could lose access to it as well, but I would be surprised if either did.

 

[Hussar]

No, it’s a spell that allows players to go where they want in the cosmology of D&D, gated by the DMs willingness to allow them to find an object from that plane.

Every campaign that has reached the teens in a world with a multiverse of planes. (not all of our campaigns even have other planes) so, more than half our 5e campaigns. Also, quite a lot on Critical Role.

Lol yes of course anything you don’t like and use is only there because tradition.

Please stop making this personal.

I’m pointing to the fact that in oublished material it is never used.

Again unless you believe that this is this incredibly popular spell that no one ever talks about, is never used in published material and virtually never appears anywhere then, well that’s a take I suppose.

Again I’m very willing to bet that it’s nearly unheard of at most tables.

 

[Hussar]

Look it’s really not a hill I’m willing to die on. Plane shift is hardly a problem. It takes up little space and there are those who are getting use out of it.

Fair enough.

I was simply pointing out that pulling it from a spell list was hardly going to have much of an impact on most tables. Heck pulling it from the game would probably not impact most tables.

But apparently I’ve really touched a nerve so I’ll very much back off here. You folks have convinced me that this spell is absolutely crucial to the game and must be preserved for the sake of anyone’s potential enjoyment of Dungeons and Dragons. Removing this spell from the Druid class is obviously going to completely ruin the game and cause DnD to come crashing down.

 

[Chaosmancer]

Well, we play in Greyhawk, where magic is a bit more low key. Teleport circles are only available in a handful of large cities, and are expensive - not much use in the wilderness. Our most powerful wizard can cast only one fifth level spell, and only our tome warlock casts Phantom Steed as a ritual, not much use for group travel. Thus it falls to the cleric with his Plane Shift.

Um... that has nothing to do with the campaign and everything to do with you having a bizarre group?

For this to be true, your cleric has to be at least three levels higher than your wizard. And I have no reason to suspect that your wizard, were they three levels higher wouldn't get Teleport, which doesn't rely on teleportation circles (and in fact I never mentioned teleportation circles) and would be superior for the travel you want. And find steed still works perfectly fine for group travel. Nothing says you can't have multiple castings, or that you can't double up on the steeds.

This doesn't read like "plane shift is indispensable for travel" and instead more like "You use what you can get"

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Does it hurt anything or unbalance anything to put it back on the Druid's Spell list?

 

[cbwjm]

I didn't even realise planeshift was on the druid spell list, was 5e the first time it was added? I always thought of it as a cleric spell.

 

[Kobold Stew]

Does it hurt anything or unbalance anything to put it back on the Druid's Spell list?

Given that the primal list in the playtest is very short of 7th-level spells as it is, almost certainly not.

 

[Stalker0]

I didn't even realise planeshift was on the druid spell list, was 5e the first time it was added? I always thought of it as a cleric spell.

Did a quick check. Planeshift is NOT on the list for 3.5 druids

 

[doctorbadwolf]

Look it’s really not a hill I’m willing to die on. Plane shift is hardly a problem. It takes up little space and there are those who are getting use out of it.

Fair enough.

I was simply pointing out that pulling it from a spell list was hardly going to have much of an impact on most tables. Heck pulling it from the game would probably not impact most tables.

But apparently I’ve really touched a nerve so I’ll very much back off here. You folks have convinced me that this spell is absolutely crucial to the game and must be preserved for the sake of anyone’s potential enjoyment of Dungeons and Dragons. Removing this spell from the Druid class is obviously going to completely ruin the game and cause DnD to come crashing down.

Is quite this level of absurd hyperbole really needed?

Certainly doesn’t seem justified, when all anyone did was…checks thread…disagree with you.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

Please stop making this personal.

Don’t make false accusations, please.

I’m pointing to the fact that in oublished material it is never used.

And I addressed that.

Again unless you believe that this is this incredibly popular spell that no one ever talks about, is never used in published material and virtually never appears anywhere then, well that’s a take I suppose.

This statement implies an “if, then” but contains no “then”. I’m not sure what it endeavors to say.

Again I’m very willing to bet that it’s nearly unheard of at most tables.

And I and others disagree, from experience.

It’s not that deep.