Wizards of the Coast ’s recent track disc for tinkering with Dungeons & Dragons hasn’texactlybeenstellar , but credit to the company , it has n’t stopped examine . Of naturally , trying to improve the Druid character course of instruction is a mess less controversial than attempting to erase D&D ’s belovedOpen Gaming License , but these likely change actually seem for the better .
Druids , which are basically Clerics whose force are over nature or else of divinely given , are apparently D&D ’s least - played fibre class of the pick in the plot ’s main Player ’s Handbook . So in preparation for the upcoming OneD&D , WotC is playtesting fresh and rejiggered abilities for the Druids that sound well-to-do to use and more fun , as described by rulesmaster Jeremy Crawford .
First off , Druids will be able to Wildshape at horizontal surface one instead of level two , to frame the ability as a core tool in the course ’ identity . More importantly , the rules for Wildshaping have been immensely simplify ; rather of need to cover down the stats for the creature you want to transmute into , there are three childlike family : Animal of the Land , Animal of the Sky , and Animal of the Sea . Each category has one childlike stat block no matter which specific brute you chose , calculate on your Wisdom stat . Within those categories , it sound like the sky ( and acres , and ocean ) is the point of accumulation , because Druids can even choose to become beast hybrids , and at tardy levels regorge spell in their Wildshape shape or not spend legal action on speedy translation in and out of them . There ’s a great batch more detail , as well as entropy on the Circle of the Moon subclass of Druids , in this TV ( viaPolygon ):
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Crwaford does n’t say that this upgrade was inspired by the upcoming Dungeons & Dragons : honour Among Thieves movie , whosefirst trailerincluded an in a flash iconic scene of the Druid tiefling Doric Wildshaping into an owlbear , but considering he pointedly cite that you could shapeshift into an owl and bear hybrid , the movie surely had something to do with it , right ? Technically , under the current D&D 5th Edition regulation , Druids ca n’t transmute into owlbears because they ’re sort as giant , not animals , which the current shape of Wildshape is limit to . But the animal hybrid ability seems specifically designed to earmark player to become owlbears ( among other things , like elementally - distort animals like a Phoenix , or a scag skirt chaser ) . All that other material is skillful and fun and probably full , but as usual , they had me at owlbear .
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