Druid

Druid: Druid Circles: Circle of the Primordial

These druids can command the elements, shape the environment and wield natural energies to protect and restore balance. Their deep connection to primordial forces makes them formidable guardians of the natural world.

Circle of the Primordial Features

Elementalism

When you join this circle at 3rd level, you add ‘primordial spirit’ to the list of wild traits available to your great beast spirits:

Primordial Spirit. This creature gains the following benefits:

•          The creature’s maximum hit points cannot be lower than your Wisdom score.

•          The creature gains additional benefits based on your ‘elemental attunement’.

•          The creature’s type is elemental, and it doesn’t need to breathe.

Elemental attunement

In addition, you must choose one element to attune to: air, earth, fire, water. You can change this choice whenever you finish a long rest.

Your ‘elemental attunement’ determines you list of circle spells. Your elemental attunement choice also grants additional benefits to the ‘primordial spirit’ wild trait. When you change your ‘elemental attunement’, these benefits automatically change to match the chosen element.

Elemental Form

Beginning at 10th level, you can expend 4 uses of you ‘call of the wild’ to wild shape into an elemental form instead of one of your great beast spirits.

When you ‘wild shape’ into a hag, it follows the rules for ‘wild shape’ except:

•          You use the hag form template instead of one of your great beast spirit templates.

•          You gain 10 + 5 per druid level temporary hit points. The shape lasts until you lose the temporary hit points, until you use a bonus action to resume your normal form, or until you use your wild shape feature again to take a new form.

•          The form gains a special elemental trait associated the element of your ‘elemental attunement’ instead of any wild trait available to your great beast spirits.

Elemental Traits

Air. The elemental gains the following benefits:

•          It is immune to thunder damage

•          It has a fly speed of 90 feet.

•          As a bonus action, the elemental can move up to 60 feet in a straight line. While moving in this way, it can move through other creatures, and its movement does not provoke opportunity attacks. Each creature it moves through must make a Strength saving throw or be pushed 10 feet in any direction (your choice).

Earth. The elemental gains the following benefits:

•          It is immune to acid damage.

•          It has a burrow speed of 40 feet and can burrow through nonmagical, unworked earth and stone. While the elemental burrows in this way, it does not disturb the material it moves through.

•          As a bonus action, the elemental throws a rock at another creature within 40 feet of it. The target must make a Dexterity saving throw or take 3d6 bludgeoning damage and be pushed up to 15 feet directly away from the elemental. The elemental cannot move another creature that is gargantuan with this ability.

Fire. The elemental gains the following benefits:

•          It is immune to fire damage.

•          Whenever it is hit with a melee attack, the elemental can use its reaction to deal 3d6 fire damage to the attacker.

•          As a bonus action, the elemental can target a point it can see within 60 feet. Each creature within 10 feet of the point must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or take 3d6 fire damage. This fire spreads around corners and ignites flammable objects in the area that aren't being worn or carried.

Water. The elemental gains the following benefits:

•          It is immune to cold damage.

•          It has a swim speed of 90 feet.

•          As a bonus action, the elemental can transform into a wave and move 30 feet in any direction of its choice in a body of water. When it does so, the elemental can move through other creatures and each other creatures it moves through as well as each creature within 10 feet of a space the elemental moves through must make a Strength saving throw or be moved 30 feet in the same direction the elemental moves. Creatures that are huge or larger have advantage on this saving throw.

Primordial Magic

Beginning at 18th level, you can cast your 1st and 2nd level primordial circle spells without expending a spell slot. You can also cast spells on your primordial circle spell list while wild shaped into an elemental.