How You Should Buff Spore Druid

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Dungeons and Dragons 5e Druid is strong but some subclasses needs some love. Because we all know one dnd will not be able to buff Druid properly. In this video I talk about star druid, wild fire druid, land druid, circle of spores druid and a bunch of other things like beasts and zombies. Your circle should be good no matter which one you pick. and spore druid needed a lot of love lol.
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[@Kayplay120]

I always thought the biggest problem with Spores Druid was the fact that their symbiotic entity just stops after they take a hit or two. How are they supposed to be a melee subclass if they loose half of their abilities as soon as they get hit once? The Stars Druid just gets a clean 10 minutes of their special form, so why not the Spores Druid? Heck, the Moon Druid also looses their special form, as in their stronger Wild Shipe, after taking enough damage, however the Moon Druid effectiveley gets 20-30 hp of that shape at level 2, while the Spores Druid gets 8 hp. What was even the thought process behind giving them melee benefits, that stop as soon as they get into a fight?

[@bonewizard]

Ya, I wish I addressed that in my video. I would have had it stay on for 10 minutes regardless of what your temp hp is.

[@isaackarr6576]

What gets love is often tell tale of the person giving that love. Pact of the blade gets permanent. Shalily on any weapon with no debuffs. Selling your soul is the ultimate selling out on yourself

[@TymerAllen]

I wish zombies could expand your spore range like if they each had their own aura​@@bonewizard

[@bonewizard]

@@TymerAllen thatd be a cool idea. You can make that a fun magic item or power up for your players.

[@nugget0928]

What if it was, instead of either the temp hp expires or 10 minutes passes, it needs to be both the temp go expiring and 10 minutes passing? Like if you still had 3 temp hp when the ten minutes was up you stayed in symbiotic entity until you took 3 damage.

[@renatocorvaro6924]

Spore Druid isn't a melee class, it's a social class. By which I mean, a Spore Druid can completely undetectably murder people just by being near them. So you have a Spore Druid be the murderer in a murder-mystery, and everyone has to suspect everyone else because they don't know why people are dying.

[@bonewizard]

"Social" in the largest air quotes of all time haha

[@ULTIMATZEKROM]

The worst part of Wildfire Druid is that when Wizards brought it to Tasha's, they took Fireball from it.

[@bonewizard]

eh, I don't really think they need fireball. Its still good without it. Also revivify is taken by the true homies.

[@ULTIMATZEKROM]

@@bonewizard It's less that I think they need it to be good, and more because I like casting fireball.

[@bonewizard]

@@ULTIMATZEKROM See, that's the argument I can get behind.

[@skippy9273]

And gave every other druid flame shield and revival magic

[@Trenell83]

I would have been fine with Wildfire Druids getting a fire cantrip for free with the spirit being able to shed light and getting fire resistance or you know fire immunity since you bonded with a fire spirit.

[@isthisajojoreference]

I always thought the inspiration for the stars druid was the team thinking about an aspect of nature they hadn't covered yet and space is part of nature.

[@francomaemori7123]

This video deserves 1 million views at the very least for Bone's Mr Torgue impression. You capture his energy perfectly, also all hail the mushroom bois

[@bonewizard]

Im glad the pain of doing that impression for like 30 minutes of takes was worth it lol

[@JoanGGrau]

1:27 Circle of the Wildfire 4:00 Circle of the Stars 8:36 Circle of the Land 12:50 Circle of Spores

[@elmsigreen]

Ok, I love the theme of the Stars Druid. It deals with the sun, moon and the stars. How are they not a part of nature? It's a genius subclass. It feels like a village shaman that consults the movements of the heavens to predict the future.

[@egg_l0rd13]

I am in total agreement, that’s exactly what I was thinking the whole time he talked about Stars Druid’s thematics. PLUS, Wizard already has a subclass and a wide variety of spells it can choose based around divination.

[@elmsigreen]

@@egg_l0rd13 YES. I'm still waiting for just a straight up plant druid. One that maybe has Barkakin always prepared and can cast it for free.

[@aquamarinerose5405]

Yea, I always understood it as this idea that the control of the natural world is not purely the earth, but also the skies and the heavens. Though I think Mr. Bone Wizard's point that it seems more "Oracle" than "Druid" is a fair point, which mostly falls to the fact that Druid is the closest thing 5e HAS to a sort of "Oracle looking up at the skies and drawing power from the stars" class so it gets slapped on druid.

[@elmsigreen]

@aquamarinerose5405 If 5e had an oracle class, then it would make sense as a subclass for that one, but since 5e doesn't have one, it makes the most sense for Druid. Spirits Bard is in the same camp. It could be an oracle subclass if that class existed.

[@aquamarinerose5405]

@@elmsigreen Yea, I personally understood it, but thought to throw some discussion around and kinda note that I understand Skeleboy's chagrin with the subclass.

[@Nedoiko]

You hyping explosive fungus like that was the only buff I needed, that was magical ✨️

[@bonewizard]

Hope it works in your games.

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[@guineagrisen6099]

I dunno, it seems a little too *Hard*

[@Zr0din]

Yes, I play a Stars Druid and I LOVE it. People were like why not Moon? And I was like- Can't you READ? Land really needed the help but some of the spell lists were a little weird, I think Forest needed Web and Misty Step (Yeah, powerful - but until they do, no one will take it). I thought Spores druid was the strongest, but I didn't realize the saving throw agains their bonus action damage. I really hope they address the Save or Suck spell machanics in the next version so casters get a little SOMETHING for their spell slots when they cast.

[@bonewizard]

I honestly don't have a problem with save or suck spells. You wanna avoid those? Just cast damaging spells. Simple. You wanna do something more impactful? Cast a save or suck spell. Worried about getting unlucky and the DM rolling high? Well either take the risk, cast fireball, or dont play a game centered around random number generator rocks.

[@agrimmagallows5195]

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[@bonewizard]

If i do that voice too much, itll tear my throat to ribbons.

[@dragonicdoom3772]

All of these look like great changes! The only things I would change are personal preferences, the first being an idea I've seen flung around for Land Druid that they can attune to their current environment and gain the corresponding spell list. Basically turns their Circle Spells into a revolving door that they can change based on wherever they are. The other is a buff to Spores Druid where the 14th level feature also lets them burrow into the ground, since mushrooms are all interconnected via mycelium threads and it'd be sick if you could travel through them and pop up somewhere else. Plus it'd be a great repositioning tool for a melee build.

[@lyrix9753]

That Mr.Torgue skit deserves more than just a like! loved it!

[@bonewizard]

im so happy someone got the reference!

[@JACKSTAY]

Stars Druid is wonderful, honestly. I used mine as a seafaring Druid, who had a job as a navigator and used an astrolabe as a spell focus. That shit was cool. Long live Pyxis Yonaguni.

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I love your videos, they are funny and you speak the truth about balance ! To be so commited to balance you must be druid... With a hint of transmutation magic hehe. I'm very happy to see more of the skeleton in the future :D

[@MetalGlitch]

Two comments: 1) That was an amazing Mr. Torgue impression 2) There *can be* metals in fungi. Mushrooms will absorb and help break down some incredibly toxic stuff, including pesticides, radiation, and heavy metals.

[@lancearmada]

I always thought in lore wildfire druids magic fire can harm and heal, so they have more control over it than actual fire. Also the spirits aren’t really dying they are just going away, and they serve their purpose to assist the druid. In my setting they are kind of like lone knights who fight off corruption in nature.

[@W.S.H._men]

I like to roleplay the spirits as an extension of your own body, but lone knights are also pretty cool

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[@geisttraft7190]

Great video! I really like the changes, especially for the Spore Druid. My favorite (likely unintentional) interaction is that the boosts to melee spell attack cantrips also apply to Thorn Whip, since it specifies that it makes a melee spell attack. There's a lot of fun interactions this can lead to, and gives spore druids a lot of extra reach. One side note for your next video: I'd personally say that Shepherd Druid is the strongest druid subclass, since it buffs your summons so much. Conjure Animals (and to a lesser extent Conjure Woodland Beings) is the strongest spell druids have available because of the incredible amount of damage and battlefield control it brings to the table. Shepherd's Mighty Summoner lets your summons ignore resistance/immunity to nonmagical damage, which is the main limiter on the damage of summons in 5e, and their other features make those summons much tankier. I get that a lot of tables don't like playing with the full power of Conjure Animals, but if your DM is regularly allowing you to summon 8 (or even 4) creatures with the spell, you'll be doing some truly disgusting things in combat.

[@bonewizard]

ya thorn whip can pull creatures into your halo of spores. So thats pretty good. About Shepard druid, ill talk about them at length in my next video. I still think they need some buffs, just none of the stuff you brought up.

[@geisttraft7190]

@@bonewizard One question, what damage type is the spore zombie explosion? It isn't listed in the feature's text at 20:03, so I'd assume it defaults to the damage of the Halo of Spores (necrotic), which would make the spores zombies immune to the explosion damage.

[@bonewizard]

@@geisttraft7190 its necrotic

[@joshuagranstrom7954]

Called it. Also your spore druid is great and makes me really remember the druid liches of old. Druids used to be able to become liches! Minor spoiler for a very old module, in Red Hand of Doom from 3.5 a druid lich is one of the major villains you can beat to disrupt the BBEGs plans!

[@bonewizard]

Spore druids are cool. The 2nd most work i had to do to update one subclass.

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[@thebestgummybear9744]

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[@cobhallagames6997]

Spore druid is one of my favorites already, I would absolutly love to play with your changes! That sounds like a lot of fun

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[@bonewizard]

Thank you! Sink or swim, at least I made some cool stuff along the way.

[@joackomarrocco5341]

I love the fungal zombies sponsored by Torgue

[@bonewizard]

I was worried no one would get the joke lol

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[@loganfrandrup6590]

I was wondering when the next one of these would come up, and with Spore Duird being one of my favorite sub-classes next to Wildfire, this feels really freaking satisfiying. I have been adding these buffs into my games thus far, my players haven't touched on them yet, but I feel like this should be a bit of fun for them:) Also I'm assuming that Spore Ghost stat block is a work in progress? Edit: Also, I really doubt Moon Druids need to be any more buff then they are, but if you see an issue, but in any case I can't stop you from doing so.

[@bonewizard]

Hey, glad you like the changes. And NO! Spore ghost is done! its on the discord! discord.gg/cnMCt4dPeD

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I love these, me and my party of 7 use literally all of the changes from the other classes and I can’t wait to add the Druid in

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[@bonewizard]

Best piece of advice i can give to a first time dm. Your main goal, as well as everyone else's goal at the table, is to just make a fun time for all.

[@gogauze]

I quite like the Land Druid's revamped spell list. The Plant Growth and Freedom of Movement combo is absolutely cracked. I know they have access to them both, already. But it's especially nice if you never have to choose to prepare them.

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Loved the mr torgue bit a whole lot. High five would be proud

[@mortuusponduus7879]

I played with a friend of mine who wrote out a flames Druid in what was honestly one of the best characters I’ve seen. Their logic behind it was they played a Firbolg that was captured by the bhatarians as a soldier for the blood war specifically because they heard they wanted to see if a Druid could tap into the chaos of fire to fight the Tahnari, it gave the character a tragic backstory, a permanent gray coat(a feature based on his time in hades) and a fire element that we all called jalapeño who our DM allowed to carry flame weapons which made him insanely cool

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That does sound cool. Your thing is way cooler that what is presented in the book. Creativity of the player will always beat what's written in the source books.

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@@skylarpaquette4783 thanks mate

[@Fusrodog]

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[@bonewizard]

honestly I think its one of my most underrated jokes.

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[@Mushroompancake]

One thing I think is important to mention for your spores Druid rework: Thorn whip is a melee spell attack, with a range of 30 feet (like how a glaive has the reach property) so a Druid could theoretically gain all the benefits of symbiotic entity while still playing at range.

[@bonewizard]

Thats fine

[@quentinvoirol4638]

I made a wildfire druid which was my first druid, also didn't know any of their lore. I had the reason for his fire magic being that his culture focused on tree/lumber exports so they have a bunch of people protecting the trees and he was apart of a group who uses fire to deal with blight and other plant disease stuff. I never really thought of the wildfire druid being evil

[@KillerKorn44]

Thidhikherh (Food fore the Algorythem)

[@bonewizard]

Thanks mate

[@jojojojojojojojojojojojo4181]

Bones Torgue voice is perfect

[@bonewizard]

THANK YOU VERY MUCH

[@willferrous8677]

It's the mystery of the droods!

[@Sketch_Golem]

Thank you, lord skeletourge

[@bonewizard]

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[@barryshropshire5142]

Played a Circle of the Land (Swamp) druid for Curse of Strahd once. Very fun. Didn't give a single shit about any class feature other than natural recovery, including circle spells. Still very fun. Good buffs :)

[@TwinSteel]

8:06 pick up the gun

[@bonewizard]

Noooooo, Im stronger than that!

[@braintornout6555]

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[@bonewizard]

Get ready for more then

[@jahpocalypse]

spore druid's symbiotic entity should keep working even if the temp hp is taken away

[@bonewizard]

100% agree.

[@michaelgroce966]

Yooo my second favorite subclass. Can't wait for this ad to end so I can get into this video (comments are good for the KZbin algorithm)

[@bonewizard]

Thanks mate. Theres also a part 2 if i don't talk about your fav subclass in this video.

[@michaelgroce966]

Wow you're quick lol! Post video, I love that this went COMPLWTELY different then what I expected! An additional melee cantrip feels great, and this results in a swirling storm of spores and mycelial spawns, rather than bonk twice (which was my thought- give either bladesinger or eldritch knight extra attack). Also, straight 10 minutes, but I see that's already been mentioned.

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Also. Monk rebuild and good spores rebuild, you have earned my 6th subscribe

[@jakckiluejdbx4520]

Love the vid :D

[@amberslime3683]

7:57 Not gonna lie it took me until you said "okay fine I'm not gonna nerf Star Druid" for me to realize that this was a joke about nerfing Star Druid and not a suicide joke that involved a nerf gun.

[@bonewizard]

Dear lord! No! I wouldn't make jokes like that lol. Yes it was just a joke about nerfing a subclass haha

[@yehonatankandel7365]

I love how there's blasphemous background music

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The ost has some good songs on their.

[@squingldoo4518]

Bro, i can immediately see some shenanigans with the Explosive Death feature. ZOMBIE CATAPULT.

[@bonewizard]

Well i feel like the catapult would add to many shenanigans plans. If you get a catapult, you earned the shenanigan.

[@demonderpz7937]

I personally like to play druids as nature's infiltrators, as well as guides to those lost within nature capable of helping people find their way safely home. I also can imagine druids acting similar to a shaman, or at the very least like a religious individual such as a Celtic priest. With that consideration, stars druid makes a lot of sense to me. People have used the stars for guidance while seafaring and while traveling through deserts because they are the closest thing travelers have to landmarks in those biomes and settings. Thus, being a circle of stars druid that guides people through landscapes such as druids or by boat makes a lot of sense to me, and fits the character who would be manipulating nature to permit safe travel for them and their allies in an otherwise inhospitable environment.

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[@bonewizard]

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[@Brutalyte616]

@@bonewizard I prefer Piccolo's take actually.

[@Shalakor]

Yeah, Wildfire does seem a bit more edgy than regenerative. At least that means they fit in better with the typical adventuring party. ;P While I get "study and record keeping" fitting in Wizard's wheelhouse, I do feel like having an oracle themed star reading Druid is entirely appropriate. Plus, it's not like other casters didn't already have knowledge focused subclasses for as far back as the PHB. ...Though, maybe if going for a full-blown astrological science subclass, fitting it in Artificer would be more appropriate than Wizard? Since, from a mystical/magical perspective, Druid was the right choice in my book. ...Honestly, Wizards are more about using their categorical knowledge to manipulate magic to their own personal designs, while Druid is THE class about studying how to harness magic in its raw, unchanged state, to do with it what it was already prepared to do. Multiple Druid subclasses are sagely in description. With circle spell list changes, you should have edited in a highlighter effect to show which were changed if not actively discussing them. Arctic's only changes being first level spells still makes it feel like it'd be a ton of fun to play with Armor of Agathys full upcasting. Each list probably still could use more tweaking against each other, but perfection in balance is probably impossible anyway. ...Nature's Sanctuary at level 6 could also work as a nice match-up with Land's Stride, if you didn't go the way you did of making it similar to the Tasha's Sorcerer subclasses with Speed of the Circle. ...Friendly Land's Stride is a bit too clunky, should probably just be able effect multiple targets with a single use to be more table friendly. Being level 14, maybe any number a creatures of your choice within 30 feet of you, and maybe using your Wild Shape uses as a resource (in which case, could even use that duration or 1 hour instead of 10 minute, since it has both utility and combat application)? The fungal zombie statblock could be cleaned up a bit to read more like the recent statblocks for summons and companions. No mechanical difference to how you already wrote it, other than maybe calling out being allowed to willing fail the wisdom saving throw to use it as a bomb once level 10 rolls around. ...The new Enfeebling Hand cantrip could probably still be good using a d6, while simplifying it to just reduce the next instance of damage the target does regardless of source. ...Also, kinda wish the Spore features gave a choice of Poison or Necrotic so you could choice the published or UA flavor, even though I don't think there's many cases at all where something resistant or immune to Necrotic isn't also the same for Poison, while plenty more Poison doesn't work on in general beyond that. Might even extend Already said too much, but could probably say more. Still, need to move on to part 2.

[@cobhallagames6997]

I mean Shelagh let's you use your Wis to attack. It does require you to be ready for a fight, but it definitely helps out, especially if you use a Quarterstaff and optional Shield.

[@bananabanana484]

The stars are very connected to nature. The seasons are tracked via the stars, and specifically constellations. A stars Druid makes perfect sense

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[@armartin0003]

For my spore druid I got the DM to let me transform into plants. The low mushrooms I turn into are pretty great, though the walking speed is lacking.

[@CitanulsPumpkin]

The main thing spore druids need to up their melee is stuff that the base druid already gets. Shillelagh, shields, and half plate. Tack on feats like war caster and their melee is going to be just fine compared to other gish builds. Spreading Spores is fine as is because it's not meant to be used by itself. It's meant to be layered on top of any of the AOE damage and control concentration spells the druid list is full of.

[@tomaspabon2484]

Shillelagh with a magic quarterstaff can get pretty busted. Also thats a pretty awesome Torgue Impression

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How can you make shellelagh busted?

[@4E414D45h]

Departing from class enforced cliches add to your character, not substracts. I have a circle of the stars druid as one of my player and her story and build makes a lot of sense.

[@couver73]

I will point out with Cosmic Omen...compared to some other features, it's strong but not too powerful. Wanna know why? *Eloquence Bards do this better with Unsettling Words!* It takes a bonus action, thus saving up your reaction, it lets you use your Bardic Inspiration die (up to a *d12* for crying out loud), AND you aren't a slave to the luck of the dice to get the ability to impose a penalty. The only downside is the creature has to make a saving throw before your next turn. But still, Cosmic Omens is balanced compared to Unsettling Words.

[@bonewizard]

Comic omen is balanced compared to the wildly over powered ability from the over powered subclass lol

[@jacoblindsay2942]

You know a druid subclass I've been looking for? A Swamp Thing like druid who weaponizes plants. I mean, we have druids of stars, fire, two for animals, fungi, the feywild, and the general terrain, but not one that is strictly focused on plants.

[@bonewizard]

Alot of people have wanted that, but no such luck from wizards.

[@mileslugo6430]

I always saw the star druid as a version of Polynesian wayfinders traversing the largest ocean to reach lands most wizards and Noble think impossible if you weren't sailing your ship with the wind

[@bonewizard]

That is a wonderful idea, and with very little effort, you already have a better idea for that druid that WotC did!