How You Should Buff Spore Druid  

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?

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Ya know I was kinda just watching this while playing darks souls and then you bust out that Torgue impression and I was so impressed I nearly got boned by a skeleman. If you did the voice in every video from now on, I don't think I could miss one.

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.

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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.

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.

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

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.

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!

Wow, glad to see you back!🧙‍♂️ Your videos are always made with so much love and hardwork and they are very useful too. So thanks! Unfortunately, I'm from Russia so I can't donate to Patreon or RU-vid right now (sanctions, y'know), but I just want you to know how much I appreciate your content☺

This video took a lot of energy to make, I'll sub, this level of madness is rare.

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.

Finally this is my favorite RU-vid series and I have been waiting so long

Great video, good luck with the full time YT plan! If you keep making stuff like this, i think you got a pretty good shot!

Of course this came out at the same day as the OneDND Druid UA

Finally! A new video from my favorite RU-vidr, Mr. Boner!

I love the fungal zombies sponsored by Torgue

Thank you bone wizard!

This video has really high production quality

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.

No worries about splitting the video, just so glad to see a new video

I love his buffing videos so much, i wish he would upload more often ):

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HE HAS RETURN!!!! I love this channel and boney dude!!!! Edit: Can't help but notice the Bastion OST in the video, god I love that game OST!

i’m legitimately impressed with how high quality for a channel SO SMALL, i think your a channel with a great future. maybe the algorithm favor you

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I was literally thinking yesterday "Hmm I wonder where bone wizard went" and here's a new video. Great timing man. Love the content

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

Just in time for the 1D&D playtest.

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The spore druid rework. Phenomenal

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

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.

Love your work, dude. You're funny and you have good ideas, I hope you go far.

You are definitely an underrated dnd RU-vidr. Your videos are fucking hilarious and I love the creativity. Keep it up!

There are more layers to the mother Theresa metaphor than most people realize

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

Absolutely nailed that mr. Torgue

welcome back bone wizard.

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

I'M SO GLAD YOU'RE MAKING MORE VIDEOS!!!!

Love the music from Bastion here 14:13 , one of the most underrated video game soundtracks fs

The Torgue segment is absolutely *chef's kiss*

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 :)

Great Job on that Mr. Tourge Voice!

Bravo for the spot-on Mr. Torgue impression.

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

Didn't expect the Torgue cross promotion

okay that bit about explosive death was funny. good job

Anyone else love the Mr. Torgue impression or is it just me?! Awesome video bro!

Bastion music moment let’s fucking go

ah yes, the most powerful elemental nature magic out there: BEAR

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

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

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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.

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.

Bones Torgue voice is perfect

Just stumbled across this channel and I've been really enjoying the videos man. Keep up the good work

Your Mr Torgue impression is great btw! It may not be exact yet but it was still awesome! Been fixated on your videos for a lil while now since I'll be a first time DM very soon!

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.

Star Druids: *Cosmic Omen* Chonomancy Wizards: Cute.

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Aye Heck yeah! Full comital to the channel? Best wishes my guy!

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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.

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8:06 pick up the gun

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

If you were going to nerf Star Druid, I like the idea of making it so that if you use weal and the roll still fails or if you use woe and the roll still succeeds, then your next attack roll or saving throw before the start of your next turn has a d6 subtracted from it. Fits with the whole theme of manipulating fortune and adds a bit of risk.

Druids aren't "part of Celtic myth" they're an entire religious authority figure which is why the dnd class also has religious overtones, and yes druids in real life also practiced astrology, they were also talented diplomats, storytellers, oral historians and a whole bunch of other stuff that priests and wisemen from other cultures do too, I just wish wotc would give druids more respect.

I would think with all the light pollution blocking us from seeing the stars and how many animals use the stars to navigate, the Stars druid have a place with their circle.

Great Vid, worth the wait, can't wait for part 2

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.

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

I think it was much simpler than that. We have Circle of the Moon so of course we need Circle of the Stars too.

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.

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 RU-vid algorithm)

I love how there's blasphemous background music

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.

I got a spore druid. I had to multiclass into ranger to make the "its conceived as a mele druid" build make sense. I took swarmkeeper subclass so it still felt spore-ish.

For Halo of Spores, I feel like a 15-ft radius and buffing the damage scaling should work. I'm thinking at lv 2, it deals 1d4 + WisMod necrotic damage, and every 4 levels, it increases by an extra 1d4. This does favors for how much damage it deals.

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.