Thematically I really like the spell Druid grove. It has such an amazing variety of effects and the idea of using downtime to make a permanent area of magical forest just seems so...druidy!
while i agree that shapechange is the most useful spell, storm of vengeance hold a special place in my heart for it's range of "sight". It evokes to me the image of a pissed off druid standing on a mountain top, looking over at a faraway castle on the horizon and deciding "#%@% that place" and raining death and misery from miles and miles away
I love Shapechange simply because it harkens back to an old myth about Merlin. He was duelling either his student or Morgana (depending on the version) and both parties kept changing into different animals as they fought across Britain.
8:00 fear immunity? That reminds me of a bug I had in Neverwinter Night 2 Storm of Zehir, when facing One of Many. My paladin was forced to spend all his action doing the saving throw vs fear, effectivly paralysing him.
Once when fighting a beholder and its minions, they were hovering over a lava lake blasting my party with eye rays while the barbarian and paladin couldn't do anything. I cast reverse gravity in the lava, sending it flowing upwards over the beholder and minions. =D (you should look up the damage for being submerged in lava.)
the wizard in my party just did something similar. party of 4 vs about 15 enemies including a cr 8 giant. Giant was a smith so encounter happened in his foundry room. Wizard cast animate objects on the molten metal in the oven. I ruled it a single large object. He treated it as a fire elemental that swallowed enemies whole. took out the giant then released his concentration on the spell when the molten mess was in the middle of the other enemies and whooosh, insta-victory. I didn't even roll damage for them. It was too much fun to describe what happened.
@@josephmorse3089 That's for immersion (sinking into it), yeah? It's less for just ("just") walking on it, but yeah if it's flowing upwards from reversed gravity they're gonna be immersed in it. Brutal 😂 I greatly approve!
Unfortunately body thief requires the target to be a humanoid. Most likely to stop this exact exploit of taking over a very powerful but very dumb creature.
What are you? Oh. I'm a high level druid, shapechanged into an intellect devourer, possessing the body of a stone giant barbarian! I'm confused. Yeah, me too. Call it Wildshape-ception.
I play a level 15 Moon Druid in a seafaring pirate campaign. A few sessions back, two ships were cornering an allied ship of ours, firing on it as we approached. As we plowed full sail towards it, I stood at the bow, casting Tsunami during our approach. It picked up one ship and slammed it into the other, capsizing both and decisively finishing the battle over the course of a minute. High level Druids are barely-contained natural disasters, and it's wonderful.
If you're the only one, sure. The problem becomes that any high level Druid in your world should be able to do it, so you then have to start asking why they're not. The same applies to all high level casters.
one thing to note about transport via plants is that it doesn't say the terms teleport, portal, or extra-planar anywhere in the spell, in fact it almost seems to explicitly avoid any use of those terms. meaning that technically warding spells that normally protect against those effects such as private sanctum or Forbiddance won't protect from this spell. For example if a wizard tower happens to have an alchemical garden with a tree in it you could transport to. of course this is a bit of a technicality so make sure to ask your DM about it beforehand to see what they think.
Pissed off Wizard/Artificer, Jonn H Amond, sees a Druid/Chaos Sorcerer, Iain Malacomb, stepping out of a tree in his garden Jonn: "This is impossible! I spared NO EXPENSE on the defenses of this tower! Iain: "Life finds a way."
One thing to remember about Shapechange though is that it requires Concentration. Still, if you turn into a Dragon with its +10 to Con Saves(or more) it takes a heavy hit before there's a possibility of losing Concentration. Fun times though, turning into a Silver Dragon and blasting the enemy with Paralysis Breath. Turns the Fighter into a Critical hit machine.
Wall of fire, greater restoration, contagion(if the enemy is not immune to poison), maelstrom(great at screwing with enemy movement), insect plague also can do this. Druids can do some fun stuff.
You guys make such good context! Its astonishing the creativity and diversity. I’ve never been interested in playing a Druid, and some how you’ve changed my mind.
Druids are like my fav class specially moon. there is alot of things that bother me like a home made swetter BUT MAN IS IT FUN TO TURN INTO A BEAR AND MAUL ENEMIES !!! Dont be afraid to tell your DM about some stuff that bother you and do try to use the Class varient expanded spell list it really REALLY help the druid.
Top tip: While druids can be absolute BEASTS in combat, their most fun applications are in problem-solving. Don't restrict yourself to just beast shapes, that gets boring very quick.
"Loses gas?" Yeah right! A high level Druid is an army killer. Storm of vengeance used on an encampment will completely wreck it and kill most of the soldiers camping there. Earthquake can take out whole villages or smaller camps and make it impossible to travel because of all the fissures. Control Weather can bring an army to its knees when your temperate, overcast, calm day becomes arctic cold, torrentially raining and storming. Let's not forget Mirage Arcane (1 of 2 illusion spells the Druid learns), which literally changes (disguises) the landscape to whatever you desire, granting you ultimate control of the battlefield, and lasts for 10 days. As an added bonus, you could just be a bird the whole time, so no one would even suspect where you were.
Yess they are pwoerful against areas I dont think druid was weak in that point ever.. its just too many concentrations and lack of single target damage or aoe damage without concentration is like ... one of its worst traits,.
Add all that to the 20th level Moon Druid having, effectively, infinite hit points and there is no other class besides wizard, maybe, that can even keep up.
@@optimus2200 Yes but you have to play to the classes strength. There are plenty of other classes that are good at that. A Druid has it's strength in Roleplay and giving the ability to figuratively twist an arm of someone or a group of people to do as they say. So yes, There isn't a lot of single-target damage like you'd see with a Barbarian/Fighter. BUT, How many classes can cause an entire castle to crumble or suffer an unrelenting storm for a week?
@@SgtTeddybear66 I can pick up a cat and have the best roleplay of the table and that I did . and who else can do that lets see Bard Cleric Sorcerer and Wizard ..... Huh look at that almost every other spell caster.
@@logancuster8035 You are talking about a single subclass "not counting forge druid because its almost the same" and maybe Spore druid getting 80 Temp hp every turn. but thats at level 20 ... LEVEL 20 how many characters reach that from level 1 heck from level 5 even. at that point other charcters gain sooooo much too like magical Items and such. while the lack of support for druids is really bad in the other hand...
Well, how would you go about it? You couldn't hope for success by the usual assassin means, sneaky crossbows from the bushes, or poison in their food. For my current party, the would-be assassin would need to think outside the box. Managing to separate one party member and applying some paralytic effect seems the best course of action. Of course, as a DM, you don't actually want to kill the player characters, especially not in such a cheap manner, where they don't get to retaliate. But that *is* how assassins operate. They cheat. They lie. They take every advantage they can get. This makes it a tricky prospect.
I mostly just wanted to point out that Shapechange is also on the Wizard spell list, but really in the lore Maleficent is/was a fairy, so she likely has an innate spellcasting ability. But if she has any class levels, I would agree that she's likely a druid. But tbh she's probably an archfey and/or a really good-looking hag or something.
Basically a druid is a BIG TIME battlefield controller. A lot of the good stuff is at lower levels, but the Wall of Thorns can and WILL stop an entire army on the spot and it has that wonderful, dark fairy Tale feel to it. Fire Storm is another Fairy Tale spell in the idea of 'He burned the whole village down!' it's a show of serious power and can burn an entire fleet of ships to cinder. Tsunami wipes out a port and the town around it which cripples a nation's trade. Finally Shapechange. You need to face a dragon? Well now you got another dragon to fight it for your favourite godzilla movie moments. Or in case you need to just eat a Dark Knight. All of these are not only solid picks, but I chose them because it feels like something out of a fairytale doesn't it? I used Maleficent from Sleeping Beauty for inspiration. Straight up fairy tale and something that a BBEG could pull out. Now imagine the heroes using it tactically.
The only thing I can think of now is a high-level druid turning into a fish or a whale and then casting tsunami just to mess with their heads. Then there would be this legendary whale that can cause destruction to whole cities.
It's a little limited. Here are some I like. Level 1 -- Absorb Elements. Healing Word. Longstrider can be fun. I love it for Moon druids. Level 2 -- Lesser Restoration. Darkvision can be worth a cast in some situations. Same with Protection from Poison. Level 3 -- Plant Growth. Dispel Magic. Erupting Earth (Not good, but it's what we got, and at least you get to play with d12s...) Level 4 -- Freedom of Movement. Blight maybe? I'm not big on CON save spells. Level 5 -- Transmute Rock, Greater Restoration.
Look up Contagion. On hit, it gives (at least) 3 rounds of excellent debuff before even Legendary saves can kick in. Blight is also good. But no good AoE damage options, I've found.
@@a.spirit8408 I love the concept of contagion, but how viable is it to cast in combat where it takes at a minimum 3 rounds to take effect, it relies on a con save, and you have to succeed on the melee spell attack? Also planning on playing a wildfire druid which gets fireball, so that is a really nice spell to cover up their weaknesses.
@@ZombieMonkey7 I think the selling point of Contagion is the spell attack just has to hit for you to lock in the Poisoned condition, imposing Disadvantage on Attacks and ability checks until they make 3 successful con saves. There's nothing they can do about it. If you hit, and if the target isn't outright immune to poison, you guarantee their next 3 rounds of attacks are made at disadvantage.
@@villainvoice5143 Which is pretty good if they make single target high damage attacks, or anything else with attack rolls... but it's pretty useless if they have AoE attacks (like a dragon breath weapon, or a caster blasting spell like Cone of Cold, or Dawn) From experience, unfortunately.
shapechange bsss you absolutely get the creature legendary resistance Kidna cool. I really wish it was a bonus action because like ..... there is nothing worst than casting a spell and waiting a turn to use it and then losing concentration or getting dispelled without doing anything with that spell ..... and yes that happened to me twice. and some of the powerful creature have equipment in thier stats and like the spell doesnt give you this equipment .. the pit fiend mace or the planatar greatsword. And that your equipment doesn't change thier shape or retain their effect ... Many things really holding this spell from being the best thing around.
Your equipment can be used while shapechanged if the form can use it, so if you have a powerful staff you can turn into a Pit Fiend and still use that staff if you want.
@@ittyandpocky and that staff would be the size of a toothpick to your pit fiend hand. and then some dms would say tahts not a mace so you cant use it in your multiattack for example even though it might say that equipment changes size to mach your size good luck playing in AL and finding a DM that would allow that.
@@optimus2200 Magic equipment changes size to match the wielder RAW, so if it's a magic staff, it should change. Magic armor does so halfling and goliath can swap armors.
Me and some of my friends are making a dungeons and dragons Star Wars version. We made the classes, races, backgrounds, monsters, and we are almost done! The classes are Jedi, bounty hunter, noble, pilot, and trooper. You might have seen this comment on the last video by my freind, ORAForce Gaming, who is doing this with me, and also loves your videos. Please upvote so Monte and Kelly see it! Great job guys! Love your videos, and they have helped me a lot in my campaigns as dungeon master and player. I hope this Star Wars dnd goes well.
@@codenameera3709 There's an old Star Wars D20 game that was based on the 3rd edition D&D rules, so it has the usual stats, and rolling for attacks and skills, and saving throws, and all that jazz. It's the rule system that the KotOR games used.
Important to note; You don't HAVE to touch a tree with Transport Via Plants. It can also be any tree you have seen at any time. So truly? You can create a network of transportation. It doesn't necessarily have to be between two tree's. It can be any tree you have seen or touched as your destination.
Yup, like as seen with Keyleth from CR's Campaign 1... she would regularly scry on intended destinations to find a suitable tree, and then transport the party there. Pretty damn useful! Arguably significantly better than Teleport for any places that have trees, which is most of them (like, at least ONE of decent size... no need for a forest or anything!) because there is no risk of mishaps (everyone taking a lot of force damage, possibly even repeatedly!) or bad targeting (similar destination but not the intended one)
@@mduckernz exceot i just realised scrying only allows you to scry on locations you've seen before, so they kinda got some free access to locations.trying to work out if i let me party do it that way too...
I’m really loving all this Druid content! I’m a newer player and it’s my first time playing a Druid AND a spell casting class so these videos have been very helpful!
How to get wish as a druid: Step 1: Search for an evil archmage (the statblock just says that their spell list is the list of *prepared* spells). Step 2: feeblemind them when they sleep Step 3: shapechange into an intellect devourer Step 4: hop into their brain.
Since you state that you can "pop-in and -out" during the 8 hour duration of this spell as you desire, is this spell an "all or none" type? If you are the druid and you have 5 others in your group (total of 6) can you "pop" in and out only a single character at a time for an encounter while the rest are still in gaseous form, or must it be the entire party all be in gaseous form or the entire party all in their normal form?
Individual party members can drop in or out of cloud form at-will. We know this because the spell gives the transformation action to creatures affected by the spell, not just the caster "The only actions a creature can take in this form are the Dash action or to revert to its normal form (...) Until the spell ends, a creature can revert to cloud form, which also requires the 1-minute transformation."
Y'all be talking about shape changing into crazy monsters, but I'm sitting here thinking about how useful that spell is to become important NPCs for an hour, like a King or the big bad boss, to gain access to places and information you normally wouldn't have.
Unfortunately you turn into a creature type, not a specific creature. It says you turn into an average example of that kind of creature, so instead of turning into the king, you turn into an average human male.
Druids are my favorite class. I change my mind along. Being able to customize your spell each day plus rge themes available us great. Going on a search adventure? Pick those Spells. Meed a healer? Heal. Need ro destroy an enemy fory! Call a druid. Your tank is gone? Fibd a tank wild shape
17:03. I didn't realize that you could change your shape again as a action. I would like to see a video with great inate spell-casting abilities for creatures In-Shape change. Thanks again
can't believe you missed animal shapes. You literally get to transform your party into packs of wild beasts. Every round you get to reset their hp to the maximum by shifting the form to a new beefy beast. For 24 hours.
It's not really high level, but the reincarnate spell is unique to druids and allows them to revive creatures that are missing body parts or their head. Since the cleric doesn't have the capability to revive a headless ally until 4 levels after the druid does, (using resurrection) it provides a really cool niche benefit. Useful for when your friend gets devoured by a mind flayer.
On yourself - Shapechange. It allows to keep all mental stats and class abilities. On someone else - True Polymorph. You can totally disable some enemy, or turn your ally into some high-VR creature.
@@pedrodarosamello64 oh okay, I never knew, thanks man, to be honest I haven't played in a campaign over 7th level, but true polymorph allows you to turn stuff into things right, like you can turn a bad guy into a pot plant right?
My personal favorite for 7th level is Regenerate. It takes a minute to cast, so you can't use it before a battle. But it lasts an hour, so you can cast it if you know you're in for a rough fight. It gives you 1 hitpoint at the start of each of your turns. Meaning that if you go unconscious . . . you get right back up. This spell essentially makes you immortal for an hour unless something swarms you with multiattacks or something.
Mmm, yes, whirlwind. The spell that let our Druid yeet the BBEG off of a cliff, causing massive fall damage and basically one shotting him. That was an easy final fight
I was messing around with the idea of just using an investiture and a wild shape. Flaming water elemental is nasty or just charging someone as a flaming elk or grappling them as a fire snake seems nice. Not broken, but seems cool enough for me
Actually I have a shapechange question, if you turn into a planetar you can cast raise dead 3x per day without the material component. But shapechange only lasts an hour, and raise dead requires an hour casting time. Can you actually raise dead as a shapechanged celestial? Heck wouldn't raise dead break your concentration?
@@ittyandpocky I thought casting spells with a casting time over 1 hour required concentration... Unless they meant meant that not in the spell casting sense?
thank you for sharing this detailed video - especially nice in following you other druid video! In my opinion, Druids have fun spells at all levels, including the cantrips - satisfying thematically and producing useful effects mechanically in the game. enjoyed learning your views and discussions!
... can intellect devourers take over undead creatures? Seems to be a way to break both the CR limit and the creature type restrictions. You could feeblemind a dracolich or something, then change into an intellect devourer (the feeblemind is to ensure success), take it over, and then have Greater Restoration cast on it to restore its capabilities. Too crazy? Heh
NIce list! I was thinking of playing a Circle of the Wildfire druid when it gets released in Tashas Cauldron, and was wondering what to do with the higher level spell slots.
My favorites: Level 6: Bones of the Earth or Heal Level 7: Plane Shift or Reverse Gravity Level 8: Animal Shapes or Antipathy/Sympathy Level 9: Shapechange or Foresight
1. Cast Sycring (Oh I heard of that strange land far far away, let's see) 2. Look for a tree or bush 3. Cast Transport Via Plants to literally ANYWHERE 4. Profit...
The following isn’t unique to druids, but it’s fitting for them. Pretty sure this is legal RAW, but it’s definitely cheese. 1. Enter a scenario where turns are required. This is to appease a pedantic DM. 2. True Polymorph yourself into a hydra, then wait an hour to make it permanent. (If an ally has True Polymorph, instead Ready the spell Time Stop with being morphed as the trigger. You should now have 1d4+1 extra turns as a hydra. This is optional, but if helps speed things along.) 3. Now for the weird part: attack _yourself_. This will give you more heads. More heads = more attacks. 4. Find a safe way to repeat step 3 ad nauseum. You can now attack as many times as you want per turn. Eat it, fighters! Errr... I guess the hydra’s doing eating actually, lol.
Remember, with True Polymorph, you would gain the Hydra's INT score of... 2. Which I at least would imagine makes the Hydra incapable of following through on such a tactic.
RAW "Transport via plants" is one-sided, so you need to cast it again to get back. And everyone can use it, including your enemies, so it isn't exactly safe to use it out-of-combat.
Well it doesn't require an action to go through, so everyone who goes through just readies an action to attack any non party member that emerges from the tree. Congrats your enemy followed you into the middle of a heavily guarded city.
Well let's take the crazy idea of *turning into an intellect devourer up to 11* Your party is fighting a Tarrasque, make it use up its 3 legendary resistances per day, find a way to give it disadvantage on int save (hexbalde curse?) Druid shapechange into the jumping brain, the beast has just a +5 to int save no with disadvantage effectively +0 *Congratulations you just one 4 shoted a Tarrasque*
@@theonlymatthew.l The Body Thief ability only works on humanoids, but Devour Intellect doesn't have that limitation. So while you couldn't technically finish off the Tarrasque like that, you would leave it more-or-less permanently stunned.
What, no "Animal Shapes"? "any # of willing creatures in 30' radius" becomes up to CR4 Large critters for 24 hours RETAINING intel/align; adjust shape at will. Instant army of (whatever) in place of village of squishy NPCs! Basically Mass Wildshape.
Step one: Make yourself a druid. Step two: Get to level 17 or higher. Step three: Find a tarrasque. Step four: Use Shapechange to turn yourself into an intellect devourer. Step five: Find a tarrasque Step six: Possess the tarrasque. Step seven: INFINITE POWAH!
Hello guys, first of all I really enjoy your videos but I am posting here a question, do you know if the Grove created with the 6th lvl spell can be burnt down, acheted away etc. as any wood? I am having troubles with an artificer and his constructs burning them (RP) starting from the guardians... It 8s highly annoying 😁
I'd agree with them that Shapechange is probably the most useful 9th level spell you could possibly choose, but there are a few mistakes I believe they make or maybe things they over looked. When shape changed, it would function no different that wild shape in that you are unable to cast spells if they require material or verbal components assuming you are unable to provide those. Theoretically, a dragon can speak and you could choose to have your focus drop on the ground beside you when you shape change then pick it up, but consider for a moment that any spell that can't be cast through your focus requires components and even if you were to pick up your component pouch, trying to get a single claw inside of a component pouch to remove a gem when the pouch is the size of a purse and the claw is the size of a trackhoe bucket. Also, you can still only transform into things you have seen. You're high level so I am sure you've seen some shit in your day XD but just cracking open the MM and picking out the most OP things you can find won't fly. Also, assume you need a very specific spell for a certain reason, say you need to resurrect someone, even had you seen a creature that could do so, if you've never seen the creature cast that spell and you are unable to pass a skill check to see if you know of a creature that can cast that spell, it is very meta gamey to go through the book looking for a creature that can do that so that you can transform into them. Certainty, if you have turned into that creature before though, you'd know of all of its abilities. That said, druids are f'ing awesome. Best spell casting class in the game IMO. You might lament not having wish, but I don't. In older editions it wasn't as big of a deal. When the spell also cost at minimum 5,000 xp and doesn't cover all component cost, that stops a lot of the abuse. Now it is playing whack a mole trying to tell players what will happen if they abuse wish for unlimited wealth or power. It's at the point that I just tell players, abuse wish only if you are ready to reset at 1, because either I am going to end your world, or you are going to end mine. Most likely, (most definitely) the former.
This video was amazing and filled with love for the druid. One thing I will say however in regards to Shapechange is that you need to have seen the creature at least once before you can turn into them. So if your DM doesn't want you to turn into certain problematic creatures, they can just never throw them at you. In this sense, its a lot less amazing and makes it significantly harder to abuse. However, imagine the fun of using this spell and then turning into every 1 hit wonder the DM has thrown at you over the course of the campaign!! And I think that's why Druid is such a wonderful class. Its thematic, its powerful, but above all, its fun. Its not always about throwing the biggest fireball or distorting the very fabric of the universe with Wish. Sometimes, its about taking notes of every scary creature the DM has used against you and "returning" the favor!
20th level druid using shapechange to transform into an intellect devourer, taking over the bbeg's pet tarrasque and having a BBEG snack is a wonderful image...
Casting reverse gravity shouldn't make the person hover. Someone would be at their maximum velocity when they reached the top of the column, I don't understand the logic of them slowing down and stopping unless the effect started to get weaker as the person got higher. Spell doesn't say that so in my mind it should launch a person to around 160-170 feet. 200 feet without air resistance.
so few weeks ago i bacame a lvl17 druid and was so excited to finally cast shapechange... short after the lvl up we get in the undermountain and faced a giant metall golem so i thought, its time. i change myself in a simalar big badass sphynx. he was next and gave me some big fucking metall slap with allmost 49 dmage and had to make a keep concentration roll on 24... and a turn later i died. and our wizzard had to do some work for saving me... and i was like no way this spell is useless conclusion we put away the concentration from it because with it its more ore less ''just'' a spell for exploration. in combat you cant really show others your magical power as a druid that you should have when jou achived to cast some of the strogest magic that exist in dnd for example a wizzard with his meteor swarm or kleric with mass heal or warlock with power word kill or the bard with literally each spell that exist. fore the balace we thougt... and it seems logic to us that the spell should not have concentration. sorry for bad english
This is the “spells as written rules” right? Fireball isn’t thrown it’s spawned right ? Yeah alright then inanimate means dead, lifeless. Not “without sentience”. So you can link dead plants.
I had fun with the regeneration spell. It's going to sound silly and wasteful I'm sure. But my druid was very particular about her hair. She loved her long hair. We got in a fight and it was burnt off to be extremely short. Every night before we went to take a long rest, if she still had the slot available, she'd cast regeneration to grow her hair an inch or two a night until it grew back to the length she had it.
I like all The spells they suggest, as someone who has played same druid 2 times a week for a year and a half. Never used shapechange though, i keep that for if i ever play high lvl moon druid for the theme. I use forsight alot. If you arent focused on combat its a clear winner but we have a rogue, its an insane combo, so much it felt like cheating, for the rogue to be able to have advantage all the time in combat is amazing.
I think transport via plants actually sucks. No living plant is inanimate; some definitions of inanimate literally mean not alive, but even the ones that just mean motionless don't apply to living plants. Every plant is chemically reacting, slightly changing the direction it's growing in, communicating with its environment, etc.
Wait a minute. a dragon has a spell called change shape. can you use that spell? if that is true than you can shape change into a dragon, than change shape into a human. so, you are a human but also a dragon but a human. I think that i just fried my brain.
Read through Shapechange, but legendary reactions don't fall under Legendary actions and therefore can be used by the caster. So when you take a stupid amount of damage or otherwise and somehow fail concentration, you can just burn 1 legendary resistance to stay transformed. Also, as legendary resistances are tied to a form and not the character, if the druid managed to change into something else (that might be weaker) but still has the legendary resistances, those are effectively refreshed.
i will remind several of you out there that the intellect devourer can use devour intellect on anyone, but can only use body thief on humanoids (and giants are not humanoids)
Thematically I really like the spell Druid grove. It has such an amazing variety of effects and the idea of using downtime to make a permanent area of magical forest just seems so...druidy!
while i agree that shapechange is the most useful spell, storm of vengeance hold a special place in my heart for it's range of "sight". It evokes to me the image of a pissed off druid standing on a mountain top, looking over at a faraway castle on the horizon and deciding "#%@% that place" and raining death and misery from miles and miles away
it was a quest spell(spells granted by gods) now a 9'th level
to be honest I read that comment as a Range of SIGH
XD
Which how you feel if you ever cast it in the middle of combat lol
I did the calculations, and you can theoretically do over 5 billion damage with storm of vengeance
Jean-Philipe Beaudoin In particular. “#%@% that place in particular.”
hard to be more iconic than that...
Think about a high level druid who can become a Air elemental and can cast whirlwind and fly above it
I love Shapechange simply because it harkens back to an old myth about Merlin. He was duelling either his student or Morgana (depending on the version) and both parties kept changing into different animals as they fought across Britain.
8:00 fear immunity? That reminds me of a bug I had in Neverwinter Night 2 Storm of Zehir, when facing One of Many. My paladin was forced to spend all his action doing the saving throw vs fear, effectivly paralysing him.
Thanks for the guide, Dudes :D
You can cast plant growth to have a more than large enough plant too.
Prepare.
I am guessing there was only one 9th level option because limited spells for that level?
Yes, we both agreed on our choice for 9th and with so few options we decided to just hone in on why we loved shape change.
@@DungeonDudes ah ok just making sure I didn't miss a mentioned spell. I even played it back to double check.
Once when fighting a beholder and its minions, they were hovering over a lava lake blasting my party with eye rays while the barbarian and paladin couldn't do anything. I cast reverse gravity in the lava, sending it flowing upwards over the beholder and minions. =D (you should look up the damage for being submerged in lava.)
That is glorious.
the wizard in my party just did something similar. party of 4 vs about 15 enemies including a cr 8 giant. Giant was a smith so encounter happened in his foundry room. Wizard cast animate objects on the molten metal in the oven. I ruled it a single large object. He treated it as a fire elemental that swallowed enemies whole. took out the giant then released his concentration on the spell when the molten mess was in the middle of the other enemies and whooosh, insta-victory. I didn't even roll damage for them. It was too much fun to describe what happened.
10d10 amir8
@@Answerisequal42 18d10, actually.
@@josephmorse3089 That's for immersion (sinking into it), yeah? It's less for just ("just") walking on it, but yeah if it's flowing upwards from reversed gravity they're gonna be immersed in it. Brutal 😂 I greatly approve!
“Turn into an intellect devourer and hop inside something’s brain”
Waaaaaaaait, terrasque? LUL
Yup. Yup yup yup yup yup. That's when it's time to WRECK SHOP. Plus your whole party can just ride on your back.
Love this soooooo much
sadly the tarrasque is too high CR for shapechange to work
@@yurglepop Thats why you don't shapechange into a terrasque. That would be too easy. You have to eat its brain as an intellect devourer
Unfortunately body thief requires the target to be a humanoid. Most likely to stop this exact exploit of taking over a very powerful but very dumb creature.
What are you?
Oh. I'm a high level druid, shapechanged into an intellect devourer, possessing the body of a stone giant barbarian!
I'm confused.
Yeah, me too. Call it Wildshape-ception.
Wait can you do this? Ahahahaha
@@esgeir9499 No, you can only shape change into BEASTS
@@kellykeegan2608 That's wild shape, Shapechange is a spell that is any creature at or below your level
What happens when shapechange ends? Do you reform inside of their head? That combo brings up SO many questions
Expanded Timestamps - Basic timestamps are in the description.
1:46 - 6th Level Spells
2:05 - Wind Walk
4:15 - Transport via Plants
7:21 - Heroes' Feast (Honorable Mention)
8:45 - 7th Level Spells
8:48 - Reverse Gravity
10:18 - Whirlwind
13:06 - 8th level spells
13:20 - Earthquake
14:08 - Tsunami
15:34 - 9th level spells
15:45 - Shapechange
20:42 - Conclusion
Let me know if I missed anything!
I play a level 15 Moon Druid in a seafaring pirate campaign. A few sessions back, two ships were cornering an allied ship of ours, firing on it as we approached. As we plowed full sail towards it, I stood at the bow, casting Tsunami during our approach. It picked up one ship and slammed it into the other, capsizing both and decisively finishing the battle over the course of a minute.
High level Druids are barely-contained natural disasters, and it's wonderful.
Druids are walking conduits for the forces of nature, so being able to do that is perfectly reasonable.
Tsunami (spell) probably can’t move ships, because ships are usually gargantuan.
But it can still wreck the people on the ships.
Best spell for you is control water, look that up. I played a similar druid and it was the best
If you're the only one, sure. The problem becomes that any high level Druid in your world should be able to do it, so you then have to start asking why they're not.
The same applies to all high level casters.
@@ataberkdedemen9802 it’s literally 300 feet tall and 300 feet wide, I think it can move ships
one thing to note about transport via plants is that it doesn't say the terms teleport, portal, or extra-planar anywhere in the spell, in fact it almost seems to explicitly avoid any use of those terms. meaning that technically warding spells that normally protect against those effects such as private sanctum or Forbiddance won't protect from this spell. For example if a wizard tower happens to have an alchemical garden with a tree in it you could transport to. of course this is a bit of a technicality so make sure to ask your DM about it beforehand to see what they think.
Pissed off Wizard/Artificer, Jonn H Amond, sees a Druid/Chaos Sorcerer, Iain Malacomb, stepping out of a tree in his garden
Jonn: "This is impossible! I spared NO EXPENSE on the defenses of this tower!
Iain: "Life finds a way."
@@ryadinstormblessed8308 then spits on his face I hope
One thing to remember about Shapechange though is that it requires Concentration. Still, if you turn into a Dragon with its +10 to Con Saves(or more) it takes a heavy hit before there's a possibility of losing Concentration. Fun times though, turning into a Silver Dragon and blasting the enemy with Paralysis Breath. Turns the Fighter into a Critical hit machine.
You also get Legendary Resistance with Shapechange (you only don't get Legendary Actions) so you can use those when you fail concentration saves
Planetars are really fun to change into. So much damage, insane resistances, high AC, you are a holy terror.
One of my friends has been struggling to prepare good spells for her mid level druid during our Thursday campaign, so this is perfect!
It's me. I'm the struggling druid. This was super awesome and helpful, thank you guys!
Wall of fire, greater restoration, contagion(if the enemy is not immune to poison), maelstrom(great at screwing with enemy movement), insect plague also can do this.
Druids can do some fun stuff.
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Shapechange allows you to use legendary resistances if applicable.
Big brain
@Garett Crook druids are always broken
It Clearly says "you can't use any legendary or lair actions of the new form"
@@ryanmcconnell6160 keyword being Actions, resistance is passive
I would say up to the DM, i would allow it at limited potential/opportunities to use
You guys make such good context! Its astonishing the creativity and diversity. I’ve never been interested in playing a Druid, and some how you’ve changed my mind.
Druids are like my fav class specially moon. there is alot of things that bother me like a home made swetter
BUT MAN IS IT FUN TO TURN INTO A BEAR AND MAUL ENEMIES !!!
Dont be afraid to tell your DM about some stuff that bother you and do try to use the Class varient expanded spell list it really REALLY help the druid.
Top tip: While druids can be absolute BEASTS in combat, their most fun applications are in problem-solving.
Don't restrict yourself to just beast shapes, that gets boring very quick.
Reverse Gravity is very good for getting rid of siege engines!
"Loses gas?" Yeah right! A high level Druid is an army killer. Storm of vengeance used on an encampment will completely wreck it and kill most of the soldiers camping there. Earthquake can take out whole villages or smaller camps and make it impossible to travel because of all the fissures. Control Weather can bring an army to its knees when your temperate, overcast, calm day becomes arctic cold, torrentially raining and storming.
Let's not forget Mirage Arcane (1 of 2 illusion spells the Druid learns), which literally changes (disguises) the landscape to whatever you desire, granting you ultimate control of the battlefield, and lasts for 10 days.
As an added bonus, you could just be a bird the whole time, so no one would even suspect where you were.
Yess they are pwoerful against areas I dont think druid was weak in that point ever.. its just too many concentrations and lack of single target damage or aoe damage without concentration is like ... one of its worst traits,.
Add all that to the 20th level Moon Druid having, effectively, infinite hit points and there is no other class besides wizard, maybe, that can even keep up.
@@optimus2200 Yes but you have to play to the classes strength. There are plenty of other classes that are good at that. A Druid has it's strength in Roleplay and giving the ability to figuratively twist an arm of someone or a group of people to do as they say.
So yes, There isn't a lot of single-target damage like you'd see with a Barbarian/Fighter. BUT, How many classes can cause an entire castle to crumble or suffer an unrelenting storm for a week?
@@SgtTeddybear66 I can pick up a cat and have the best roleplay of the table and that I did .
and who else can do that lets see
Bard Cleric Sorcerer and Wizard ..... Huh look at that almost every other spell caster.
@@logancuster8035 You are talking about a single subclass "not counting forge druid because its almost the same" and maybe Spore druid getting 80 Temp hp every turn.
but thats at level 20 ... LEVEL 20 how many characters reach that from level 1 heck from level 5 even.
at that point other charcters gain sooooo much too like magical Items and such. while the lack of support for druids is really bad in the other hand...
Can you make a video of how to DM assassins or bounty hunters hunting the party? It is a thin line of making the players frustrated vs having fun.
Well, how would you go about it? You couldn't hope for success by the usual assassin means, sneaky crossbows from the bushes, or poison in their food.
For my current party, the would-be assassin would need to think outside the box.
Managing to separate one party member and applying some paralytic effect seems the best course of action.
Of course, as a DM, you don't actually want to kill the player characters, especially not in such a cheap manner, where they don't get to retaliate.
But that *is* how assassins operate. They cheat. They lie. They take every advantage they can get.
This makes it a tricky prospect.
The scene in sleeping beauty where Maleficent turns into a dragon, that’s a Druid with shape change
Or a wizard
I think she was always a dragon seeming to be a human.
I’ve always seen maleficent as a Druid. I mean, she literally casts Call Lightning in the movie.
I mostly just wanted to point out that Shapechange is also on the Wizard spell list, but really in the lore Maleficent is/was a fairy, so she likely has an innate spellcasting ability. But if she has any class levels, I would agree that she's likely a druid. But tbh she's probably an archfey and/or a really good-looking hag or something.
Basically a druid is a BIG TIME battlefield controller. A lot of the good stuff is at lower levels, but the Wall of Thorns can and WILL stop an entire army on the spot and it has that wonderful, dark fairy Tale feel to it. Fire Storm is another Fairy Tale spell in the idea of 'He burned the whole village down!' it's a show of serious power and can burn an entire fleet of ships to cinder. Tsunami wipes out a port and the town around it which cripples a nation's trade. Finally Shapechange. You need to face a dragon? Well now you got another dragon to fight it for your favourite godzilla movie moments. Or in case you need to just eat a Dark Knight.
All of these are not only solid picks, but I chose them because it feels like something out of a fairytale doesn't it? I used Maleficent from Sleeping Beauty for inspiration. Straight up fairy tale and something that a BBEG could pull out. Now imagine the heroes using it tactically.
Use feeble mind then shape change into an intellect devour to take control
"you're mine now"
@@EricDMMiller Hail Hydra
The real answer is simple: A 9th Level Conjure Animals Wolf Swarm
With a shepherd druid
@@theallseeingtoaster5541 well ain't that a sheep in wolf clothing?
Or 32 octopuses and just grapple lock anyone for the rest of time
Captain Puffin Puffinson *cough* *cough* I don’t know what your talking about
The only thing I can think of now is a high-level druid turning into a fish or a whale and then casting tsunami just to mess with their heads. Then there would be this legendary whale that can cause destruction to whole cities.
Monty: How does that even work???
Kelly: I don't know but I want to see it in a game!!
Thanks.... I needed that today :)
You forgot the best part of Reverse Gravity: there's no Save!
actually its a dex save to hold into something :D
@@optimus2200 Only if there is something to hold on to
14:10 The Tsunami spell is from the PHb
What I really want to know are what are some of the best druid options to take that are non concentration spells for low to mid levels
It's a little limited. Here are some I like.
Level 1 -- Absorb Elements. Healing Word. Longstrider can be fun. I love it for Moon druids.
Level 2 -- Lesser Restoration. Darkvision can be worth a cast in some situations. Same with Protection from Poison.
Level 3 -- Plant Growth. Dispel Magic. Erupting Earth (Not good, but it's what we got, and at least you get to play with d12s...)
Level 4 -- Freedom of Movement. Blight maybe? I'm not big on CON save spells.
Level 5 -- Transmute Rock, Greater Restoration.
Look up Contagion. On hit, it gives (at least) 3 rounds of excellent debuff before even Legendary saves can kick in. Blight is also good. But no good AoE damage options, I've found.
@@a.spirit8408 I love the concept of contagion, but how viable is it to cast in combat where it takes at a minimum 3 rounds to take effect, it relies on a con save, and you have to succeed on the melee spell attack?
Also planning on playing a wildfire druid which gets fireball, so that is a really nice spell to cover up their weaknesses.
@@ZombieMonkey7 I think the selling point of Contagion is the spell attack just has to hit for you to lock in the Poisoned condition, imposing Disadvantage on Attacks and ability checks until they make 3 successful con saves.
There's nothing they can do about it. If you hit, and if the target isn't outright immune to poison, you guarantee their next 3 rounds of attacks are made at disadvantage.
@@villainvoice5143 Which is pretty good if they make single target high damage attacks, or anything else with attack rolls... but it's pretty useless if they have AoE attacks (like a dragon breath weapon, or a caster blasting spell like Cone of Cold, or Dawn)
From experience, unfortunately.
shapechange bsss you absolutely get the creature legendary resistance Kidna cool.
I really wish it was a bonus action because like ..... there is nothing worst than casting a spell and waiting a turn to use it and then losing concentration or getting dispelled without doing anything with that spell ..... and yes that happened to me twice.
and some of the powerful creature have equipment in thier stats and like the spell doesnt give you this equipment .. the pit fiend mace or the planatar greatsword.
And that your equipment doesn't change thier shape or retain their effect ...
Many things really holding this spell from being the best thing around.
you talking about turning into an Intellect devourer ... you such evil people I LUV IT XD
Your equipment can be used while shapechanged if the form can use it, so if you have a powerful staff you can turn into a Pit Fiend and still use that staff if you want.
@@ittyandpocky and that staff would be the size of a toothpick to your pit fiend hand. and then some dms would say tahts not a mace so you cant use it in your multiattack for example
even though it might say that equipment changes size to mach your size good luck playing in AL and finding a DM that would allow that.
@@optimus2200 Magic equipment changes size to match the wielder RAW, so if it's a magic staff, it should change. Magic armor does so halfling and goliath can swap armors.
@@ittyandpocky well I am talking from 3 years with AL and like only once that a DM let it fly tat an ape can wield a shield and wear an armor.
Me and some of my friends are making a dungeons and dragons Star Wars version. We made the classes, races, backgrounds, monsters, and we are almost done! The classes are Jedi, bounty hunter, noble, pilot, and trooper. You might have seen this comment on the last video by my freind, ORAForce Gaming, who is doing this with me, and also loves your videos. Please upvote so Monte and Kelly see it! Great job guys! Love your videos, and they have helped me a lot in my campaigns as dungeon master and player. I hope this Star Wars dnd goes well.
There are a ton of excellent published Star Wars RPGs I would recommend checking out. It might save you a LOT of time vs making your own system.
I really need this :")
Which ones would you recommend? I used one to try and help but it was very confusing
@@codenameera3709 There's an old Star Wars D20 game that was based on the 3rd edition D&D rules, so it has the usual stats, and rolling for attacks and skills, and saving throws, and all that jazz. It's the rule system that the KotOR games used.
Important to note; You don't HAVE to touch a tree with Transport Via Plants. It can also be any tree you have seen at any time. So truly? You can create a network of transportation. It doesn't necessarily have to be between two tree's. It can be any tree you have seen or touched as your destination.
Yup, like as seen with Keyleth from CR's Campaign 1... she would regularly scry on intended destinations to find a suitable tree, and then transport the party there. Pretty damn useful! Arguably significantly better than Teleport for any places that have trees, which is most of them (like, at least ONE of decent size... no need for a forest or anything!) because there is no risk of mishaps (everyone taking a lot of force damage, possibly even repeatedly!) or bad targeting (similar destination but not the intended one)
@@mduckernz exceot i just realised scrying only allows you to scry on locations you've seen before, so they kinda got some free access to locations.trying to work out if i let me party do it that way too...
I’m really loving all this Druid content! I’m a newer player and it’s my first time playing a Druid AND a spell casting class so these videos have been very helpful!
Druid and Cleric spell lists have always been a great mix of utility spells and damage spells.
Continuing the druid theme. Heck yeah! Thanks team Dungeon Dudes :)
How to get wish as a druid:
Step 1: Search for an evil archmage (the statblock just says that their spell list is the list of *prepared* spells).
Step 2: feeblemind them when they sleep
Step 3: shapechange into an intellect devourer
Step 4: hop into their brain.
Lol anyone here remember Keyleth's Wind Walk blunder from Season 1 of CR
Ha!
Shapechange into Rakshasa. GG BBEG
I built an awesome druid last night: hill dwarf land druid from a hermit arctic clan
Since you state that you can "pop-in and -out" during the 8 hour duration of this spell as you desire, is this spell an "all or none" type? If you are the druid and you have 5 others in your group (total of 6) can you "pop" in and out only a single character at a time for an encounter while the rest are still in gaseous form, or must it be the entire party all be in gaseous form or the entire party all in their normal form?
Individual party members can drop in or out of cloud form at-will. We know this because the spell gives the transformation action to creatures affected by the spell, not just the caster "The only actions a creature can take in this form are the Dash action or to revert to its normal form (...) Until the spell ends, a creature can revert to cloud form, which also requires the 1-minute transformation."
Blink 182 shirt? Oh man... that brings me back. I remember listening to them way back when - what's my age again?
I cast reverse gravity on a purple worm once that was in water, it was like playing snake!
Y'all be talking about shape changing into crazy monsters, but I'm sitting here thinking about how useful that spell is to become important NPCs for an hour, like a King or the big bad boss, to gain access to places and information you normally wouldn't have.
Come to think of it, if you shape change into the big bad guy... You know his stats and tricks! Lol
If you Play a moon druid, you can do that anyway wirh alter self
Unfortunately you turn into a creature type, not a specific creature. It says you turn into an average example of that kind of creature, so instead of turning into the king, you turn into an average human male.
Druids are my favorite class. I change my mind along. Being able to customize your spell each day plus rge themes available us great. Going on a search adventure? Pick those Spells. Meed a healer? Heal. Need ro destroy an enemy fory! Call a druid. Your tank is gone? Fibd a tank wild shape
The intellect devourer is such a nasty move i have to pull that off one day.
Reverse gravity, what goes up must come down, with damage at the stop at both ends.
Tsunami spell read "up to a 300ft..." meaning the caster can choose the size so it has far more utility than one might expect
17:03. I didn't realize that you could change your shape again as a action. I would like to see a video with great inate spell-casting abilities for creatures In-Shape change. Thanks again
Mindflayers and beholders?
@@antonlowe5370 yes but what if your group has no healing potential you could change into a Celestial, a unicorn can also heal and so forth
can't believe you missed animal shapes. You literally get to transform your party into packs of wild beasts. Every round you get to reset their hp to the maximum by shifting the form to a new beefy beast. For 24 hours.
It's not really high level, but the reincarnate spell is unique to druids and allows them to revive creatures that are missing body parts or their head. Since the cleric doesn't have the capability to revive a headless ally until 4 levels after the druid does, (using resurrection) it provides a really cool niche benefit. Useful for when your friend gets devoured by a mind flayer.
No love for animal shapes? You can literally have an army of unkillable giant scorpions!
Slightly off topic- shape change or true polymorph?
I think true polymorph allows for much higher cr creatures like dragons but wild shape is great either way and you use it more often
On yourself - Shapechange. It allows to keep all mental stats and class abilities.
On someone else - True Polymorph. You can totally disable some enemy, or turn your ally into some high-VR creature.
@@antongrigoryev6381 what if you are a warlock and can only take on or the other.
@@esgeir9499 Shapechange and True Polymorph have the same numer of uses and the same CR limit
@@pedrodarosamello64 oh okay, I never knew, thanks man, to be honest I haven't played in a campaign over 7th level, but true polymorph allows you to turn stuff into things right, like you can turn a bad guy into a pot plant right?
you can theoretically do over 5 billion damage with Storm of Vengeance
Kelly with the Blink merch 🤟🏻
My personal favorite for 7th level is Regenerate.
It takes a minute to cast, so you can't use it before a battle. But it lasts an hour, so you can cast it if you know you're in for a rough fight. It gives you 1 hitpoint at the start of each of your turns. Meaning that if you go unconscious . . . you get right back up.
This spell essentially makes you immortal for an hour unless something swarms you with multiattacks or something.
This is an AMAZING channel. Every time I watch them I ALWAYS feel entertained. Thanks!
Mmm, yes, whirlwind. The spell that let our Druid yeet the BBEG off of a cliff, causing massive fall damage and basically one shotting him. That was an easy final fight
I was messing around with the idea of just using an investiture and a wild shape. Flaming water elemental is nasty or just charging someone as a flaming elk or grappling them as a fire snake seems nice. Not broken, but seems cool enough for me
just a question, are fungi also considered plant? If I touch a giant fungi can I use Transport via Plants with it?
Afaik fungi are considered plants for game mechanics purposes.
I always treat them as such for my Spore Druid. Really adds some flavor for my spells.
Actually I have a shapechange question, if you turn into a planetar you can cast raise dead 3x per day without the material component. But shapechange only lasts an hour, and raise dead requires an hour casting time. Can you actually raise dead as a shapechanged celestial? Heck wouldn't raise dead break your concentration?
Raise dead isn't a concentration spell, so no it wouldn't break it. It would just use up the entire hour of Shapechange.
@@ittyandpocky I thought casting spells with a casting time over 1 hour required concentration... Unless they meant meant that not in the spell casting sense?
Thank you both for always providing great contents on D&D! I am a newbie on D&D and have found all your tips and suggestions very useful! Cheers!
thank you for sharing this detailed video - especially nice in following you other druid video! In my opinion, Druids have fun spells at all levels, including the cantrips - satisfying thematically and producing useful effects mechanically in the game. enjoyed learning your views and discussions!
What about turning into a sibriex with shapechange?
If you have seen it sure you can, have fun being able to cast feeblemind 3 times.
We actually had to cut about 10 mins of us discussing things like this. Just going on about monsters you could change in to. The Sibriex came up.
@@DungeonDudes The possibilities are endless, to an extent
... can intellect devourers take over undead creatures? Seems to be a way to break both the CR limit and the creature type restrictions. You could feeblemind a dracolich or something, then change into an intellect devourer (the feeblemind is to ensure success), take it over, and then have Greater Restoration cast on it to restore its capabilities.
Too crazy? Heh
NIce list! I was thinking of playing a Circle of the Wildfire druid when it gets released in Tashas Cauldron, and was wondering what to do with the higher level spell slots.
My favorites:
Level 6: Bones of the Earth or Heal
Level 7: Plane Shift or Reverse Gravity
Level 8: Animal Shapes or Antipathy/Sympathy
Level 9: Shapechange or Foresight
I don't see the point of Antipathy/Sympathy.
Ah yes, my leaves are all a tingle with these awesome Druid videos!!!!! Time to go make a hero's feast and dwell on the new possibilities!
1. Cast Sycring (Oh I heard of that strange land far far away, let's see)
2. Look for a tree or bush
3. Cast Transport Via Plants to literally ANYWHERE
4. Profit...
Yep, Keyleth from CR did this all the time. Super useful
You can only scry on places you have seen.
The following isn’t unique to druids, but it’s fitting for them. Pretty sure this is legal RAW, but it’s definitely cheese.
1. Enter a scenario where turns are required. This is to appease a pedantic DM.
2. True Polymorph yourself into a hydra, then wait an hour to make it permanent. (If an ally has True Polymorph, instead Ready the spell Time Stop with being morphed as the trigger. You should now have 1d4+1 extra turns as a hydra. This is optional, but if helps speed things along.)
3. Now for the weird part: attack _yourself_. This will give you more heads. More heads = more attacks.
4. Find a safe way to repeat step 3 ad nauseum.
You can now attack as many times as you want per turn. Eat it, fighters! Errr... I guess the hydra’s doing eating actually, lol.
Remember, with True Polymorph, you would gain the Hydra's INT score of... 2. Which I at least would imagine makes the Hydra incapable of following through on such a tactic.
TheChocobologist Maybe, but you do keep your personality. You can also have your allies help.
RAW "Transport via plants" is one-sided, so you need to cast it again to get back. And everyone can use it, including your enemies, so it isn't exactly safe to use it out-of-combat.
I guess if they can get to it within 6 seconds
Well it doesn't require an action to go through, so everyone who goes through just readies an action to attack any non party member that emerges from the tree.
Congrats your enemy followed you into the middle of a heavily guarded city.
Well let's take the crazy idea of *turning into an intellect devourer up to 11*
Your party is fighting a Tarrasque, make it use up its 3 legendary resistances per day, find a way to give it disadvantage on int save (hexbalde curse?) Druid shapechange into the jumping brain, the beast has just a +5 to int save no with disadvantage effectively +0
*Congratulations you just one 4 shoted a Tarrasque*
I'm not positive but I heard it mentioned in another reply that intellect devourers can only go after humanoid victims
@@theonlymatthew.l don't kill my dreams
@@theonlymatthew.l The Body Thief ability only works on humanoids, but Devour Intellect doesn't have that limitation. So while you couldn't technically finish off the Tarrasque like that, you would leave it more-or-less permanently stunned.
@@TheChocobologist thank you for the clarification. 👍
What, no "Animal Shapes"?
"any # of willing creatures in 30' radius" becomes up to CR4 Large critters for 24 hours RETAINING intel/align; adjust shape at will.
Instant army of (whatever) in place of village of squishy NPCs!
Basically Mass Wildshape.
Step one: Make yourself a druid.
Step two: Get to level 17 or higher.
Step three: Find a tarrasque.
Step four: Use Shapechange to turn yourself into an intellect devourer.
Step five: Find a tarrasque
Step six: Possess the tarrasque.
Step seven: INFINITE POWAH!
Really enjoy these deep dives through the various classes and their spells! Can't wait for Warlock!
Such a great spell list. Want some of those high level spells for the Tempest Cleric...
Hello guys, first of all I really enjoy your videos but I am posting here a question, do you know if the Grove created with the 6th lvl spell can be burnt down, acheted away etc. as any wood? I am having troubles with an artificer and his constructs burning them (RP) starting from the guardians... It 8s highly annoying 😁
I'd agree with them that Shapechange is probably the most useful 9th level spell you could possibly choose, but there are a few mistakes I believe they make or maybe things they over looked. When shape changed, it would function no different that wild shape in that you are unable to cast spells if they require material or verbal components assuming you are unable to provide those. Theoretically, a dragon can speak and you could choose to have your focus drop on the ground beside you when you shape change then pick it up, but consider for a moment that any spell that can't be cast through your focus requires components and even if you were to pick up your component pouch, trying to get a single claw inside of a component pouch to remove a gem when the pouch is the size of a purse and the claw is the size of a trackhoe bucket.
Also, you can still only transform into things you have seen. You're high level so I am sure you've seen some shit in your day XD but just cracking open the MM and picking out the most OP things you can find won't fly.
Also, assume you need a very specific spell for a certain reason, say you need to resurrect someone, even had you seen a creature that could do so, if you've never seen the creature cast that spell and you are unable to pass a skill check to see if you know of a creature that can cast that spell, it is very meta gamey to go through the book looking for a creature that can do that so that you can transform into them. Certainty, if you have turned into that creature before though, you'd know of all of its abilities.
That said, druids are f'ing awesome. Best spell casting class in the game IMO. You might lament not having wish, but I don't. In older editions it wasn't as big of a deal. When the spell also cost at minimum 5,000 xp and doesn't cover all component cost, that stops a lot of the abuse. Now it is playing whack a mole trying to tell players what will happen if they abuse wish for unlimited wealth or power. It's at the point that I just tell players, abuse wish only if you are ready to reset at 1, because either I am going to end your world, or you are going to end mine. Most likely, (most definitely) the former.
This video was amazing and filled with love for the druid. One thing I will say however in regards to Shapechange is that you need to have seen the creature at least once before you can turn into them. So if your DM doesn't want you to turn into certain problematic creatures, they can just never throw them at you. In this sense, its a lot less amazing and makes it significantly harder to abuse. However, imagine the fun of using this spell and then turning into every 1 hit wonder the DM has thrown at you over the course of the campaign!!
And I think that's why Druid is such a wonderful class. Its thematic, its powerful, but above all, its fun. Its not always about throwing the biggest fireball or distorting the very fabric of the universe with Wish. Sometimes, its about taking notes of every scary creature the DM has used against you and "returning" the favor!
20th level druid using shapechange to transform into an intellect devourer, taking over the bbeg's pet tarrasque and having a BBEG snack is a wonderful image...
Casting reverse gravity shouldn't make the person hover. Someone would be at their maximum velocity when they reached the top of the column, I don't understand the logic of them slowing down and stopping unless the effect started to get weaker as the person got higher. Spell doesn't say that so in my mind it should launch a person to around 160-170 feet. 200 feet without air resistance.
so few weeks ago i bacame a lvl17 druid and was so excited to finally cast shapechange... short after the lvl up we get in the undermountain and faced a giant metall golem so i thought, its time. i change myself in a simalar big badass sphynx. he was next and gave me some big fucking metall slap with allmost 49 dmage and had to make a keep concentration roll on 24... and a turn later i died. and our wizzard had to do some work for saving me... and i was like no way this spell is useless
conclusion we put away the concentration from it because with it its more ore less ''just'' a spell for exploration. in combat you cant really show others your magical power as a druid that you should have when jou achived to cast some of the strogest magic that exist in dnd
for example a wizzard with his meteor swarm or kleric with mass heal or warlock with power word kill or the bard with literally each spell that exist.
fore the balace we thougt... and it seems logic to us that the spell should not have concentration.
sorry for bad english
Could you please do this for wizard soon? SO EXITED!
This is the “spells as written rules” right? Fireball isn’t thrown it’s spawned right ? Yeah alright then inanimate means dead, lifeless. Not “without sentience”. So you can link dead plants.
I had fun with the regeneration spell. It's going to sound silly and wasteful I'm sure. But my druid was very particular about her hair. She loved her long hair. We got in a fight and it was burnt off to be extremely short. Every night before we went to take a long rest, if she still had the slot available, she'd cast regeneration to grow her hair an inch or two a night until it grew back to the length she had it.
Why am I watching this? It's 2:39 am and after a decade of playing dnd I've NEVER made it passed level 9.
Also, Transport via plants is flavorful AS FUCK and SO cool, Teleport is just too basic.
I like all The spells they suggest, as someone who has played same druid 2 times a week for a year and a half.
Never used shapechange though, i keep that for if i ever play high lvl moon druid for the theme.
I use forsight alot.
If you arent focused on combat its a clear winner but we have a rogue, its an insane combo, so much it felt like cheating, for the rogue to be able to have advantage all the time in combat is amazing.
I think transport via plants actually sucks. No living plant is inanimate; some definitions of inanimate literally mean not alive, but even the ones that just mean motionless don't apply to living plants. Every plant is chemically reacting, slightly changing the direction it's growing in, communicating with its environment, etc.
Whirlwind! Not sure if that spell sucks , or blows.
Just kidding! Awesome spell!
Can you guys do more mid level spell videos like you did with the cleric? Most pre made campaigns rarely go above level 10.
Reverse gravity is only 9d6 damadge...you get that first 10 feet free
I didn't think pre coloured figures were out yet to the general public for hero forge? I checked and I can't find it
Intellect devourer new build imma do it
Also storm of vengeance is really fun and destructive but it doesn't make up to the power of shape change
Does whirlwind mean on a creature bigger than large you can cause 75-150d6/turn
Wait a minute.
a dragon has a spell called change shape.
can you use that spell?
if that is true than you can shape change into a dragon, than change shape into a human. so, you are a human but also a dragon but a human.
I think that i just fried my brain.
Read through Shapechange, but legendary reactions don't fall under Legendary actions and therefore can be used by the caster.
So when you take a stupid amount of damage or otherwise and somehow fail concentration, you can just burn 1 legendary resistance to stay transformed. Also, as legendary resistances are tied to a form and not the character, if the druid managed to change into something else (that might be weaker) but still has the legendary resistances, those are effectively refreshed.
Druids get to prepare their spells.
My next guy's gonna be a DICK!
i will remind several of you out there that the intellect devourer can use devour intellect on anyone, but can only use body thief on humanoids (and giants are not humanoids)
The only construct I would allow a Druid to become is something like a wood golem or maybe an ent
Tsunami is from the PHB and its a 1 minute cast time, while cool its very situational.