With a reasonable dip into Bard and a patient DM, you have an organic reason to sing in combat: “I am Reptar! Here me roar! I am Reptar, king of dinosaurs!”
@@hammdogporkington3058 True, though I feel like it doesn't quite line up as nicely - while the Simic have their fair share of kaiju, I feel like they're more about making them through the power of Science! rather than transforming into them with nature magic.
@@RobertBass It's just a matter of reflavoring, pull a Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde due to an unstable experiment and you'd fit plenty well into the guild. Especially with the wings/extra arms/exoskeleton at later levels making you look like a krasis. Just cause the character sheet says druid doesn't mean you can't just ignore it and say you're a biomancer. Actually on that note, I think I have my next character...
@@pacificnorthwet Yeah, it's not a bad fit, I just think it fits Gruul better. IMO an ideal Simic Druid subclass would be based around either making improvements to your base form, or adding some way to make your wild shape forms more adaptable, either by customizing them in some way or increasing the number of potential forms available.
i did a build like this, Archeologist background, Bear Barbarian 4, Moon Druid 16. did not care for the Elemental stuff at 10th level, so we replaced that ability with (2 wildshape uses to turn into a Beast up to 1/2 your level in CR" a T-rex is CR 8, so it was my capstone. the Archeoligist background gave me access to the "have seen in the past" part of the dinosaurs, because he has dug up their remains and peiced them together. Zealot Barbarian would have also been cool, since there is also a huge reanimation aspect to your class features, bringing ancient animals to life. Beast Barbarian would have been cool for the creative interpretation aspect.
I am simple Druid. I see monsters, I become them. In pathfinder there was a sub class called Saurian Shaman that I used to run that could transform into dinos. I used that one to become a T-Rex in a king's throne room and roar straight in his face as an intimidation check when he wouldn't rally to our cause. The DM told me the entire royal army then feared me. I also used a (DM approved because it took me out of combat as an active participant) brachiosaur form to become a walking weapons platform during a big raid battle, a pterosaur for escape methods (our team had a few small races who could ride me) and a pleiosaur for water based combat (we had a guy who wanted to do a pirate character and wanted a ship battle). I was one of the most versatile teammates and our DM said that he had a blast building fights around me. I even had a raptor familiar who would cover our healer and ended up saving our lives on more than one occasion. I later tried to recreate this with a Warforged 5E character but that game ended up fizzling out before we got too far. Though being a robot dinosaur was awesome.
I feel like while every kid did have a dinosaur phase. There were some kids who knew way more about dinosaurs in their dinosaur phase from other kids in their dinosaur phase. This is how to learn who is going to be a massive nerd when you grow up. When some 8 year old mentions something along the lines of sauropod, you know they’re going to be playing D&D later on in life.
Despite the dinosaur size headache I'm having IRL atm, this really made me smile. Dinosaurs? Objectively cool. Kaiju? Also cool. Shapeshifting? Again, cool. Also, unless I'm misunderstanding the subclass - you could eventually be a flying T-Rex that can breathe fire (Investiture of Flame's line attack option) - so you're a Rathalos from Monster Hunter, more or less. I mean that just sounds *really* fun to play as.
And people wonder why I almost always play a druid. They're so versatile when it comes to everything. Need a tank? Moon druid. Need a healer? Dreams druid. need someone to make shit explode? Wildfire druid. They're especially great when you have a DM who doesn't really care about the 'you have to have seen it to become it' rule because shit gets stupid then XD
Will full admit though, was so hyped that this was maybe a new UA that I didn't see and I must say, am kinda sad it's not XD I'd love to have some more tanky flavor XD
You know it took me like a couple weeks of rewatching this video to realize that a 1-2 level dip into fighter for weapon/armor proficiency AND playing a warforged with this subclass is a 10/10 way to play Grimlock in D&D. THANK YOUUUUU TULOK for my next character idea ;D
This also works for an Ant-Man build, just re-flavor the inability to talk as the druid's vocal cords getting too small. (Edit: If you want Godzilla, concentrate on Sunbeam while in Wild Shape.)
Wow, I love this. Just the idea of a druid that can alter its size is awesome, but I think you really expanded that idea with its other features, and kept it all thematic as well.
My variant that we use for this subclass while play-testing it with my friends is that you can use up to all 3 of the Interpretive Forms options for 1 level of exhaustion each. Which is how I was able to fend off the Tarrasque while the rest of the party found a way to seal it back up. I turned into a Tyrannosaurus Rex (1 level of exhaustion), made it Gargantuan with Malleable Wild Shape (1 level of exhaustion), and had all three options from Interpretive Forms up at once for a grand total of 5 levels of exhaustion. Does anyone have any orange slices?
All the early lore bits from your homebrew world are super intriguing, would love either a large video or whole series just exploring it and how to DM it. I'm saying I really want to DM this, please let me steal this
This one is pretty similar to the way my group tends to houserule druids: Elementals are cool, but what we REALLY want are those dinosaur/Kong forms. Generally, at tenth level, we rule that you can spend both wild shapes to turn into a beast of equal CR to what your elemental shape would allow - or at least just one CR higher than you get at this level. The T.rex and giant ape are a bit higher CR than the elementals though, so it makes sense that there's trade-offs. But that enlargement feature means that even before level 10, you can have some monster movie fun. You might have to wait a bit for Godzilla and Kong, but you can beef up your smaller shapes to enjoy Gwangi and Mighty Joe Young. And it's not just dinosaurs! The size-changing feature also means you can go Black Scorpion, Earth vs The Spider, Deep Rising, Python... Really, this subclass is a B-movie goldmine.
I do like the idea that a good aligned Moon Druid could be outpaced by a rival evil Bones Druid, but if the feud lasted long enough to reach level 18-20 the Moon Druid could bring it back by having unlimited enhanced wildshapes with no penalty while the Bones Druid would be stuck dealing with the Exhaustion limitations.
okay, 18th level bones druid can wild shape then cast polymorph so after the enemies kill the polymorph t-rex then you have an even BIGGER t-rex to keep the chomping going
This sounds pretty sick! Though I'm hesitant as this sounds extremely powerful to the point i feel I'd be hard pressed to find a DM to allow it. While it does have some drawbacks with exhaustion and the bonus/malus for each shape size I guess it depends on the campaign. Especially once this hits higher levels and gold costs become less important part of me worries this could overshadow martial members of the party. Regardless I love the idea!
Regular druids aren't extremely powerful already? D&D in general is far from a balanced gaming experience in the first place, and all spellcasters overshadow martial classes, ( its WIZARDS of the Coast not Fighters of the Coast trust me there is a bias) spellcasters are like Zeus at level 20 martial classes at best are like Achilles at level 20. If anything this adds some much needed balancing with the points you mentioned, just saying.
@@donovanfaust3227 spell casters are powerful at lvl 20. However, they better hope they have a good martial to keep them up until they hit that point (druids will be fine, Draco Sorcerer might be fine).
@@poolturtle5772 well yeah I see your point, early game the martial classes have the advantage for sure but I still wouldn't call that "balanced" gameplay. I'd say even around mid levels is when the paradigm shift begins to happen not exactly max lvl. Honestly though you'd be pretty lucky to find a group to want to play characters for that long, I'd say most people play characters up to lvl 8-12 on average before getting bored and wanting to play other characters, rarely going back to old ones.
Tulok I'm very sad and disappointed with you. How could you do this to a patreon member. I was busy supporting your channel by being among the first to watch this subclass, and then you decided to blindside me by showing your heavenly body while plugging your patreon. Now I have to spend at least 3 hours basking in the glory of you perfect frame at least before I can move on. It's so gorgeous I might even sub again.
@@tulokthebarbrarian2033 Sir no sir I've already subscribed. I mean creating another account to sub with. As well as making another identity to sub to the patreon again. That body of yours is a dangerous weapon. Please spare my sensitive virgin eyes. My free will is being suppressed by it.
I just have an image now of an ancient Wood Elf getting so pissed about nature getting destroyed that they turn into Godzilla before a party of level 20+ killed it while they were young many years ago.
The first druid subclass I ever homebrewed was called the Circle of Fossils, so the second I saw this upload I grinned. I just knew more people wanted a Dinosaur based druid!
How would crossing this with rune knights ability to increase your size work out? is it really useful or just a way to knock off one of the exhaustions?
I'm honestly surprised you went for Extra Arms as one of the options of Interpretive Structure, rather than just straight up giving a breath weapon as an option. Figured Godzilla would be more iconic than Goro. Throw in some Bone Wars-esque BS about space beneath the clavicle serving as an opening for flame glands or a cavity in the upper palate for spitting venom (Dilophosaurus style). But hey, you gave me the gift of being able to turn into a T. rex at will, and I love you for it.
Love this series. closest thing I could come up with for vanilla godzilla woulda just been dragonborn runeknight/beastbarian if you really wanted godzilla specifically though you could get your friendly sorcerer to juice you with Dragon's breath, or be a dragonborn druid with fire breath, then beg your DM to let you use radiant for "flavor reasons". King Ghidora would actually be even easier, since you can give yourself the vestigial limbs (extra heads) and wings, and lightning breath wouldn't take any coercing your DM at all.... beyond the homebrew I mean.
I'm not much of a Druid guy, but this, this is beautiful. I think if you make yourself a gargantuan T-Rex with an Exoskeleton, but you pre-cast Investiture of Flame, that's just Nuclear Godzilla. That's also a 6th level spell slot and 3 levels of exhaustion, but hey, worth it. This is a good one, I am so excited for the rest of this series.
In my world/setting there are a pantheon of ancient giant elemental gods that roamed the earth in ancient times. I'm definitely going to allow, nay, encourage my players to use this subclass.
Another fun spell to concentrate on before Wild Shaping: Guardian of Nature. Specifically the Primal Beast option, which is both very on-flavor for a mammalian kaiju and gives you advantage on Strength-based attack rolls (and a slight speed boost, darkvision, and a slight damage buff that may or may not work because of the "weapon attack" awkwardness, but advantage is the big, er, advantage).
I had this idea for a archeologist student druid who learned magic from the study of ancient cultures and shit, but the closest subclass to the idea was the circle of the stars as a way to connect a planets cultures in their interpretations of the stars. But this, this is perfect
One the topic of dipping into Druid, leveling up fighter + Druid lets you Shillelagh for as many times as a fighter can hit. Helpful when the DM is being stingy on magical weapons or if maybe your player character is an MLB pro and hits things with their bat.
buffing magic items- fossilized (insert monster) bone. allows you to use the monster that the bone is of. that means you can get a tarrasque one. only works for this subclass, and it adds an extra level of exhaustion. so yeah. super mega tarrasque with all the buffs.
Only started playing D&D in 2019 pre pandemic but I have been playing a druid since Diablo 2 and into Warcraft so transitioning into a druid in D&D felt pretty natural. My DM would constantly have to scale up our encounters to my growing power scale as I would summon multiple wolves to accompany my bear form into battle turning a situation where we were outnumbers 2 to 1 into an even fight and easily ripping through lower level foes. If I get a chance to play again I am gonna petition for the Circle of Bones to be allowed this sounds like a lot of fun.
I built a suitable monster verse kong for a mini campaign a friends been running… Bugbear Zelot Barbarian and if I can continue the character I plan to multi class into monk for maneuverability and better punches. But this seems like a pretty damn good subclass to use for this
I am a little sad to see Sunbeam not being mentioned. It's on the druid spell list already and is concentration, so it can be maintained through wild shape. It seems like a more accurate approximation of Godzilla's atomic breath and doesn't lose levels from druid.
Dude your subclasses are awesome. I’ve been wanting to make my own but I’m so stuck. I’m super jealous you can make all these, I want to try them all lol
//Frantically looks through all the creatures tagged as "beast" in the D&D Sourcebooks// Giant spider. Gargantuan Spider WITH WINGS. I may take 4 levels of exhaustion, but anyone who sees me wildshape will never know peace again :D
No. "you can ignore the verbal and somatic components of your druid spells, as well as any material components *that lack a cost and aren’t consumed by a spell.* You gain this benefit in both your normal shape and your beast shape from Wild Shape."
The "velociraptors" in Jurassic Park are closer in description to Deinonychus, a close relative of Velociraptor but larger as velociraptors were in reality about the size of a turkey. You all have been visited by the fun fact halfling!
What I want to see: a feat or feature that allows you to combine specific bonus actions, like wild shape and rage, maybe even throw in drinking an Experimental Elixir for Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde energy (especially with Beast Barbarian to make your form even more unnatural)!
Something I've been toying with is a god of acceptable collateral damage and desperate measures whose herald/avatar is Godzilla... lol this subclass reminds me of the idea.
Gonna be honest, I've had an idea for a homebrew Aura Knight Fighter, and Tulok is just brilliant enough for me to be worried that not only will he come up with the same idea, but he'll do it better.
Nice comment for the algorythm. Although if everyone writes exactly that, the algorythm will think it's bots, so I'mma feel this up with more stuff. Anyway, hope medic wins this round.
Wait the dinosaur fixation was supposed to be a phase? Jokes aside, this is fantastic, I love dinosaurs and I've perused many a homebrew dinosaur Druid subclass. My first D&D character was even a combination paleontologist/archaeologist who had high Intelligence and aced Nature and History checks, even moreso than the Wizard
Medic Rouge you say??? Very interesting. A Doctor who knows where to stab people because they know where the vital organs are. That’s my next build sorted.
The party when their Circle of Bones druid faces off against an enemy Circle of Bones druid: "Let them fight."
Big monster fight... who really wants to interrupt that?
Druid looking at the Pit Of Wildshape: “I’m going to jump!”
Tulok’s angels: “DO A FLIP!”
“Turn into a goldfish!”
With a reasonable dip into Bard and a patient DM, you have an organic reason to sing in combat: “I am Reptar! Here me roar! I am Reptar, king of dinosaurs!”
“Does anyone have any orange slices?” He asked, on a battlefield of Earth’s strongest warriors.
They definitely should have had some then. They need to be prepared
Well, Wanda could have conjured some.
Ah, I see that Tulok is going for the “Ian Malcom is a Sex Icon” look.
He absolutely is, and I absolutely did haha
@@tulokthebarbrarian2033 I agree.
Ah thank you. I needed to put a name to it.
Paleo-Druid is such a great idea I'm surprised there isn't an official one honestly
WotC my phone number is: 420-555-6969
Wait till I tell you there was gonna be a dragon druid in Fizban's but WotC decided to kill it before it hit UA
@@Karak971 how dare they, the cowards!
wait 3 months and WoTC will steal the idea xD
@@Karak971 Why get rid of such a beautiful idea? It was perfect.
Tulok: “I think growing up, every kid has a dinosaur phase.”
Me, who works in childcare: “Yes, yes they do.”
Another subclass very applicable to the Ravnica setting - using primordial magic to turn into giant, building-destroying monsters is very Gruul.
Oh shit, that's a great idea! I was always disappointed there wasn't an option for Gruul druids/spellcasters to get siege damage, this fixes that!
The mutations also lend themselves easily to Simic, meaning you can just become the artwork on Titanic Brawl
@@hammdogporkington3058 True, though I feel like it doesn't quite line up as nicely - while the Simic have their fair share of kaiju, I feel like they're more about making them through the power of Science! rather than transforming into them with nature magic.
@@RobertBass It's just a matter of reflavoring, pull a Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde due to an unstable experiment and you'd fit plenty well into the guild. Especially with the wings/extra arms/exoskeleton at later levels making you look like a krasis. Just cause the character sheet says druid doesn't mean you can't just ignore it and say you're a biomancer.
Actually on that note, I think I have my next character...
@@pacificnorthwet Yeah, it's not a bad fit, I just think it fits Gruul better.
IMO an ideal Simic Druid subclass would be based around either making improvements to your base form, or adding some way to make your wild shape forms more adaptable, either by customizing them in some way or increasing the number of potential forms available.
I was like "dinosaurs, I'm sold" and then you played the kaiju card. Thank you for this gift, Tulok, this series is great.
Heck yeah!
I never thought I would be able to play Godzilla in D&D.
This is gonna be gooooooood.
Investiture of flame on a giant monkey is just the golden great ape from dragonball gt
Investiture of Ice on one is Blizzard from Primal Rage...Fire on a T-Rex is Diablo...
And to fill in the other footage not found... Alien Queen for extra arms T-rex? Kind of?
@@robobeetlepanzer I'd say kinda like Maple's Atrocity skill from Bofuri
@@AzraelThanatos glad there's another Primal Rage enthusiast thinking of these things.
i did a build like this, Archeologist background, Bear Barbarian 4, Moon Druid 16. did not care for the Elemental stuff at 10th level, so we replaced that ability with (2 wildshape uses to turn into a Beast up to 1/2 your level in CR"
a T-rex is CR 8, so it was my capstone. the Archeoligist background gave me access to the "have seen in the past" part of the dinosaurs, because he has dug up their remains and peiced them together.
Zealot Barbarian would have also been cool, since there is also a huge reanimation aspect to your class features, bringing ancient animals to life.
Beast Barbarian would have been cool for the creative interpretation aspect.
Now make it a Warforged and bam, you have Grimlock. 😍
Imagine a full adventuring party of Circle of Bones Druids. Kaiju destruction for days!
A.K.A Rampage: The Roleplaying Game
@@ivanivan744 you read my mind 😁
And at least one person who can cure exhaustion.
I am simple Druid. I see monsters, I become them.
In pathfinder there was a sub class called Saurian Shaman that I used to run that could transform into dinos. I used that one to become a T-Rex in a king's throne room and roar straight in his face as an intimidation check when he wouldn't rally to our cause. The DM told me the entire royal army then feared me. I also used a (DM approved because it took me out of combat as an active participant) brachiosaur form to become a walking weapons platform during a big raid battle, a pterosaur for escape methods (our team had a few small races who could ride me) and a pleiosaur for water based combat (we had a guy who wanted to do a pirate character and wanted a ship battle). I was one of the most versatile teammates and our DM said that he had a blast building fights around me. I even had a raptor familiar who would cover our healer and ended up saving our lives on more than one occasion.
I later tried to recreate this with a Warforged 5E character but that game ended up fizzling out before we got too far. Though being a robot dinosaur was awesome.
Me Grimlock not bozo. Me Grimlock king!
Every kid has a dinosaur phases as kids *I still do, I happen to be getting my degree in paleontology*
Hey congrats!
Never grow up, you legend.
I feel like while every kid did have a dinosaur phase. There were some kids who knew way more about dinosaurs in their dinosaur phase from other kids in their dinosaur phase. This is how to learn who is going to be a massive nerd when you grow up. When some 8 year old mentions something along the lines of sauropod, you know they’re going to be playing D&D later on in life.
Despite the dinosaur size headache I'm having IRL atm, this really made me smile. Dinosaurs? Objectively cool. Kaiju? Also cool. Shapeshifting? Again, cool.
Also, unless I'm misunderstanding the subclass - you could eventually be a flying T-Rex that can breathe fire (Investiture of Flame's line attack option) - so you're a Rathalos from Monster Hunter, more or less.
I mean that just sounds *really* fun to play as.
Or, if we choose the cleric side multiclass, you could become Astalos. Which would be equally as cool.
And people wonder why I almost always play a druid. They're so versatile when it comes to everything. Need a tank? Moon druid. Need a healer? Dreams druid. need someone to make shit explode? Wildfire druid.
They're especially great when you have a DM who doesn't really care about the 'you have to have seen it to become it' rule because shit gets stupid then XD
Will full admit though, was so hyped that this was maybe a new UA that I didn't see and I must say, am kinda sad it's not XD I'd love to have some more tanky flavor XD
Druid is pretty much as versatile as cleric and it’s great
Need action economy? Circle of shepherd. Need a necromancer? Spores for days.
And the Gods said to Tulok making druid more crazy, "Let Chaos Reign".
YES TULOK MAKING MY DAY AGAIN
Three days a week now baybeeeee
Clearly a Circle of Bones druid's best friend is a bard who specializes in Blue Oyster Cult covers.
YESSS!!! GO GO GODZILLA!!!
Bear McCreary anyone?
You know it took me like a couple weeks of rewatching this video to realize that a 1-2 level dip into fighter for weapon/armor proficiency AND playing a warforged with this subclass is a 10/10 way to play Grimlock in D&D. THANK YOUUUUU TULOK for my next character idea ;D
The thought of Reptar siegeing a castle is silly, ridiculous and brings me so much joy!
This also works for an Ant-Man build, just re-flavor the inability to talk as the druid's vocal cords getting too small. (Edit: If you want Godzilla, concentrate on Sunbeam while in Wild Shape.)
Wow, I love this.
Just the idea of a druid that can alter its size is awesome, but I think you really expanded that idea with its other features, and kept it all thematic as well.
My variant that we use for this subclass while play-testing it with my friends is that you can use up to all 3 of the Interpretive Forms options for 1 level of exhaustion each. Which is how I was able to fend off the Tarrasque while the rest of the party found a way to seal it back up. I turned into a Tyrannosaurus Rex (1 level of exhaustion), made it Gargantuan with Malleable Wild Shape (1 level of exhaustion), and had all three options from Interpretive Forms up at once for a grand total of 5 levels of exhaustion.
Does anyone have any orange slices?
This subclass could let you turn into a gargantuan 4 armed ape that's on fire
Yes, it's very balanced that way
@@tulokthebarbrarian2033 indeed I quite enjoy it for this reason
Definitely putting this in my Godzilla homebrew world where the Kaiju are worshipped as Gods and walk the Material Plane
All the early lore bits from your homebrew world are super intriguing, would love either a large video or whole series just exploring it and how to DM it. I'm saying I really want to DM this, please let me steal this
Hmmm making a circle of bones / path of shadows druid monk to make a ninja velociraptor
I LIKE THIIIIIISS
This one is pretty similar to the way my group tends to houserule druids: Elementals are cool, but what we REALLY want are those dinosaur/Kong forms. Generally, at tenth level, we rule that you can spend both wild shapes to turn into a beast of equal CR to what your elemental shape would allow - or at least just one CR higher than you get at this level.
The T.rex and giant ape are a bit higher CR than the elementals though, so it makes sense that there's trade-offs. But that enlargement feature means that even before level 10, you can have some monster movie fun. You might have to wait a bit for Godzilla and Kong, but you can beef up your smaller shapes to enjoy Gwangi and Mighty Joe Young.
And it's not just dinosaurs! The size-changing feature also means you can go Black Scorpion, Earth vs The Spider, Deep Rising, Python... Really, this subclass is a B-movie goldmine.
I think the idea of scientists bringing druids for academic work, only for the druids to start playing monster-maker, is fun to imagine.
I do like the idea that a good aligned Moon Druid could be outpaced by a rival evil Bones Druid, but if the feud lasted long enough to reach level 18-20 the Moon Druid could bring it back by having unlimited enhanced wildshapes with no penalty while the Bones Druid would be stuck dealing with the Exhaustion limitations.
Definitely my favorite of these homebrew subclasses so far
okay, 18th level bones druid can wild shape then cast polymorph so after the enemies kill the polymorph t-rex then you have an even BIGGER t-rex to keep the chomping going
This sounds pretty sick! Though I'm hesitant as this sounds extremely powerful to the point i feel I'd be hard pressed to find a DM to allow it. While it does have some drawbacks with exhaustion and the bonus/malus for each shape size I guess it depends on the campaign. Especially once this hits higher levels and gold costs become less important part of me worries this could overshadow martial members of the party. Regardless I love the idea!
Isn't most of the ridiculous damage to structures?
Regular druids aren't extremely powerful already? D&D in general is far from a balanced gaming experience in the first place, and all spellcasters overshadow martial classes, ( its WIZARDS of the Coast not Fighters of the Coast trust me there is a bias) spellcasters are like Zeus at level 20 martial classes at best are like Achilles at level 20. If anything this adds some much needed balancing with the points you mentioned, just saying.
@@donovanfaust3227 spell casters are powerful at lvl 20.
However, they better hope they have a good martial to keep them up until they hit that point (druids will be fine, Draco Sorcerer might be fine).
@@poolturtle5772 well yeah I see your point, early game the martial classes have the advantage for sure but I still wouldn't call that "balanced" gameplay. I'd say even around mid levels is when the paradigm shift begins to happen not exactly max lvl. Honestly though you'd be pretty lucky to find a group to want to play characters for that long, I'd say most people play characters up to lvl 8-12 on average before getting bored and wanting to play other characters, rarely going back to old ones.
I'm so excited to see half open shirts coming back in to style.
Been rocking that look for years and it rocks on you Tulok!
What’s everyone’s favorite dinosaur? I’ll go first. Ankylosaurus.
Pachycephalosaurus! HEADBUTT ME
Brontasarus
Quetzalcoatlus
The Velocipastor. A movie so bad that it wrapped back around to being so good.
Tyrannosaurus Rex, though specifically Stjepan Sejic's T-Rex. The man knows how to make some feathered dinos.
Tulok I'm very sad and disappointed with you. How could you do this to a patreon member. I was busy supporting your channel by being among the first to watch this subclass, and then you decided to blindside me by showing your heavenly body while plugging your patreon. Now I have to spend at least 3 hours basking in the glory of you perfect frame at least before I can move on. It's so gorgeous I might even sub again.
"Sub" meaning "subscribe" right...?
@@tulokthebarbrarian2033 Sir no sir I've already subscribed. I mean creating another account to sub with. As well as making another identity to sub to the patreon again. That body of yours is a dangerous weapon. Please spare my sensitive virgin eyes. My free will is being suppressed by it.
@@blacktivity4130 I mean, if you are gonna subscribe multiple times, feel free to pay for mine :)
Okay the fact that you can wildshape into goddamn King Kong or Godzilla is just perfect, 15/10, chefs kiss
This was wild beginning to end...I'm curious about these "Angels of Heaven" and what they have to do with Druids
They’re the blokes watching the monster movies
@@unknownentityenthusiast6765 me, probably
Imagine a Warforged Circle of Bones Druid...
*Transformers Beast Wars Theme song plays in the background*
If there was investiture of lightning, add that to a giant ape and turn into Rajang.
Use a Couple Lightning Spells once you hit 18th Level druid
THANK YOU TULOK, I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS
I just have an image now of an ancient Wood Elf getting so pissed about nature getting destroyed that they turn into Godzilla before a party of level 20+ killed it while they were young many years ago.
I really want to play this.
Its on my patreon at the $5 tier!
Patreon.com/tulok thanks!
The first druid subclass I ever homebrewed was called the Circle of Fossils, so the second I saw this upload I grinned. I just knew more people wanted a Dinosaur based druid!
How would crossing this with rune knights ability to increase your size work out? is it really useful or just a way to knock off one of the exhaustions?
Unfortunately Rune Knight doesn’t increase your size, it just makes you large.
@@Deadpool-ri3rq but with rune knight couldn't you start from large?
I'm honestly surprised you went for Extra Arms as one of the options of Interpretive Structure, rather than just straight up giving a breath weapon as an option. Figured Godzilla would be more iconic than Goro. Throw in some Bone Wars-esque BS about space beneath the clavicle serving as an opening for flame glands or a cavity in the upper palate for spitting venom (Dilophosaurus style).
But hey, you gave me the gift of being able to turn into a T. rex at will, and I love you for it.
Up next circle of the ancient dragon druid
Also this circle of bones sounds a like a circle of monsters druid I ran a few years ago
Love this series.
closest thing I could come up with for vanilla godzilla woulda just been dragonborn runeknight/beastbarian
if you really wanted godzilla specifically though you could get your friendly sorcerer to juice you with Dragon's breath, or be a dragonborn druid with fire breath, then beg your DM to let you use radiant for "flavor reasons".
King Ghidora would actually be even easier, since you can give yourself the vestigial limbs (extra heads) and wings, and lightning breath wouldn't take any coercing your DM at all.... beyond the homebrew I mean.
Could use the radiant Dragonborn from the UA, they should be in the new book Tuesday
My wife has been playing this subclass for the past 8 months in our Storm King's Thunder Campaign. Her favorite form is a humongous Bear.
I'm not much of a Druid guy, but this, this is beautiful. I think if you make yourself a gargantuan T-Rex with an Exoskeleton, but you pre-cast Investiture of Flame, that's just Nuclear Godzilla. That's also a 6th level spell slot and 3 levels of exhaustion, but hey, worth it. This is a good one, I am so excited for the rest of this series.
Tulock: I think everyone had a dinosaur phase
Palaeontologist’s: that’s an understatement
In my world/setting there are a pantheon of ancient giant elemental gods that roamed the earth in ancient times. I'm definitely going to allow, nay, encourage my players to use this subclass.
Another fun spell to concentrate on before Wild Shaping: Guardian of Nature. Specifically the Primal Beast option, which is both very on-flavor for a mammalian kaiju and gives you advantage on Strength-based attack rolls (and a slight speed boost, darkvision, and a slight damage buff that may or may not work because of the "weapon attack" awkwardness, but advantage is the big, er, advantage).
This subclass put a smile on my face😁
Thanks Tulok!
I had this idea for a archeologist student druid who learned magic from the study of ancient cultures and shit, but the closest subclass to the idea was the circle of the stars as a way to connect a planets cultures in their interpretations of the stars. But this, this is perfect
Wow! I love this idea! 😀 being able to change into something basiced on the bones of it is such a cool idea.
Tricerabottom reporting in
The Ian Malcolm pose was too good. Love all of this.
I absolutely enjoy your content! It has definitely inspired some of the characters I've rolled up (if they ever see use is another story).
Fuck yeah. I want this so bad. I truly can’t wait until I can give you copious amounts of money for all of these subclasses.
This is 100% the reason I joined the Patreon and holy hell it was worth it.
One the topic of dipping into Druid, leveling up fighter + Druid lets you Shillelagh for as many times as a fighter can hit. Helpful when the DM is being stingy on magical weapons or if maybe your player character is an MLB pro and hits things with their bat.
Damn, catch me giving an entire city PTSD when I turn into a giant flaming T-Rex
Hey i think this is a pretty neat subclass. I'm very excited to see what homebrew is next! Also, excellent use of footage not found jokes.
I love this series, and feeding the algorithm! Great idea Tulok!
I love this for a Kalashtar Bear Spirit Barb. Also you can grab guiding bolt from the magic initiate feat, so that combo comes online at 18!
buffing magic items- fossilized (insert monster) bone. allows you to use the monster that the bone is of. that means you can get a tarrasque one. only works for this subclass, and it adds an extra level of exhaustion. so yeah. super mega tarrasque with all the buffs.
Only started playing D&D in 2019 pre pandemic but I have been playing a druid since Diablo 2 and into Warcraft so transitioning into a druid in D&D felt pretty natural. My DM would constantly have to scale up our encounters to my growing power scale as I would summon multiple wolves to accompany my bear form into battle turning a situation where we were outnumbers 2 to 1 into an even fight and easily ripping through lower level foes. If I get a chance to play again I am gonna petition for the Circle of Bones to be allowed this sounds like a lot of fun.
I love your videos but this one has captivated me like no other. I've never even played DnD but im just itching to play a Kaijdruid
Why is my heart beating so fast? Must be the Dinosaurs. Definitely the dinosaurs
This subclass sounds absolutely awesome
I built a suitable monster verse kong for a mini campaign a friends been running… Bugbear Zelot Barbarian and if I can continue the character I plan to multi class into monk for maneuverability and better punches. But this seems like a pretty damn good subclass to use for this
Can we please talk about how on point Tulok’s shirt is
I am a little sad to see Sunbeam not being mentioned. It's on the druid spell list already and is concentration, so it can be maintained through wild shape. It seems like a more accurate approximation of Godzilla's atomic breath and doesn't lose levels from druid.
As a massive Godzilla fan I support this! Want to play this subclass so bad now!
This is SUCH a cool subclass!!! My favorite class with DINO POWER!!
honestly the flavour on this is impeccable, would love to multiclass a little with warlock if only to help lean into how creepy druid can be
Dude your subclasses are awesome. I’ve been wanting to make my own but I’m so stuck. I’m super jealous you can make all these, I want to try them all lol
Thirst trap Tulok works closer and closer every week to making me join the pattern. Oh no and uhhhhh nice subclass love druid
You could multi into Fighter for Rune Knight for a bit of a size boost and a bunch of extra effects
//Frantically looks through all the creatures tagged as "beast" in the D&D Sourcebooks//
Giant spider.
Gargantuan Spider WITH WINGS.
I may take 4 levels of exhaustion, but anyone who sees me wildshape will never know peace again :D
I am loving this new format!
I love allready your crazy subclasses
Doesn’t 20th level wildshape also make it so you don’t need material components? No diamonds necessary
No. "you can ignore the verbal and somatic components of your druid spells, as well as any material components *that lack a cost and aren’t consumed by a spell.* You gain this benefit in both your normal shape and your beast shape from Wild Shape."
Ah, nevermind
The "velociraptors" in Jurassic Park are closer in description to Deinonychus, a close relative of Velociraptor but larger as velociraptors were in reality about the size of a turkey. You all have been visited by the fun fact halfling!
What I want to see: a feat or feature that allows you to combine specific bonus actions, like wild shape and rage, maybe even throw in drinking an Experimental Elixir for Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde energy (especially with Beast Barbarian to make your form even more unnatural)!
Something I've been toying with is a god of acceptable collateral damage and desperate measures whose herald/avatar is Godzilla... lol this subclass reminds me of the idea.
Gonna be honest, I've had an idea for a homebrew Aura Knight Fighter, and Tulok is just brilliant enough for me to be worried that not only will he come up with the same idea, but he'll do it better.
Nice comment for the algorythm. Although if everyone writes exactly that, the algorythm will think it's bots, so I'mma feel this up with more stuff. Anyway, hope medic wins this round.
I love it. I'm getting my party to use these classes in our next game. May need to make a Tulok Barbarian BBEG 👀
Wait the dinosaur fixation was supposed to be a phase?
Jokes aside, this is fantastic, I love dinosaurs and I've perused many a homebrew dinosaur Druid subclass. My first D&D character was even a combination paleontologist/archaeologist who had high Intelligence and aced Nature and History checks, even moreso than the Wizard
This sub-class fits really well into my setting.
I knew I was going to like this one. And then. And then you pulled a Goldblum and used it to pitch the Patreon. Had to like right then.
I might be joing your patreon soon because of this.
I appreciate the tasteful crest hair, my dude.
"With some room for interpretation."
...you know where the legends of the horned water monsters came from?
1 minute in and I'm a simp for Tulok Malcom. Also, Tricerabottoms *no image found. Hilarious. This is why I sub. This is why I pay... treon
Medic Rouge you say??? Very interesting. A Doctor who knows where to stab people because they know where the vital organs are. That’s my next build sorted.