The Sleeper’s Options · Druid
Circle of Ruins
The druid calls up a wall of root and old masonry, and the wall fights.
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This subclass is sold inside its pack for now.
- 5 pages
- Screen and print editions
- Plain text for VTTs
- US Letter
- The 2024 rules for fifth edition
The cover. The rest is in the PDF.
Druid Circle for 5e
Root and old masonry come up through the floor when this druid calls for them, and what comes up can swing. That's the Guardian of Ruin. It costs a Bonus Action and a use of Wild Shape. For the next ten minutes it guards the back line with its Reaction, and anyone standing near it has Half Cover.
At 10th level a Guardian that gets knocked down still does some work on the way out, collapsing into a Restrained rider, and the druid gets one free raise a day. By 14 the ground underfoot hardly matters. Whether it's soil or flagstone or the floor of a hall, the ruin comes up through it.
WHAT'S INSIDE
- One full subclass on the 2024 rules, with features at levels 3, 6, 10, and 14, built to keep working through level 20.
- Balanced against the strongest official 2024 subclasses.
- The Guardian of Ruin stat block, a play note, a note for higher levels, and a d6 flavor table.
- A conversion sidebar for the 2014 rules.
- A screen edition and a plain-white print edition, both US Letter, plus the full text as a plain text file for VTT import.
- The PDF is bookmarked, with no password or lock on it.
Compatible with the 2024 rules for fifth edition. Includes material from the SRD 5.2 by Wizards of the Coast LLC under CC-BY-4.0. Full license statement in the PDF. Unaffiliated with Wizards of the Coast.
This circle also appears in Options No. 1, Dream & Ruin ($2.95), where it shares the book with a barbarian on the other side of the split.
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No. 1
Dream & Ruin
A barbarian who teleports through a Rage and a druid whose wall fights back, both built to keep working through level 20.
No. 2
Lullaby & Larceny
A lullaby bard, a sleepwalking monk, a dream-stealing rogue and a warlock who answers to a court, all four for 5e.
No. 3
Ruin & Remnant
What's left of a fortress, an oath, a spell and a temple, in four subclasses for 5e.
No. 4
Keep the Vigil
The night shift, split four ways between a ranger, a sorcerer, a monk and a paladin, all for 5e.
No. 5
Hearth & Home
Home, and four people who keep it safe: a barbarian in the doorway, a bard in the common room, a cleric at the fire and a druid at the hedge.
No. 6
On the Hunt
The Chase, a one-page pursuit procedure any table can run, plus a ranger, a fighter, a rogue and a warlock to run it with.
