The Sleeper’s Options · Druid
Circle of the Hedge
The druid's hedge lets friends slip through and stops everyone else, at least until somebody brings fire.
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This subclass is sold inside its pack for now.
- 4 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
There's an old treaty between the house and the wild, and the druid of Circle of the Hedge is the one who keeps it. The treaty has a physical shape, too. Spend a use of Wild Shape and a living hedge grows across the map. Friends slip through it with half cover on the way, and everyone else runs into a proper wall.
Enemies still get some say in the matter. Fire burns a section away for good, and a body standing in a gap keeps it open. Then there are the offerings. Milk, salt, coin, anything given freely and left on the step turns into banked blessings, and the hedge pays them out at the worst possible moment for somebody else. At 14th level the hedge flowers, and for one minute a garden stands up around the druid, right where it was raised.
WHAT'S INSIDE
- One full subclass on the 2024 rules, with features at levels 3, 6, 10, and 14.
- Balanced against the strongest official 2024 subclasses.
- A play note 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.
Hearth & Home (Options No. 5, $5.95) gathers all four hearth subclasses, this one included. Elsewhere in the line, the night watch is No. 4, the dream half is Nos. 1 and 2, and the ruin half is No. 3.
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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.
