Circle of Spirits

Most druids focus on protecting and nurturing the living and vibrant world around them; the birds that chirp among branches, the trees that stand sturdy and old, the rivers that peacefully trickle. Druids of the Circle of Spirits are different, and are often viewed as strange by their peers. These druids focus on the souls and spirits left behind after the living have passed - the lingering fragments of life.

Some of these bizarre druids merely wish to make the passing of the living as easy as possible, working as blessed guides for spirits and souls. Some however, have more sinister purposes; seeking to manipulate and control them in return for power from beyond the grave.

Bound Spirits

When you choose this circle at 2nd level, you’ve learnt how to communicate with the lingering spirits of the departed. You have a number of Bound Spirit dice equal to your druid level, which are represented by d6s. You can expend these dice to accomplish any of the following effects:

Ghostly Guidance. When you roll an attack roll and miss, you can choose to expend one of your Bound Spirit dice, roll it, and add the result to the roll, potentially turning it into a hit.

Supernatural Sight. When you roll a Wisdom (Perception) or Intelligence (Investigation) check, you can choose to expend one of your Bound Spirit dice, adding the result of the roll to your check.

Spirit Defense. As a reaction to yourself moving or being targeted by an attack, you can choose to expend one of your Bound Spirit dice, adding the result of the roll to your Armor Class until the beginning of your next turn.

You gain additional options for your Bound Spirit dice as you gain levels in this class, and you regain all expended dice at the end of a long rest.

Circle Spells

Your mystical connection to the lingering spirits of the dead infuses you with the ability to cast certain spells. At 3rd, 5th, 7th, and 9th level you gain access to circle spells connected to these undead remnants.

Once you gain access to a circle spell, you always have it prepared, and it doesn’t count against the number of spells you can prepare each day. If you gain access to a spell that doesn’t appear on the druid spell list, the spell is nonetheless a druid spell for you.

Druid Level	Spells
3rd	see invisibility, invisibility
5th	speak with dead, fear
7th	greater invisibility, blight
9th	antilife shell, dominate person

Spirit Shape

At 6th level, you channel your power over spirits to take on an incorporeal and spectral form. As a bonus action, you can expend a use of your Wild Shape feature to take on the form of a spectral spirit for up to 10 minutes. For the duration, you gain the following features:

• You can move through solid objects and creatures as if they were difficult terrain. If you end your turn while inside of an object or creature, you take 1d10 force damage and are immediately shunted out to the nearest unoccupied space.
• You gain a flying speed equal to your walking speed and can hover.
• All spells you cast and attacks you make deal force damage instead of their normal damage type.

Empowered Spirits

At 10th level, the spirits you can commune with grow stronger. You gain the following two options for your Bound Spirits feature:

Mystic Soul. As a bonus action, you can choose to expend one of your Bound Spirit dice and roll it. You then gain a number of temporary hit points equal to the result of the roll plus half your druid level rounded up.

Spirit Strike. As part of a spell- or weapon attack, you can expend one of your Bound Spirit dice and roll it. The attack then deals additional necrotic damage equal to the result of the roll plus your Wisdom modifier.

Esoteric Master

At 14th level, your connection to the spirits around you has reached its apex. You gain the following features:

• You have resistance to necrotic damage.
• When you use your Spirit Shape feature, moving through objects and creatures is no longer considered difficult terrain for you.
• Any time you roll a Bound Spirit die and the result is a 1, you can make it a 2 instead.