I am still playing be the 2014 rules, so if something has changed ...
I want a druidic spell that is comparable to Find Familiar, except this allows the Druid to link to a plant, which will most often be a tree as will become plain in a moment.
The link allows the Druid to see down from the branches of the plant to the ground underneath, so a large oak with a wide spread would give a large area to view. If something comes into the area, the druid can see and hear the being, and even understand them if the druid speaks the language being spoken.
The druid will be able to influence the tree to sway and bend a bit, possibly creating a method of communicating back to the folks under the tree.
I also want the tree to have a strengthening benefit to the druid, although I don't know what that looks like right now. Maybe the tree provides a few HP, or the tree is able to store druidic spell energy, or some sort of tangible benefit to the character.
The big picture is this tree is a druids familiar, so how does that work for the druid? The spell would be first level, ritual, and requires the ceremony at the tree. So the druid couldn't link to a tree in advance of arriving to the tree. And if the spell is used to create a link to a new tree, the link to the previous tree is lost.
Let me know what you think, particularly how the tree's energy can be used to give a benefit to the druid.
I think this reads more like a need for a homebrew Druid Circle than one or more spells. If you had a Circle dedicated to plant-life then you could give it a selection of bonus spells with Find Familiar summoning a Plant based creature such as a Twig Blight, Needle Blight or Vine Blight. You've got spells within the published Druid selection such as Guardian of Nature, Awaken, Commune with Nature and Druid Grove which could give some of the bits you might be after but you could also look to tweak existing spells such as changing Meld with Stone to Meld with Plant. You could also tweak Wildshape to allow you to adopt Plant Forms as well as animal forms and maybe even use the CR buff that Circle of the Moon druids get to allow you to shift into some slightly more powerful and useful plants.
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I am still playing be the 2014 rules, so if something has changed ...
I want a druidic spell that is comparable to Find Familiar, except this allows the Druid to link to a plant, which will most often be a tree as will become plain in a moment.
The link allows the Druid to see down from the branches of the plant to the ground underneath, so a large oak with a wide spread would give a large area to view. If something comes into the area, the druid can see and hear the being, and even understand them if the druid speaks the language being spoken.
The druid will be able to influence the tree to sway and bend a bit, possibly creating a method of communicating back to the folks under the tree.
I also want the tree to have a strengthening benefit to the druid, although I don't know what that looks like right now. Maybe the tree provides a few HP, or the tree is able to store druidic spell energy, or some sort of tangible benefit to the character.
The big picture is this tree is a druids familiar, so how does that work for the druid? The spell would be first level, ritual, and requires the ceremony at the tree. So the druid couldn't link to a tree in advance of arriving to the tree. And if the spell is used to create a link to a new tree, the link to the previous tree is lost.
Let me know what you think, particularly how the tree's energy can be used to give a benefit to the druid.
I think this reads more like a need for a homebrew Druid Circle than one or more spells. If you had a Circle dedicated to plant-life then you could give it a selection of bonus spells with Find Familiar summoning a Plant based creature such as a Twig Blight, Needle Blight or Vine Blight. You've got spells within the published Druid selection such as Guardian of Nature, Awaken, Commune with Nature and Druid Grove which could give some of the bits you might be after but you could also look to tweak existing spells such as changing Meld with Stone to Meld with Plant. You could also tweak Wildshape to allow you to adopt Plant Forms as well as animal forms and maybe even use the CR buff that Circle of the Moon druids get to allow you to shift into some slightly more powerful and useful plants.