Context: I’m planning to play a Druid in an upcoming campaign. His race is Fairy with a chimaera-like appearance that’s like a Small satyr/gryphon combo (bird head with antlers, furry body, hooved feet, lizard tail, feathered rather than insect wings). Rather than wildshape into a beast he’s going to have an alternate form that’s basically him “Hulking out” and manifesting his true Feywild appearance on the Material Plane. I’m trying to homebrew a custom subclass for him that’s a combination of Moon and Dreams.
A big part of the subclass is the alternate form which is an attempt at making something balanced that scales as the character levels. Here’s what I’ve got so far:
Manifest Fey Majesty
2nd-level Circle of Fey Majesty feature
You gain the ability to manifest your true Feywild form. As an bonus action, you can expend a use of your Wild Shape feature to take on this alternate form, rather than transforming into a beast form. While this feature is active, you gain the following benefits:
You grow to Large size. You have advantage on Strength checks and Strength saving throws.
Your Strength score is replaced by your Wisdom score.
You gain a melee natural weapon attack dealing 2d6 + your new Str modifier damage.
You gain 5 temporary hit points for each level you have in this class.
Your Armor Class becomes 10 + your Dex modifier + your proficiency bonus.
These benefits last for 10 minutes, until you lose all these temporary hit points, you dismiss it (no action required), are incapacitated, die, or use this feature again.
I’m thinking the 6th level feature would be the same as Circle of the Moon. Haven’t figured out what to do for the 10th and 14th.
I’d love to get some community feedback on this alternate form and help making this a viably balanced subclass overall.
Is it intentional that it gives you everything and the kitchen sink? It seems out of balance with other druid subclasses (particularly spores, which is probably the closest analog).
Context: I’m planning to play a Druid in an upcoming campaign. His race is Fairy with a chimaera-like appearance that’s like a Small satyr/gryphon combo (bird head with antlers, furry body, hooved feet, lizard tail, feathered rather than insect wings). Rather than wildshape into a beast he’s going to have an alternate form that’s basically him “Hulking out” and manifesting his true Feywild appearance on the Material Plane. I’m trying to homebrew a custom subclass for him that’s a combination of Moon and Dreams.
A big part of the subclass is the alternate form which is an attempt at making something balanced that scales as the character levels. Here’s what I’ve got so far:
I’m thinking the 6th level feature would be the same as Circle of the Moon. Haven’t figured out what to do for the 10th and 14th.
I’d love to get some community feedback on this alternate form and help making this a viably balanced subclass overall.
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Because I am trying to create a new Druid subclass.
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Is it intentional that it gives you everything and the kitchen sink? It seems out of balance with other druid subclasses (particularly spores, which is probably the closest analog).