My ideas have been revolving around ships, making characters who might be the navigator, using their star charts to plot a course through a storm, etc. I just feel like it really fits the vibe of maritime play, maybe a ghosts of saltmarsh campaign?
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My ideas have been revolving around ships, making characters who might be the navigator, using their star charts to plot a course through a storm, etc. I just feel like it really fits the vibe of maritime play, maybe a ghosts of saltmarsh campaign?
A sea druid who navigates using the Star Map fits wonderfully.
I just started a new campaign with some friends and I'm playing a Circle of the Stars druid. I just have one question. Maybe I'm stupid and don't understand the rules exactly or perhaps my reading comprehension is faulty but Star From just says you use a wild shape charge, but my question is does the HP work like wild shape. IMO, you could interpret it two ways.
1.) It says you maintain your stats so basically you have the form and if it works like wildshape you get dropped to zero, but you just lose your shape and resume normal form and take carryover damage if necessary.
2.) It doesn't work like wildshape and it's more like a "buff" that's temporarily applied and you still just have your basic health pool.
Hopefully I'm not confusing anyone and my question is clear? I guess because of the wording it doesn't seem like Wild Shape rules apply. It says you use a wild shape charge, but it doesn't say it works like wild shape. Hope I'm not talking gibberish. I'm new to D&D and I know things can be complex and I don't want to screw it up.
You gain the ability to harness constellations' power to alter your form. As an action, you can expend a use of your Wild Shape feature to take on a starry form rather than transforming into a beast.
While in your starry form, you retain your game statistics, but your body takes on a luminous, starlike quality; your joints glimmer like stars, and glowing lines connect them as on a star chart. This form sheds bright light in a 10- foot radius and dim light for an additional 10 feet. The form lasts for 10 minutes or until you're incapacitated. Whenever you assume your starry form, choose which of the following constellations glimmers on your body; your choice gives you certain benefits while in the form:
Chalice. A constellation of a life-giving goblet appears on you. Whenever you cast a spell using a spell slot that restores hit points to a creature, you or another creature within 30 feet of you can regain hit points equal to 1d8 + half your level in this class.
Archer. A constellation of an archer appears on you. You gain a bonus action that you can use to make a ranged spell attack, hurling a luminous arrow that targets a creature you can see within 60 feet of you. On a hit, the attack deals radiant damage equal to 1d8 + your Wisdom modifier.
Dragon. A constellation of a wise, ancient dragon appears on you. When you make an Intelligence or a Wisdom check or a Constitution saving throw to maintain concentration on a spell, you can treat a roll of 9 or lower on the d20 as a 10.
All it says is that you expend the use, not that you assume a Wild Shape, nor anything about your stats changing, in fact the opposite.
Huh, you make a very good observation there SteelRain. However, because it says "As an action, you can expend a use of your Wild Shape feature to take on a starry form rather than transforming into a beast" I think it means that you don't gain that other health pool ability. Additionally for the chalice form you already get a great option for healing, so it would be super powerful if you also had a second health pool.
So I believe it is option 2, it's more a buff and you still have your normal health pool. Keep in mind though, you can still use Wild Shape to turn into a beast, so you haven't lost that, rather just gained a different use of that resource. :)
Tortle with a star map on a piece of its parents shell is something another player I know is planning. Lots of armor and some fun ideas for where they learned of the stars.
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Just started using a Circle of Stars Druid in an online campaign with friends, and was hoping to get something cleared up.
When you use Wild Shape in its typical form, you assume the beast's hit point and hit die. If you take damage equal to its max hit points, you revert to your human form, taking the remainder.
With Starry Form, do you simply take damage normally? Or do you apply the above rules, but with your own max HP? (Because that seems pretty OP, especially at later levels)
Just started using a Circle of Stars Druid in an online campaign with friends, and was hoping to get something cleared up.
When you use Wild Shape in its typical form, you assume the beast's hit point and hit die. If you take damage equal to its max hit points, you revert to your human form, taking the remainder.
With Starry Form, do you simply take damage normally? Or do you apply the above rules, but with your own max HP? (Because that seems pretty OP, especially at later levels)
Unlike Wild Shape or Halo of Spores, there is no Temporary HP associated with Starry Form. Activating it requires using one of your Wild Shape charges, but that's the only connection.
"The form lasts for 10 minutes or until you’re incapacitated."
Just started using a Circle of Stars Druid in an online campaign with friends, and was hoping to get something cleared up.
When you use Wild Shape in its typical form, you assume the beast's hit point and hit die. If you take damage equal to its max hit points, you revert to your human form, taking the remainder.
With Starry Form, do you simply take damage normally? Or do you apply the above rules, but with your own max HP? (Because that seems pretty OP, especially at later levels)
Unlike Wild Shape or Halo of Spores, there is no Temporary HP associated with Starry Form. Activating it requires using one of your Wild Shape charges, but that's the only connection.
"The form lasts for 10 minutes or until you’re incapacitated."
Archer for shooting lasers as pointed out earlier. Imma firing my lazor said the bear.
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"Where words fail, swords prevail. Where blood is spilled, my cup is filled" -Cartaphilus
"I have found the answer to the meaning of life. You ask me what the answer is? You already know what the answer to life is. You fear it more than the strike of a viper, the ravages of disease, the ire of a lover. The answer is always death. But death is a gentle mistress with a sweet embrace, and you owe her a debt of restitution. Life is not a gift, it is a loan."
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My ideas have been revolving around ships, making characters who might be the navigator, using their star charts to plot a course through a storm, etc. I just feel like it really fits the vibe of maritime play, maybe a ghosts of saltmarsh campaign?
Corinne Hemlock: Dhampir courtesan and dusk huntress
Kraig Bronzeaxe: Dwarven archaeologist and guerilla archer
A sea druid who navigates using the Star Map fits wonderfully.
I just started a new campaign with some friends and I'm playing a Circle of the Stars druid. I just have one question. Maybe I'm stupid and don't understand the rules exactly or perhaps my reading comprehension is faulty but Star From just says you use a wild shape charge, but my question is does the HP work like wild shape. IMO, you could interpret it two ways.
1.) It says you maintain your stats so basically you have the form and if it works like wildshape you get dropped to zero, but you just lose your shape and resume normal form and take carryover damage if necessary.
2.) It doesn't work like wildshape and it's more like a "buff" that's temporarily applied and you still just have your basic health pool.
Hopefully I'm not confusing anyone and my question is clear? I guess because of the wording it doesn't seem like Wild Shape rules apply. It says you use a wild shape charge, but it doesn't say it works like wild shape. Hope I'm not talking gibberish. I'm new to D&D and I know things can be complex and I don't want to screw it up.
It says:
All it says is that you expend the use, not that you assume a Wild Shape, nor anything about your stats changing, in fact the opposite.
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Huh, you make a very good observation there SteelRain. However, because it says "As an action, you can expend a use of your Wild Shape feature to take on a starry form rather than transforming into a beast" I think it means that you don't gain that other health pool ability. Additionally for the chalice form you already get a great option for healing, so it would be super powerful if you also had a second health pool.
So I believe it is option 2, it's more a buff and you still have your normal health pool. Keep in mind though, you can still use Wild Shape to turn into a beast, so you haven't lost that, rather just gained a different use of that resource. :)
Could you do both at the same time I wonder?
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In my quest to find an answer to my question before posting here I did find this thread discussing that possiblity.
https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/165415/can-the-circle-of-the-stars-druid-use-their-starry-form-feature-in-conjunction-w
RAW, you can use both at the same time, but I don't know if I'd allow it.
It would be cool to turn into a bear or giant badger made of stars.
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A beat that shoots laser beams from its mouth!!!
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Beat? I think you mean bear.
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Beats don't have mouths, and aren't beasts, but that is a cool idea.
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Yes, a laser breathing bear!!
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Tortle with a star map on a piece of its parents shell is something another player I know is planning. Lots of armor and some fun ideas for where they learned of the stars.
"Where words fail, swords prevail. Where blood is spilled, my cup is filled" -Cartaphilus
"I have found the answer to the meaning of life. You ask me what the answer is? You already know what the answer to life is. You fear it more than the strike of a viper, the ravages of disease, the ire of a lover. The answer is always death. But death is a gentle mistress with a sweet embrace, and you owe her a debt of restitution. Life is not a gift, it is a loan."
Just started using a Circle of Stars Druid in an online campaign with friends, and was hoping to get something cleared up.
When you use Wild Shape in its typical form, you assume the beast's hit point and hit die. If you take damage equal to its max hit points, you revert to your human form, taking the remainder.
With Starry Form, do you simply take damage normally? Or do you apply the above rules, but with your own max HP? (Because that seems pretty OP, especially at later levels)
Unlike Wild Shape or Halo of Spores, there is no Temporary HP associated with Starry Form. Activating it requires using one of your Wild Shape charges, but that's the only connection.
"The form lasts for 10 minutes or until you’re incapacitated."
That makes sense, and seems more than fair.
Many thanks for the clarification!
You can Wild Shape with Starry Form and turn into a beast at the same time, though. Just to point this out.
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Interesting.
As far as constellations go, only Dragon would really benefit from that, right?
Archer for shooting lasers as pointed out earlier. Imma firing my lazor said the bear.
"Where words fail, swords prevail. Where blood is spilled, my cup is filled" -Cartaphilus
"I have found the answer to the meaning of life. You ask me what the answer is? You already know what the answer to life is. You fear it more than the strike of a viper, the ravages of disease, the ire of a lover. The answer is always death. But death is a gentle mistress with a sweet embrace, and you owe her a debt of restitution. Life is not a gift, it is a loan."