Homebrew Bonsai Dryad Species Details

Druids deep in zen mindfulness often grow bonsai trees. Dryads that connect their souls to these trees are capable of distant travel as their bonsai is small and portable. These fey are naturally more outgoing and usually treat their druid caretaker as a close family member.

Bonsai Dryad Traits

Age

Bonsai dryads reach maturity when their tree reaches
its maximum height (15-24 inches) in around 20 years, and
live until their tree decays naturally in 100 years.

Alinement

Bonsai dryads have a deep rooted connection to all living things, attempting to preserve life of all types whenever possible and at every turn. This indifferent compassion makes most bonsai dryads neutral good

Appearance

Bonsai Dryads are composed entirely of plant matter. Their skin is a mix between thin bark and supple green flesh. Flowering leaves extend from their head that grow quickly, requiring regular trimming

Ability Scores

Wis + 2; Int + 1

Fey

Your creature type is fey, rather than humanoid. You
can speak, read, and write common, elvish, and sylvan.

Linked Survival

A bonsai dryad receives nourishment by providing their tree with adequate water and sunlight. You die if you take a long rest while your tree is more than 1 mile away from you. While your tree is reduced to 0 hit points, your mind is warped with madness. Roll once on both the Long-term Madness and Indefinite Madness tables (DMG p/258). If you or a druid performs a 1 hour ritual using a dirtfilled pot and a part of your DNA as components, your bonsai tree revives with 1 hit point.

Forest Magic

Using your bonsai tree as a spellcasting focus, you can cast either the Entangle or Goodberry spell once with this trait; you regain the ability to cast it when you finish a long rest. Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for these spells.

Tree Recall

As an action you can teleport to an unoccupied adjacent space next to your bonsai tree. Additionally you may instead choose to teleport your bonsai tree to an unoccupied adjacent space next to yourself. You cannot teleport using this trait if your tree is more than (100 * your level) feet away. Once you teleport with this trait, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest.

Commune with Nature

You can communicate simple words and phrases with beasts and plants as if you shared a language.

Bonsai

You possess a tiny bonsai tree with a number of hit points equal to half of your maximum hit points (rounded down). The tree regains hit points equal to half of all the healing you recieve, and is vulnerable to fire damage. If a friendly creature holds your bonsai, its AC becomes equal to theirs. Otherwise, the tree's AC is 7.