Homebrew Dryad Saproling Species Details

Powerful fey will sometimes bind lesser fey spirits to trees, transforming them into dryads. A dryad can emerge from the tree and travel the lands around it, but the tree remains their home and roots them to the world. As long as the tree remains healthy and unharmed, the dryad stays forever youthful and alluring. If the tree is harmed, they suffer. If the tree is ever destroyed, the dryad descends into madness. Occasionally dryads leave their forests, if only temporarily, and with heavy hearts. This is mostly to find some external threat to their woodland home, or else repay a debt to someone who once aided them.

Dryads are typically neither evil, nor good. They do not harm without cause, and generally prefer to lure their foes away with their mystic, fey magic rather than confront them directly, but neither will they help someone in trouble if it's natural phenomenon harming them. They are guardians of forests, and often work alongside satyr, druids and other forest folk to defend their forests and groves. Good and neutral fey are often fond of dryads, with the mischievous pixies finding much in common with them. 

Woodland Magic. Dryads can speak with plants and animals. They can teleport from one tree to another, luring interlopers away from their groves. They also know a handful of useful spells.

Dryad Saproling Traits

Dryad fledglings have a myriad of fey magic but are just coming into their powers. As they become more Intune with nature and themselves, they acquire stronger abilities akin to their mature Dryad brethren.

Fey

Your creature type is fey, rather than humanoid.

Age

Dryads do not age in the typical sense. Their life span is tied to the tree they are connected to.

Skill Proficiency

You have proficiency in two of the following skills upon character generation: Animal Handling, Nature, Perception, Persuasion, or Stealth.

Ability Score Increase

Your Charisma score increases by 2 and your Wisdom by 1.

Languages

You can speak, read, and write Common, Elvish, and Sylvan.

Forest Speak

You have the ability to communicate in a limited manner with Beasts and Plants. They can understand the meaning of your words, though you have no special ability to understand them in return. You have advantage on all Charisma checks you make to influence them.

At level 10, you can fully communicate with beasts and plants as if you share a language. 

Darkvision

You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can’t discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.

Magic resistance

The dryad has advantage on saving throws against spells.

Woodland Magic

The dryad can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components: 

Once you cast Goodberry, Shillelagh, Entangle, or Pass without Trace with this trait, you can’t cast that spell with it again until you finish a long rest. You can also cast any of those spells using any spell slots you have of the appropriate level.

Wisdom or Charisma is your spellcasting ability for these spells when you cast them with this trait (choose when you select this race).

Tree Step

Once per day the dryad can use 10 feet of their movement to step magically into one living tree within their reach and emerge from a second living tree within 60 feet of the first tree, appearing in an unoccupied space within 5 feet of the second tree. Both trees must be Large or bigger.

Vulnerable

Your flesh is made of bark, your limbs are vines and branches, and your hair leaves, moss, and grass making you vulnerable to fire damage.

Nature's Embrace

At level 20, you come into your full power as a Dryad and obtain all of their abilities (see Dryad) and lose your vulnerability to fire. 
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