Homebrew Dryad Species Details
Dryads are nature spirits native to the Feywild, they often prefer to spend their days tending to the groves they are supernaturally bound to. When provoked, Dryads are known to protect the health of their groves with ferocious intensity. No matter how dangerous the threat may sometimes be to themselves. Curiously however, though they do not have differing sexes like most mortal races or even the trees they form from, most dryads appear feminine, with 'male' dryads being a rarity.
Natural Guardians
Dryads bind their life force to groves of trees, forming a symbiotic relationship where the dryad tends to diseased parts of the plants, warding off predators and invasive plants. In return the dryad can hide inside the tree for shelter and protection. Additionally a new sapling that grows within a dryad grove has a chance to hold a new dryad child within its boughs. In this way a grove of trees an become host to an entire Dryad tribe, often also referred to as a grove.
Dryad Names
Dryads adopt names of trees and other plants familiar with them when they must deal with outsiders, although the concept of names strikes them as strange. They know the animals and plants of the forest without formal names, and instead identify the forest’s children by their deeds, habits, and other actions.
By the same token, their tribe names merely refer to their groves. When dealing with other races, dryads refer to their lands by whatever name the surrounding folk use, as a matter of tact and hospitality, but among their own kind they simply call it “home.”
Sometimes dryads adopt the nicknames or titles outsiders give them under the assumption that those who need names can call them whatever they wish.
Dryad Traits
Your dryad character has the following racial traits.Ability Score Increase
Your Wisdom score increases by 2, and your Strength score increases by 1.
Age
Dryad maturation and lifespan lengths are dependant on the type of tree they were born from. A dryad that stays constantly linked to their tree and keeps it well tended could theoretically live for millennia, but the longer a dryad stays bound to one tree, the more that dryad's life force intertwines with that of their host, so if something causes their tree die, then the dryad immediately dies with it. Times when dryads wander unbound from a grove age them more rapidly, until they eventually die of old age like most other humanoids.
Speed
Your base walking speed is 30 feet.
Size
An adult dryad varies as much as the type of tree they are created from, being short and wide to towering and thin or any number of combinations inbetween. Heights can range from between 4 and 8 feet tall. And dryads usually are quite dense for their size, weighing between 100 and 300 pounds. Your size is Medium.
One With the Trees
As a nature spirit you are accustomed to becoming one with your surroundings. You can attempt to hide even when you are only lightly obscured by foliage, heavy rain, falling snow, mist, and other natural phenomena. If you are attempting to hide amongst the same type of tree you are spawned from, you have advantage on this check.
Dual Nature
Your creature type is considered both Fey and Humanoid for the purposes of spells, features and other traits.
Oaken Form
The bark from the tree you were born from surrounds you and protects you even away from the grove. Your Armour Class increases by 1
Life From Earth
When a Dryad has access to fertile soil, the Dryad send out roots to refresh herself. The Dryad goes into a meditation like trance for four hours, this replaces sleep, and the need to eat and drink for the day. While in this trance you are still alert, but are considered blinded to your surroundings. If the Dryad does not have access to soil or is in an area with poor soil, the Dryad will need to sleep, eat, and drink like a human.
Tree Walking
After you reach level 5. once per turn, the dryad can use 15 ft. of their movement to step magically into one living tree within reach and emerge from a second living tree within 60 ft. of the first tree, appearing in an unoccupied space within 5 ft. of the second tree. Both trees must be one size category larger or bigger than the dryad.
Languages
You can speak, read, write, and know the sign language equivalent of, Common, and Sylvan.
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