Homebrew dryad Species Details
They appeared to be beautiful women with delicate features seemingly made of soft wood. Their hair seemed to be made of leaves and foliage that changed color with the seasons of the years During the spring and summer months, the hair of a dryad was lush and green, while during autumn it turned red and eventually brown in the winter.
Dryads preferred to live away from civilization, delighting in the savage wilderness away from those that sought to cut their trees. They lived with respect to nature and accepted the company of those that did so as well. Attractive men who were fond of nature were often be taken in by a dryad as both their mate and guardian.
Dryads were generally benign, and attempted to warn off intruders. Only those who were particularly cruel and determined to destroy a dryad's forest saw the full wrath of these fey.
All dryads were magically bound to a single tree. These trees served as the dryad's life force and home. They fought to the death to protect their bonded tree, as should the tree be cut or destroyed, the dryad died soon afterward. A dryad could not stray too far from her bonded tree without suffering the same fate. If a dryad left the vicinity of her tree for too long, she died.
Along with other Fey, dryads spoke Sylvan, Elven and Common
dryad Traits
Your dryad character has a variety of natural abilities, the result of thousands of years of fey refinement.Innate Spellcasting.
You know the druidcraft and shillelagh cantrips. you can also cast the entangle and goodberry spells once with this trait and regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest. When you reach 3rd level, you can cast the barkskin and pass without trace spells once with this trait and regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest. Charisma is your spellcasting ability for these spells.
fey
Your creature type is fey, rather than humanoid.
Ability Score Increase
Your Dexterity score increases by 1 and your charisma increases by 2
Age
Although elves reach physical maturity at about the same age as humans, the elven understanding of adulthood goes beyond physical growth to encompass worldly experience. An elf typically claims adulthood and an adult name around the age of 100 and can live to be 750 years old.
Alignment
Elves love freedom, variety, and self-expression, so they lean strongly toward the gentler aspects of chaos. They value and protect others’ freedom as well as their own, and they are more often good than not. The drow are an exception; their exile into the Underdark has made them vicious and dangerous. Drow are more often evil than not.
Size
Elves range from under 5 to over 6 feet tall and have slender builds. Your size is Medium.
Speed
Your base walking speed is 30 feet.
Darkvision
Accustomed to twilit forests and the night sky, you have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. 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.
Speak with Beasts and Plants.
The dryad can communicate with beasts and plants as if they shared a language.
Magic Resistance.
you have advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.
Trance
dryads don’t need to sleep. Instead, they meditate deeply, remaining semiconscious, for 4 hours a day. (The Common word for such meditation is “trance.”) While meditating, you can dream after a fashion; such dreams are actually mental exercises that have become reflexive through years of practice. After resting in this way, you gain the same benefit that a human does from 8 hours of sleep.
Languages
You can speak, read, and write Common and Elvish. Elvish is fluid, with subtle intonations and intricate grammar. Elven literature is rich and varied, and their songs and poems are famous among other races. Many bards learn their language so they can add Elvish ballads to their repertoires.
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