Homebrew Dryad Watcher Species Details

Armor Class 11 (16 With Barkskin)
Hit Points 22 (5d8)
Speed 30 ft.

Skills Perception +4, Stealth +5

Senses Darkvision 60 ft., Passive Perception 14
Languages: Elvish, Sylvan
Proficiency Bonus +2

Barkskin: You have naturally occurring tough skin covering you from head to toe. When unarmored, your Armor Class is equal to 12 + your Dexterity modifier.

Forest Blend: You have an advantage on Stealth checks made to hide amongst foliage, trees, and other plant life.

Photosynthesis: Being a plant-based life form, you create your food through photosynthesis, being in bright sunlight will regenerate hit points equal to your proficiency bonus at the end of each hour you spend this way, likewise, if you aren't in sunlight for a number of days equal to your proficiency bonus + your Constitution modifier you will start to decay, taking one level exhaustion at the end of each long rest until you do so. You cannot recover these levels of exhaustion by long resting.

Languages: You can speak, read, and write Common and Sylvan. Some Dryads that deal with druids folk know Druidic themselves

Innate Spellcasting: The dryad's innate spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 14). The dryad can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:

At will: druidcraft

3/day each: entangle, goodberry

1/day each: barkskin, pass without trace, shillelagh

Magic Resistance: The dryad has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.

Speak with Beasts and Plants: The dryad can communicate with beasts and plants as if they shared a language.

Tree Stride: Once on her turn, the dryad can use 10 feet of her movement to step magically into one living tree within her 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.

Dryad Watcher Traits

Your creature type is both fey and humanoid. Given that your physiology is primarily composed of plant matter, you are vulnerable to fire damage.

Photosynthesis

 Being a plant-based life form, you create your food through photosynthesis, being in bright sunlight will regenerate hit points equal to your proficiency bonus at the end of each hour you spend this way, likewise, if you aren't in sunlight for a number of days equal to your proficiency bonus + your Constitution modifier you will start to decay, taking one level exhaustion at the end of each long rest until you do so. You cannot recover these levels of exhaustion by long resting

Forest Blend

 You have an advantage on Stealth checks made to hide amongst foliage, trees, and other plant life.

Barkskin

You have naturally occurring tough skin covering you from head to toe. When unarmored, your Armor Class is equal to 12 + your Dexterity modifier.

Speak with Plant and Beast

The dryad can communicate with beasts and plants as if they shared a language.