Homebrew Dryad Species Details
A dryad is a friend to the trees and the Feywild, they do not venture far unless their parent tree is in danger, talk to your DM about what lead your dryad to leave the grove of their parent tree.
Dryad Traits
Your Dryad character has a variety of natural abilities, the result of thousands of years of feywild groves.Tree's Majesty
Increase your Constitution score by 1, increase your Wisdom score by 1, increase your Charisma by 2.
Age
The dryad's understanding of adulthood comes deep within their physical growth to encompass worldly experience. A dryad typically claims adulthood and an adult name around the age of 60 and can live to be 2000 years old.
Alignment
Being part of nature, they are neutral in alignment as long as their trees continue to thrive and those trees they look after are alive. However, an evil-aligned Dryad may come from a swamp's tainted tree, or an oak burned in a forest fire, seeking to spread the pain of their tree before death.
Size
Dryad's range from under 5 to over 7 feet tall and have slender builds. Your size is Medium.
Speed
Your base walking speed is 30 feet. And, because the limbs are the steps to your canopy home you have a climbing speed equal to your walking speed.
Beautiful Guide
You have proficiency in the Persuasion skill.
Fey Ancestry
You have advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic can’t put you to sleep.
Trance
Dryad's 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 Sylvan and Druidic.
Plant Communication - Dryad have a form of telepathy exclusive to wood nymphs and flora. You can speak to plants and other fey as if you shared a language.
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