Spores of Cirlce

The Circle of Spores celebrates the delicate balance between life and death, honoring the cycles of decay and rebirth. Druids who follow this circle understand that every living thing, when it dies, nourishes the earth and gives rise to new life. Mushrooms and fungi are sacred to these druids, as they symbolize the process of life and death interwoven. These druids focus on the spreading of spores, aiding in decay, and the quiet but unstoppable force of nature’s claim to all things.

Level 3: Circle of Spores Spells

When you select Circle of Spores as your Druid Subclass you gain access to the following spells. These Spells are always prepared. 

At level 3 you may select 4 spells and 2 additional spells at levels 6, 10, and 14.

Druid Level	Circle Spells
0	Guidance, Poison Spray, Shillelagh, Spare the Dying
1	Entangle, Detect Poison and Disease, Goodberry, Fog Cloud
2	Animal Messenger, Barkskin, Locate Animals or Plants, Protection from Poison
3	Plant Growth, Revivify, Speak with Plants
4	Blight, Polymorph, Stone Shape
5	Antilife Shell, Commune with Nature, Contagion, Reincarnate,
6	Heal, Transport via Plants
7	Fire Storm, Regenerate
8	Befuddlement, Earthquake
9	Storm of Vengeance, True Resurrection

 

 

Animal Messenger

A Tiny Beast of your choice that you can see within range must succeed on a Charisma saving throw, or it attempts to deliver a message for you (if the target’s Challenge Rating isn’t 0, it automatically succeeds). You specify a location you have visited and a recipient who matches a general description, such as “a person dressed in the uniform of the town guard” or “a red-haired dwarf wearing a pointed hat.” You also communicate a message of up to twenty-five words. The Beast travels for the duration toward the specified location, covering about 25 miles per 24 hours or 50 miles if the Beast can fly.

When the Beast arrives, it delivers your message to the creature that you described, mimicking your communication. If the Beast doesn’t reach its destination before the spell ends, the message is lost, and the Beast returns to where you cast the spell.

Using a Higher-Level Spell Slot. The spell’s duration increases by 48 hours for each spell slot level above 2.

Antilife Shell

An aura extends from you in a 10-foot Emanation for the duration. The aura prevents creatures other than Constructs and Undead from passing or reaching through it. An affected creature can cast spells or make attacks with Ranged or Reach weapons through the barrier.

If you move so that an affected creature is forced to pass through the barrier, the spell ends.

Barkskin

You touch a willing creature. Until the spell ends, the target’s skin assumes a bark-like appearance, and the target has an Armor Class of 17 if its AC is lower than that.

Befuddlement

You blast the mind of a creature that you can see within range. The target makes an Intelligence saving throw.

On a failed save, the target takes 10d12 Psychic damage and can’t cast spells or take the Magic action. At the end of every 30 days, the target repeats the save, ending the effect on a success. The effect can also be ended by the Greater Restoration, Heal, or Wish spell.

On a successful save, the target takes half as much damage only.

Blight

A creature that you can see within range makes a Constitution saving throw, taking 8d8 Necrotic damage on a failed save or half as much damage on a successful one. A Plant creature automatically fails the save.

Alternatively, target a nonmagical plant that isn’t a creature, such as a tree or shrub. It doesn’t make a save; it simply withers and dies.

Using a Higher-Level Spell Slot. The damage increases by 1d8 for each spell slot level above 4.

Commune with Nature

You commune with nature spirits and gain knowledge of the surrounding area. In the outdoors, the spell gives you knowledge of the area within 3 miles of you. In caves and other natural underground settings, the radius is limited to 300 feet. The spell doesn’t function where nature has been replaced by construction, such as in castles and settlements.

Choose three of the following facts; you learn those facts as they pertain to the spell’s area:

• Locations of settlements
• Locations of portals to other planes of existence
• Location of one Challenge Rating 10+ creature (DM’s choice) that is a Celestial, an Elemental, a Fey, a Fiend, or an Undead
• The most prevalent kind of plant, mineral, or Beast (you choose which to learn)
• Locations of bodies of water

For example, you could determine the location of a powerful monster in the area, the locations of bodies of water, and the locations of any towns.

Contagion

Your touch inflicts a magical contagion. The target must succeed on a Constitution saving throw or take 11d8 Necrotic damage and have the Poisoned condition. Also, choose one ability when you cast the spell. While Poisoned, the target has Disadvantage on saving throws made with the chosen ability.

The target must repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns until it gets three successes or failures. If the target succeeds on three of these saves, the spell ends on the target. If the target fails three of the saves, the spell lasts for 7 days on it.

Whenever the Poisoned target receives an effect that would end the Poisoned condition, the target must succeed on a Constitution saving throw, or the Poisoned condition doesn’t end on it

Detect Poison and Disease

For the duration, you sense the location of poisons, poisonous or venomous creatures, and magical contagions within 30 feet of yourself. You sense the kind of poison, creature, or contagion in each case.

The spell is blocked by 1 foot of stone, dirt, or wood; 1 inch of metal; or a thin sheet of lead.

Earthquake

Choose a point on the ground that you can see within range. For the duration, an intense tremor rips through the ground in a 100-foot-radius circle centered on that point. The ground there is Difficult Terrain.

When you cast this spell and at the end of each of your turns for the duration, each creature on the ground in the area makes a Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, a creature has the Prone condition, and its Concentration is broken.

You can also cause the effects below.

Fissures. A total of 1d6 fissures open in the spell’s area at the end of the turn you cast it. You choose the fissures’ locations, which can’t be under structures. Each fissure is 1d10 × 10 feet deep and 10 feet wide, and it extends from one edge of the spell’s area to another edge. A creature in the same space as a fissure must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or fall in. A creature that successfully saves moves with the fissure’s edge as it opens.

Structures. The tremor deals 50 Bludgeoning damage to any structure in contact with the ground in the area when you cast the spell and at the end of each of your turns until the spell ends. If a structure drops to 0 Hit Points, it collapses.

A creature within a distance from a collapsing structure equal to half the structure’s height makes a Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, the creature takes 12d6 Bludgeoning damage, has the Prone condition, and is buried in the rubble, requiring a DC 20 Strength (Athletics) check as an action to escape. On a successful save, the creature takes half as much damage only.

Entangle

Grasping plants sprout from the ground in a 20-foot square within range. For the duration, these plants turn the ground in the area into Difficult Terrain. They disappear when the spell ends.

Each creature (other than you) in the area when you cast the spell must succeed on a Strength saving throw or have the Restrained condition until the spell ends. A Restrained creature can take an action to make a Strength (Athletics) check against your spell save DC. On a success, it frees itself from the grasping plants and is no longer Restrained by them.

Fire Storm

A storm of fire appears within range. The area of the storm consists of up to ten 10-foot Cubes, which you arrange as you like. Each Cube must be contiguous with at least one other Cube. Each creature in the area makes a Dexterity saving throw, taking 7d10 Fire damage on a failed save or half as much damage on a successful one.

Flammable objects in the area that aren’t being worn or carried start burning.

Fog Cloud

You create a 20-foot-radius Sphere of fog centered on a point within range. The Sphere is Heavily Obscured. It lasts for the duration or until a strong wind (such as one created by Gust of Wind) disperses it.

Using a Higher-Level Spell Slot. The fog’s radius increases by 20 feet for each spell slot level above 1.

Goodberry

Ten berries appear in your hand and are infused with magic for the duration. A creature can take a Bonus Action to eat one berry. Eating a berry restores 1 Hit Point, and the berry provides enough nourishment to sustain a creature for one day.

Uneaten berries disappear when the spell ends.

Guidance

You touch one willing creature. Once before the spell ends, the target can roll a d4 and add the number rolled to one ability check of its choice. It can roll the die before or after making the ability check. The spell then ends.

Heal

Choose a creature that you can see within range. Positive energy washes through the target, restoring 70 Hit Points. This spell also ends the Blinded, Deafened, and Poisoned conditions on the target.

Using a Higher-Level Spell Slot. The healing increases by 10 for each spell slot level above 6.

Locate Animals or Plants

Describe or name a specific kind of Beast, Plant creature, or nonmagical plant. You learn the direction and distance to the closest creature or plant of that kind within 5 miles, if any are present.

Plant Growth

This spell channels vitality into plants. The casting time you use determines whether the spell has the Overgrowth or the Enrichment effect below.

Overgrowth. Choose a point within range. All normal plants in a 100-foot-radius Sphere centered on that point become thick and overgrown. A creature moving through that area must spend 4 feet of movement for every 1 foot it moves. You can exclude one or more areas of any size within the spell’s area from being affected.

Enrichment. All plants in a half-mile radius centered on a point within range become enriched for 365 days. The plants yield twice the normal amount of food when harvested. They can benefit from only one Plant Growth per year.

* - Action (Overgrowth) or 8 hours (Enrichment)

Poison Spray

You extend your hand toward a creature you can see within range and project a puff of noxious gas from your palm. The creature must succeed on a Constitution saving throw or take 1d12 poison damage.

At Higher Levels. This spell’s damage increases by 1d12 when you reach 5th level (2d12), 11th level (3d12), and 17th level (4d12).

Polymorph

You attempt to transform a creature that you can see within range into a Beast. The target must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or shape-shift into Beast form for the duration. That form can be any Beast you choose that has a Challenge Rating equal to or less than the target’s (or the target’s level if it doesn’t have a Challenge Rating). The target’s game statistics are replaced by the stat block of the chosen Beast, but the target retains its alignment, personality, creature type, Hit Points, and Hit Point Dice.

The target gains a number of Temporary Hit Points equal to the Hit Points of the Beast form. The spell ends early on the target if it has no Temporary Hit Points left.

The target is limited in the actions it can perform by the anatomy of its new form, and it can’t speak or cast spells.

The target’s gear melds into the new form. The creature can’t use or otherwise benefit from any of that equipment.

Protection from Poison

You touch a creature and end the Poisoned condition on it. For the duration, the target has Advantage on saving throws to avoid or end the Poisoned condition, and it has Resistance to Poison damage.

Regenerate

A creature you touch regains 4d8 + 15 Hit Points. For the duration, the target regains 1 Hit Point at the start of each of its turns, and any severed body parts regrow after 2 minutes.

Reincarnate

You touch a dead Humanoid or a piece of one. If the creature has been dead no longer than 10 days, the spell forms a new body for it and calls the soul to enter that body. Roll 1d10 and consult the table below to determine the body’s species, or the DM chooses another playable species.

1d10	Species
1	Aasimar
2	Dragonborn
3	Dwarf
4	Elf
5	Gnome
6	Goliath
7	Halfling
8	Human
9	Orc
10	Tiefling

The reincarnated creature makes any choices that a species’ description offers, and the creature recalls its former life. It retains the capabilities it had in its original form, except it loses the traits of its previous species and gains the traits of its new one.

Revivify

You touch a creature that has died within the last minute. That creature revives with 1 Hit Point. This spell can’t revive a creature that has died of old age, nor does it restore any missing body parts.

* - (a diamond worth 300+ GP, which the spell consumes)

Shillelagh

The wood of a club or quarterstaff you are holding is imbued with nature’s power. For the duration, you can use your spellcasting ability instead of Strength for the attack and damage rolls of melee attacks using that weapon, and the weapon’s damage die becomes a d8. The weapon also becomes magical, if it isn’t already. The spell ends if you cast it again or if you let go of the weapon.

Spare the Dying

Choose a creature within range that has 0 Hit Points and isn’t dead. The creature becomes Stable.

Cantrip Upgrade. The range doubles when you reach levels 5 (30 feet), 11 (60 feet), and 17 (120 feet).

Speak with Plants

You imbue plants in an immobile 30-foot Emanation with limited sentience and animation, giving them the ability to communicate with you and follow your simple commands. You can question plants about events in the spell’s area within the past day, gaining information about creatures that have passed, weather, and other circumstances.

You can also turn Difficult Terrain caused by plant growth (such as thickets and undergrowth) into ordinary terrain that lasts for the duration. Or you can turn ordinary terrain where plants are present into Difficult Terrain that lasts for the duration.

The spell doesn’t enable plants to uproot themselves and move about, but they can move their branches, tendrils, and stalks for you.

If a Plant creature is in the area, you can communicate with it as if you shared a common language.

Stone Shape

You touch a stone object of Medium size or smaller or a section of stone no more than 5 feet in any dimension and form it into any shape you like. For example, you could shape a large rock into a weapon, statue, or coffer, or you could make a small passage through a wall that is 5 feet thick. You could also shape a stone door or its frame to seal the door shut. The object you create can have up to two hinges and a latch, but finer mechanical detail isn’t possible.

Storm of Vengeance

A churning storm cloud forms for the duration, centered on a point within range and spreading to a radius of 300 feet. Each creature under the cloud when it appears must succeed on a Constitution saving throw or take 2d6 Thunder damage and have the Deafened condition for the duration.

At the start of each of your later turns, the storm produces different effects, as detailed below.

Turn 2. Acidic rain falls. Each creature and object under the cloud takes 4d6 Acid damage.

Turn 3. You call six bolts of lightning from the cloud to strike six different creatures or objects beneath it. Each target makes a Dexterity saving throw, taking 10d6 Lightning damage on a failed save or half as much damage on a successful one.

Turn 4. Hailstones rain down. Each creature under the cloud takes 2d6 Bludgeoning damage.

Turns 5–10. Gusts and freezing rain assail the area under the cloud. Each creature there takes 1d6 Cold damage. Until the spell ends, the area is Difficult Terrain and Heavily Obscured, ranged attacks with weapons are impossible there, and strong wind blows through the area.

Transport Via Plants

This spell creates a magical link between a Large or larger inanimate plant within range and another plant, at any distance, on the same plane of existence. You must have seen or touched the destination plant at least once before. For the duration, any creature can step into the target plant and exit from the destination plant by using 5 feet of movement.

True Resurrection

You touch a creature that has been dead for no longer than 200 years and that died for any reason except old age. The creature is revived with all its Hit Points.

This spell closes all wounds, neutralizes any poison, cures all magical contagions, and lifts any curses affecting the creature when it died. The spell replaces damaged or missing organs and limbs. If the creature was Undead, it is restored to its non-Undead form.

The spell can provide a new body if the original no longer exists, in which case you must speak the creature’s name. The creature then appears in an unoccupied space you choose within 10 feet of you.

Level 3: Symbiotic Nature

When you choose this circle at 3rd level, you learn to draw strength from the decaying world around you. Your bond with the cycle of life and death enhances your ability to survive and aid your allies.

Symbiotic Healing: As a bonus action, you can cause a creature within 30 feet of you that has lost hit points to regain hit points equal to your Wisdom modifier (minimum of 1). You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Wisdom modifier (minimum of once) per long rest.

Spore Infusion: Your connection to spores allows you to infuse nature’s power into your spells. Whenever you cast a spell that deals poison damage or deals damage to a creature within an area of fungi or plants, you can add your Wisdom modifier to the damage dealt (minimum of 1).

You also gain resistance to poison damage.

Level 6: Mycelial Network

Your bond with the earth deepens, and you tap into the mycelium network that links all plant life. You gain the ability to communicate with any fungus or plant-based life forms, as well as sense the presence of spores, fungi, and decay within 1 mile of you in areas where nature can thrive.

Additionally, you can teleport to any unoccupied space within 30 feet of a mushroom, fungus, or patch of decaying plant matter that you can see. Once you use this ability, you must finish a short or long rest to use it again.

Level 10: Necrobloom

At 10th level, you embrace the inevitable decay that leads to rebirth. As an action, you can create an aura of decay in a 15-foot radius centered on you. All hostile creatures within the aura must make a Constitution saving throw against your spell save DC or take 3d6 poison damage and become infected with spores for 1 minute. An infected creature has disadvantage on Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution saving throws. The infection can be removed by a Greater Restoration, Heal, or similar magic, or the creature can make a Constitution saving throw at the end of each of its turns to end the effect early.

In addition, you can choose one creature in your aura that is at 0 hit points to be revived with half its hit points, returning to life after 1 minute, as the spores of decay rejuvenate it. Once you use this ability, you must finish a long rest to use it again.

Level 14: Pyriforme

At 14th level, your mastery over decay allows you to turn death into a source of life. When a creature you can see, within 30 feet of you, is reduced to 0 hitpoints you can use your reaction to channel the energy of the spores, causing the dead creature’s body to release a burst of energy. All creatures within a 10-foot radius of the creature that died must make a Constitution saving throw against your spell save DC. A creature that fails the save takes 5d6 poison damage, or half the damage on a success, and is also knocked prone.

If the creature that died was a willing ally, you can choose to instead cause its body to release spores that heal any living creature within the radius for half of the poison damage dealt (rounded up). You can use this ability once per long rest.