Circle of Bones

Buried in the soil, bones hold countless memories of their lives and the lives of all those touched by them before they died. There is great power held within these memories, locked away. Druids of the Circle of Bones seek to preserve these memories, so they may be honored, and never be truly lost. Bone Druids take on the difficult but important task of serving as Nature's record keepers, wandering the world in search of dead memories, and connecting them to their deeds in life.

Circle of Bones Spells

When you reach a Druid level specified in the Circle of Bones Spells table, you thereafter always have the listed spells prepared.

Circle of Bones Spells

Druid Level	Prepared Spells
3	False Life, Shatter, Toll the Dead
5	Animate Dead, Phantom Steed
7	Blight, Divination
9	Bigby's Hand (appears as a large skeletal hand), Raise Dead

Legion of Bone

At 3rd level, when you join the Circle of Bones, you learn to awaken the memories within the buried bones around you and summon an unorthodox Bonepile Companion. This strange collection of bones and dead remains can be held together with pure magic, remaining sinew and viscera, or vines and leaves.

The Bonepile:  When you finish a long rest, you magically summon the Bonepile that is bound to you. It appears in an unoccupied space of your choice within 30 feet of you.

The Bonepile is friendly to you and your companions, and it obeys your commands. See its game statistics in the accompanying Bonepile Companion stat block. The Bonepile Companion is Small to Medium in size. You can determine the cosmetic characteristics of the Bonepile, such as its color, the shape/type of bones it is comprised of, markings or patterns on the bones, etc; your choice has no effect on its game statistics

The Bonepile in Combat: In combat, the Bonepile shares your initiative count, but it takes its turn immediately after yours. It can move and use its reaction on its own, but the only action it takes on its turn is the Dodge action, unless you take a bonus action on your turn to command it to take another action. That action can be one in its stat block or some other action. If you are incapacitated, the Bonepile can take any action of its choice, not just Dodge.

The Bonepile remains until it is reduced to 0 hit points, until you use this feature to summon the Bonepile again, or until you die. Anything the Bonepile was wearing or carrying is left behind when it vanishes. Whenever you cast a spell of 1st level or higher, you can summon your Bonepile Companion back to your side. You can also return your Bonepile as a Magic Action without casting any spell by expending a charge of your Wildshape.

Bone Garden

Beginning at 6th level, your control over bones now allows you to make them crack and splinter into hundreds of razor sharp spikes. Whenever your Bonepile dies, the ground within a 10 foot Emanation of it becomes covered in jagged bone spikes for 10 minutes. When a hostile creature moves into or within the area, it takes 2d4 Piercing damage for every 5 feet it travels.

Wicked Splinters

By 10th level, you are able to harness more natural life force from the memories buried deep in bones. You Bonepile's Bone Splinter feature now deals 8d6 Necrotic damage and the ground within the area of its Bone Garden feature is now Difficult Terrain.

Marrow Mastery

At 14th level, you have full mastery over the latent natural power held within bones and the many memories they hold. If a turn ends and you do not control your Bonepile, if you are conscious, you automatically summon a new Bonepile.