Circle of the Streets

Circle of the City druids have limited Wild Shape options. To balance this, they have access to a spell list that includes skills meant to help them navigate social interactions and urban environments. They eventually gain the ability to use their druid spells even as a beast. At the highest levels, these druids can easily traverse urban environments and insert themselves into any social situation via Alter Self. 

In practice, Circle of the City druids engage in more commerce than other druids; they often have to pay rent or else sleep rough on the streets. In a town or city, you might consult such a druid to find a missing person or animal, settle a dispute with a neighbor, rid a building of monsters, or manage plant life that can't be handled by the city government. You might not know a city druid by sight, however; many of them appear like rogues or, in some cities, travelling craftsmen.

Circle of the City druids have limited Wild Shape options. To balance this, they have access to a spell list that includes skills meant to help them navigate social interactions and urban environments. They eventually gain the ability to use their druid spells even as a beast. At the highest levels, these druids can easily traverse urban environments and insert themselves into any social situation via Alter Self.

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Urban Shape

 

• You can use urban shape on your turn as a bonus action, rather than as an action.
• Starting at 4th level you can use your urban shape to transform into beasts with a CR as high as 1. You ignore the Max. CR column of the Beast Shapes table, but must abide by the other limitations there. Starting at 6th level, you can transform into a beast with a challenge rating as high as your druid level divided by 3, rounded down.
• You also get access to humanoid-beast shapes such as Were-beasts. Additionally, any attacks made while in the beast form of a were-beast count as magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to non-magical attacks and damage.

Additional Proficiency

When you choose this circle at 2nd level, you learn one additional druid cantrip of your choice. Additionally, the Circle of the City forgo traditional views on using (heavy, medium) metal armor and weaponry, however, they cannot use shields of any kind.

Circle Spells

Your mystical connection to the land infuses you with the ability to cast certain spells. At 3rd, 5th, 7th, and 9th level you gain access to circle spells connected to the land where you became a druid. Choose that land — arctic, coast, desert, forest, grassland, mountain, swamp, or Underdark — and consult the associated list of spells.

Once you gain access to a circle spell, you always have it prepared, and it doesn’t count against the number of spells you can prepare each day. If you gain access to a spell that doesn’t appear on the druid spell list, the spell is nonetheless a druid spell for you.

City

Druid Level	Spells
3rd	mirror image, invisibility
5th	haste, clairvoyance
7th	freedom of movement, greater invisibility
9th	mislead, passwall

 

Civilized Beasts

Starting at 6th level, when you use your Wildshape feature to
take on the form of a beast, you retain your ability to speak
(as long as the beast would normally be able to vocalize
sounds at sufficient volume to do so), and become more
dexterous and adaptable with paws, claws, or talons, allowing
you to use them perform more complicated tasks that might
otherwise require hands. You additionally retain the ability to
cast spells while using Wildshape to turn into a beast.

City Ward

Starting at 10th Level, you have advantage on saving throws against bring charmed or frightened by humanoids or beasts, and you are immune to poison and disease. 

The City's Thousand Names

By 14th level, you have learned to use magic to alter your physical form in more subtle ways. You can cast the Alter Self spell at will.