A Martial-Focused Urban Druid Subclass
Based in Waterdeep or the homebrew city of your choice
The Circle of Balance druid subclass* provides provide a fun and flexible alternative specifically designed for urban campaigns. It lends more of a martial slant to druids without relying on Wild Shape.
You’ll also find a fey pug druidic mentor/sidekick and a new wild companion options for druids, the jewel fox!
This product includes
- full druid subclass
- gorgeous art!
- two new creatures, the fey pug and the jewel fox
- fey pug sidekick stat block and leveling table
- jewel fox wild companion option for druids under the new Unearthed Arcana Class Feature Variants
Circle Origins
Many across Faerûn are familiar with the Emerald Enclave, a far-reaching collective of druids, rangers, fey, and nature-loving individuals who seek to protect the balance between the natural world and civilization.
However, as the Enclave evolved, a gap widened between the political will of the Lord’s Alliance and individual city-states and the Enclave itself. Whose responsibility were the wilds beyond political boundaries? Who should oversee green spaces inside the cities themselves?
Out of this discord, the Circle of Balance emerged.
Circle Characteristics
Druids who join the Circle of Balance at 2nd level adopt the tenets of the urban circle. Chief among these is the belief that civilization is a part of nature and nature, of civilization. Beyond urban plant- and wildlife, these druids recognize the creatures around them, humanoid and non-, as part of the natural order of the world and worthy of protection.
While others might find cityscapes stifling or lifeless, druids of the Circle of Balance find artificially-developed environs fascinating and have sought to adapt themselves to better commune with and understand the far-reaching possibilities of cities at peace with nature, open to more forms of life and ways of being.
This adaptation is not one-sided, however; as Circle of Balance druids grow more powerful, they irresistibly alter the urban environment around themselves. They constantly seek understanding and accord between the various peoples and beings of the world, across both densely populated and extremely remote spaces.
Other Druid options!
Please check out my other druid subclass, The Circle of Sunlight.* Suited for urban or wilderness campaigns, this subclass is perfect for lovers of life and beauty.
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Duane says
Sounds like an interesting subclass. Instead of the traditional “druid hates civilisation, yeah nature” druid that is seen as the common archetype.
You see civilisation as part of the evolution. I like it.
Beth says
Thank you so much! I’m hoping it catches on and adds more options for people! I love playing druids and rangers, but I hate feeling pushed toward an anti-social extreme or one that isn’t open to lots of different ways of life!
My side-hope is that this sort of shift for druids would help us reexamine the dichotomy so often placed between nature and civilization in the outside-of-D&D real world, but I am also happy with adding more fun and variety for players!