I always thought the biggest problem with Spores Druid was the fact that their symbiotic entity just stops after they take a hit or two. How are they supposed to be a melee subclass if they loose half of their abilities as soon as they get hit once? The Stars Druid just gets a clean 10 minutes of their special form, so why not the Spores Druid? Heck, the Moon Druid also looses their special form, as in their stronger Wild Shipe, after taking enough damage, however the Moon Druid effectiveley gets 20-30 hp of that shape at level 2, while the Spores Druid gets 8 hp. What was even the thought process behind giving them melee benefits, that stop as soon as they get into a fight?
What gets love is often tell tale of the person giving that love. Pact of the blade gets permanent. Shalily on any weapon with no debuffs. Selling your soul is the ultimate selling out on yourself
What if it was, instead of either the temp hp expires or 10 minutes passes, it needs to be both the temp go expiring and 10 minutes passing? Like if you still had 3 temp hp when the ten minutes was up you stayed in symbiotic entity until you took 3 damage.
Spore Druid isn't a melee class, it's a social class. By which I mean, a Spore Druid can completely undetectably murder people just by being near them. So you have a Spore Druid be the murderer in a murder-mystery, and everyone has to suspect everyone else because they don't know why people are dying.
I would have been fine with Wildfire Druids getting a fire cantrip for free with the spirit being able to shed light and getting fire resistance or you know fire immunity since you bonded with a fire spirit.
Ok, I love the theme of the Stars Druid. It deals with the sun, moon and the stars. How are they not a part of nature? It's a genius subclass. It feels like a village shaman that consults the movements of the heavens to predict the future.
I am in total agreement, that’s exactly what I was thinking the whole time he talked about Stars Druid’s thematics. PLUS, Wizard already has a subclass and a wide variety of spells it can choose based around divination.
Yea, I always understood it as this idea that the control of the natural world is not purely the earth, but also the skies and the heavens. Though I think Mr. Bone Wizard's point that it seems more "Oracle" than "Druid" is a fair point, which mostly falls to the fact that Druid is the closest thing 5e HAS to a sort of "Oracle looking up at the skies and drawing power from the stars" class so it gets slapped on druid.
@aquamarinerose5405 If 5e had an oracle class, then it would make sense as a subclass for that one, but since 5e doesn't have one, it makes the most sense for Druid. Spirits Bard is in the same camp. It could be an oracle subclass if that class existed.
@@elmsigreen Yea, I personally understood it, but thought to throw some discussion around and kinda note that I understand Skeleboy's chagrin with the subclass.
I always thought the inspiration for the stars druid was the team thinking about an aspect of nature they hadn't covered yet and space is part of nature.
This video deserves 1 million views at the very least for Bone's Mr Torgue impression. You capture his energy perfectly, also all hail the mushroom bois
Ya know I was kinda just watching this while playing darks souls and then you bust out that Torgue impression and I was so impressed I nearly got boned by a skeleman. If you did the voice in every video from now on, I don't think I could miss one.
Yes, I play a Stars Druid and I LOVE it. People were like why not Moon? And I was like- Can't you READ? Land really needed the help but some of the spell lists were a little weird, I think Forest needed Web and Misty Step (Yeah, powerful - but until they do, no one will take it). I thought Spores druid was the strongest, but I didn't realize the saving throw agains their bonus action damage. I really hope they address the Save or Suck spell machanics in the next version so casters get a little SOMETHING for their spell slots when they cast.
I honestly don't have a problem with save or suck spells. You wanna avoid those? Just cast damaging spells. Simple. You wanna do something more impactful? Cast a save or suck spell. Worried about getting unlucky and the DM rolling high? Well either take the risk, cast fireball, or dont play a game centered around random number generator rocks.
Oi Bone Boy!!! Thanks for working so hard, me and some friends of mine really enjoy the work that goes into the balancing and the editing/writing/humor of your videos. We're all really excited to see what you make, and we hope the UA-cam full-time stuff works out well!
Two comments: 1) That was an amazing Mr. Torgue impression 2) There *can be* metals in fungi. Mushrooms will absorb and help break down some incredibly toxic stuff, including pesticides, radiation, and heavy metals.
All of these look like great changes! The only things I would change are personal preferences, the first being an idea I've seen flung around for Land Druid that they can attune to their current environment and gain the corresponding spell list. Basically turns their Circle Spells into a revolving door that they can change based on wherever they are. The other is a buff to Spores Druid where the 14th level feature also lets them burrow into the ground, since mushrooms are all interconnected via mycelium threads and it'd be sick if you could travel through them and pop up somewhere else. Plus it'd be a great repositioning tool for a melee build.
Stars Druid is wonderful, honestly. I used mine as a seafaring Druid, who had a job as a navigator and used an astrolabe as a spell focus. That shit was cool. Long live Pyxis Yonaguni.
Great video! I really like the changes, especially for the Spore Druid. My favorite (likely unintentional) interaction is that the boosts to melee spell attack cantrips also apply to Thorn Whip, since it specifies that it makes a melee spell attack. There's a lot of fun interactions this can lead to, and gives spore druids a lot of extra reach. One side note for your next video: I'd personally say that Shepherd Druid is the strongest druid subclass, since it buffs your summons so much. Conjure Animals (and to a lesser extent Conjure Woodland Beings) is the strongest spell druids have available because of the incredible amount of damage and battlefield control it brings to the table. Shepherd's Mighty Summoner lets your summons ignore resistance/immunity to nonmagical damage, which is the main limiter on the damage of summons in 5e, and their other features make those summons much tankier. I get that a lot of tables don't like playing with the full power of Conjure Animals, but if your DM is regularly allowing you to summon 8 (or even 4) creatures with the spell, you'll be doing some truly disgusting things in combat.
ya thorn whip can pull creatures into your halo of spores. So thats pretty good. About Shepard druid, ill talk about them at length in my next video. I still think they need some buffs, just none of the stuff you brought up.
@@bonewizard One question, what damage type is the spore zombie explosion? It isn't listed in the feature's text at 20:03, so I'd assume it defaults to the damage of the Halo of Spores (necrotic), which would make the spores zombies immune to the explosion damage.
7:57 Not gonna lie it took me until you said "okay fine I'm not gonna nerf Star Druid" for me to realize that this was a joke about nerfing Star Druid and not a suicide joke that involved a nerf gun.
I love your videos, they are funny and you speak the truth about balance ! To be so commited to balance you must be druid... With a hint of transmutation magic hehe. I'm very happy to see more of the skeleton in the future :D
I would think with all the light pollution blocking us from seeing the stars and how many animals use the stars to navigate, the Stars druid have a place with their circle.
Called it. Also your spore druid is great and makes me really remember the druid liches of old. Druids used to be able to become liches! Minor spoiler for a very old module, in Red Hand of Doom from 3.5 a druid lich is one of the major villains you can beat to disrupt the BBEGs plans!
Wow, glad to see you back!🧙♂️ Your videos are always made with so much love and hardwork and they are very useful too. So thanks! Unfortunately, I'm from Russia so I can't donate to Patreon or UA-cam right now (sanctions, y'know), but I just want you to know how much I appreciate your content☺
I always thought in lore wildfire druids magic fire can harm and heal, so they have more control over it than actual fire. Also the spirits aren’t really dying they are just going away, and they serve their purpose to assist the druid. In my setting they are kind of like lone knights who fight off corruption in nature.
Your Mr Torgue impression is great btw! It may not be exact yet but it was still awesome! Been fixated on your videos for a lil while now since I'll be a first time DM very soon!
I played with a friend of mine who wrote out a flames Druid in what was honestly one of the best characters I’ve seen. Their logic behind it was they played a Firbolg that was captured by the bhatarians as a soldier for the blood war specifically because they heard they wanted to see if a Druid could tap into the chaos of fire to fight the Tahnari, it gave the character a tragic backstory, a permanent gray coat(a feature based on his time in hades) and a fire element that we all called jalapeño who our DM allowed to carry flame weapons which made him insanely cool
That does sound cool. Your thing is way cooler that what is presented in the book. Creativity of the player will always beat what's written in the source books.
I was wondering when the next one of these would come up, and with Spore Duird being one of my favorite sub-classes next to Wildfire, this feels really freaking satisfiying. I have been adding these buffs into my games thus far, my players haven't touched on them yet, but I feel like this should be a bit of fun for them:) Also I'm assuming that Spore Ghost stat block is a work in progress? Edit: Also, I really doubt Moon Druids need to be any more buff then they are, but if you see an issue, but in any case I can't stop you from doing so.
I quite like the Land Druid's revamped spell list. The Plant Growth and Freedom of Movement combo is absolutely cracked. I know they have access to them both, already. But it's especially nice if you never have to choose to prepare them.
I made a wildfire druid which was my first druid, also didn't know any of their lore. I had the reason for his fire magic being that his culture focused on tree/lumber exports so they have a bunch of people protecting the trees and he was apart of a group who uses fire to deal with blight and other plant disease stuff. I never really thought of the wildfire druid being evil
One thing I think is important to mention for your spores Druid rework: Thorn whip is a melee spell attack, with a range of 30 feet (like how a glaive has the reach property) so a Druid could theoretically gain all the benefits of symbiotic entity while still playing at range.
7:04 meanwhile Shadow Sorc using Hound of Ill Omen (disadvantage on saves to adjacent target), spamming Mind Sliver (-1d4 to saves) "Bounded accuracy? What's that?"
Played a Circle of the Land (Swamp) druid for Curse of Strahd once. Very fun. Didn't give a single shit about any class feature other than natural recovery, including circle spells. Still very fun. Good buffs :)
Wow you're quick lol! Post video, I love that this went COMPLWTELY different then what I expected! An additional melee cantrip feels great, and this results in a swirling storm of spores and mycelial spawns, rather than bonk twice (which was my thought- give either bladesinger or eldritch knight extra attack). Also, straight 10 minutes, but I see that's already been mentioned.
For Halo of Spores, I feel like a 15-ft radius and buffing the damage scaling should work. I'm thinking at lv 2, it deals 1d4 + WisMod necrotic damage, and every 4 levels, it increases by an extra 1d4. This does favors for how much damage it deals.
I personally like to play druids as nature's infiltrators, as well as guides to those lost within nature capable of helping people find their way safely home. I also can imagine druids acting similar to a shaman, or at the very least like a religious individual such as a Celtic priest. With that consideration, stars druid makes a lot of sense to me. People have used the stars for guidance while seafaring and while traveling through deserts because they are the closest thing travelers have to landmarks in those biomes and settings. Thus, being a circle of stars druid that guides people through landscapes such as druids or by boat makes a lot of sense to me, and fits the character who would be manipulating nature to permit safe travel for them and their allies in an otherwise inhospitable environment.
Just want to preface that i really liked this video! A lot of the buffs are well done and really good! About Stars Druid though It is really strong, there's no denying that, but the 6th level feature (While ridiculous for Druids, obviously) isn't the most ridiculous thing around. College of Lore: Can debuff a creature's save within 60ft for a Bardic Inspiration. A resource that at level 5 regenerates at a Short rest. Divination Wizard: just exists and has two rolls they can just throw out whenever. Yes it is very limited, and complete RNG, though removing two rolls alltogether for a set roll is still really powerful. Silvery Barbs: a spell available to every spellcaster. Except Druid and Cleric. Which invalidates Advantage completely. At 1st level. (Yes, i know there are feats that can give this spell to Druids and Clerics, but the point still stands). It has a shorter range than Lore's feature, doesn't scale like Bardic Inspirations does, and it replenishes on a Long rest (while being random on it either dishing out buffs or nerfs), while Bardic Inspirations replenish on a Short rest starting at level 5. It's strong for Druids, but in comparison to other spellcasters, it's nothing new or exceptional.
College of Lore: It can not debuff saving throws. It can change every other type of roll though. Divination wizard: Its strong, but the uses are much more limited. Silvery Barbs: That spell is widely regarded as busted. I'm not balancing based off a spell that was balanced poorly. In terms of debuffing no 5e class feature, before the tasha's book came out, went as a high as a d6. Which is the main point.
@@bonewizard Hi! Thank you for responding! ^ ^ College of Lore: you're right! Must have misremembered due to many online websites incorrectly describing it as working on Saving Throws (despite it only working on ability checks, damage rolls and attack rolls.) Thank you for correcting me on that, it was an honest mistake on my part! The primary point i was trying to make is that the level of power of the individual features themselves isn't exactly new to 5e with things like divination wizard, Cutting words (to a lesser extent as it works way more effectively for attack rolls and damage rolls than Woe could dream of, but doesn't affect Saving Throws) and other spells or features that in the video weren't mentioned as comparisons. It's new to Druids, not the game as a whole 😅 Circle of stars is really strong, of course, i can't deny that! And i love what you did in regards of trying to put all Druids in a similar power range to Stars as i think you did very good on the changes as well!
I got a spore druid. I had to multiclass into ranger to make the "its conceived as a mele druid" build make sense. I took swarmkeeper subclass so it still felt spore-ish.
I mean Shelagh let's you use your Wis to attack. It does require you to be ready for a fight, but it definitely helps out, especially if you use a Quarterstaff and optional Shield.
If you were going to nerf Star Druid, I like the idea of making it so that if you use weal and the roll still fails or if you use woe and the roll still succeeds, then your next attack roll or saving throw before the start of your next turn has a d6 subtracted from it. Fits with the whole theme of manipulating fortune and adds a bit of risk.
Does anyone know what the Star Wars skit was from? I can’t find any comments about it so figured I’d ask directly. Also, really enjoy these buff videos to where I watch them on repeat! I’m actually playing as a Wild Magic Sorcerer rn so I’m pumped for that future buff video just to see what Bone Wizard crafts!
I always thought the biggest problem with Spores Druid was the fact that their symbiotic entity just stops after they take a hit or two. How are they supposed to be a melee subclass if they loose half of their abilities as soon as they get hit once?
The Stars Druid just gets a clean 10 minutes of their special form, so why not the Spores Druid? Heck, the Moon Druid also looses their special form, as in their stronger Wild Shipe, after taking enough damage, however the Moon Druid effectiveley gets 20-30 hp of that shape at level 2, while the Spores Druid gets 8 hp.
What was even the thought process behind giving them melee benefits, that stop as soon as they get into a fight?
Ya, I wish I addressed that in my video. I would have had it stay on for 10 minutes regardless of what your temp hp is.
What gets love is often tell tale of the person giving that love. Pact of the blade gets permanent. Shalily on any weapon with no debuffs. Selling your soul is the ultimate selling out on yourself
I wish zombies could expand your spore range like if they each had their own aura@@bonewizard
@@TymerAllen thatd be a cool idea. You can make that a fun magic item or power up for your players.
What if it was, instead of either the temp hp expires or 10 minutes passes, it needs to be both the temp go expiring and 10 minutes passing? Like if you still had 3 temp hp when the ten minutes was up you stayed in symbiotic entity until you took 3 damage.
Spore Druid isn't a melee class, it's a social class.
By which I mean, a Spore Druid can completely undetectably murder people just by being near them. So you have a Spore Druid be the murderer in a murder-mystery, and everyone has to suspect everyone else because they don't know why people are dying.
"Social" in the largest air quotes of all time haha
The worst part of Wildfire Druid is that when Wizards brought it to Tasha's, they took Fireball from it.
eh, I don't really think they need fireball. Its still good without it. Also revivify is taken by the true homies.
@@bonewizard It's less that I think they need it to be good, and more because I like casting fireball.
@@ULTIMATZEKROM See, that's the argument I can get behind.
And gave every other druid flame shield and revival magic
I would have been fine with Wildfire Druids getting a fire cantrip for free with the spirit being able to shed light and getting fire resistance or you know fire immunity since you bonded with a fire spirit.
Ok, I love the theme of the Stars Druid. It deals with the sun, moon and the stars. How are they not a part of nature? It's a genius subclass. It feels like a village shaman that consults the movements of the heavens to predict the future.
I am in total agreement, that’s exactly what I was thinking the whole time he talked about Stars Druid’s thematics. PLUS, Wizard already has a subclass and a wide variety of spells it can choose based around divination.
@@egg_l0rd13 YES. I'm still waiting for just a straight up plant druid. One that maybe has Barkakin always prepared and can cast it for free.
Yea, I always understood it as this idea that the control of the natural world is not purely the earth, but also the skies and the heavens. Though I think Mr. Bone Wizard's point that it seems more "Oracle" than "Druid" is a fair point, which mostly falls to the fact that Druid is the closest thing 5e HAS to a sort of "Oracle looking up at the skies and drawing power from the stars" class so it gets slapped on druid.
@aquamarinerose5405 If 5e had an oracle class, then it would make sense as a subclass for that one, but since 5e doesn't have one, it makes the most sense for Druid.
Spirits Bard is in the same camp. It could be an oracle subclass if that class existed.
@@elmsigreen Yea, I personally understood it, but thought to throw some discussion around and kinda note that I understand Skeleboy's chagrin with the subclass.
I always thought the inspiration for the stars druid was the team thinking about an aspect of nature they hadn't covered yet and space is part of nature.
This video deserves 1 million views at the very least for Bone's Mr Torgue impression. You capture his energy perfectly, also all hail the mushroom bois
Im glad the pain of doing that impression for like 30 minutes of takes was worth it lol
1:27 Circle of the Wildfire
4:00 Circle of the Stars
8:36 Circle of the Land
12:50 Circle of Spores
This was very helpful, thank you.
You hyping explosive fungus like that was the only buff I needed, that was magical ✨️
Hope it works in your games.
Ya know I was kinda just watching this while playing darks souls and then you bust out that Torgue impression and I was so impressed I nearly got boned by a skeleman. If you did the voice in every video from now on, I don't think I could miss one.
If i do that voice too much, itll tear my throat to ribbons.
Yes, I play a Stars Druid and I LOVE it. People were like why not Moon? And I was like- Can't you READ? Land really needed the help but some of the spell lists were a little weird, I think Forest needed Web and Misty Step (Yeah, powerful - but until they do, no one will take it). I thought Spores druid was the strongest, but I didn't realize the saving throw agains their bonus action damage. I really hope they address the Save or Suck spell machanics in the next version so casters get a little SOMETHING for their spell slots when they cast.
I honestly don't have a problem with save or suck spells. You wanna avoid those? Just cast damaging spells. Simple.
You wanna do something more impactful? Cast a save or suck spell. Worried about getting unlucky and the DM rolling high? Well either take the risk, cast fireball, or dont play a game centered around random number generator rocks.
Oi Bone Boy!!! Thanks for working so hard, me and some friends of mine really enjoy the work that goes into the balancing and the editing/writing/humor of your videos. We're all really excited to see what you make, and we hope the UA-cam full-time stuff works out well!
Thank you so much! It warms my heart to know a group of friends like myself work. I hope you also enjoy the stuff to come.
That Mr.Torgue skit deserves more than just a like! loved it!
im so happy someone got the reference!
Two comments:
1) That was an amazing Mr. Torgue impression
2) There *can be* metals in fungi. Mushrooms will absorb and help break down some incredibly toxic stuff, including pesticides, radiation, and heavy metals.
So mushroom IS metal after all!
All of these look like great changes! The only things I would change are personal preferences, the first being an idea I've seen flung around for Land Druid that they can attune to their current environment and gain the corresponding spell list. Basically turns their Circle Spells into a revolving door that they can change based on wherever they are.
The other is a buff to Spores Druid where the 14th level feature also lets them burrow into the ground, since mushrooms are all interconnected via mycelium threads and it'd be sick if you could travel through them and pop up somewhere else. Plus it'd be a great repositioning tool for a melee build.
Stars Druid is wonderful, honestly. I used mine as a seafaring Druid, who had a job as a navigator and used an astrolabe as a spell focus.
That shit was cool. Long live Pyxis Yonaguni.
Boners rise up!! ✊💀
☠️☠️☠️☠️
I dunno, it seems a little too *Hard*
Great video! I really like the changes, especially for the Spore Druid. My favorite (likely unintentional) interaction is that the boosts to melee spell attack cantrips also apply to Thorn Whip, since it specifies that it makes a melee spell attack. There's a lot of fun interactions this can lead to, and gives spore druids a lot of extra reach.
One side note for your next video: I'd personally say that Shepherd Druid is the strongest druid subclass, since it buffs your summons so much. Conjure Animals (and to a lesser extent Conjure Woodland Beings) is the strongest spell druids have available because of the incredible amount of damage and battlefield control it brings to the table. Shepherd's Mighty Summoner lets your summons ignore resistance/immunity to nonmagical damage, which is the main limiter on the damage of summons in 5e, and their other features make those summons much tankier. I get that a lot of tables don't like playing with the full power of Conjure Animals, but if your DM is regularly allowing you to summon 8 (or even 4) creatures with the spell, you'll be doing some truly disgusting things in combat.
ya thorn whip can pull creatures into your halo of spores. So thats pretty good.
About Shepard druid, ill talk about them at length in my next video. I still think they need some buffs, just none of the stuff you brought up.
@@bonewizard One question, what damage type is the spore zombie explosion? It isn't listed in the feature's text at 20:03, so I'd assume it defaults to the damage of the Halo of Spores (necrotic), which would make the spores zombies immune to the explosion damage.
@@geisttraft7190 its necrotic
7:57 Not gonna lie it took me until you said "okay fine I'm not gonna nerf Star Druid" for me to realize that this was a joke about nerfing Star Druid and not a suicide joke that involved a nerf gun.
Dear lord! No! I wouldn't make jokes like that lol. Yes it was just a joke about nerfing a subclass haha
I love your videos, they are funny and you speak the truth about balance ! To be so commited to balance you must be druid... With a hint of transmutation magic hehe. I'm very happy to see more of the skeleton in the future :D
I would think with all the light pollution blocking us from seeing the stars and how many animals use the stars to navigate, the Stars druid have a place with their circle.
Called it. Also your spore druid is great and makes me really remember the druid liches of old. Druids used to be able to become liches! Minor spoiler for a very old module, in Red Hand of Doom from 3.5 a druid lich is one of the major villains you can beat to disrupt the BBEGs plans!
Spore druids are cool. The 2nd most work i had to do to update one subclass.
Wow, glad to see you back!🧙♂️
Your videos are always made with so much love and hardwork and they are very useful too. So thanks!
Unfortunately, I'm from Russia so I can't donate to Patreon or UA-cam right now (sanctions, y'know), but I just want you to know how much I appreciate your content☺
I always thought in lore wildfire druids magic fire can harm and heal, so they have more control over it than actual fire. Also the spirits aren’t really dying they are just going away, and they serve their purpose to assist the druid. In my setting they are kind of like lone knights who fight off corruption in nature.
I like to roleplay the spirits as an extension of your own body, but lone knights are also pretty cool
Finally this is my favorite UA-cam series and I have been waiting so long
I hope it was worth the wait
@@bonewizard it was
Great video, good luck with the full time YT plan! If you keep making stuff like this, i think you got a pretty good shot!
Thank you! Sink or swim, at least I made some cool stuff along the way.
This video took a lot of energy to make, I'll sub, this level of madness is rare.
i’m legitimately impressed with how high quality for a channel SO SMALL, i think your a channel with a great future. maybe the algorithm favor you
Thanks man. If you wanna help channel out, share the video and maybe the algorithm will pity me lol.
@@bonewizard i absolutely will
HE HAS RETURN!!!! I love this channel and boney dude!!!!
Edit: Can't help but notice the Bastion OST in the video, god I love that game OST!
its an underrated classic.
I was literally thinking yesterday "Hmm I wonder where bone wizard went" and here's a new video. Great timing man. Love the content
Ya, i was dealing with some bad stuff at my old job. But i quit that and im trying to make it on youtube. So full time bone wizard.
Good luck, O bony one
Bone Wizard Calls, We answer.
Your Mr Torgue impression is great btw! It may not be exact yet but it was still awesome! Been fixated on your videos for a lil while now since I'll be a first time DM very soon!
Best piece of advice i can give to a first time dm. Your main goal, as well as everyone else's goal at the table, is to just make a fun time for all.
I played with a friend of mine who wrote out a flames Druid in what was honestly one of the best characters I’ve seen. Their logic behind it was they played a Firbolg that was captured by the bhatarians as a soldier for the blood war specifically because they heard they wanted to see if a Druid could tap into the chaos of fire to fight the Tahnari, it gave the character a tragic backstory, a permanent gray coat(a feature based on his time in hades) and a fire element that we all called jalapeño who our DM allowed to carry flame weapons which made him insanely cool
That does sound cool. Your thing is way cooler that what is presented in the book. Creativity of the player will always beat what's written in the source books.
Spore druid is one of my favorites already, I would absolutly love to play with your changes! That sounds like a lot of fun
You are definitely an underrated dnd UA-camr. Your videos are fucking hilarious and I love the creativity. Keep it up!
Thanks man, i appreciate that.
I was wondering when the next one of these would come up, and with Spore Duird being one of my favorite sub-classes next to Wildfire, this feels really freaking satisfiying. I have been adding these buffs into my games thus far, my players haven't touched on them yet, but I feel like this should be a bit of fun for them:)
Also I'm assuming that Spore Ghost stat block is a work in progress?
Edit: Also, I really doubt Moon Druids need to be any more buff then they are, but if you see an issue, but in any case I can't stop you from doing so.
Hey, glad you like the changes. And NO! Spore ghost is done! its on the discord! discord.gg/cnMCt4dPeD
Thank you bone wizard!
I love the fungal zombies sponsored by Torgue
I was worried no one would get the joke lol
@@bonewizard I can't wait to blo... guard the ocean like a badass
No worries about splitting the video, just so glad to see a new video
So far i havent gotten any flak for it, so thats reassuring haha
There are more layers to the mother Theresa metaphor than most people realize
If there are, I didn't know about em! lol
ah yes, the most powerful elemental nature magic out there: BEAR
Finally! A new video from my favorite UA-camr, Mr. Boner!
it me
This video has really high production quality
Thank you!
I'M SO GLAD YOU'RE MAKING MORE VIDEOS!!!!
IM GLAD THAT YOU ARE GLAD MR. YODER YODER!!!
FIRST DIRECT RESPONSE FROM A UA-camR WOOOOOO
Yay! New bone guy video!
It me
Just stumbled across this channel and I've been really enjoying the videos man. Keep up the good work
Glad you like them!
Of course this came out at the same day as the OneDND Druid UA
wow FML
@@bonewizard congrats, you’re now a bone divination wizard!
@@Natibe_ Cant tell if its a good or bad thing yet.
HE’S AWAKEN FROM HIS CRYPT!!!!
welcome back bone wizard.
Anyone else love the Mr. Torgue impression or is it just me?! Awesome video bro!
THANK YOU VERY MUCH SIR.
I love these, me and my party of 7 use literally all of the changes from the other classes and I can’t wait to add the Druid in
Party of 7! Holy cow thats a massive group lol
I love his buffing videos so much, i wish he would upload more often ):
You and me both!
Love your work, dude. You're funny and you have good ideas, I hope you go far.
Thanks! Hope you like the stuff to come real soon.
Bravo for the spot-on Mr. Torgue impression.
The Torgue segment is absolutely *chef's kiss*
Love the music from Bastion here 14:13 , one of the most underrated video game soundtracks fs
Glad super giant went on to keep making good games
Just in time for the 1D&D playtest.
I am both glad and angry about this turn of events lol
Great Vid, worth the wait, can't wait for part 2
Thank you!
I quite like the Land Druid's revamped spell list. The Plant Growth and Freedom of Movement combo is absolutely cracked.
I know they have access to them both, already. But it's especially nice if you never have to choose to prepare them.
I made a wildfire druid which was my first druid, also didn't know any of their lore. I had the reason for his fire magic being that his culture focused on tree/lumber exports so they have a bunch of people protecting the trees and he was apart of a group who uses fire to deal with blight and other plant disease stuff. I never really thought of the wildfire druid being evil
okay that bit about explosive death was funny. good job
I love how the 10th level feature has the potential to start a zombie apocalypse if the dm tries to goblin you
Great Job on that Mr. Tourge Voice!
Hell ya! Borderlands reference! Love your vids!
One thing I think is important to mention for your spores Druid rework: Thorn whip is a melee spell attack, with a range of 30 feet (like how a glaive has the reach property) so a Druid could theoretically gain all the benefits of symbiotic entity while still playing at range.
Thats fine
Aye Heck yeah! Full comital to the channel? Best wishes my guy!
Yep. Fully committed.
New bone wizard content 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🔥🔥🔥
12:20 "We'z az a tank! We'z az a tank! We'z az a tank! We'z az a tank! " - some random orks.
Oh hell yea bone wizard is back :3
Absolutely nailed that mr. Torgue
THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORDS OF ENCOURAGEMENT!!!
8:06 pick up the gun
Noooooo, Im stronger than that!
That was a wonderful mr torque impression
Loved the mr torgue bit a whole lot. High five would be proud
Can't Lore Bards also reduce a target's roll using Cutting Words? Am I not understanding Bounded Accuracy?
@@gaidencastro9706 not for saving throws.
7:04 meanwhile Shadow Sorc using Hound of Ill Omen (disadvantage on saves to adjacent target), spamming Mind Sliver (-1d4 to saves)
"Bounded accuracy? What's that?"
Bruh. The Mr. Torque impression is incredible. 💥🤯💣🧨
Thanks!
2:17 Circle of the shepherd is a farming druid
Id say farning can include being a shepard, but being a shepard does not necessarily mean farming. By farming, i mean crops and agriculture.
YES, MORE VIDEOS!!!
Bastion music moment let’s fucking go
Good game
Played a Circle of the Land (Swamp) druid for Curse of Strahd once. Very fun. Didn't give a single shit about any class feature other than natural recovery, including circle spells. Still very fun. Good buffs :)
Seems like they used this concept 15:12 when they were making sea Druid’s build
The spore druid rework. Phenomenal
Thanks mate
spore druid's symbiotic entity should keep working even if the temp hp is taken away
100% agree.
*FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS OF YEARS I LAY DORMANT! WHO HAS DISTURBED MY-!* Oh. Bone Wizard uploaded a new video. Neat.
sorry to wake you up vegeta.
@@bonewizard I prefer Piccolo's take actually.
Yooo my second favorite subclass. Can't wait for this ad to end so I can get into this video (comments are good for the UA-cam algorithm)
Thanks mate. Theres also a part 2 if i don't talk about your fav subclass in this video.
Wow you're quick lol! Post video, I love that this went COMPLWTELY different then what I expected! An additional melee cantrip feels great, and this results in a swirling storm of spores and mycelial spawns, rather than bonk twice (which was my thought- give either bladesinger or eldritch knight extra attack).
Also, straight 10 minutes, but I see that's already been mentioned.
Also. Monk rebuild and good spores rebuild, you have earned my 6th subscribe
For Halo of Spores, I feel like a 15-ft radius and buffing the damage scaling should work. I'm thinking at lv 2, it deals 1d4 + WisMod necrotic damage, and every 4 levels, it increases by an extra 1d4. This does favors for how much damage it deals.
It's the mystery of the droods!
I personally like to play druids as nature's infiltrators, as well as guides to those lost within nature capable of helping people find their way safely home. I also can imagine druids acting similar to a shaman, or at the very least like a religious individual such as a Celtic priest. With that consideration, stars druid makes a lot of sense to me. People have used the stars for guidance while seafaring and while traveling through deserts because they are the closest thing travelers have to landmarks in those biomes and settings. Thus, being a circle of stars druid that guides people through landscapes such as druids or by boat makes a lot of sense to me, and fits the character who would be manipulating nature to permit safe travel for them and their allies in an otherwise inhospitable environment.
Just want to preface that i really liked this video! A lot of the buffs are well done and really good!
About Stars Druid though
It is really strong, there's no denying that, but the 6th level feature (While ridiculous for Druids, obviously) isn't the most ridiculous thing around.
College of Lore: Can debuff a creature's save within 60ft for a Bardic Inspiration. A resource that at level 5 regenerates at a Short rest.
Divination Wizard: just exists and has two rolls they can just throw out whenever. Yes it is very limited, and complete RNG, though removing two rolls alltogether for a set roll is still really powerful.
Silvery Barbs: a spell available to every spellcaster. Except Druid and Cleric. Which invalidates Advantage completely. At 1st level. (Yes, i know there are feats that can give this spell to Druids and Clerics, but the point still stands).
It has a shorter range than Lore's feature, doesn't scale like Bardic Inspirations does, and it replenishes on a Long rest (while being random on it either dishing out buffs or nerfs), while Bardic Inspirations replenish on a Short rest starting at level 5.
It's strong for Druids, but in comparison to other spellcasters, it's nothing new or exceptional.
College of Lore: It can not debuff saving throws. It can change every other type of roll though.
Divination wizard: Its strong, but the uses are much more limited.
Silvery Barbs: That spell is widely regarded as busted. I'm not balancing based off a spell that was balanced poorly.
In terms of debuffing no 5e class feature, before the tasha's book came out, went as a high as a d6. Which is the main point.
@@bonewizard
Hi! Thank you for responding! ^ ^
College of Lore: you're right! Must have misremembered due to many online websites incorrectly describing it as working on Saving Throws (despite it only working on ability checks, damage rolls and attack rolls.) Thank you for correcting me on that, it was an honest mistake on my part!
The primary point i was trying to make is that the level of power of the individual features themselves isn't exactly new to 5e with things like divination wizard, Cutting words (to a lesser extent as it works way more effectively for attack rolls and damage rolls than Woe could dream of, but doesn't affect Saving Throws) and other spells or features that in the video weren't mentioned as comparisons. It's new to Druids, not the game as a whole 😅
Circle of stars is really strong, of course, i can't deny that! And i love what you did in regards of trying to put all Druids in a similar power range to Stars as i think you did very good on the changes as well!
Didn't expect the Torgue cross promotion
They pay more than Maliwan.
Love the work you do man, binged all of your back catalogue and am certainly sticking around for the future.
@@skylarpaquette4783 thanks mate
The stars are very connected to nature. The seasons are tracked via the stars, and specifically constellations. A stars Druid makes perfect sense
Dont give wotc the credit it doesn't deserve. You deserve better.
B-but me like corporate product. I l-love to consume and s-spend
It has been so long since i heard his voice
Youll hear it again sooner than before.
@@bonewizard good to know
For my spore druid I got the DM to let me transform into plants. The low mushrooms I turn into are pretty great, though the walking speed is lacking.
full send it my boney stromboli
I have gotten so many weird nicknames from the comments. This might be the weirdest, but I'm here for it haha
@@bonewizard good
I got a spore druid.
I had to multiclass into ranger to make the "its conceived as a mele druid" build make sense.
I took swarmkeeper subclass so it still felt spore-ish.
I mean Shelagh let's you use your Wis to attack. It does require you to be ready for a fight, but it definitely helps out, especially if you use a Quarterstaff and optional Shield.
Bones Torgue voice is perfect
THANK YOU VERY MUCH
Star Druids: *Cosmic Omen*
Chonomancy Wizards: Cute.
If you were going to nerf Star Druid, I like the idea of making it so that if you use weal and the roll still fails or if you use woe and the roll still succeeds, then your next attack roll or saving throw before the start of your next turn has a d6 subtracted from it. Fits with the whole theme of manipulating fortune and adds a bit of risk.
i wouldn't do that, but that sounds like a fantastic magic item. Is it ok if i use that?
@@bonewizard Yeah feel free man
Does anyone know what the Star Wars skit was from? I can’t find any comments about it so figured I’d ask directly.
Also, really enjoy these buff videos to where I watch them on repeat! I’m actually playing as a Wild Magic Sorcerer rn so I’m pumped for that future buff video just to see what Bone Wizard crafts!
Glad you like the videos. The sketch your asking about is from college humor's series, "Troopers"
WE FOUGHT A ZOO
I'M FUCKING WHEEZING
honestly I think its one of my most underrated jokes.