What do all of you think about Moon druid?

With my group I played a Moon Druid and absolutely loved it. Made him a hunter/predator. Many times you hear druids being these hippie don't hurt anything types, but predators are a part of nature, so his only forms are predators.

Every druid character I have ever had in my party has been a Circle of the Moon. Having them as allies is great.

First time playing 5e tonight, playing a chaotic neutral moon druid, I’m definitely going to draw inspiration from the “Luna” part of lunacy.

I've just gotten into D&D during the pandemic and my very first character atm is a Circle of the Moon Druid Tiefling born to a tribe of wild-elves, I roleplay him as basically *_"a more civilized tarzan"_* - the process for creating my character was very simple - when I play games like MOBAs - RPGs and MMORPGs I like to play as the durable archetypes like bruisers and fighters and tanks, and I have huge fondness for animals and specially an affinity for *_BEARS_* - so basically: Me: which class I should choose? DM: Druid, Circle of the Moon. Me: ....and why is that? *_(me about to google up info)_* DM: you have a very potent ability to turn into *_a bear_* and be tanky- Me: *_- SOLD!!!!!!_* I absolutely love Circle of the Moon, before making my character I already knew I would lean towards Druid because I like nature-magic-themes in fantasy - surely it has been a task to learn all the intricacies and specifics of the class and subclass, but I've thoroughly enjoyed the learning experience and the vast tools of creativity - it's my very firs character but I can already say this'll be one of if not my absolute favorite class and subclass in the game

Idea if dm is ok with it: transform into water elemental, go around enemy’s head. have someone deal cold damage to you, thus causing you to freeze. block of ice is now suffocating enemy/wringing them down, providing a distraction/ straight up killing enemy

My first class in a DnD campaign and I simply love it... Hard to see myself as other class! It was a bit hard on the beginning, but rules are not so hard for new players as you said! All you need is some extra prep and homework to get used to all possibilities, I'm currently level 4 and still thinking/learning new strategies because brown bear is starting to feel repetitive haha

This is a great video! I can't wait for the rest of the druids especially circle of the stars

My Druid is dope. He is a hermit and often wolfs out of conversations

Great video! Played a lot of dnd but never a druid, this convinced me it should be my next character

This is amazing and information dense content. I love your videos, I learn so much. Thankyou

My Moon Druid character was a Chaotic Neutral Human-Dhampir, who was attacked by a vampire. After turning into a half-vampire thing she got scared and run away from home, isolating herself in the forests, so she couldn’t hurt anyone. Following the path of the Moon Druid, helped her find inner peace and accept her new self. As well as control the hunger for blood. We agreed with the GM, that my character had to make Wisdom Saves, when she smells a lot of blood, feels strong emotions, after a long rest, etc. If she fails 3 times in a row, she goes into “blood frenzy” and attacks anyone close to her to feed. So maxing Wisdom was not only class related, but also to the character. Especially, I loved to you use Vampire Fangs in Beast Shape, since I convinced the GM that if the animal has fangs, it could also use this ability.

ill always remember 2 players from a game i played a bit back, one was a cavalier fighter and the other was ofc circle of the moon druid... the druid became the cavalier's horse.

I decided my BB/druid MC goes into mania and is ruled by his base urges and instincts when his Rage ends. That way, my character has a reason to want to avoid using the OP power- there is a roleplaying cost to choosing that OP strategy. In fact, it can be a combat cost too if the Rage ends before the fight ends.

My little brother played a Circle of the Moon Druid and it was his favorite character to date.

Way late on commenting here but i had a similar thought towards thousand shapes not really being ‘the best’, so i took a little bit of time and came up with a semi replacement for it, though will lead with the caveat that i am rather newish so…probably incredibly broken. Primal Rage: Tapping into the truest wild nature of your animal forms, you're able to call upon even stronger CR beasts to transform into. You are able to transform into higher level CR beasts than before, but in order to keep control of the more powerful and dangerous form must pass a DC 15 intelligence check, with rolling at disadvantage if the beast CR rating is greater than half your druid level. In addition, for every 2 CR ratings beyond half your druid level, increase the required intelligence check by 1. If you fail the intelligence check, you go ‘primal’ and become a neutral but hostile party to both friends and foe alike, and any concentration spells active from the player will ‘break’ (still working on how to best balance, if give control to DM as though player was hypnotized by a third party bad guy or something similar.) The player must make an intelligence saving throw of whatever their initial required throw was,+1. This wild shape form is volatile and powered by extreme emotions, and puts immense strain on both the druids body and magic, and thus can only be held for a minute before the player is reverted back to their normal form.

First time player, chose Moon Druid and loving it.

I had always wanted to try moon druid and my DM let me play a Kalashtar so I can mind link to a member of my party and still chat with them. Should be fun, thanks for the vid.

I played: barbarian totem warrior, fighter champion, fighter samurai, ranger beast master, warlock genie, sidekicks (all 3 types), rogue scout... and now I'm playing moon druid. its potential is absolutely uncomparable to all other classes I played ~ healing, utility, support, area of control, full caster, tank, frontliner, striker, infiltrator, survivalist, etc. u can change spells during rest, fun roleplay, high wisdom, versatility, ultimate party helper, guide... freaking awesome. like all druid subclasses though, they all fun. highly recommend to have druid in your party, so cool

Im going moon druid and I havn;t played in like 20 years. Ive studied up on it and im fairly familiar with druids due to bg3 and old dnd games. I made him a Hill Dwarf sage.

I only play online because there is nobody close by who plays D&D but druids are my favorite & if I ever get a chance to play at an actual table, I will without a doubt play moon druid

My moon druid is a young child who got lost and ended up in the fae wild. Kinda a young Tarzan like character. Likes animals and plants more then people

Thanks for the vid. Question though, what's the benefit of going full CON for a moon druid as you'll be using your wild shapes CON value? Apologies if this is an obvious question, I'm extremely new to D&D (just started first campaign a few weeks ago) :o)

Druids can be more of an Energizer Bunny than people realize. Also the Circle Of The Moon Druid's level 14 capstone ability. Is far more powerful than people give it credit for. Especially when you get to even higher levels.

I would definitely say that the Moon Druid is the most front-loaded of any subclass in the game. You can the ability to Wildshape into CR1 creatures at level 2. That's insanity. A Moon Druid at level 2 is equivalent to an entire party of level 2 players. In fact, I would say that, as a DM, I would even avoid level 2 play with a Moon Druid in the party to make sure the other players still feel valuable and the druid still feels challenged. The first time I played a Moon Druid, I was a Lizardfolk from Chult who knew about dinosaurs because dinos are everywhere in Tomb of Annihilation. Being able to Wildshape into a deinonychus and evicerate everything with your three attacks in one turn while being this big defensive blob of HP is absolutely absurd lol. The Moon Druid at level 2 likely has more HP between those two wildshapes and their own than the rest of the party combined, unless the rest of the party is all barbarians. And this continues to be the case every time the Moon Druid goes up a CR for their Wildshapes, at least up to level 10, after which point the Moon Druid starts to fall off, but since you almost never play beyond level 10 anyway, that's fine.

Im making a Tiefling druid hippie, in his backstory he was raised by wolves so i thought being a moon druid would be fitting since wolves love the moon. i originally did the circle of the forest and i am kind of conflicted because by choosing circle of the moon im throwing away three spells for a stronger wildshape and im trying to rationalize whether or not its worth it since my group already has two fighters.

My favorite character is a moon Druid I’m playing right now. While he’s not full on lunacy he does believe he’s a dragon to the very fiber of his being and no one can convince him otherwise. This being the case he only wildshaped into reptiles or dragon looking creatures being dinosaurs. Also grew up in the wild so clothes are usually optional for him

What I did was play an elf so you can trance to quickly get my spells and shaping back.

I tried to play moon druid 3 times, never get to level 5... The first time my DM said "druids are so broken so you can't play him anymore" (lvl 3) Second time the DM said "we need to nerf the wild shape, it's no longer a bonus action, it's an action now", rending it just unplayable and limited my choices to only tanky beasts so that I don't die in the first round (level 4, I quit). And finally 3rd time, my level 3 party came against a dragon, out of nowhere, and guess who was the only one that died without even get the chance to roll a die... Sad that DMs out there don't want people to play druids, and then the community say that the druids sucks

These warnings are funny.

I haven’t played since AD&D. Would like to get back in. It sounds like Luke Skywalker was a Moon Druid

My 80 year old moon druid, Methuselah, who had never seen a woman till session 1, disagrees with your roleplaying score.

Ah moon druid. Only second best class. Only after wizard. As dm i always try to get my players to level 20 asap to avoid the not access to high level gameplay. I suck at combat encounter tho. My players slaughter everything.

I love playing my moondruid. Only thing Im a little bummed out by is that your spells don't really synergize all that well with your wildshape until you get shield of fire at level 7. I would love to burn my spellslots to buff my ac or my damage in beastform bust most spells feel kinda lackluster and not worth it. Druid spells are great, just not really that nice of a synergy. Also a shame that there are so little beasts with a higher cr than 2.

What are your thoughts about the new one dnd UA druid, and the moon druid? I think they’ve butchered it badly.

it's weird that the druid is one of the least played classes in D&D, they are basically the most versatile caster in the game AND they get wild shape

Been playing Moon Druid now for 3 months. I've found it to be balanced if not slightly weaker than a Circle of Lands. Fun factor is definitely A+ but overall I can't give it better than a B/B- ranking because of its mechanical limitations. Note: We often have 5+ encounters or 2 to 3 "Deadly" encounters a long rest. So your mileage may very.

my biggest problem is the lack of spell casting . to lock like your main class behind a level 18 feature is beyond supid . like if a barberian when raging cant use weapons sound stupid but thats exactly it ! the one dnd "fix" is abbesmel the first draft with pre determind stats was .... ok but the stats was AWFUL . the second change with 3 up to 5 wildshapes ... are you kidding me !!!!! limiting the flixblity of wildshape that much is beyond stupid ! and removing the elementals stats to be a sailor moon druid ... aaaaaagh Just ... give half the HP of the beast as either Temp hp or a ward ... that is the fix ... really .... half the HP of a cr1 creature is the same hp as a cr1/4 .... I did a homebrew where taht was the rule and that is what I FOUND !!! make the druid use spells and the items of thier charcter ... just make it easy the stats arent that broken so they get to butcher my charcter and keep looking oh what I can use against what I cant use. so keep the unlimited flixblity. Give us 2 stats . a verstile utlity . a verstile combat and a third stat for moon combat stats . give us the temp HP but I would like a ward like feature because so many features give temp HP "including the new barkskin spell so thats redundant" or just say that temp HP can be stacked ... like what is the worst can happen ! ooooh temp hp spells and healing would acctually be worth it booooo scaaary the stat would have sky land sea beasts and then another choice be is it strong or is it agile . depend on the second choice change the str or dex stat to equal wisdome and finally just have an unarmed strike ... dont name it beast strike .... dont name it natural weapon ... just unarmed strike with a d6 or a d8 using str or dex based on the choice ... we already know that they going to give eitems that agument unarmed strikes ... they hae alot of features talk about anarmed strikes .... multiclass with monk wont be trash ... all these things would be fixed with that and you can have choices like pack tactics . pounce . spider walk . poision strike features that augment the stat if you want them ,,,, you already have that on the new rogue cunning strike so why dont you use that format !!!! and you know moon druid and more druids that use buffed wildshape should get extra attack ... with the new changes with druid can have martial weapons why not it makes way more sense !!

I honestly hate the moon subclass. It's so helplessly overpowered that almost nobody ever plays any other druid subclass. Plus if you do play a different subclass, then there's always someone telling you that you should have gone for moon druid because it's just way better than your thematically amazing spore or dreams druid.