This will be my last video of 2021! Thank you all for a break year. However, check back January 1st, I've got something big planned

I played Circle of The Land Forest as my first character, and now I feel pretty confident with most of the mechanics in the game

With so many concentration spells on their list, druids don't burn through slots as fast as other casters. Coupled with Natural Recovery land druids have more magic than they ever need (Which is always handy).

I'm gonna say it: circle of the land is my favourite Druid Circle because it's basically seven or eight subclasses in one. The Spell list you're gonna choose can give you a whole different role as a spellcaster, it's amazing, and flavorwise, you can have so many different roleplay concepts by just switching the landscape you choose, so thanks for giving this subclass some love! However, I totally disagree with you when it comes to Coast! I think Mirror Image is one of the best spells out there, and basically an amazing way to keep concentration for a while (and druids have so many spells relying on concentration). Misty step is widely considered as a great spell as well, as movement is very important, and it only takes a bonus action. Sure the 3rd and 4th level are more specific to a water campaign, but when I actually played coast during a water campaign, they were all actually very useful. As for scrying, if you like divination, you should enjoy the roleplay and information potential of a good scry. I don't know, I think the coast spell list is pretty great. Like not the best of the Land druid options, but not the worst, and it definitely not sucks, in my opinion. I'd be curious to know why you think it's not good, cause I honestly expected it to be the 3rd position one after grassland and mountain

Land stride definitely works for plant growth but not for spike growth. Spike growth can be dispelled, and it’s lost when concentration is dropped . Plant growth on the other hand has a casting time of instantaneous so the magic is gone right after the plants grow. Great video!

I rolled up a Tortle Land Druid for my first Druid I have ever played, and I went Desert due to the setting, basing a bit of his appearance off of a Desert Tortoise that live in the Southwestern United States all the way to Mexico. Those early options for defense (Blur) and shutting down spellcasters (Silence) and the other pieces of utility you get with Protection from Energy and Wall of Stone are honestly pretty solid! His shell and limbs even look a bit rocky, while his skin tone is more brown to light tan on the underside, more earthy tones in general

I actually played as one years ago. The DM was nice enough to allow me to attune to the land I was in and Had been in. So, I could choose from the current land's list or the last land's list. Kept it in the last and current to give variety a bit and not ultimately lock one in too hard. Worked really great!

As someone that likes to homebrew, at 6th level, I'd add an ability called Nature's Attunement, which would let you as an action expend a use of your Wild Shape feature to "attune" to an environment your Druid has been to (which basically means switching your land circle spells to a different choice of land circle spells). Also, at 14th level, I'd POTENTIALLY add Nature's Concentration, which let's you concentrate on 2 druid spells at a time. Not sure if this would be too strong though. Still, they'd add alot of oomph to the class :) oh, and I'd also buff Nature's Sanctuary to include Elementals because that seems thematic enough.

Circle of the Land could also be applied to cities, Swamp and Underdark could be the sewers, while mountains can apply for big cities with big buildings like Sharn.

I've watched a few of your videos. Definitely worth a Sub

Not gonna lie, it’s never made sense to me that the moon becomes the elementals when it feels much more in line with the nature based land druid. Also mirror image and misty steps are two of my favorite spells so I love the coast druid for giving them to druid.

I absolutely love your videos. I am brand new to DnD and in the current campaign I decided to play a Land Druid. It was a character I had played in other rp situations and wanted to give her a shot. She is a fairy land druid from the faewild and her circle is Forrest. She has been such a blast to play, and the DM has been really accommodating for allowing me to incorporate where she is from into her spell casting. She is currently 5th level and feels so powerful. I have been using your videos to help me flesh her out. Thank you for your videos.

I like all the magic card art you use in your videos

I'm playing a mountain druid and am having a blast. Love having lightning bolt to blast enemies as they try to get to me through spike growth. Wall of Stone is a great way to stop the bad guys. Passwall is great for getting into places and sinking ships.

I'm excited I'm making a circle of the land Arctic druid. I'm making them an Arctic fairy with the folk hero background. It's going to be fun with all the cold flavored spells and role-playing a winter fey that follows certain rules ( because yes I'm going to follow some fey rules) and has stories about them~

A comment on the Underdark Land Druid, you said it started slow, but isnt web a crazy good 2nd lv spell? Gives you a headstart on the plant grown.

Very good take on CotL. Apart from Landstride. They really lack that X-factor. What could be really fun would be to give them a thematic mechanic a'la Rune Knight's runes, or Samurai's Fighting spirit them that X-factor you talk about. It's the circle that probably needs a rework. Right now, they're like a significantly weaker, and only slightly nature-themed wizard... It would need an entire separate spellbook with druid-based nature/life spells.

Happy holidays folks!!!

Nice Video

I really have trouble with some of the rules interpretations you provide as if they were RAW or every table will agree. Certainly for Land's Stride, you might be correct on plant growth (it is an instantaneous spell), but spike growth is a concentration spell that deals damage (and whose effect can be dispelled or suppressed). Do you also rule that spike growth damage doesn't overcome magical immunity? Do you also rule that spike growth can't be dispelled? Is spike growth a spell? (That's one of the questions you can ask to figure out if something is magical.) I've noticed some other hot takes that aren't actually RAW defended with the same hostility on this channel. No, beasts don't have traits or features that aren't in their stat blocks; so it **has to be** entirely DM discretion whether a squirrel can avoid fall damage or whatever else. If your DM rules favorably for you, that's great; but that isn't player advice because that player advice essentially boils down to "get a better DM." It's a shame though, because I really like the druid class and some of the ideas presented in the channel.

Also, with the intro of Tasha's, Druids now have a new option for Wildshape, Wild Companion. We can now expend a Wildshape to cast Find Familiar that is fey, and stays for a number of hours equal to half your druid level.

I have a question , do the spells you get every time you level up, “stack” ?

In my opinion, and i would like to hear yours as well, I think this subclass should be allowed to take ALL of the optional features in Tashas cauldron of everything.

lol, first time playing a druid so i didn't know. I picked CoL, Coast, lol watched this video waiting to be inspired and opps, "don't play Coast" lol. guess its just made my Netherdeep campaign more challenging. still loved the video though. two thumbs up

Hey, i just came across your Druid content and I just wanna say that your Videos are amazing. I just started dnd and Druid is my first character. I looked a lot of Druid guids and I can honestly say that your Videos are top tier and incredibly helpfull for me as a beginner. Im planning too take the circle of the Land Route (mountain) and I love the roleplay Aspekt of this circle. I dont want to Powerplay and just take the strongest stuff. So I think the "restrictions" with circle of the Land really help New Players with the hole role Player aspekt. Do you have any Tipps for some usefull low cr animals. Even if there is no Focus on wild shape in this circle i still want to get some interesting and creativ uses out if the ability. But I am Kind of overwhelmed with the amount of choice und I Think there are no good wild shape guides for non moon Druids. Keep up the amazing work! Greetings from Germany :)

2024 watch: I love this subclass as a 4lvl grassland dip. Wonderful way to add travel bonuses and relatively cheap investment for Pass Without Trace and Invisibility.

This video left me really torn apart. Because on one side i heard Moon Druid is the most powerfull and gives you access to better wild shape. On the other hand circle of land allows you to cast a lot more spells and having a lot more spells prepared at the same time

How is circle of the coast your worst? It has the some of the most amazing spells druids normally don''t get. Right at level 2 you get 2 spell the druid was really missing. A bonus action teleport is very good and a concentration free defensive spell is amazing. Water walk and water breathing are utility spells the druid already has so that sucks. Same is true for 4th level although these spell sometimes randomly pop up to be very usefull, so they are not the worst. The 5th level spell are also on your list. But they are really good so no problems with them

Do you have a video on spore druids? Wanting to make a tortle, witherbloom spore melee build.

The Land Druid is tied with Spore Druid as my favorite RP Druid.

The Land's Stride debate is nothing but a win-win situation. If the DM wants to say that Spike Growth is magical, then wow.... what a powerful druid spell!! 😂😂

i feel like the reason why divination is so underused/underrated is that it is highly depend on your GM. with a cool Dm, sure it will be great. with a more restricting one however, it might just be a waste of 10 ingame minutes at best or even be used against you at worst.

Would you not recommend Land Druid to a veteran player who wants to go mainly caster with spell versatility?

Spike growth is very clearly a spell effect. Theres nothing in the language to imply that it requires plants to already be in the location, and the spiked terrain disappears when you stop holding concentration. I don't know where you're getting the idea that it's at all comparable to plant growth in that regard, but its obviously not.

Weird to say Coast is bad and Swamp is better. You sure, mate? :P

Circle of the Artic is absolutely fantastic.

I've literally never seen a land druid played don't understand why land stride would be nerfed. Rangers and druids should get something. lol

Hey man. I really enjoy your videos and the hot takes. But I also have some hot takes and hot take #1 is that your land circle spell opinions are terrible! How can you dump on Coast when mirror image and misty step are both amazing spells not on the druid list? Underdark starts slow... with WEB??? You can't be serious. Grassland is middle of the road. Invisibility is okay, but you have wild shape for sneaking around already. Haste is overrated (especially with all the great conc. spells druids have) and has massive downside. For Wild Shape, tasha's added the ability to cast find familiar with your wild shape which was a pretty solid boon for land druids. I hope if WotC does a revamp of the PHB classes, they will let Land druids do a ritual to change their circle spell list.

People be like ya spike growth doesn’t work with Land’s Stride because it’s magic! Ahh yes that’s why it deals piercing damage…

Are you sure coast druids are that bad ? They get misty step. You can do some pretty cool stuff with that

Here I was looking to play my coast druid better and instead I just get.. choose something else

Saying mirror image and misty step isn't a good spell to get on a druid makes me laugh.

very informative video but divination just kind of seems like breaking the fourth wall. sure it might sae the party from a tpk but maybe the party deserved a tpk. idk as someone who has dmed and played i think this ruins the fun , just my opinion tho

Circle of Land Druids should still be allowed to take wild shapes, just fewer of them.

Land's stride raw let's you walk through trees.

Not me wanting to play a coast druid and watching videos to get someone else's opinion 😅

“Coast just sucks” me: 👎🏽

Doesn't spike growth require concentration to stay?

Was anyone else shouting Magic card names at their screen this whole vid?

Kinda sucks that as a Tortle Druid the only land classes that make sense are Coast, grassland, and maybe forest. 😢

Imagining ranting so hard and being so wrong 😅

I’m playing a lvl 9 Circle of the Land: Arctic Druid for my first D&D character. 🤍❄️💚He also has 2 life cleric levels.