YONDER YARNS

SUBCLASS COLLECTION 1

OPTIONS FOR BARBARIANS, BARDS, CLERICS, AND DRUIDS

BY YEL-AN-HINDAR
 Credits About this Collection
Author and Subclass Designer: Yel-An-Hindar This collection focuses on subclasses for Barbarians, Bards,
Template Format Designer: Nathanaël Roux, Clerics, and Druids. Each class receives two subclasses
https://www.barkalotdesigns.com intended to expand the roles of the core class as well as
Cover Artist: Eamonn McCormick, provide some fun flavor to add to your character and table.
https://linktr.ee/eamonn.mccormick A frequent theme in this collection is travel, particularly
of the planar variety. If your table isn’t going beyond the
Material Plane any time soon, fret not. These subclasses
About Yonder Yarns should be a fun addition even if you’d rather explore
Like you, I love gathering around the table to roll dice and Waterdeep than Sigil. Though do consider an extra-planar
tell stories. It’s my favorite hobby, and hardly a moment excursion sometime—travel is the best education, after all,
passes where some part of my mind isn’t dreaming about and there are whole planes made of ideas out there!
fantastic lands, valiant heroes, and terrible monsters. Over
time I’ve collected a few ideas that I think are pretty fun.
Through Yonder Yarns, I hope to take those ideas beyond my
game table, and bring to life new stories at your table.
Yonder Yarns is a hobby for my hobby. I’ll release new
content whenever I can, including character options, DM
tools, adventures, and more. But this is just a project for fun
when I have the time to spare. That said, it is my sincere
hope that these publications help you and your table spin
memorable yarns about the wild blue yonder that lives
in our minds. Maybe one day you’ll even share a tale or
two with me.
Thanks for reading and happy rolling,
Yel-An-Hindar

On the Cover
Eamonn McCormick illustrates a gathering of adventurers
in a tavern situated in the Astral Sea. Not the easiest place
to gather for a drink, but the nachos are the stuff dreams
are made of.

Disclaimer: Just because the Astral Plane is the realm of thought

and dream doesn’t mean that all of the food is actually good there.
Remember, dreams include nightmares. You don’t have to eat and
drink while on the Astral Plane. In fact, if a tabaxi named Skillet
offers you cookies, best to decline. He means well, but just doesn’t
understand the difference between baking soda, salt, and sugar.

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Barbarians 4
Primal Paths....................................................................................................................................... 4
Path of Retribution......................................................................................................................... 4
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Bards 5
Bard Colleges..................................................................................................................................... 5
College of Mourning...................................................................................................................... 5
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Clerics 7
Divine Domains................................................................................................................................... 7
Chaos Domain................................................................................................................................ 7
Travel Domain................................................................................................................................ 9
Druids 10
Druid Circles....................................................................................................................................10
Circle of the Wind........................................................................................................................ 10
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 Barbarians Swift Vengeance
10th-Level Path of Retribution Feature
Who doesn’t love having a barbarian in their party? Sure,
being a rage machine sounds like the kind of thing that might
You give your enemies no space for respite. If a hostile
make being a barbarian’s friend hard, but you’ll be glad to
creature you can see hits an ally, you may use your reaction
have one on your side if you run into an astral dreadnought.
to move up to half your movement speed towards the
attacking creature.
Primal Paths
Healing Retribution
Presented here are two primal paths for barbarians who
14th-Level Path of Retribution Feature
really know how to rage. The Path of Retribution is great for
barbarians who want to seek vengeance against those who
Successful vengeance grants you momentary relief. When
wrong them or their friends. Meanwhile, the Path of the
your chosen transgressor dies, you may roll your accrued
Abberation draws on the fury of the Far Realm, delivering
retaliation dice + your Constitution modifier (minimum of
eldritch terror to a barbarian’s enemies.
1) to gain temporary hit points until you finish a long rest.

Path of Retribution Path of the Aberration

Barbarians understand well the power of wrath, but some
Bound to distant realms alien to mortal life, eldritch horrors
learn to further focus their ire into singular resentment.
slither their influence into the Material Plane through
Drawing strength from their pain, barbarians of the Path
many means. Though most mortals would be driven to
of Retribution direct their anger towards vengeance.
the brink by even brief contact with such aberrant power,
When wronged, these barbarians are swift to fury, stoking
some can channel the resulting madness into psionic rage.
the flames of their rage until the transgressor pays for
These barbarians are guided by the Far Realm to walk the
their misdeeds.
Path of the Aberration, able to meld muscle and mind into
Rampant Retaliation terrifying displays of power. But is the rage they wield truly
3rd-Level Path of Retribution Feature their own, or are they mere puppets for an inscrutable entity
beyond the stars?
You have learned to concentrate your rage into a vendetta
Alien Comprehension
against your enemy.
3rd-Level Path of the Aberration Feature
Transgressor. When you enter your rage, you may choose a
As you begin to walk the Path of the Aberration, you gain
creature that you can see within 30 feet, identifying them as
insight into the unfathomable reaches of the Far Realm.
a transgressor. Until your rage ends, the transgressor will be
Choose one of the following:
further endangered by your rage each time they hit you.
Inured Mind
Retaliation Dice. Each time the transgressor hits you with
The maddening nature of the Far Realm has conditioned
an attack roll, you accrue one die to your pool of retaliation
your psyche. You gain resistance to psychic damage. At 10th
dice, which are d4s. When you hit the transgressor with
level, increase your Intelligence score by 2.
a weapon attack, add any accrued retaliation dice to the
weapon’s damage. All retaliation dice are lost once the
Aberrant Courage
transgressor dies or your rage ends.
The horrors of the Far Realm have steeled your nerves. You
Reactive Rage gain advantage on saving throws against being frightened. At
6th-Level Path of Retribution Feature 10th level, increase your Wisdom score by 2.

Wrongs against you elicit immediate fury. When you take
damage, you may use your reaction to enter your rage.
As you continue along the Path of Retribution, your
indignation expands to include allies. Beginning at 10th level,
you may enter your rage as a reaction whenever a friendly
creature you can see within 15 feet takes damage, increasing
to 30 feet at 14th level.
Twisted Resolve
The entrancing chaos of the Far Realm has sharpened your
sense of self. You gain advantage on saving throws against
being charmed or possessed. At 10th level, increase your
Charisma score by 2.
Maddening Rage
3rd-Level Path of the Aberration Feature
Your mind swirls with maddening thoughts. When you
rage, you unleash this madness onto surrounding creatures.
You may target a number of creatures up to your proficiency
bonus that you can see within 15 feet. The targeted creatures
must make an Intelligence saving throw against a DC

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modifier. Each target takes 1d8 psychic damage on a failed
save, and takes an additional 1d8 psychic damage when it
starts its turn within 15 feet of you, for as long as you rage.
At the end of each of its turns, an affected target can make
another Intelligence saving throw. On a success, the effect
ends on the target.
Psionic Talents
6th-Level Path of the Aberration Feature
The Far Realm wraps itself further around your mind. You
learn Deep Speech, and may speak telepathically with any
creature you can see within 60 feet.
Additionally, as an action you can move an object you can
see that is not being worn or carried up to 30 feet in any
direction. The object may weigh up to 50 pounds, and floats
gently towards the ground if released from your control.
Maddening Howl
10th-Level Path of the Aberration Feature
You have gained the ability to share the terrors of the Far
Realm with another creature. As a bonus action, you let loose
a maddening howl infused with eldritch power. Once you
use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a short
or long rest. Choose one of the following effects:
Fracture the Mind
Psionic tendrils slither around your enemies minds,
incapacitating them for a short time. Up to two creatures of
your choice must make an Intelligence saving throw against a
DC equaling 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Constitution
modifier + your Intelligence modifier. On a failure, a targeted
creature is incapacitated until the end of your next turn.
Aberrant Panic
Your howl drives your enemies mad with panic. Up to
three creatures of your choice must make a Wisdom saving
throw against a DC equaling 8 + your proficiency bonus +
your Constitution modifier + your Wisdom modifier. On
a failure, a targeted creature is frightened for 1 minute. An
affected creature may make another saving throw at the end
of each of its turns, ending the effect early on a success
Twist Reality
You expose your enemies directly to a fragment of the Far
Realm. One creature of your choice must make a Charisma
saving throw against a DC equaling 8 + your proficiency
bonus + your Constitution modifier + your Charisma
modifier. On a failure, the target is banished to a pocket
plane of eldritch evil, taking 2d6 bludgeoning damage and
3d8 psychic damage. At the end of your next turn, the target
reappears in the space it left or in the nearest unoccupied
space if that space is occupied.
Ensnaring Rage
14th-Level Path of the Aberration Feature
The Far Realm reaches through you fully, manifesting 2d4
inky appendages bursting forth from your body when you
rage. The tentacles count as a simple melee weapon for you,
and you add your Strength modifier to the attack and damage
rolls when you attack with the tentacles, as normal. The
tentacles have the reach property and deal 2d8 bludgeoning
damage on a hit.
As an action, you can make a special grapple attack with
one tentacle against a creature of your choice. On a hit,
the creature is grappled and pulled up to 10 feet in your
direction. A grappled creature takes 1d8 psychic damage
at the start of its turn. The creature may attempt to escape
the grapple on its turn, rolling against an escape DC
equaling 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Constitution
modifier. Each tentacle can grapple one creature at a time.
You may not attack with your tentacles if each tentacles is
grappling a creature.
Bards
Bards are always thought to be the life of the party, and for
good reason. But just because bards bring a certain charm to
everything they do doesn’t mean they can’t be a little more
somber and serious too.
Bard Colleges
This section offers two very different bard colleges, each
with a knack for getting the most out of bardic inspiration.
The College of Mourning gathers together those macabre
bards who dote on death. Alternatively, a bard might join the
College of Wandering to seek out stories from far and wide.
College of Mourning
Death comes for all mortals, and the bards of the College
of Mourning follow close behind. These bards harness the
powers of loss, memory, and emotion which swirl around
death to comfort or wound the bereaved. Bards of the
College of Mourning are also known to reunite the living
with the dearly departed, for better or worse.
Death Knell
3rd-Level College of Mourning Feature
You herald death with the haunting sounds of forlorn bells.
You learn the toll the dead cantrip, which doesn’t count
against the number of bard cantrips you know. You may
target two creatures when you cast it.
Mournful Witness
3rd-Level College of Mourning Feature
You mourn a recent death, forcing others to bear witness to
the departed and their own mortality. If you are within 30
feet of a corpse you can see, which has been dead no longer
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may expend one use of your Bardic Inspiration to enchant
those around you, choosing one of the following effects:
Memento Mori. You bemoan the fragility of life, choosing
one creature you can see within 60 feet of you. The creature
is shaken by the thought of its own eventual demise, and
has disadvantage on its next attack roll. If the creature’s next
attack fails and the creature is within 60 feet of you, you
may use your reaction to prolong the creature’s uncertainty,
rolling your Bardic Inspiration die. On a 6 or higher, the
Memento Mori stays, and the creature has disadvantage
on its next attack roll. The Memento Mori requires your
concentration (as if you were concentrating on a spell), and
is lost if your concentration ends.
Baleful Keening. You wail at the sight of the corpse,
imposing grief upon those around you. Each creature of your
choice that you can see within 30 feet of you must make a
Charisma saving throw against your spell save DC. On a
failed save, a creature is compelled to join in your wailing
and is stunned until the end of your next turn. A creature
that succeeds on its saving throw is immune to your Baleful
Keening for 24 hours.
Enchanted Dirge
6th-Level College of Mourning Feature
Your mournful yet magical performances can empower those
around you. If you perform a dirge for at least 1 minute, you
can infuse your performance with necrotic energies. You can
use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency
bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a
short or long rest. At the end of your performance, choose
one of the following effects:
Parting Words. Your dirge grants a fleeting facsimile of
life to a humanoid corpse of your choice that you can see
within 10 feet of you. You may cast speak with dead, without
providing material components. Your dirge empowers the
creature to speak freely for 10 minutes, unhindered by the
usual limitation of five questions. The corpse still knows
only what it knew in life, including the languages it knew.
Likewise, the corpse can’t learn new information, doesn’t
comprehend anything that has happened since it died, and
can’t speculate about future events.
Soothing Remembrance. Your dirge tells the inspiring
tale of a beloved individual from history or your own life
who is now deceased. As you extol the deceased, roll your
Bardic Inspiration die. A number of creatures of your choice
equal to your proficiency bonus (including yourself) receive
temporary hit points equal to your roll + your bard level,
wreathed in the powerful remembrance of the deceased.
Ensnaring Grief
14th-Level College of Mourning Feature
Your mastery over grief wounds those around you. As an
action, you may exude grief infused with psychic malice.
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Each creature within 15 feet of you must make a Wisdom
saving throw against your spell save DC. On a failed save, a
creature takes psychic damage equal to 4 rolls of your Bardic
Inspiration die. A creature that succeeds on its saving throw
takes half as much damage. Once you use this feature, you
can’t use it again until you finish a long rest.
If the damage leaves any humanoid creatures with 0 hit
points, you may use your reaction to raise the humanoids as
zombies, expending 1 use of your Bardic Inspiration for each
zombie raised. A raised zombie is an ally to you and your
companions. In combat, the zombie shares your initiative
count, but it takes its turn immediately after yours. It obeys
your verbal commands (no action required by you). If you
don’t issue any, it takes the Dodge action and uses its move to
avoid danger.
After 1 hour, or when it drops to 0 hit points, the zombie
reverts back to a corpse.
College of Wandering
Bards of the College of Wandering believe an endless,
winding road spans the multiverse. Woven by story and
song, the Infinite Road interconnects creatures, worlds, and
the planes of existence. These bards travel far and wide in
search of Yarns; tales and melodies that resonate throughout
the multiverse, revealing underlying, cosmological truths.
By weaving legendary Yarns, or by drawing inspiration
from their own travels, bards of the College of Wandering
can connect to the weave of the Infinite Road, transporting
themselves and others where they please.
Weaving the Yarn
3rd-Level College of Wandering Feature
You connect a creature to the weave of the Infinite Road,
recalling a resonating Yarn from history or your own
experiences. As a bonus action, you can expend one use of
your Bardic Inspiration to connect one creature you can
see within 30 feet of you (including yourself) to the Infinite
Road. The connected creature may use its bonus action to
teleport up to 30 feet to an unoccupied space it can see.
After teleporting, the creature may use its reaction to
stay connected to the Infinite Road by rolling your Bardic
Inspiration die. On a 6 or higher, the connection is
maintained, and the creature can teleport as a bonus action
on their next turn. The connection is severed if 1 minute
passes without the creature teleporting.
Starting at 14th level, when you connect another creature to
the Infinite Road by Weaving the Yarn, the power of your
Yarn grants you the benefits of this feature as well.
Traveling Voice
6th-Level College of Wandering Feature
Your voice can travel along the Infinite Road, echoing
throughout the multiverse. As an action, you cast your
voice through the Infinite Road, choosing one of the
following effects:
Open Dialogue. You can magically communicate with
one creature with which you are familiar and share at
least one language with. You may communicate across
any distance, including other planes of existence. When
you address the chosen creature, only it can hear you in its
mind. The creature can respond in a like manner. You may
communicate for up to 10 minutes.
Booming Infinity. You can empower your voice with the
energy of the multiverse. Each creature of your choice that
you can see within 60 feet of you must make a Constitution
saving throw against your spell save DC. Creatures who
cannot hear you automatically succeed. Your voice bursts
forth from the Infinite Road, blasting the chosen creatures
with the energies of the multiverse. On a failed save, a
creature takes force damage equal to three rolls of your
Bardic Inspiration die and is deafened. A creature that
succeeds on its saving throw takes half as much damage and
isn’t deafened.
Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you
finish a short or long rest.
Woven Wanders
14th-Level College of Wandering Feature
You have gathered enough Yarns to weave stronger
connections to the Infinite Road.
While you are connected to the Infinite Road by Weaving
the Yarn, you may use an action to instantly transport you
and up to eight willing creatures of your choice that you
can see within 10 feet of you to a destination of your choice.
The destination you choose must be known to you, but may
be on another plane of existence. Your familiarity with the
destination determines whether you arrive there successfully,
as described in the teleport spell. You arrive at the intended
plane of existence regardless of your familiarity with the
intended destination.
Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you
finish a long rest.
Clerics
Sometimes people forget that clerics do more than heal
your wounds, but a good cleric is just as comfortable dealing
damage as they are mending it. Still, I do always breathe a
sigh of relief when a cleric is around and we’re all about to do
something foolish like try to saddle an owlbear.
Divine Domains
The portfolios of the gods can be both broad and specific. It
seems nearly every part of life on the Material Plane has a
god watching over it, or at least a god who is supposed to be
watching over it. As a result, clerics who worship the same
deity might focus on entirely different aspects of the god’s
domain. The two subclasses presented here surely have some
overlapping deities, but portray different ideals just the same.
For clerics who revel in mayhem, the Chaos Domain will
be a terrific path to follow. Or, if following paths is really
the point in your cleric’s mind, then hit the road with the
Travel Domain.
Chaos Domain
Chaos and order ebb and flow throughout the multiverse.
While some see chaos as a threat, clerics of the Chaos
Domain see beauty in disorder. For these clerics, chaos is a
natural state of the multiverse, embodying freedom, luck,
and change. Clerics of the Chaos Domain work to bring
about change in the world, break chains, and turn the tide of
battle against their foes.
Deities of madness, change, freedom, luck, and creation
may all have ties to the Chaos Domain, embodying the
unpredictable and impermanent.
Domain Spells
1st-Level Chaos Domain Feature
You gain domain spells at the cleric levels listed in the Chaos
Domain Spells table. See the Divine Domain class feature for
how domain spells work.
Chaos Domain Spells
Cleric Level Spells
1st bane, chaos bolt
3rd blur, Nathair’s mischief
5th enemies abound, hunger of Hadar
7th confusion, freedom of movement
9th awaken, synaptic static
Bonus Proficiencies
1st-Level Chaos Domain Feature
Your devotion to forces of change empowers your skills.
Whenever you finish a long rest, you may choose two skills
which you are not already proficient in. You gain proficiency
in those skills until your next long rest.
Wild Strike
1st-Level Chaos Domain Feature
As a bonus action, you invoke chaos against your foes,
adding disarray to injury. You gain a wild magic die equal to
1d6. Your wild magic die becomes 1d8 at 6th level and 1d10
at 17th level.
When you hit a creature with a weapon attack until
your next turn, roll on the Wild Magic table to create an
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throw, use your spell save DC. All active effects caused by
your wild strike end at the start of your next turn.
You can use this feature a number of times equal to your
proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when
you finish a long rest.
Wild Magic
Wild Magic Die Effects
1 Your weapon reverberates with magic, causing
a thunderous boom that can be heard up to 300
feet away. Creatures within 10 feet of you must
make a Constitution saving throw, taking 2d6
thunder damage on a failure, or half on a success.
2 Vines sprout from the earth around the target’s
feet. The target must succeed on a Strength
saving throw, or be restrained.
3 A bright light bursts from the point of impact.
The target must succeed on a Constitution saving
throw, or be blinded.
4 Magic swirls around the target before it vanishes
before your eyes. The target is invisible for the
duration, or until it attacks or casts a spell.
5 Lightning crackles forth from your weapon,
dealing an additional 1d6 lightning damage to the
targeted creature before leaping to two other
creatures of your choice, dealing damage equal to
your Wisdom modifier to each.
6 Shadow envelopes the target briefly before
slithering quickly to you. The target takes 1d8
necrotic damage, and you regain an equal amount
of hit points.
7 Chaos batters the target’s mind. The target
must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw, or be
disoriented for the duration. While disoriented,
the target cannot take reactions, its speed
becomes 0, and on its turn it attacks a creature
at random within reach. Prerequisite: 6th-Level
Chaos Domain
8 Space twists and turns around the target. The
target must succeed on a Charisma saving
throw or be teleported, exchanging places with
a willing creature of your choice within 30 feet.
Prerequisite: 6th-Level Chaos Domain
9 The target’s limbs begin to tighten, and it must
succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or be
paralyzed for the duration. Prerequisite: 17th-
Level Chaos Domain
10 Your attack enervates the target temporarily
causing 1d3 levels of exhaustion. Prerequisite:
17th-Level Chaos Domain
Channel Divinity: Chaotic Embrace
2nd-Level Chaos Domain Feature
You can use your Channel Divinity to empower creatures
with chaos, connecting them to the forces of freedom,
chance, and change. As an action, choose a number of willing
creatures within 30 feet of you (this can include yourself)
equal to your proficiency bonus. Chaotic magic begins to
swirl around the chosen creatures for 1 minute, or until you
lose your concentration (as if you were concentrating on a
spell). At the start of each of its turns, a creature embraced by
the chaotic energies may select one of the following effects to
have active at a time:
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Freed Mind
For the duration, the creature gains advantage against
being charmed.
Blessed Luck
Once per turn, the creature may add 1d4 to one ability check,
attack roll, or saving throw it makes.
Changed Form
The creature alters its form, rolling on the Changed Form
table to determine the nature of the change.
Changed Form
d6 Effects
1 The creature sprouts wings for the duration,
gaining a fly speed of 30.
2 The creature grows gills, gaining water breathing
for the duration.
3 The creature grows one size larger for the
duration, gaining advantage on Strength checks
and Strength saving throws.
4 The creature becomes Tiny in size, gaining
advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks for the
duration.
5 The creature’s eyes shimmer with darkness,
gaining darkvision out to a range of 30 feet and
the ability to see in magical darkness for the
duration.
6 The creature grows a stony carapace, gaining a +2
bonus to AC for the duration.
Reactive Chaos
6th-Level Chaos Domain Feature
Your invocation of chaos grows wilder. Your wild magic die
becomes 1d8, and you gain two additional possible effects of
your Wild Strikes feature.
When a creature rolls an ability check, attack roll, or saving
throw that you can see within 30 feet, you may use a reaction
to influence the roll, adding or subtracting your Wild Magic
Die. Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until
you finish a short or long rest.
Potent Spellcasting
8th-Level Chaos Domain Feature
You add your Wisdom modifier to the damage you deal with
any cleric cantrip.
Unfettered Chaos
17th-Level Chaos Domain Feature
You are a fount of chaos. Your wild magic die becomes 1d10,
and you gain two additional possible effects of your Wild
Strikes feature.
When you use your Wild Strike feature, you roll twice on
the Wild Magic table and activate two effects. You may
activate the same effect twice. If you have no more uses of
your Wild Strike feature, you may expend up to one spell
slot to activate one effect.
Travel Domain
Travel can be a time of excitement, tedium, or even dread.
People travel for many reasons, but those who wish to
arrive at their destination safely may implore deities for a
safe journey. Gods of travel come in many forms, offering
guiding stars and protection along the road, as well as
fostering curiosity for the unknown.
Clerics of the Travel Domain are itinerant by nature, often
employed by caravans to ensure safe passage. These clerics
pave a path ever onward, facilitating the travel of friends and
hindering the movement of foes.
Domain Spells
1st-Level Travel Domain Feature
You gain domain spells at the cleric levels listed in the Travel
Domain Spells table. See the Divine Domain class feature for
how domain spells work.
Travel Domain Spells
Cleric Level Spells
1st comprehend languages, floating disk
3rd misty step, spider climb
5th daylight, phantom steed
7th dimension door, freedom of movement
9th passwall, teleportation circle
Bonus Proficiencies
1st-Level Travel Domain Feature
You gain proficiency with either cartographer’s tools or
navigator’s tools, as well as your choice of either vehicles
(land) or vehicles (water).
Unburdened Steps
1st-Level Travel Domain Feature
You are an experienced and surefooted wanderer in your
service to your deity. When you choose this domain, your
speed increases by 10 feet.
You are also accustomed to shepherding others through
difficult journeys, and do not let them weigh your movement
down. If you are grappled, you may attempt to escape using
your bonus action rather than your action. Additionally, up
to one creature grappled by you that is equal to your size or
smaller may be dragged or carried by you at your normal
speed. Any additional creatures involved in this grapple will
reduce your speed by half.
Blessing of Celerity
1st-Level Travel Domain Feature
You can ease the travels of those around you for a short time.
As an action, choose a number of willing creatures within
5 feet of you (this can include yourself) equal to half your
proficiency bonus rounded down. You bless them with agility
for 1 minute or until you lose your concentration (as if you
were concentrating on a spell). While blessed in this manner,
they are unaffected by difficult terrain and increase their
speed by 10 feet for every blessed creature. Other creatures
must subtract 1d4 from opportunity attack rolls against the
blessed creatures for the duration.
You can use this feature a number of times equal to your
proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when
you finish a long rest.
Channel Divinity: Hinder
2nd-Level Travel Domain Feature
You can use your Channel Divinity to impede your enemies.
As an action, you temporarily reduce the speed of a number
of creatures of your choice up to your proficiency bonus until
the end of your next turn. You may reduce their total speed
by your proficiency bonus multiplied by 5, divided among
them in increments of 5.
Channel Divinity: Safe Return
6th-Level Travel Domain Feature
Your deity offers sanctuary wherever you travel. When
you finish a long rest, you may designate a location you can
see within 30 feet as a sanctuary linked to your deity. The
sanctuary offers no protection, but remains until you finish
another long rest.
While the sanctuary remains, as an action you may use your
Channel Divinity to choose a number of willing creatures
within 5 feet of you (this can include yourself) up to your
proficiency bonus. The chosen creatures instantly teleport
to the designated sanctuary, appearing in the nearest
unoccupied space.
Divine Strike
8th-Level Travel Domain Feature
You gain the ability to infuse your weapon strikes with
divine energy. Once on each of your turns when you hit a
creature with a weapon attack, you can cause the attack to
deal an extra 1d8 radiant damage. When you reach 14th
level, the extra damage increases to 2d8.
Dispatching Strikes
17th-Level Travel Domain Feature
Favorable winds seem to always be at your back, increasing
your speed by 10 feet. You are also able to harness these
winds to move your enemies. If you deal your Divine Strike
damage to a creature on your turn, you can attempt to
teleport the creature. The creature must make a Charisma
saving throw against your spell save DC.
If the creature fails its saving throw, it is instantly teleported
to an unoccupied space of your choice that you can see
within a range, equal to the number of feet you traveled on
this turn before attacking (minimum of 5). The chosen space
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 must be on a surface or in a liquid that can support the target
without the target having to squeeze.
You can teleport a creature in this way only once per turn.
Druids
People talk about how powerful and versatile wizards
are, but druids are naturals at filling nearly any role. That
includes noble steed if the occasion demands, though you’ll
always feel a bit awkward afterward.
Druid Circles
This final section of this collection of Yonder Yarns focuses
on two of my favorite parts of nature: wind and trees. The
Circle of the Wind is a fantastic way to blow over your
foes, while the Circle of the World Tree offers thoughtful
reflection on how the multiverse is connected, as well as
giving your druid a big stick with which to hit foes.
Circle of the Wind
The Circle of the Wind reveres wind as an agent of life and
change, empowering druids to call on breezes and gusts to
restore and shape the world around them. These druids are
often itinerant, following the seasons of the winds. But even
where the air is still, a druid of the Circle of the Wind can
summon powerful hurricanes to their service.
Circle Spells
2nd-Level Circle of the Wind Feature
You have a deep connection with wind in all its forms, and
you know the gust cantrip. This cantrip doesn’t count against
the number of druid cantrips you know.
You also gain access to some spells when you reach certain
levels in this class, as shown on the Circle of the Wind Spells
table. Once you gain access to one of these spells, 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.
Circle of the Wind Spells
Druid Level Spells
2nd feather fall, zephyr strike
3rd levitate, warding wind
5th fly, wind wall
7th compulsion, storm sphere
9th control winds, steel wind strike
Beckon the Wind
2nd-Level Circle of the Wind Feature
As a bonus action, you can expend a use of your Wild Shape
feature to beckon forth one of the four winds, rather than
transforming into a beast.
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When you call on the four winds, you choose one wind to
whirl about you, granting you a flying speed of 10 feet and
the ability to hover. The wind billows for 1 hour, until you
use this feature again, or until you die. You may call on one
of the following winds to aid you:
Wicked Mistral
The Wicked Mistral is cold and sharp. When you summon
this wind, and as a bonus action on subsequent turns, you
may direct the wind in a line up to 15 feet long and extending
from you. Each creature in the path of the wind must succeed
on a Constitution saving throw against your spell save DC
or take 1d6 cold damage. The cold damage increases to 2d6
at 10th level.
Battering Squall
The Battering Squall is strong and forceful. When you
summon this wind, and as a bonus action on subsequent
turns, you may direct the wind in a 15 foot cone extending
from you. Each Medium or smaller creature in the path of
the wind must succeed on a Strength saving throw against
your spell DC or be pushed back 10 feet away from you.
Objects not worn or carried that weigh up to 250 pounds are
automatically pushed back by this wind.
Balking Gale
The Balking Gale is swift and sure. While this wind
swirls about you, you may use your reaction when you
see a creature hit by an attack to send the wind around
the targeted creature, increasing their AC by half your
proficiency bonus rounded down until the start of your
next turn. If the new AC exceeds the triggering attack, the
attack misses.
Cleansing Zephyr
The Cleansing Zephyr is gentle and calm. While this wind
swirls about you, you may use your action to send the wind
to a creature you can see within 60 feet (including yourself).
The wind either cleanses the creature of one disease or the
poisoned condition or heals the creature a number of hit
points equal to your Wisdom modifier + your druid level.
Rending Winds
6th-Level Circle of the Wind Feature
When you use your Beckon the Wind feature, you may
additionally harness the wind like a weapon. Until your
chosen wind dissipates, you may use the wind as a simple,
magical weapon with which you are proficient. The wind
deals 1d8 slashing and 1d8 cold damage on a hit, and has the
finesse and reach properties.
Windwalkers
10th-Level Circle of the Wind Feature
When you use your Beckon the Wind feature, you now gain
a flying speed of 30 feet. You may also share flight with a
number of creatures up to your proficiency bonus that you
can see within 60 feet of you. The additional creatures gain a
flying speed of 15 feet and the ability to hover.
Scatter to the Four Winds
14th-Level Circle of the Wind Feature
You call the four winds together, creating a raging tornado.
As an action, choose a point you can see within 90 feet. The
tornado twists about at the designated point in a 10-foot-
radius, 60-foot-high cylinder.
When a creature enters the tornado’s area for the first time
on a turn or starts its turn there, it must make a Strength
saving throw against your spell save DC, or be restrained
and incapacitated by the tornado, taking 3d10 bludgeoning
damage at the end of its turn.
As a bonus action, you may have the tornado expel every
creature in its area. Roll 1d4 for each creature to determine
which direction (north, south, east, or west) the creature
will be flung. Expelled creatures are thrown a number of
feet equal to 5 times your Wisdom modifier (minimum 5
feet). The creature must make a Dexterity saving throw
against your spell save DC. On a failure the creature takes
1d6 damage for every 10 feet it was thrown, or half as much
on a success.
The tornado persists for 1 minute, or until you lose your
concentration (as if you were concentrating on a spell). You
may use an action to move the tornado up to 15 feet to a
point you can see.
Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you
finish a long rest.
Circle of the World Tree
The Circle of the World Tree brings together druids
from across the multiverse. Also known as Druids of the
Paths, these druids dedicate themselves to mapping the
interconnections of the planes, usually by following the
innumerable paths of Yggdrasil, the World Tree.
Such druids often devote themselves to tending to the World
Tree, one of its children, or even its the cast-off splinters.
With care and curiosity, druids of the Circle of the World
Tree seek out planar portals and call on the aid of Yggdrasil
to better understand the nature of the multiverse.
Sliver of the World Tree
2nd-Level Circle of the World Tree Feature
Through your studies of planar connections, you have
learned of the fine roots of the World Tree. Unlike the major
roots and branches which might bear portals to various
planes, these smaller secondary roots entangle the multiverse
without bridging the dimensions of reality.
Using your newfound knowledge, you momentarily
breached the barrier between the planes and drew forth a
Sliver of the World Tree. You can use this sturdy fragment
as both a quarterstaff and a spellcasting focus for your druid
spells. When you attack with this quarterstaff, you may use
your Wisdom modifier, instead of Strength, for the attack
and damage rolls.
If the Sliver of the World Tree is lost or destroyed, you can
perform a 1-hour ceremony to summon a replacement. This
ceremony can be performed during a short or long rest, and
it destroys the previous Sliver of the World Tree.
Planar Enrichment
2nd-Level Circle of the World Tree Feature
As a bonus action, you can expend a use of your Wild Shape
feature to promote aspects of the planes within your Sliver of
the World Tree, rather than transforming into a beast.
Though separated from its whole, the Sliver of the World
Tree carries residual energies from the various planes which
enrich Yggdrasil. Whenever you draw this power out,
your Sliver of the World Tree exudes planar energy for 1
minute. This emission ends early if you dismiss it (no action
required) or use this feature again.
While holding the Sliver, you subtly flicker in and out of
existence for the duration and gain the following benefits:
• When calculating your Armor Class, you may replace your
Dexterity modifier with your Wisdom modifier.
• When you take damage, you may use your reaction to
blink to a pocket dimension until the start of your next
turn. You return to an unoccupied space of your choice
that you can see within 15 feet of the space you vanished
from.
• When you hit with a melee weapon attack using the Sliver,
you deal additional force damage equal to your proficiency
bonus.
Elemental Absorption
6th-Level Circle of the World Tree Feature
While your Planar Enrichment feature is active, your Sliver
absorbs the magical energies of the damage you take. When
you use your reaction to blink to a pocket dimension after
taking damage, your Sliver of the World Tree captures
any damage other than bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing
damage until the end of your next turn. When you hit a
target with a melee weapon attack using your Sliver, you
may deal additional damage equal to your proficiency bonus
of one damage type which triggered your blink reaction. You
then gain resistance to this damage type until the start of
your next turn.
Uproot
10th-Level Circle of the World Tree Feature
Your understanding of the interconnectedness of the
multiverse has grown, and with it your connection to the
World Tree. You may now call on the fine roots of the
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your plane of existence.
As an action choose a point within 60 feet of you which you
can see. The fine roots of Yggdrasil burst through the ground
from the point in a 20-foot radius, creating difficult terrain
for the duration. As part of this action, you may use the roots
to relocate a creature (including yourself) occupying the
area of effect. A creature must succeed on a Charisma saving
throw against your spell save DC or be teleported to another
point within the area of effect. The target may choose to fail
this save. You may continue to use your action on subsequent
turns to uproot creatures in this manner.
The roots remain for 10 minutes or until you dismiss them
(no action required), are incapacitated, die, or use this feature
again. You may use this feature a number of times equal to
your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses
when you finish a long rest.
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World Tree Strider
14th-Level Circle of the World Tree Feature
Your connection to the World Tree is deeply rooted, and
you now see the connections between all things. You gain
the following benefits while holding your Sliver of the
World Tree:
• You can sense the direction of any portal connected to the
World Tree. This feature works both while walking the
paths of the World Tree’s branches and roots, as well as
while you explore the planes of existence.
• You have the tree stride spell prepared. It counts as a druid
spell for you, and it doesn’t count against the number
of spells you can have prepared. You can cast tree stride
without expending a spell slot. You can do so a number of
times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all
expended uses when you finish a long rest.
• You can briefly empower one of the fine roots of the
World Tree, creating a temporary portal to a random path
along the World Tree which lasts for 1 minute. You may
use this feature once per long rest.