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Just the other day I got my Gen.

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I'll be heading officially to Gen.

Con this August, well July into August.

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I'll be wandering around.

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I picked up some tickets for some an alternative game, a Savage World Star Trek game and another game.

I can't remember what the name of it is or the game escapes my mind at the moment.

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That's about it.

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Anyway, today's topic is going to be on a spell.

We're going to head to the Players Handbook on page 58.

It's a drudick spell or druid spell.

I don't know why I said druidic spell.

I guess it works Level 3 tree.

Now you're saying, oh, a big deal tree, but no tree actually is kind of cool if you think about it.

And I've got some ways that you can actually make tree a little more interesting as you as Adm and maybe even a player as well.

So, so tree Level 3, range 0, duration 6 turns plus one turn per level.

Area of effect is only personal.

That's subject to I guess how you want to determine personal.

But anyway, verbal, semantic, material, casting time, 5 segments, savings or none.

By means of the spell, the druid is able to assume the form of a small living tree or shrub that or that of a large dead tree trunk within but within with only a few limbs.

Although the closest inspection will not reveal that this plant is actually a druid, and for all normal tests he or she is in fact a tree or shrub, the druid is able to observe all that goes on around her or him or his or her person, just as that they were in human form.

The spellcaster may remove the duoir at any time he or she want desires, instantly changing from plant to human form and having full capacity of undertaking any action normally possible to the druid.

Note that all clothing and gear worn change with the druid.

The material components of the spell is a mistletoe and a twig from a tree.

So that's the spell itself.

Now.

Now here's where I said personal could be subjective.

Now, it does say personal, which I'm going to say is basically yourself, but generally the area of effect would be self, not personal.

So would I allow the druid to touch someone and transform them?

Yeah, A willing participant.

Yeah, I would probably allow that for the spell just to give it some type of difference in the spell.

I think it I just the way it's written kind of makes me think it's just the druid.

Basically.

The way it's written though, just the way it says area of effect personal makes me want to say that personal could be someone else.

With that said, I mean, you know, my campaign, I'll rule I want to and that would probably make it a little more interesting spell that a jury would use.

So ways that that would include a druid casts a tree on a spy cast?

I'm sorry a druid cast spot?

I can't read my own notes today.

A druid cast tree to spy on a corrupt noble in a garden.

When the party is hired to investigate, they find no witnesses until they realized the oddly placed shrub is watching them.

If they figure it out, the druid spills the truth.

So there's a hidden witness in the garden there, waiting, hiding, listening, watching an escape route.

A villain can cast druid spell the tree spell in a forest during a pursuit.

The party loses them because he turns into a tree and they don't expect it.

Later on while camping they noticed that one of the trees starts to move, but it's too late by that point and the villain jumps out and attacks the party and unsuspecting when their guard is dropped.

Let's see, enter a druid sanctuary.

One must become one with nature.

The only way to unlock a door is for APC druid to tree themselves next to an ancient tree.

Then the tree speaks to the actual druid himself or herself and revealing the secret how to open the door.

That might be a long stretch, but you'd have to probably include a Riddle with that one.

I was thinking that maybe, you know, some type of, I don't know, I have to, I have to sit down and figure all that one out.

But I was thinking that you would get through the secret Druid sanctuary by turning into a tree and then maybe communicating with one of the other trees and how to get through the door would be.

But they would have to be some type of hint or maybe myth or legend that goes with it that would make them think that otherwise druid randomly turning into a tree next in the druid Grove is not going to really be.

I mean you never know what a player thinks so.

But last thing I thought of about this was the party sent sent to investigate why trees in the forest seem to be moving around.

They seem to be watching people.

People are marking trees and those marked trees are disappearing or moving where their locations are now.

Doesn't say anything about if the druid is in tree form and they get hit, will they take damage or anything?

I would assume based on the spell that yeah, for all intense purposes you are a tree or a shrub and any damage you take as a tree or a shrub would transfer over to the druid, but probably not until the druid goes back to being a druid.

So if the tree or shrub happens to be carved into and or hacked by someone, there would be no immediate damage to the situation.

But once the druid becomes a druid again then that would be the hit points are transferred to the druid.

Though that also brings up the fact that what if you're a tree because it's a small tree?

And what exactly is a small living tree?

I guess the average tree you see outside that's not too tall but like maybe a young tree but not really a little baby tree.

Now what happens if the party member and or MPC chops said tree down before the druid can come be come back into a druid?

Does the druid die?

I mean, for all intents purposes, it says you are a.

Where is that line again?

In fact a tree or a shrub?

All normal tests indicate you are a tree or a shrub.

So if you get chopped and then chopped down, I don't see why you would stay in the tree form being chopped.

But let's just say you're doing that because you're hiding.

I would think that your character would be the equivalent of cutting your head off.

I don't know.

What do you D me?

What do you DMS think out there of that one?

I'm interested to hear what you think of that situation because it's pretty interesting.

So tell me what you think about the tree spell.

I'm interested to hear your thoughts on the tree spell.

I want to know if you've used it in your campaign and what ways you've used it that made it interesting for you.

With that said, I'm going to head out.

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I'll see if I can record it earlier like on a Thursday or something so it drops on Friday for you all.

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