Wild Avenger Druid

A druid casts divine spells, which are drawn from the druid spell list. A druid must choose and prepare her spells in advance during her daily meditation.

To prepare or cast a spell, the druid must have a Wisdom score equal to at least 10 + the spell level. The Difficulty Class for a saving throw against a druid’s spell is 10 + the spell level + the druid’s Wisdom modifier.

A druid can cast only a certain number of spells of each spell level per day. Her base daily spell allotment is given on the table. In addition, she receives bonus spells per day if he has a high Wisdom score.

A druid meditates or prays to gain her spells. She must choose a time at which she must spend 1 hour each day in quiet contemplation or supplication to regain her daily allotment of spells. Time spent resting has no effect on whether she can prepare spells.

Spell Access

A druid’s access to divine spells is limited. A druid begins play with access to six 0-level spells and four 1st-level spells of your choice. At each new druid level, he gains one or more new spells, as indicated on the table: Druid Spell Access. When preparing spells for the day, a druid may choose to prepare any spell to which she has access.

Once per week, a druid may conduct a ritual during her daily meditation to replace one of her accessed spells with a new druid spell. In effect, the druid “loses” the old spell in exchange for the new one. The new spell’s level must be the same as that of the spell being exchanged, and it must be at least one level lower than the highest-level druid spell the druid can cast. A druid may swap only a single spell in any given week and must wait a full week between rituals to change spell access.

Orisions

Druids can access a number of orisons, or 0-level spells, as noted on Table: Druid Spells Accessed. These spells are treated like any other spell, but they are always considered prepared, are not expended when cast, and may be used again.

A druid’s bonus language options include Sylvan, the language of woodland creatures. This choice is in addition to the bonus languages available to the character because of her race.

A druid also knows Druidic, a secret language known only to druids, which she learns automatically upon becoming a 1st-level druid. Druids are forbidden to teach this language to nondruids.

Druidic has its own unique alphabet.

At 1st level, a wild avenger druid may select a type of creature from among those given on the Table: Favored Enemies. The druid gains a +2 bonus on Deception, Insight, Natural Lore, and Perception checks as well as any skill check to Recall Knowledge (regardless of the skill) when using these skills against creatures of this type. Likewise, he gets a +2 bonus on weapon damage rolls against such creatures.

At 5th level and every five levels thereafter (10th, 15th, and 20th level), the druid may select an additional favored enemy from those given on the table. In addition, at each such interval, the bonus against any one favored enemy (including the one just selected, if so desired) increases by 2.

If the druid chooses humanoids as a favored enemy, he must also choose an associated subtype group, as indicated on the table. If he chooses outsiders as a favored enemy, he must choose any two subtypes from the following list: air, chaotic, earth, evil, fire, good, lawful, native, shadow, and water. He may choose outsider more than once, but each time he must select new subtypes.

If a specific creature falls into more than one category of favored enemy, the druid’s bonuses do not stack; he simply uses whichever bonus is higher.

A druid gains a +2 bonus on Natural Lore checks.

A 1st-level wild avenger druid gains Track as a bonus feat.

A 2nd-level wild avenger druid can fly into a fury similar to a barbarian rage a certain number of times per day. In a wild fury, a druid temporarily gains a +2 bonus to Strength and Dexterity and his base movement speed increases by 10 feet, but he takes a -2 penalty to Armor Class. In addition, he gains 1 temporary hit point per druid level. While in a fury, a druid cannot cast spells except for druid spells and cannot activate magic items that require a command word, a spell trigger (such as a wand), or spell completion (such as a scroll) to function.

Wild fury lasts for a number of rounds equal to 3 + the druid’s Constitution modifier. A druid may prematurely end his wild fury. At the end of the wild fury, the druid loses the modifiers, restrictions, and any remaining temporary hit points and becomes fatigued (-2 penalty to Strength, -2 penalty to Dexterity, can’t charge or run) for the duration of the current encounter.

A druid can enter wild fury only once per encounter. At 1st level he can use his wild fury ability once per day. At 4th level and every four levels thereafter, he can use it one additional time per day (to a maximum of six times per day at 20th level). Entering a wild fury takes no time itself, but a druid can do it only during his action, not in response to someone else’s action.

A druid’s wild fury counts as rage for meeting prerequisites and gains the benefits of feats and abilities that affect rage, such as Frenzy Feats. Prestige classes that progress rage stack with his druid level to determine the number of temporary hit points granted by wild fury.

Starting at 2nd level, a druid may move through any sort of undergrowth (such as natural thorns, briars, overgrown areas, and similar terrain) at her normal speed and without taking damage or suffering any other impairment. However, thorns, briars, and overgrown areas that have been magically manipulated to impede motion still affect her.

Starting at 3rd level, a druid leaves no trail in natural surroundings and cannot be tracked. She may choose to leave a trail if so desired.

At 4th level, a druid gains an enhancement bonus to his speed, as shown on the table. A druid in armor heavier than light or carrying a medium or heavy load loses this extra speed.

Starting at 4th level, a druid gains an insight bonus to his Armor Class equal to his Wisdom bonus.

Beginning at 8th level, a wild avenger druid can move at his normal speed while following tracks without taking the normal -5 penalty. He takes only a -10 penalty (instead of the normal -20) when moving at up to twice normal speed while tracking.

At 9th level, a druid gains immunity to all poisons.

At 12th level, a druid’s bonuses to Strength and Dexterity during his wild fury each increase to +4, and he instead gains 2 temporary hit points per druid level. The penalty to AC remains at -2.

After attaining 15th level, a druid no longer takes ability score penalties for aging and cannot be magically aged. Any penalties she may have already incurred, however, remain in place.

Bonuses still accrue, and the druid still dies of old age when her time is up.

At 17th level and higher, a druid no longer becomes fatigued at the end of his wild fury.