Form Shifter 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.

Orisons

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.

Spontaneous Casting

A form shifter druid can channel stored spell energy into a restorative power. She can “lose” a prepared spell in order to grant all allies within 30 feet fast healing for 5 rounds. The fast healing amount is equal to level of the sacrificed spell.

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.

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

When attempting to improve the attitude of an animal, a druid can use her class level in place of her ranks in Handle Animal. The druid also does not suffer a penalty when using Handle Animal with a creature of the Beast type.

Once per day, a form shifter druid can spend a swift action to channel primal power into her body, shifting herself into a more feral form and gaining the aspects of animals. Each wild shift lasts for 1 hour or until she dismisses it.

A druid may have as many different wild shifts active as she chooses, but each shift counts as one daily use of this ability. Multiple uses of the same wild shift do not stack. Wild shifts which grant natural attacks deal more or less damage for larger and smaller druids (see Weapon Size).

A druid gains additional daily uses of wild shift at 2nd level and every even-numbered level thereafter (4th, 6th, 8th, and so forth).

Wild Shifts

Arboreal: You gain a climb speed equal to one half your base land speed, which grants a +8 racial bonus on all Athletics checks made while climbing. If you already have a climb speed, it is instead increased by 10 feet.
Deep Dive: You gain a swim speed equal to your base land speed, which grants a +8 racial bonus on Athletics checks made while swimming. You can also hold your breath twice as long as normal before you risk drowning. If you already have a swim speed, it is instead increased by 10 feet.
Fang Rip: You gain a bite attack as a primary natural weapon which deals 1d6 damage. You can use this as a secondary attack with a –5 penalty on your attack roll.
Night Sight: You gain low-light vision and darkvision 60 ft. If you already possess darkvision, its range increases by 30 ft.
Plain Stride: Your base land speed increases by 10 feet.
Thick Hide: Your natural armor increases by 2.
Tiger Claw: You gain two claws as natural weapons which deal 1d4 damage. You can use a claw as a secondary attack with a –5 penalty on your attack roll.
Tracker: You gain the Scent special ability.

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.

Starting at 4th level, a druid gains a +4 bonus on saving throws against the spell-like abilities of fey.

At 5th level, a form shifter druid gains the ability to turn herself into an animal and back again once per day. At 5th level, she chooses one wild shape form from the list below. This ability functions like the alternate form special ability, except as noted here. The effect lasts for 1 hour per druid level, or until she changes back. Changing form (to animal or back) is a standard action that doesn’t provoke an attack of opportunity.

Any gear worn or carried by the druid melds into the new form and becomes nonfunctional. When the druid reverts to her true form, any objects previously melded into the new form reappear in the same location on her body that they previously occupied and are once again functional. Any new items worn in the assumed form fall off and land at the druid’s feet.

A druid loses her ability to speak while in animal form because she is limited to the sounds that a normal, untrained animal can make, but she can communicate normally with other animals of the same general grouping as her new form. (The normal sound a wild parrot makes is a squawk, so changing to this form does not permit speech.)

A druid cannot cast spells while in a wild shape form.

A druid gains one additional use of this ability per day at 6th level and every two levels thereafter, as noted on the table. At 20th level, she can wild shape at will. In addition, she gains access to new wild shape forms at 8th, 11th, 14th, 17th, and 20th level.

A druid retains her normal type and subtype, Hit Dice, hit points, base attack bonus, base saving throw bonuses, and skill ranks regardless of her form. She also retains her normal ability scores, though each form grants a bonus to her ability scores.

A druid retains the benefits of any active wild shift effects while wild shaped. If her wild shape form has the same natural attack as an active wild shift, she does not gain multiple attacks with that natural weapon. Instead, the damage dealt by her natural attack is increased by one size category, using the larger damage as the base before the increase.

If knocked unconscious or slain in wild shape form, the druid reverts to her original form.

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

At 13th level, a form shifter druid gains the ability to change her appearance at will, as if using the disguise self spell, but only while in her normal form. This affects the druid’s body but not her possessions. It is not an illusory effect, but a minor physical alteration of the druid’s appearance, within the limits described for the spell.

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.