Circle of the Frog

The Druids of the Circle of the Frog forgo the usual breadth of wildshapes of the usual druids to instead focus on the versatility of the frog.

Limited Forms

You've chosen to specialise into specific wildshapes. Starting at 2nd level you can use your wildshape to transform into the following beasts

Circle of the Frog Beast Shapes

Frog
Giant Frog
Giant Toad

Adaptation

Starting at 2nd Level your specialization allows your to channel your primal energy into your wild shapes, changing them to suit your purposes. You gain the following features when you transform into the respective beast.

Frog You can mimic simple sounds you have heard such as a person whispering, a baby crying, or an animal chittering. A creature that hears the sounds can tell they are imitations with a successful Wisdom (Insight) check..

Giant Frog You gain a climb speed equal to your walking speed.

Giant Toad You can use the swallow action to swallow a willing ally. When you use the swallow action in this way you cover the ally in a protective slime, the creature does not take the acid damage and gains temporary hit points equal to 5 + your druid level. An ally can only gain temporary hit points in this way once per long rest. You can end the swallow as a bonus action on your turn and the ally returns to a free space within 5ft of you.

Enhanced Adaptation

At 6th level you gain additional features when you transform into the following beasts.

Frog As an action you secrete an acid onto an object you are on top of. If it is a creature, it must succeed on a constitution saving throw or take 1d8 acid damage. If it is an object it automatically fails the saving throw and the damage is maximised

Giant Frog You gain a burrowing speed equal to your walking speed.

Giant Toad As an action you let out a heroic croak. Each ally within 30ft that can hear you gains temporary hit points equal to 5 + your druid level. You can’t use this feature again until you finish a long rest.

Friend to Frogs

You can cast the Jump spell at will. In addition you learn Find Familiar as a ritual. When casting Find Familiar, you may only chose the frog form for your familiar.

Superior Adaptation

At 14th level you gain additional features when you transform into the following beasts.

Frog You gain advantage on stealth checks

Giant Frog You gain a jump distance equal to your movement speed. You may only jump in a straight line, but you can end this jump in mid-air. Your form also innately grants you the effects of the Featherfall spell.

Giant Toad You secrete a slime that covers your body, providing you with protection against non-magical attacks, You gain resistance to non-magical bludgeoning, piercing and slashing damage.

Design Notes

I wanted each of the three forms to have their own niche, so the frog is focused on stealth, the giant frog on exploration, and the giant toad on combat The giant toads swallow ability is based Tahm Lench from League of Legends, and I liked the tradeoff between dealing damage, and maneuvering an ally on your turn.

Created by /u/awesomesorcery
Art by Celia Krampen
Watercolour formatting thanks to /u/QalarValar's excellent tutorial