```metadata
title: Circle of Spores (Revised)
description: Minor adjustments for major impacts.
tags:
  - 5e
  - druid
  - subclass
  - buff
systems:
  - 5e
renderer: V3
theme: 5ePHB

```

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For anyone interested, the front cover title formatting has been updated such that you can emulate nearly every D&D 5e title without adjusting anything aside from the order you put the titles in. 

To illustrate this, feel free to copy and paste any of the following combination of titles and replace the title and subtitle in the code below:


# EBERRON
## RISING FROM THE LAST WAR


## VAN RICHTEN'S GUIDE TO
# RAVENLOFT


# The Wild Beyond <br> The Witchlight
### a feywild adventure

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# CIRCLE OF SPORES (REVISED)
___

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{{footnote
An Improved Fungus-Manipulating Druid Subclass <br> for the World's Greatest Roleplaying Game
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{{
### Circle of Spores
Druids of the Circle of Spores find beauty in decay. They see within mold and other fungi the ability to transform lifeless material into abundant, albeit somewhat strange, life. These druids believe that life and death are parts of a grand cycle: death isn't the end of life, but instead a change of state that sees life shift into a new form.

Druids of this circle have a complex relationship with the undead. While they consider undeath to be an intermediary companion of life and death, they also believe that the natural cycle is healthiest when each segment of it is vibrant and changing. Undead that seek to replace all life with undeath, or that try to avoid passing to a final rest, violate the cycle and must be thwarted.

#### Circle Spells
___
*2nd-level Circle of Spores feature*
___
Your symbiotic link to fungus and your ability to tap into the cycle of life and death grants you access to certain spells. You learn the *chill touch* cantrip.

When you reach certain druid levels, you gain access to the spells in the table below. They count as druid spells for you, and you always have them prepared, but they don’t count against the total number of spells you prepare each day.

| Druid Level | Spells                                     |
|:-----------:|:-------------------------------------------|
| **2nd**     | ***bane, sanctuary***                      |
| 3rd         | *blindness/deafness, gentle repose*        |
| 5th         | *animate dead, gaseous form*               |
| 7th         | *confusion, **death ward***                |
| 9th         | *cloudkill, **synaptic static***           |

#### Halo of Spores
___
*2nd-level Circle of Spores feature*
___
Invisible, necrotic spores surround you in an aura with a 10-foot radius. **When a creature enters the affected area for the first time on a turn or starts its turn there**, you can unleash these spores onto the creature, forcing it to succeed on a Constitution saving throw against your spell save DC or take 1d4 necrotic damage.

The damage increases **when you reach certain levels in this class**, increasing to 1d6 at 6th level, 1d8 at 10th level, and 1d10 at 14th level.

#### Symbiotic Entity
___
*2nd-level Circle of Spores feature*
___
As an action, you can expend a use of your Wild Shape feature to magically awaken your spores, and gain 4 temporary hit points for each level you have in this class. **While you have these hit points, you gain the following benefits:**

- When you deal your Halo of Spores damage, roll the damage die a second time and add it to the total.
- **Your attacks** deal an extra 1d6 necrotic damage to any target they hit **within your Halo of Spores**.
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#### Fungal Infestation
___
*6th-level Circle of Spores feature*
___
Whenever your Halo of Spores **comes into contact with a Small or Medium corpse of a creature that has died within the last minute**, you can use your reaction to have these spores infest and animate it, causing it to stand up immediately with **hit points equal to your druid level plus your proficiency bonus**.

The creature uses the zombie stat block in the Monster Manual. It remains animate for 1 hour, after which time it collapses and dies. In combat, the zombie's turn comes immediately after yours. It obeys your mental commands, and the only action it can take is the Attack action, making one melee attack.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Wisdom modifier (minimum of once), and you regain all expended uses of it when you finish a long rest.

#### Spreading Spores
___
*10th-level Circle of Spores feature*
___
You gain the ability to seed an area with deadly spores. As a bonus action, **you can hurl your Halo of Spores up to 30 feet away**, where it swirls in place for 1 minute before returning to you. It returns to you early if you dismiss it **(no action required)**, or use this feature again.

#### Fungal Body
___
*14th-level Circle of Spores feature*
___
The fungal spores in your body alter you: you can't be blinded, deafened, frightened, or poisoned, and any critical hit against you counts as a normal hit instead, unless you're incapacitated.
}}

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{{note,position:absolute,left:420px,top:380px,width:32.5%
##### Artwork (Ordered By Appearance)
- **Pan - Firbolg Druid**, [eamonn6251](https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/lmq4sg/art_pan_firbolg_druid_circle_of_the_spore/)
- **Thallid Soothsayer**, [JasonEngle](https://www.deviantart.com/jasonengle/art/Thallid-Soothsayer-740915941)
}}

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##### Hollow Knight - Fungal Wastes (Click to Play!)
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