Goblin druid coolest circle? Homebrew welcome

[Pandyman]

I kinda want to make a goblin druid, but i'm not sure which circle i should do. Obviously the moon druid is one of the best ones to jump on, but i was wondering if there were any other cool ones floating around in UA, homebrew, or something that would be worth balancing.

[Grod_The_Giant]

In Grod's Guide, I've got a Circle of Vermin-- it's kind of like the Moon Druid, only with giant bugs and more poison. Seems pretty fitting for a goblin...

[Mercurias]

LudicSavant listed a pretty darn cool one in this post near the bottom. (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showsinglepost.php?p=23809998&postcount=14) Basically you stay in stealth, pop out to make whatever your action is, and then use your bonus action to Stealth again. A great use of this at low levels would be to throw down a Web spell, then use Thorn Whip to haul enemies into the Web and cause them to be lose actions while retrained and at disadvantage. It looks like a good, safe way to maximize the use from Concentration spells while keeping yourself hidden.

[Mutazoia]

I've been playing a Spore Druid (https://www.dndbeyond.com/classes/druid#CircleofSpores), and have really been having fun with it so far. Spore Zombies are fun!

[Yunru]

Land: Arctic :P

[jaappleton]

Land: Arctic :P

I’ve missed your sarcasm, dude. :smallbiggrin:

For a Goblin Druid, I personally like Shepard. This tiny creature that fights by summoning mountain lions and crocodiles and stuff has a certain appeal to me.

[nickl_2000]

Honestly, of the official classes you are going to see the biggest boost from Goblins in the melee styles. So, you are looking at Moon and Spores. I feel like Moon would get a huge bonus from the bonus action disengage/hide, I certainly would have loved it on my current character.




If you are allowed homebrew, I did make an attempt at a Gishy Druid subclass that you can take a look at and make modifications with your DM until it seems appropriate for balance and the campaign (it still ends up being a fairly passive subclass in general, but you can make up for that with Druid spells). Thematically, it isn't on with a goblin, but it is a class that would benefit from the goblin racial abilities. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1G4F3iu64LiQE_gd8Xp3ls3bDfXluR8ZDgypKtZDDZoU/edit?usp=sharing

[Pandyman]

Spore, vermin, and shepherd are definitely the ones that seem to fit my idea the best, I also looked through a bunch of subclasses on DnD Beyond and found two i really liked. A simple land druid could be cool too, anything shaman-like could also be cool.

Circle of Dragons definitely peaked my interest, but it'd need some tweaking downward I think. I think the best way to do that might be to compare its forms to the moon druid forms at that cr.
https://www.dndbeyond.com/subclasses/6798-circle-of-dragons

I also really liked Circle of Adaptation, they basically use wild shapes to do partial transformations that they can use in and out of combat. I think this needs a bit of a buff though to sit close to where bladesinger is, since that's probably the closest comparative archetype i can think of.
https://www.dndbeyond.com/subclasses/91496-circle-of-adaptation

man, i'm just too indecisive. lol

[Zene]

Tied between shepherd —it’s just such a great circle anyway, but a goblin sending his animal minions in to fight while he hides in the back is awesome— and moon (bonus action disengage means you can focus on shapes with charge/pounce attacks; and at 10, fire elemental form + disengage = setting all your enemies on fire in one round).

Personally, I find shepherd to be more fun. But it’s a real close call.

Oh, and either way: Cast Awaken on a big ol leafy tree; let it be your mount. Thorn whip enemies up into the air (then let em fall) while you sit on a branch; hide in the dense foliage til your next turn.