OneD&D UA - THE DRUID AND PALADIN

[KorvinStarmast]

All of the wildshape discourse here is missing the most important part IMO, which is that 10th level Moon Druids can no longer blow all their resources to turn into a Fire Tornado.

Yes. That sucks. I liked the elemental option, although it cost two uses.

Straight-up the coolest class feature in the game and they replaced it with *checks notes* +1d6 elemental damage.

Major nerf.

Hey did anyone notice Druids can wear metal now? They lost medium armor proficiency though.

How much light armor is made of metal?

I have no doubt that Evoker will still be the basic Wizard.

Which makes sense to me.

- Can wear metal now, cool

How much light armor is metal?

Wildshaping/Moon Druid
- Your AC and HP don't improve, so you're essentially trading spellcasting for perception and WIS-SADding your STR/DEX for checks and melee attacks. That's a pretty mediocre trade for combat purposes, and a lot of utility as been level gated (see below). Moon druids shape as a bonus action still.
- Your creature type doesn't change
- You can still be a serviceable mount
- There are no ways to get most beast features like trample, charge, pounce, poison, echolocation, webwalking, etc.
- Cant climb, swim, fly or tiny until levels 5, 7, 9 and 11 respectively
- Your beast attacks never become magical

The bolded part is where I think they over nerfed wild shape.

Paladin
- Lay On Hands can't fix Diseases now, I guess too many people complained about Paladins

Yeah, I will be mentioning that in the feedback.

- Smites can be done with ranged weapons and unarmed, but are also limited to once per turn and can't also cast a spell

Not even as a bonus action, like misty step? Hmm, as I think through this, I like it even less, but I get the "used a spell slot to do this so you have used your spell slot for this round. Not sure I like it.

- Aura of Protection moved back one level
- Aura of Courage moved back three levels

Don't like either of those.

- Restoring Touch is like Cleansing Touch, but does conditions rather than spells and is moved back one level. fine.

Moving back a level is not fine for me. Late game features rarely get reached.

- Auras getting bigger is moved forward one level

Yay.

- Sacred Weapon is a bonus action use of your Channel, good improvement

Agree. I already changed that in our Wednesday game.

- Smite of Protection sounds like an oxymoron, but it hands out THP when smite which is fine

Way weaker than an 'always on' aura.

- Find Familiar/Steed have stat blocks like Tasha's summons, each with one neat ability, fine

Agree. Also drops to 0 HP then 1 HP then escapes.