Okay, the only good thing about having laryngitis over the holiday period has been that I've managed to finish my moon druid playthrough.
I've found that I have a lot of thoughts about the class, which so nearly could have been great but wasn't, though I still had great fun trying to work out how to make the best of it.
I hope you'll all forgive me for starting yet another druid thread, but I wanted to give my feedback in one place as I believe the issues with the class become clearer when you consider it as a whole and I didn't want to derail any other thread.
And also because this is going to be a massive screed, and I want people to be able to easily ignore it if they want
As someone who has played cRPGs but not PnP, and whose first exposure to 5e was with BG3, I'm also starting from a different point than some of the more experienced TTRPG druids who have already commented on the class, though I often in a roundabout way came to the same conclusions. But I hope the following might help Larian see how someone coming to the game with no preconceptions of how it "should" be played in 5e will nevertheless run into many of the same issues as were quickly identified by those more expert in the ruleset.
Though I'm sure more expert D&Ders will find my thinking naive or wrongheaded on many points, it's hopefully still useful as an example of a newcomer's impressions of the class. And if you can be bothered to read, I am more than happy to be corrected on any point I've got wrong!
Before I get going, though, as there will be overlap with issues mentioned in other threads, here are some links in case you'd prefer to stick with those instead:
Circle of the Moon, wildshape bear: My feedback and suggestionsMultiplayer Report - People are not loving Druid.The Deeper Rothe, or, a new suggestion for Moon druids. Patch 9 druid bugs list Intentional or a mistake that you can't move moonbeam and use heat armor in beast form?Plus
focused feedback on all spells up to level 2 by Niara Now, I'm going to post my feedback in chunks, broken down by topic, in the hope that might make it slightly easier to digest ...
