

The restrained condition provides its slew of benefits: advantage on attacks against the restrained, while they have disadvantage on attacks and Dexterity saving throws. Restricting movement is a great way to control the battlefield. If a creature is in the area when you cast the spell, they must succeed in a strength saving throw or be restrained. This whole area becomes rugged terrain, thus decreasing the movement speed of anyone in this area. When casting this spell, you produce a mass of sprouting vines in a 20ft square. This first level spell doesn’t deal any direct damage, but it makes it a lot easier for you to attack your foes. Meaning that if you didn’t want to, your adventuring party wouldn’t have to spend all that hard-earned gold on food. As well as this, goodberries provide enough nourishment for a whole day. This 1st level spell may not provide as many hit points as heal wounds or cure wounds, but it does give any creature that consumes it to regain one hit point, similar to giving a Pokémon a berry. This spell is often dismissed, but if you ever wanted your character to be like a Pokémon trainer, this spell might make you feel like that. This spell also comes in handy if you ever plan on choosing the feat of ‘polearm master’ for your character. Shillelagh helps with this as you can use this cantrip on a club or quarterstaff so that rather than adding a strength modifier to your attack roll, you add your spellcasting modifier. Why would they when they can turn into a bear? But it does mean that your melee combat can become a lot trickier. Many druids do not put strength as their highest stat, and that makes sense. This is only a cantrip, but it is by far one of the most valuable cantrips out there. Here are, in my opinion, some of the best spells you can choose for your druid.

Whatever your opinion is, there is no questioning that they have some pretty awesome spells. Some see them as extremely useful, while others find the class mechanisms to be somewhat annoying. There are many differing opinions on druids within the TTRPG community.
