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Botany shapes a character's supernatural focus, training, and power set.

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Botany Powers

42 powers, grouped by tier. The rules needed for quick reference are shown directly in each row.

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Tier 0

2

Whisper to nearby plants and nature. Choose one: cause a Tiny plant to bloom, open, wilt, or grow slightly; predict the weather for the next 24 hours in your immediate area; create a harmless sensory effect such as falling petals, drifting leaves, or floral scent; or make a seedling, flower, or vine sprout in soil.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: 30 ft.
Duration: Instant / 1 Hour

Create a vine-like whip covered in thorns and lash it at one creature within range. Make a melee power attack. On a hit, the target takes 4 (1d6) piercing damage, and if it is Large or smaller, you may pull it up to 10 ft. toward you.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: 30 ft.
Duration: Instant
Effect: 1d6
Type: Piercing
Roll: Attack

Tier 1

4

Entangling Roots

Roots and vines erupt in a 10-ft. square on the ground within range. The area is difficult terrain. A creature that enters the area for the first time on a turn or starts its turn there must make a STR save or become restrained until the start of its next turn.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: 60 ft.
Duration: 1 Minute
Save: STR

Ten berries appear in your hand and are infused with magic for the duration. A creature can take a bonus action to eat one berry. Eating a berry restores 1 hit point and provides enough nourishment to sustain a creature for one day. Uneaten berries disappear when the effect ends.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: Touch
Duration: 24 Hours
Effect: 1
Type: Healing

Release a puff of irritating pollen at one creature you can see within range. The target must make a CON save, taking 7 (2d6) poison damage on a failed save, or half as much on a success. On a failed save, it also has disadvantage on the next Perception check or attack roll it makes before the end of its next turn.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: 30 ft.
Duration: Instant
Effect: 2d6
Type: Poison
Save: CON

Speak with Plants

You can communicate simple ideas with plants as if you shared a language. Plants can convey basic information about creatures, weather, disease, damage, and movement they have sensed nearby. This does not make plants intelligent or friendly, but you have advantage on Nature checks made to understand or influence plant life.

Action: Passive
Use: At-Will
Range: Self
Duration: Permanent

Tier 2

4

Vines erupt in a 15-ft. radius centered on a point within range. The area is difficult terrain. When a creature enters the area for the first time on a turn or starts its turn there, it must make a STR save or have its speed reduced to 0 until the start of its next turn.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: 60 ft.
Duration: 1 Minute
Save: STR

Grow and apply medicinal herbs to one creature. The target regains 13 (3d8 + your WIS modifier) hit points. If the target is poisoned, it may immediately repeat the saving throw against one poison affecting it.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: Touch
Duration: Instant
Effect: 3d8 + WIS
Type: Healing

Cause normal plants in a 60-ft. radius centered on a point within range to grow thick and strong. The area becomes difficult terrain for creatures of your choice. You may also use this power over 8 hours to enrich up to 1 acre of land, doubling its food yield for one year.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: 120 ft.
Duration: 1 Hour

Thorns erupt outward from nearby plants or conjured vines. Creatures of your choice in the emanation must make a DEX save, taking 9 (2d8) piercing damage on a failed save, or half as much on a success.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: Self (10 ft.)
Duration: Instant
Effect: 2d8
Type: Piercing
Save: DEX

Tier 3

4

Restorative Bloom

A restorative bloom opens nearby. Creatures of your choice in the emanation regain 18 (4d8 + your WIS modifier) hit points. A target that is poisoned may also end that condition.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: Self (30 ft.)
Duration: Instant
Effect: 4d8 + WIS
Type: Healing

Create a 15-ft. radius cloud of irritating spores centered on a point within range. The area is lightly obscured. A creature that enters the area for the first time on a turn or starts its turn there must make a CON save, taking 14 (4d6) poison damage on a failed save, or half as much on a success. On a failed save, it cannot take reactions until the start of its next turn.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: 60 ft.
Duration: 1 Minute
Effect: 4d6
Type: Poison
Save: CON

Verdant Shelter

Grow a small shelter of branches, leaves, and vines large enough to house up to six Medium creatures. The shelter grants half cover from outside attacks, conceals smoke and firelight, and provides protection from normal weather.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: 30 ft.
Duration: 8 Hours

When a creature you can see within range moves, vines snap around it. The target must make a STR save or its speed becomes 0 for the rest of the turn.

Action: Reaction
Use: At-Will
Range: 60 ft.
Duration: Instant
Save: STR

Tier 4

4

Medicinal plants surge with restorative power. Creatures of your choice in the emanation regain 27 (6d8) hit points and may end one poison or disease affecting them.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: Self (30 ft.)
Duration: Instant
Effect: 6d8
Type: Healing

Grow a bridge, ladder, rope, platform, or canopy path of living vines and branches up to 60 ft. long and 10 ft. wide. It can support creatures and objects as normal wood and plant matter, and it withers when the duration ends unless rooted in suitable soil.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: 90 ft.
Duration: 1 Hour

Razorpetal Swarm

Release a swarm of razor-edged petals in a 20-ft. radius centered on a point within range. Creatures of your choice in the area must make a DEX save, taking 27 (6d8) slashing damage on a failed save, or half as much on a success.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: 90 ft.
Duration: Instant
Effect: 6d8
Type: Slashing
Save: DEX

Roots and vines form a cage around one creature you can see within range. The target must make a STR save or become restrained for the duration. It repeats the save at the end of each of its turns. While restrained this way, it takes 9 (2d8) piercing damage at the start of each of its turns.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: 60 ft.
Duration: 1 Minute
Effect: 2d8
Type: Piercing
Save: STR

Tier 5

4

A violent bloom erupts in a 30-ft. radius centered on a point within range. Creatures of your choice in the area must make a CON save, taking 36 (8d8) poison damage on a failed save, or half as much on a success. On a failed save, a creature is poisoned until the end of its next turn.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: 120 ft.
Duration: Instant
Effect: 8d8
Type: Poison
Save: CON

Grow a grove, orchard, hedge ring, or cluster of trees in a 60-ft. radius centered on a point within range. The grove provides food, shade, concealment, climbing routes, and natural cover. It remains if the environment can sustain it.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: 120 ft.
Duration: 8 Hours

Create a living garden of medicinal plants in the emanation. Creatures of your choice regain hit points equal to your WIS modifier at the start of each of their turns while in the garden. The garden is difficult terrain for hostile creatures.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: Self (30 ft.)
Duration: 1 Minute
Effect: WIS per round
Type: Healing

Create a wall of twisting thorns up to 60 ft. long, 20 ft. high, and 5 ft. thick. The wall blocks line of sight, provides three-quarters cover, and is difficult terrain. When a creature enters the wall for the first time on a turn or starts its turn there, it must make a DEX save, taking 27 (6d8) piercing damage on a failed save, or half as much on a success.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: 120 ft.
Duration: 10 Minutes
Effect: 6d8
Type: Piercing
Save: DEX

Tier 6

4

When a creature you can see within range is hit by an attack, conjure leaves, bark, and branches to intercept the blow. Reduce the triggering damage by 2d10 + your WIS modifier.

Action: Reaction
Use: At-Will
Range: 30 ft.
Duration: Instant
Effect: 2d10 + WIS
Type: Reduction / Plants

The ground erupts with aggressive plant life. Hostile creatures treat the area as difficult terrain. When a hostile creature moves more than 5 ft. within the area on a turn, it takes 2d8 piercing damage.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: Self (30 ft.)
Duration: 1 Minute
Effect: 2d8
Type: Piercing

A toxic flower erupts in a 20-ft. radius centered on a point within range. Creatures of your choice in the area must make a CON save, taking 6d8 poison damage and becoming poisoned until the end of their next turn on a failed save, or half damage only on a success.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: 60 ft.
Duration: Instant
Effect: 6d8
Type: Poison
Save: CON

Verdant Regrowth

When you restore hit points to a creature with a Botany power, it regains additional hit points equal to your proficiency bonus.

Action: Passive
Use: At-Will
Range: Self
Duration: Permanent
Effect: PB
Type: Healing

Tier 7

4

Blooming Renewal

A renewing bloom follows your allies. Creatures of your choice in the emanation regain hit points equal to your WIS modifier at the start of each of their turns while they have at least 1 hit point.

Action: Bonus Action
Use: At-Will
Range: Self (30 ft.)
Duration: 1 Minute
Effect: WIS / round
Type: Healing

Spore Infestation

Infect one creature within range with aggressive spores. The target must make a CON save, taking 5d10 poison damage and causing creatures of your choice within 5 ft. of it to take 2d6 poison damage at the start of their turns until your next turn on a failed save, or half damage only on a success.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: 60 ft.
Duration: 1 Minute
Effect: 5d10 / 2d6
Type: Poison
Save: CON

Thornfield Dominion

A dense field of thorns fills the emanation. Hostile creatures treat the area as difficult terrain. When a hostile creature moves more than 5 ft. within the area on a turn, it takes 3d8 piercing damage and must make a STR save or have its speed halved until the start of its next turn.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: Self (60 ft.)
Duration: 1 Minute
Effect: 3d8
Type: Piercing
Save: STR

Verdant Resilience

You gain resistance to poison damage and advantage on saving throws against poison and disease. While standing on natural ground or among living plants, you also have advantage on CON saving throws.

Action: Passive
Use: At-Will
Range: Self
Duration: Permanent
Type: Resistance / Plants

Tier 8

4

Living Ecosystem

While you are in natural terrain or within an area created by one of your Botany powers, you have advantage on Nature and Survival checks, and allies within 30 ft. gain a +2 bonus to saving throws.

Action: Passive
Use: At-Will
Range: Self
Duration: Permanent
Effect: +2 saves
Type: Plants / Support

Razorpetal Storm

A storm of razor-edged petals fills a 40-ft. radius centered on a point within range. Creatures of your choice in the area must make a DEX save, taking 10d8 slashing damage on a failed save, or half damage only on a success.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: 120 ft.
Duration: Instant
Effect: 10d8
Type: Slashing
Save: DEX

Verdant Bastion

Dense plant cover rises around creatures of your choice in the emanation. For the duration, affected creatures gain half cover, have advantage on DEX saving throws, and may Hide while lightly obscured by plants.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: Self (30 ft.)
Duration: 1 Minute
Effect: Half cover
Type: Defense / Plants

Worldroot Grasp

Choose up to three creatures within range. Each target must make a STR save or become restrained for the duration. While restrained this way, a target takes 3d8 piercing damage at the start of each of its turns and repeats the save at the end of each turn.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: 120 ft.
Duration: 1 Minute
Effect: 3d8
Type: Piercing
Save: STR

Tier 9

4

Create a sustained grove of living plants in the emanation. Creatures of your choice regain hit points equal to your WIS modifier at the start of each of their turns while in the grove. Hostile creatures treat the area as difficult terrain and spend 2 ft. of movement for every 1 ft. moved.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: Self (60 ft.)
Duration: 1 Hour
Effect: WIS / round
Type: Healing / Terrain

Forest’s Wrath

A massive eruption of roots, vines, trunks, and thorns explodes in a 50-ft. radius centered on a point within range. Creatures of your choice in the area must make a DEX save, taking 12d10 piercing damage and falling prone on a failed save, or half damage only on a success.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: 300 ft.
Duration: Instant
Effect: 12d10
Type: Piercing
Save: DEX

Nature’s Renewal

At the start of each of your turns, if you have at least 1 hit point and are in natural terrain or within an area created by one of your Botany powers, you regain hit points equal to your WIS modifier.

Action: Passive
Use: At-Will
Range: Self
Duration: Permanent
Effect: WIS / round
Type: Healing

Worldroot Prison

A colossal knot of roots traps one creature within range. The target must make a STR save or become restrained, unable to teleport, and unable to be moved by unwilling magical effects for the duration. While restrained this way, it takes 4d8 piercing damage at the start of each of its turns and repeats the save at the end of each turn.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: 120 ft.
Duration: 1 Minute
Effect: 4d8
Type: Piercing
Save: STR

Tier 10

4

Cataclysmic Bloom

A catastrophic bloom erupts in a 60-ft. radius sphere centered on a point within range. Creatures of your choice in the area must make a DEX save, taking 16d10 piercing or poison damage and becoming blinded by pollen until the end of their next turn on a failed save, or half damage only on a success.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: 300 ft.
Duration: Instant
Effect: 16d10
Type: Piercing / Poison
Save: DEX

Raise a living forest, grove, orchard, hedge-maze, or botanical shelter in a 120-ft. radius centered on a point within range. The area provides cover, food, shade, climbing routes, concealment, and natural shelter. You may shape clearings, paths, bridges, walls, and canopy platforms when the forest appears. The forest persists normally after the duration if the environment can sustain it.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: 300 ft.
Duration: 24 Hours
Effect: 120 ft.
Type: Regional / Plants

World Tree Fruit

Create up to six luminous fruits infused with worldroot vitality. A creature can eat one fruit as an action to regain 120 hit points, end blinded, deafened, paralyzed, poisoned, stunned, and one disease affecting it, and gain enough nourishment and water for one week. A creature can benefit from only one World Tree Fruit per long rest.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: Touch
Duration: 24 Hours
Effect: 120
Type: Healing

Worldroot Dominion

Roots, vines, moss, and living plants overtake the emanation. Hostile creatures treat the area as difficult terrain. As a bonus action each turn, choose up to three hostile creatures in the area; each must make a STR save or become restrained until the start of your next turn. Plants in the area obey your commands and can open paths, create cover, pull objects, or seal passages.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: Self (120 ft.)
Duration: Concentration, 1 Hour
Effect: 120 ft.
Type: Plants / Dominion
Save: STR