How long do druids live for?

An Elf Druid with timeless body might live nearly 7,000 years! In 5E at 18th level Druids get Timeless Body, they age 1 year for every 10 that pass. Elves can live up to 750 years in 5E.
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Can druids live forever?

An elven druid who reaches level 18 early-ish in life can live several thousand years. Any character lucky enough to "level past" 20 in a campaign with Epic Boons could be granted the Boon of Immortality (presumably by a deity to allow a powerful champion to continue their duties).
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Do druids age slower?

Druids age slower, which if you pick an already longlived race such as elves, means you extend your lifespand into the several thousands.
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How do druids get their powers?

Druids were primal spellcasters of considerable power and versatility, who gained their power through being at one with nature or through a connection to a powerful deity or nature spirit. Guardians of the wilderness, druids saw themselves less as masters of the natural order and more as an extension of its will.
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Are druids born with magic?

Other classes have easy explanations for how they came to be: fighters and monks trained, wizards studied, clerics and paladins prayed, sorcerers and oracles were born that way, and so on, so forth. Druids, however, do not seem to have any explanation for how, exactly, they became druids.
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What do the modern Druids do?



How does one become a druid?

In the Forgotten Realms lore there are those „ways“ people became druids: Feeling a „call“ of nature and following it into the wild. Receiving „Druidic Training“ of some sort of mentor. Having a connection to a god of nature and following their way, leading to a connection with nature itself.
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Are there still druids today?

It also is a niche group compared with other organized religious or spiritual groups. Information on the exact number of druids in the U.S. isn't readily available, but a 2001 study by the American Religious Identification Survey shows that out of more than 200 million people interviewed, 33,000 identified as druids.
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Are druids Irish or Scottish?

While druids featured prominently in many medieval Irish sources, they were far rarer in their Welsh counterparts. Unlike the Irish texts, the Welsh term commonly seen as referring to the druids, dryw, was used to refer purely to prophets and not to sorcerers or pagan priests.
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Can druids speak to animals?

There may be spells like Speak with Animals that will enable your druid to form temporary friendships with wildlife, but they cannot form lifetime bonds in the same way as familiars or animal companions.
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Can a druid turn into a dragon?

A druid could only turn into a wyrmling starting at level 8 (only brass or copper for non-moon druids) and only a moon druid could turn into a young brass or white dragon.
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Do druids sleep?

Druids can place themselves in a form of suspended animation known as the Druid Sleep. During this time they are rejuvenated and their lives prolonged, but the Druid Sleep cannot sustain one forever. Towards the end of a Druid's life, the sleep becomes less and less effective, until the Druid's life ends in this world.
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Do druids need sleep?

You no longer need sleep and can't be forced to sleep by any means[...] For a druid, this obviously would require multiclassing. Show activity on this post. A previous revision of this answer suggested that long rests did not require sleep and there were no rules for sleep deprivation.
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At what level do druids stop aging?

At 18th level, druids get the Timeless Body feature: [T]he primal magic that you wield causes you to age more slowly. For every 10 years that pass, your body ages only 1 year.
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How long do blood elves live?

Middle age for a blood elf or high elf is around 175. They aren't really considered old until age 260 or so; a venerable quel'dorei is around 350 years old, and the maximum life span for a high elf or blood elf is 360-400 years of age. As for night elves, that number is much, much higher.
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How do I become immortal?

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Are trolls immortal?

It is unknown how long trolls can live, and there are no records of a troll having died of old age. It is possible that, due to their regenerative abilities, they may be immortal.
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What do druids get back on a short rest?

During a Short Rest, you choose expended Spell Slots to recover. The Spell Slots can have a combined level that is equal to or less than half your druid level (rounded up), and none of the slots can be 6th Level or higher. You can't use this feature again until you finish a Long Rest.
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Can druids talk to plants?

Speak with Plants is a druidic spell shared by both druids and elven rangers. A caster can comprehend and communicate with plants, including both normal plants and plant creatures.
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Can druids speak while wild shaped?

If you built a drew letters on a piece of parchment, the wildshape druid could spell out words. If the druid has a raven familiar, the druid can concentrate to control the raven and can use it's mimicry to speak.
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Do Druids believe in God?

Druids were polytheistic and had female gods and sacred figures, rather like the Greeks and Romans, but their nomadic, less civilised Druidic society gave the others a sense of superiority. This renders some of their accounts historically uncertain, as they may be tainted with exaggerated examples of Druidic practices.
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What language did Druids speak?

Druidic was actually a language subgroup composed of two distinct but similar languages. The vast majority of druids spoke Drueidan; those from the Moonshaes spoke a language called Daelic.
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Are Druids evil?

Druids are not evil. Their actions may be, but the way they think is the main determinant of how they behave, which usually matches a common goal for most druids.
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What God did the Druids worship?

Druidry is now often described as polytheistic, although there is no set pantheon of deities to which all Druids adhere. Emphasis is however placed on the idea that these deities predate Christianity. These deities are usually regarded as being immanent rather than transcendent.
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Who killed the Druids?

The bodies of the dead and dying were unceremoniously hurled onto makeshift funeral pyres. Suetonius and his soldiers then roamed across the island, destroying the druids sacred oak groves, smashing their altars and temples and killing anyone they could find.
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Do Druids worship trees?

The Druids and Oak Trees

The ancient Druids of the British Isles were known to worship oak trees themselves. They held their sacred rituals in groves of oak trees and ate the acorns that fell from the trees, hoping to see into the future.
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