Wizards of the Coast is continuing to use its Unearthed Arcana playtest material to bring ideas from Dungeons & Dragons 3.0/3.5 into the 2024 5th edition ruleset. The April 2 release, “Villainous Options,” borrows rules from the 2004 book Libris Mortis: The Book of the Undead for slowly turning your living character undead and offers a Pestilence Domain for Clerics that’s reminiscent of the Vermin Lord in 2002’s Book of Vile Darkness. But the most diabolically fun option is a new one: the Circle of the Titan druid, which lets you protect nature by turning into an enormous monster.
Circle of the Moon druids can already get pretty big at high levels, turning into a huge dinosaur or the King Kong-like giant ape. But Titan Form lets you reach gargantuan size at level 14. Gargantuan creatures occupy at least 20 by 20-feet area. The Tarrasque, for example, is considered gargantuan and is canonically 50 feet tall and 70 feet long — but there’s no upper limit on the size of gargantuan creatures. In other words, you can absolutely stomp your way around the battlefield as a modest-sized kaiju. According to the playtest, “Druids of this order believe that for nature to thrive, society must sometimes fall.” Basically your job is to smash cities to restore balance.
The class does a great job of evoking the chaos of a rampaging kaiju. You default to a large form, hitting the huge size at level 10. You can charge your rend attacks with an element of your choice to scorch, freeze, or shock your enemies. When you first transform, you can spend a spell slot to knock everyone around you down with a shockwave. Once you hit huge, you’re so big you don’t even have to deal with difficult terrain. That’s good because you’re going to be leaving a lot of rubble in your wake.
