Druid/Illusionist D&D

This was an odd little idea I played with, of removing the Magic-User and Cleric classes, and replacing them entirely with Druids and Illusionists. Druids dealt in Real things; fire, earth, blood and bone. Illusionists dealt in the quasi-real... light, illusion, shadow. The result is what is below. (Sorry about the formatting; Blogger does NOT play nice with stuff copied from GoogleSheets, and has little native WYSIWYG table support).

Spellcaster Class

Spellcasters have mastered one of the two arcane arts of the world, known as "druids" and "illusionists". While mechanically similar, the two arts themselves are very different, each relying on a different secret language and very different mindsets. Druidic magic focuses on the physical world, the natural elements, and plants and animals. Illusionist magic focuses on perceptions, the mind, and, as it advances, alternate dimensions. These are not exclusive, however; any druid spell can be created as an illusionist spell with at most a two-level increase, and vice versa. 6th and 7th level spells are not usually subject to this, representing deep secrets and specializations within their respective schools. In choosing the spellcaster class, one must choose to be a Druid or an Illusionist; that choice will determine the spells available and the skills developed. The two classes share an experience chart, HD progression, and combat table.

Spellcasters must be both quick and strong of mind, requiring a 15 Intelligence and a 12 in Wisdom. They are limited in spell knowledge based on their Intelligence (see Intelligence Table II), but gain bonus spells known, and suffer spell failure chances by comparing their Charisma to Wisdom Table II; facility with the use of language helps them learn additional low-level spells, and avoid mishaps. Their maximum spell level is determined by their Wisdom (see Wisdom Table I), but they gain bonus spells per day by comparing their Constitution to Wisdom table II; spellcasting is enervating, but those with healthy constitutions can avoid those difficulties. Both classes keep spellbooks of known spells in their secret languages.

Spellcasters fight on the table for thieves, and make saving throws on the table for priests. They may not wear armor made of metal, nor use any weapon, tool, or shield of metal more than 30gp in weight. They begin with proficiency in two weapons, receive an additional proficiency every five levels, and suffer a -4 penalty with all weapons with which they are not proficient. Demi-humans and Semi-humans may be multi-classed spellcasters, including Druid/Illusionists. There are no alignment restrictions on either Druids or Illusionists, nor requirements to fight for more advanced levels. Druids tend to be more lawful, and illusionists tend to be more chaotic, but it is not a requirement or impediment.





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Experience Points	Level	HD (d6)
0-2250	1	1
2251-4500	2	2
4501-9000	3	3
9001-18000	4	4
18001-35000	5	5
35001-60000	6	6
60001-95000	7	7
95001-145000	8	8
145001-220000	9	9
220001-440000	10	10
440001-660000	11	10+1
660001-880000	12	10+2
220,000 Experience points per level beyond the 12th.
Spellcasters gain 1 HP per level after the 10th.

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Spell Level	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
Character Level
1	2
2	2	1
3	3	2	1
4	4	2	2
5	4	3	2
6	4	3	2	1
7	4	4	3	1
8	4	4	3	2
9	5	4	3	2	1
10	5	4	3	3	2
11	5	5	3	3	2	1
12	5	5	4	4	3	2	1
13	6	5	5	5	4	3	2
14	6	6	6	6	5	4	3
15	6	6	6	6	6	5	4
16	6	6	6	6	6	6	5
17	6	6	6	6	6	6	6
18	7	6	6	6	6	6	6
19	7	7	6	6	6	6	6
20	7	7	7	6	6	6	6
21	7	7	7	7	6	6	6
22	7	7	7	7	7	6	6
23	7	7	7	7	7	7	6
24	7	7	7	7	7	7	7
25	8	7	7	7	7	7	7
26	8	8	7	7	7	7	7

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Druids
Races Allowed:	Dwarven	Elven	Gnome	Half-elves	Halfling	Half-Orc	Human
Level Limit	7	8	8	U	6	4	U

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Level	Class Ability
1	Bonus Language: Druidic
1	+2 save vs. fire and lightning
3	15% +5% per level after 3rd to identify plants, animals, and potable water
3	Able to pass through non-magical overgrowth without leaving a discernable trail at normal movement rate
3	Bonus language of an animal or animal-like monster, plus one additional language at each additional level
7	May change shape three times per day into animals or plants. New forms may be no lighter than one percent the druid's weight, and no heavier than two hundred percent (so a 200 pound druid may be as light as 2 pounds, or as heavy heavy 400 pounds). Assuming a new physical form grants any physical abilities of the form, but not explicitly magical abilities; becoming a pixie will let you fly, but not turn invisible. Changing form heals 10-60% of the druid's wounds
7	Immunity to Disease and Poison

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Available Spells
1	2	3	4
Affect Normal Fires	Barkskin	Call Lightning	Animal Summoning I
Animal Friendship	Charm Person or Mammal	Charm Plants	Call Woodland Beings
Burning Hands	Create Water	Create Food and Water	Charm Monster
Detect Magic	Cure Light Wounds	Cure Blindness	Control Temperature 10' Radius
Detect Snares and Pits	Detect Invisibility	Cure Disease	Cure Serious Wounds
Entangle	Enlarge	Explosive Runes	Dig
Faerie Fie	Feign Death	Flame Arrow	Dispel Magic
Feather Fall	Fire Trap	Gust of Wind	Fire Charm
Invisibility to Animals	Heat Metal	Hold Animal	Fire Shield
Locate Animals	Jump	Levitate	Hallucinatory Forest
Mending	Knock	Locate Object	Hold Plant
Pass Without Trace	Locate Plants	Neutralize Poison	Lower Water
Predict Weather	Obscurement	Plant Growth	Plant Door
Purify Water	Produce Flame	Protection from Fire	Polymorph Self
Resist Cold	Purify Food and Drink	Pyrotechnics	Produce Fire
Resist Fire	Shatter	Slow	Protection from Lightning
Shillelagh	Slow Poison	Snare	Repel Insects
Shocking Grasp	Snake Charm	Stone Shape	Speak with Plants
Sleep	Spider Climb	Summon Insects
Speak with Animals	Stinking Cloud	Tree
Warp Wood	Strength	Water Breathing
Web	Trip

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5	6	7
Airy water	Aerial Servant	Animate Object
Animal Growth	Animal Summoning III	Chariot of Sustarre
Animal Summoning II	Animate Rock	Confusion
Anti-Plant Shell	Anti-Animal Shell	Conjure Elemental (as druid Conjure Fire Elemental)
Commune with Nature	Conjure Animals	Control Weather
Control Winds	Cure Critical Wounds	Creeping Doom
Flame Strike	Feeblemind	Earthquake
Fly	Fire Seeds	Finger of Death
Hold Monster	Heal	Fire Storm
Insect Plague	Move Earth	Ice Storm
Pass Plant	Part Water	Regenerate
Polymorph other	Stone Tell	Reincarnate
Remove Curse	Stone to Flesh	Restoration
Sticks to Snakes	Transport Via Plants	Statue
Transmute Rock to Mud	Turn Wood	Transmute Metal to Wood
Wall of Fire	Wall of Thorns	Wall of Iron
Wall of Ice	Weather Summoning	Wall of Stone
		Wind Walk

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Illusionist
Races Allowed:	Dwarven	Elven	Gnome	Half-elves	Halfling	Half-Orc	Human
Level Limit	5	7	11	8	4	4	U

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Level	Class Ability
1	Bonus Language: Illusionist
1	+2 save vs. Blinding and Deafening
3	15% +5% per level after 3rd to locate secret or concealed doors or invisible creatures
3	Able to alter appearance as if under a Change Self spell
3	Bonus language of a demi-human, humanoid, or intelligent monster, plus one additional language per level after 3rd
7	Each day, may cast 3 bonus levels of illusionist spells without having memorized, or even necessarily learned, those spells.. These levels may be used in any combination adding up to no more than 3, and are cast as if they had been memorized (including the need for material components).
7	Immunity to Charm and Fear

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Available Spells
1	2	3
Audible Glamer	Blindness	Blink
Bless	Blur	Charm Person
Change Self	Chant	Clairaudience
Color Spray	Comprehend Languages	Clairvoyance
Command	Darkness 15' radius	Continual Darkness
Dancing Lights	Deafness	Continual Light
Darkness	Detect Magic	Cure Blindness
Detect Illusion	Find Traps	Dispel Illusion
Detect Invisibility	Fog Cloud	Fear
Erase	Fool's Gold	Hallucinatory Terrain
Find Familiar	Hypnotic Pattern	Hold Person
Friends	Improved Phantasmal Force	Illusionary Script
Gaze Reflection	Invisibility	Infravision
Hypnotism	Leomund's Trap	Invisibility 10' Radius
Light	Locate Object	Non-detection
Message	Magic Mouth	Paralyzation
Nystul's Magic Aura	Mirror Image	Prayer
Phantasmal Force	Protection from Evil	Rope Trick
Forget	Scare	Speak with Dead
Remove Fear	Silence 15' radius	Spectral Force
Sanctuary	Spiritual Hammer	Suggestion
Unseen Servant	Stinking Cloud
Wall of Fog	Write
Ventriloquism
Misdirection
Augury

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4	5	6	7
Confusion	Chaos	Conjure Animals	Alter Reality
Detect Lie	Charm Monster	Demi-shadow Magic	Astral Spell
Dispel Exhaustion	Contact other Plane	Dimension Door	Cacodemon
Dispel Magic	Demi-Shadow Monsters	Find the Path	Gate
Divination	Distance Distortion	Geas	Mass Invisibility
Emotion	Hold Monster	Invisible Stalker	Mordenkainen's Sword
Exorcise	Leomund's Secret Chest 5	Legend Lore	Power word, stun
Fire Charm	Major Creation	Mass Suggestion	Prismatic Spray
Fumble	Maze	Permanent Illusion	Prismatic Wall
Improved Invisibility	Plane Shift	Programmed Illusion	Symbol
Massmorph	Project Image	Repulsion	Teleport
Minor Creation	Projected Image	Shades	Vanish
Phantasmal Killer	Quest	Spiritwrack	VIsion
Protection from Evil 10' Radius	Shadow Door	True Sight	Word of Recall
Remove Curse	Shadow Magic	Veil
Shadow Monsters	Summon Shadow
Wizard Eye

Other Classes

Fighters:	No change
Paladins:	Paladins remain as very rare conduits of deities. Instead of a LG alignment, they must maintain absolute faithfulness to their deity; any transgression against their deity's strictures is the same as an evil act by a standard paladin in similar circumstances. Detection and Protection abilities (1 and 6 of the Paladin) instead extend to the moral and ethical opposites of their deity; a deity with a neutral component to their alignment receives no benefit along that axis (so a NG deity bestows protection from evil, a LN deity bestows protection from chaos, and a LG deity bestows protections from Chaos and Evil). Likewise, henchmen and companions must be adherents of the paladin's deity, or of compatible faiths. Paladins have sole access to clerical spells (save some monsters), and have no facility with druidic or illusionist magic (save through possible dual-classing).
Rangers:	Rangers gain access to Druidic spells as normal, and Illusionist spells instead of Magic-User spells. However, in order to do so they must learn the respective languages. If a ranger is unable to learn more languages upon attaining 8th and/or 9th level, the ability can be gained later, if they gain the ability to learn more languages (such as through an increase in intelligence due to age or magic). They do have the ability to use scrolls, however, and may use them to expand their spellbooks.
Thieves	Thieves are able to make use of druidic or illusionist scrolls beginning at 4th level. Their chance of failure is equal to ((100-Read Languages skill)/2)%, or a chance of failure dictated by comparing their Charisma to Wisdom table II, whichever is higher.
Assassins	Assassins are subject to the same rules for scroll use as thieves, when one considers their two-level penalty. Assassins who learn the Illusionist or Druidic Languages through their 9th level ability to learn secret languages consider only their Charisma for spell failure with scrolls of that nature.
Monks:	No Change

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Magic Item

Potions	Both Illusionists and Druids may begin creating potions at 7th level with the aid of an alchemist, or 11th level without. This process follows all of the usual rules.
Scrolls	Both Illusionists and Druids may begin scribing scrolls at 7th level, following the usual rules. Both classes may scribe any sort of protection scroll. Scrolls do not require Read Magic in order to use, only facility with the language in question. Chance of failure remains 5% per level difference, or the chance of failure prescribed by comparing one's Charisma to Wisdom table II, whichever is greater. Randomly generated scrolls are approximately 50% Druidic and 50% illusionist in nature.
Other Magic Items	There is no requirement for Enchant an Item, Permanency, Major Creation, or Alter Reality; creating magic items is a process, not a spell. Charged or single-use magic items may be created begining at 11th level. Permanent magic items may be created at 14th level. Both classes are able to conceivably create any magic item, but the DM may require the creator to describe how the spells she knows or has access to in spellbooks can be used to create said magic item; a druid who does not have access to the Strength spell making Gauntlets of Ogre Power might instead note access to Polymorph Self, for example. Illusionists may make use of their 7th level ability to meet these qualifications. Otherwise, the process follows the standard procedures outlined for illusionists in the Dungeon Master's Guide.