Druidic herbalism is a nature bond option that can be taken by any druid at 1st level except those with archetypes or alternate class features that alter or replace nature bond or mandate a specific nature bond choice.
Instead of granting access to a domain or an animal companion, a druid’s bond with nature can take a third form: access to druidic herbalism.
A druid who chooses to learn druidic herbalism can use combinations of nuts, berries, dried herbs, and other natural ingredients along with appropriate containers to create herbal concoctions or magic consumables that function like potions. This acts like the Brew Potion feat, but only for spells on the druid spell list. Herbal concoctions are typically thick and sludgy, and their creation time, caster level, spell duplication capabilities, and all other variables and properties are identical to those of potions created using Brew Potion. Herbal concoctions created with herbs that cause special effects when ingested retain those effects as well as the appropriate spell effect.
A druid can create a number of free herbal concoctions per day equal to her Wisdom modifier. Additional concoctions cost the same as creating an equivalent potion using Brew Potion. Druids can sell their herbal concoctions just as if they were potions (though NPCs unfamiliar with druidic herbalism may need some convincing before purchasing these wares).
At 4th level, a druid’s increasing skill with herbalism means that she can disguise the effects of her herbal concoctions. When a creature attempts a Perception or Spellcraft check to identify one of the druid’s concoctions, the concoction appears to be a different herbal concoction of the druid’s choice unless the creature exceeds the identification DC by 5 or more. The druid must designate this false result when creating the concoction. If a creature exceeds the identification DC by 5 or more, it correctly identifies the concoction, though not that the druid tried to fool it.
Additionally, at 4th level, when the druid creates additional concoctions, she need pay only half the normal cost to create them. It takes her only half the normal time to create her concoctions, and she can create concoctions of spells from any spell list, as long as she can cast the spell.
At 7th level, when the druid creates concoctions with potential false identification results, a creature attempting to identify the concoction must exceed the identification DC by 10 or more to determine the concoction’s true identity.
Additionally, at 7th level, a druid can create any herbal concoction in 1 minute. She can also create a special concoction of any spell higher than 3rd level that she can cast, but to do so, she must expend a spell slot of the same level. These special concoctions do not cost her anything to create and function like extracts created by an alchemist with the infusion discovery.
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1) A druid can create a number of free herbal concoctions per day equal to her Wisdom modifier.2) Herbal concoctions are typically thick and sludgy, and their creation time, caster level, spell duplication capabilities, and all other variables and properties are identical to those of potions created using Brew Potion.
The Wisdom modifier crafted potions have a cost of 0 gold.
There are several ways to interpret this. Does a druid with this ability effectively gain her modifier in free potions per day with reasonable access to materials? Does she have to 'craft' them as normal? If she does, will the fact that they cost no gold mean that she just needs a good cauldron and conversation to make them all?
Opinions are appreciated.
The creation time is identical to the equivalent potion created via brew potion, which does not have a cost of 0.
So even though the concoction costs the druid 0, its creation time still depends on what the potion would have costed. So 2 hours for a potion of 250gp or less,or 8 hours for up to 1000gp.
It still is a ridiculously powerful ability, allowing you to generate up to 1000gp worth of potions for free each day, selling them for half that for pure profit. With any kind of downtime it just completely breaks WBL.
This becomes irrelevant at level 7, when you can craft them in 1 minute regardless of equivalent potion cost, completely breaking wealth by level even if you don't have any downtime.
Very poorly written ability.
From what I can tell, the druid seems to just bypass restrictions Wisdom Modifier times per day, and then it takes crafting time. It probably would be more reasonable to have it take more time.
From my understanding, it likely ties into the same logic of selling spellcasting services; maybe you can in downtime, but the DM will probably block it unless you're desperate. If that's the case, selling the potions would make comparable money to just selling your services.
The middle-ground I've found is just presuming they can't be sold unless it's a desperate situation. Slowly gaining a small stockpile of potions at the cost of scrolls in return for an animal companion? That's not a deal that appeals to most players. Animal companions are very powerful.