Staff of the Woodlands 5e

Staff, rare (requires attunement by a Druid)

This staff can be wielded as a magic quarterstaff that grants a +2 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with it. While holding it, you have a +2 bonus to spell attack rolls.

The staff has 10 charges for the following properties. It regains 1d6 + 4 expended charges daily at dawn. If you expend the last charge, roll a d20. On a 1, the staff loses its properties and becomes a nonmagical quarterstaff.

Spells. You can use an action to expend 1 or more of the staff's charges to cast one of the following spells from it, using your spell save DC:

Animal Friendship (1 charge)
Awaken (5 charges)
Barkskin (2 charges)
Locate Animals or Plants (2 charges)
Speak with Animals (1 charge)
Speak with Plants (3 charges)
Wall of Thorns (6 charges).

You can also use an action to cast the Pass Without Trace spell from the staff without using any charges.

Tree Form. You can use an action to plant one end of the staff in fertile earth and expend 1 charge to transform the staff into a healthy tree. The tree is 60 feet tall and has a 5-foot-diameter trunk, and its branches at the top spread out in a 20-foot radius. The tree appears ordinary but radiates a faint aura of transmutation magic if targeted by Detect Magic. While touching the tree and using another action to speak its command word, you return the staff to its normal form. Any creature in the tree falls when it reverts to a staff.

Commentary by Sam West, Twitter: @CrierKobold

The Staff of the Woodlands is the druid magic item; it just does so many things druids want to be doing, all without costing them much. Want the greatest hits of druid utility spells on top of at-will spells and a freaking sweet tree ability? You get it all here!

Druids can use wooden staffs as spell focuses.
When casting spells with magic items, you don’t need to provide any spell components, but you do need to concentrate on the effects if they require concentration, and you can only cast them at their lowest level.
The staff offers you a free Pass Without Trace, as many times as you’d like. Gross!
You don’t need to spend the gold cost for Awaken when cast through the staff, as you don’t need material components to cast spells through magic items.
The tree functions mainly as a mode of navigating vertically, as it grows to 60 feet tall.
Always, always, ALWAYS keep 1 charge banked in this thing. You don’t want to risk losing such a powerful tool if you can ever help it.

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