Cantrip Transmutation spell available to Druids, cast as a Bonus Action. It turns your club or quarterstaff magical and lets it swing off your Spellcasting modifier instead of Strength.
Spell description: Imbue your staff or club with nature’s power. It becomes magical, deals 1d8+2 Bludgeoning damage, and uses your Spellcasting Ability for Attack Rolls.
Spell properties
- Damage: 1d8 + Spellcasting modifier Bludgeoning
- Damage type: Bludgeoning
- Range: Self
- Duration: 10 turns
- Cost: Bonus Action
- Recharge: Per action
Spell upcasting
This cantrip does not scale with character level, but the weapon damage grows as your Spellcasting modifier does.
How to obtain Shillelagh
- Druid at Class level 1
- Nature Domain (Cleric) at Class level 1, as a Domain Spell
- Granted by features: Magic Initiate: Druid
Shillelagh
Transmutation CantripImbue your staff or club with nature’s power. It becomes magical and uses your Spellcasting Ability for Attack Rolls.
Range: Self
Duration: 10 turns
When to cast Shillelagh
This is the cantrip that lets a Druid dump Strength and still hit things. With Shillelagh up, your staff attacks use your Wisdom, so you can build a caster and still hold the front line early on.
It costs a Bonus Action and lasts ten turns, so flick it on at the start of a fight and forget about it. It is at its best on a melee-leaning Druid or a Nature Cleric before Wild Shape and better weapons take over.
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