Illustration Xan Drake

Coconut Dryad

horatio.fairburn
Challenge 1
(200 XP)
Robinloft Estimated CR 1
Medium fey, neutral
Armor Class 11 (16 with barkskin)
Hit Points 22 (5d8)
Speed 30 ft.
STR
10 (+0)
DEX
12 (+1)
CON
11 (+0)
INT
14 (+2)
WIS
15 (+2)
CHA
18 (+4)
Saving Throws
Skills Perception +4, Survival +6
Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 14
Languages Primordial (Aquan), Sylvan
Environments coastal
Magic Resistance.

The dryad has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.

Speak with Beasts and Plants.

The dryad can communicate with beasts and plants as if they shared a language.

Water Stride.

The dryad can move across water as if it were harmless solid ground at half her movement speed.

If she is submerged in a liquid, she can use this ability to be carried to the surface of the liquid at a rate of 60 feet per round.

Innate Spellcasting. The coconut dryad's innate spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 14, +6 to hit with spell attacks). It can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:

Actions

Quarterstaff. Melee Weapon Attack: +2 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 3 (1d6) bludgeoning damage, or 4 (1d8) bludgeoning damage if used with two hands (the quarterstaff is also an oar).
Fey Charm.

The dryad targets one humanoid or beast that she can see within 30 feet of her. If the target can see the dryad, it must succeed on a DC 14 Wisdom saving throw or be magically charmed. The charmed creature regards the dryad as a trusted friend to be heeded and protected. Although the target isn’t under the dryad’s control, it takes the dryad’s requests or actions in the most favorable way it can.
Each time the dryad or its allies do anything harmful to the target, it can repeat the saving throw, ending the effect on itself on a success. Otherwise, the effect lasts 24 hours or until the dryad dies, is on a different plane of existence from the target, or ends the effect as a bonus action. If a target’s saving throw is successful, the target is immune to the dryad’s Fey Charm for the next 24 hours.
The dryad can have no more than one humanoid and up to three beasts charmed at a time.

Coconut Dryad

A coconut dryad is a Dryad borne from the coconut palm tree, shepherding coconuts across the sea. While they can be found within a palm tree, it is not uncommon to find one floating in the ocean with a lone coconut, inadvertently fooling sailors into believing they have spotted a mermaid or shipwrecked sailor.

On rare occasions, coconut dryad will cause its tree (and perhaps several others) to grow out over the water, slowly shaping the trees into a Large or even Huge ship before pulling the roots free. Charming or otherwise acquiring a crew, a journey to populate a whole new land with coconut palms begins.

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