You can communicate with animals, not commands, but genuine two-way exchange. Domestic animals speak plainly. Wild animals speak in instinct and sensation. Roll +Intuition to get useful information from an animal.

• 10+: Clear, specific information. They tell you exactly what they sensed.
• 7–9: Impressions and feelings, enough to work with but imprecise.

In any outdoor or natural environment, you read the land instinctively. Roll +Intuition to read the environment.

• 10+: Ask the GM three: What passed through here recently? Is there danger nearby? What's the weather doing? Is anything out of place? What's the fastest route through?
• 7–9: Ask one.

When you call for help from nearby animals, roll +Intuition.

• 10+: Animals respond, enough to cause a meaningful distraction, block a path, or alert you to movement elsewhere.
• 7–9: A few animals respond, enough for one small useful action.

In combat, you move and react on pure animal instinct. When you fight without a weapon, hands, teeth, improvised, treat unarmed harm as 2 instead of 1. Additionally, you are never surprised by an attack from an animal or nature-based entity.

When you follow a trail, footprints, scent, disturbed ground, behavioral patterns, roll +Intuition.

• 10+: You track them perfectly. You know where they are and roughly how long ago they passed.
• 7–9: You're on the right path but the trail is going cold or interrupted.

In a natural or semi-natural environment, you can blend in effectively. Roll +Agility to hide with +2 added (the land works with you). In a fully urban environment, this move doesn't apply.

You always know the state of the natural environment within several miles, weather, wildlife behavior, water sources, signs of human disturbance. In a new location, the land tells you if something is wrong before you can consciously identify it. No roll required for general awareness; for specific details roll +Intuition.

In combat, when you abandon tactics entirely and fight on pure animal instinct, roll +Intuition instead of any other stat for your attack.

• 10+: Deal harm and move to a better position simultaneously, you're unpredictable.
• 7–9: Deal harm but the GM moves you somewhere inconvenient.

You have a small animal companion, up to 100 lbs, your choice. It has 10 harm. Through your connection you can talk to them and direct them on non-combat tasks, have them attack on your turn dealing 1 harm, or ride them if you're small enough. They follow you everywhere and are fiercely loyal.

You know natural toxins, how to find them, prepare them, apply them, and treat them. You can identify any poison or venom by smell or sight. Once per mission, you can prepare a natural toxin that functions as 2 doses of something the GM describes in terms of effect. (1/mission)

When you hunt a specific target, following them, staying unseen, waiting for the right moment, roll +Intuition.

• 10+: You find the perfect moment. Your first attack this scene is made with advantage (roll 3d6, drop lowest) and deals +1 harm.
• 7–9: You close in, but the timing isn't perfect. Take +1 forward on your first attack only.

Your connection to natural cycles gives you a slow but reliable recovery. At the start of each new scene, if you're not in immediate danger, clear 1 harm without rolling.

In a location that has been harmed, polluted, burned, cursed, built over unnaturally, you can ask the GM what happened here. Roll +Strange.

• 10+: The land tells you clearly, what happened, roughly when, and who was responsible.
• 7–9: Impressions, an event, an emotion, a partial image.

You feel disturbances in natural ground. Always know how many people are moving on ground you're touching. In combat, you cannot be flanked by land-based movement (passive).

Partially take on animal traits, speed of a cheetah, vision of an eagle, strength of a bear. Roll +Strange.

• 10+: Gain the trait fully for the scene.
• 7–9: Gain it briefly, take one roll at advantage, then it fades.

When you call insects, birds, or small creatures to overwhelm an area, roll +Strange.

• 10+: The swarm fills a 20ft area. Anyone inside takes -2 ongoing on all rolls and cannot maintain concentration. The swarm persists until you dismiss it or something drives it off.
• 7–9: The swarm is effective but short-lived — it achieves one thing before dispersing.

When you accelerate the growth of plant life in your immediate area, roll +Strange.

• 10+: Vines, roots, or undergrowth restrain one target, they cannot move until they free themselves (Brawn roll vs your Intuition).
• 7–9: The growth slows them, -1 ongoing to movement-based rolls.

(1/session)

Channel the power of an apex predator for one scene. Add +2 harm to all your attacks and reduce all harm you take by 1. You cannot speak or use technology in this form. When the form ends, take 1 harm from the strain.

When you attune to the natural world in a new location, roll +Intuition.

• 10+: You know every living thing in a half-mile radius, numbers, disposition, movement.
• 7–9: You know the general state of the natural world here and whether anything is wrong.

When you draw on natural energies to purge a toxin, curse, or unnatural condition from yourself or an ally, roll +Strange.

• 10+: Fully cleared. Clear 2 harm if the condition was causing it.
• 7–9: Cleared, but the process takes time, they're -1 ongoing until the scene ends.

### Improvements, At 5 XP, Choose One

• Take a new Druid move
• Take a move from another playbook
• Add +1 to Intuition (max +3)
• Add +1 to Strange (max +3)
• Add +1 to Tough (max +3)
• Add 1 to your harm track maximum
• Your animal companion upgrades: increase its harm to 15 and add one new capability
• Your REGENERATE move now clears 2 harm at the start of each new scene

### Advanced Improvements, After 5 Improvements, Choose One

• The Wild Answers: Once per session, call on the full force of the natural world in your location. Describe what comes. The GM makes it real.
• Apex: You can fully become any animal you have studied for more than one scene. You retain your mind. You gain all physical capabilities. You can stay in this form indefinitely.
• Change playbook: You have grown into someone different.
• Retire: You went somewhere they could not follow. Tell the table if you left a way back.