Tree Stride

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Utility

Tree Stride is a Utility spell. Utility spells solve problems outside of combat or provide unique situational advantages.

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 spell for swift forest travel, letting you slip between living trees with
rapid movement

Tree Stride is a Mobility spell. Mobility spells augment or allow for new ways of moving.

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revealing nearby trees

Tree Stride is a Information spell. Information spells provide ways to transmit, perceive, detect, or reveal hidden or unknown information.

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2024 Rules
Level & School
5th-level conjuration
Casting Time
Action
Range
Self
Components
V, S
Duration
Concentration, up to 1 minute
Classes
Druid, Ranger

You gain the ability to enter a tree and move from inside it to inside another tree of the same kind within 500 feet. Both trees must be living and at least the same size as you. You must use 5 feet of movement to enter a tree. You instantly know the location of all other trees of the same kind within 500 feet and, as part of the move used to enter the tree, can either pass into one of those trees or step out of the tree you're in. You appear in a spot of your choice within 5 feet of the destination tree, using another 5 feet of movement. If you have no movement left, you appear within 5 feet of the tree you entered.

You can use this transportation ability only once on each of your turns. You must end each turn outside a tree.

2014 Rules
Level & School
5th-level conjuration
Casting Time
Action
Range
Self
Components
V, S
Duration
Concentration, 1 minute
Classes
Druid, Ranger

You gain the ability to enter a tree and move from inside it to inside another tree of the same kind within 500 feet. Both trees must be living and at least the same size as you. You must use 5 feet of movement to enter a tree. You instantly know the location of all other trees of the same kind within 500 feet and, as part of the move used to enter the tree, can either pass into one of those trees or step out of the tree you're in. You appear in a spot of your choice within 5 feet of the destination tree, using another 5 feet of movement. If you have no movement left, you appear within 5 feet of the tree you entered.

You can use this transportation ability once per round for the duration. You must end each turn outside a tree.

Tree Stride 5.5e 2024 vs. 5e 2014 edition differences

You can now use Tree Stride only once on each of your turns instead of once per round. That means it can’t be used more than once even if another effect gives you movement or a way to act off-turn.

Tree Stride popularity

Tree Stride is one of the rarest level 5 spells in the game. Choosing it will set you apart from all other casters.

Spells similar to Tree Stride

  • Transport via Plants 6th-level conjuration

    It’s a plant-based teleport available to druids that moves you through vegetation much like entering one plant and exiting another.

  • Commune with Nature 5th-level divination

    This spell gives broad, nature-focused information to a druid or ranger, mirroring Tree Stride’s knowledge of nearby trees and terrain.

  • Meld into Stone 3rd-level transmutation

    Both let you physically merge with a natural surface to gain movement options and interaction with the environment in noncombat ways.

  • Misty Step 2nd-level conjuration

    It’s a short-range, instant self-teleport in the same school that players pick when they need quick repositioning like Tree Stride provides.

  • Dimension Door 4th-level conjuration

    As a longer-range teleport that moves you (and possibly another creature), it matches Tree Stride’s core role of getting you from one place to another.