So I've been wanting to do a Druid with a domain for a bit now, but I never really started work on it because I didn't really have a domain in mind. So the other day I'm flipping through the Champions of Purity I think, and saw the new Dragon Subdomain. I'm all, awesome. But then I started looking at the idea closer, and I was surprised to see the Druids don't have access to the Scalykind domain.
I was wondering why. It seems like that would be up a druid's alley. Could it be a balance of power thing? My personal pet theory is that no one really remembered that Druids can get domains, so Inner Sea didn't mention Scalykind as a possible druid domain, and since most druids get the animal companion instead anyway it just hasn't really come up.
Theories?
Druids have a short list of domains that fit within a theme. Why would a Druid revere dragons?
Well, personally I can see a Druid revering dragons. As the culmination of power, and a natural, primal embodiment of elemental force.
Why wouldn't a Druid revere dragons?
Either way it all depends on the druid. I can totally see an anti-dragon druid, but perhaps anti one type, not dragons per se, though I could also a druid who sees dragons as unnatural meddlers in the environment.
I guess if Dragon was its own domain I wouldn't have been so surprised, but Scalykind is also snakes and stuff. Venomous stare, magic fang. To me it seems like it's written for a druid who is particularly well connected with snakes and lizards. I guess the animal companion you get from it is more powerful than the Animal domain one. Maybe that's why?
I think the main reason why druids don't get scalykind is that scalykind was a late arrival on the domain scene. I would absolutely allow it; if you can be a dragon shaman, you should probably be allowed to have the dragon subdomain.