The Druid needs saving! The last Dragon helped out a lot, but I still haven't seen anything really helpful for druids since 279. A nice well-rounded 3.5 druid prestige class would be greatly appreciated most of all... Since items were done just recently, new uses of animal companions, wildshape, and spells also would be great. ^^ C'mon, save the druids, you know you want to...
ive played a druid once and it was pretty cool they are like priests with a dash of eco-nut thrown in for good measure, i like the nature based abilities, if you do alot of adventuring in forest jungles what not a druid makes almost as good a scout if not better than a ranger and in the wilderness much better than a rogue, my druid didnt last too long as my party who was led by a do gooder paladin accepted a contract with a local city to bolster the town watch and unfortunately my poor druid went stark raving insane and committed suicide so then i made a rogue with much ranks of diplomacy and bluff and taunt and stole the leadership from him and had him implicated in a very heinous crime, but i digress druids are very cool for those of us that want to now and again become an eco warrior...and the best part is the animal companion...
I played a druid once who was a hippie chick that liked plants better than animals. She thought animals were dirty and smelly and plants were cool. She wore lots of beads and would say things like, "Plants are people too!" and "Give peas a chance!"
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The Druid needs saving! The last Dragon helped out a lot, but I still haven't seen anything really helpful for druids since 279. A nice well-rounded 3.5 druid prestige class would be greatly appreciated most of all... Since items were done just recently, new uses of animal companions, wildshape, and spells also would be great. ^^ C'mon, save the druids, you know you want to...
Oh boy howdy how I do love the druids, as does James Jacobs over at Dungeon. The current line of thought around here is that druid is a pretty solid class already, and anything we do for it shouldn't bump up its power level noticeably. That's the party line, anyway, and for now that's the line Class Acts will walk.
All that said, I'm always looking for cool new options for druids that could work as a Class Acts article. If you have an idea, shoot me an email. :)
Druids need saving? Ugh, they are one of the more powerful classes in the PHB.
I have played druids twice. Both in the 3.0 days. The first in the Kalamar setting, which was great fun. The second in a Realms campaign as a druid/ranger. Once again great fun. I was really expecting more from the Complete Divine as the book relates to Druids. Two things stuck out in my mind that might become good Dragon articles. First, the Animal Lord prestige class from Masters of the Wild (one of my favorites) was abscent. Secondly, I felt the Shugenja spells stole much from the druid. While some are available on both lists I think many more should have been.
A good class acts article might be one that talks about feat options for the class. In playing my Kalamar druid I found the item creation feats to be great choices. Also, several articles on elemental feats and spells are very appealing to druids that might specialize in one of the four elements.
Druids are fun to play.
But I gotta admit, they are so narrowly defined as a class, it's difficult to come up article ideas about them.
I've always thought gnolls would make excellent evil druids.
Maybe an article on monstrous species druids. I'll have to give it some thought.
oh one other thing on sort-of related topic... Is there a sourcebook or accessory that has the elementalist class for 3.5? (a wizard specialized in a particular element) I haven't found one, yet. *crosses fingers*
I've thought about making my own... It would just be easier if there already was a class made for it :)
Wizards just posted a pdf that compares 3.0 feats, prestige classes and spells and their 3.5 updates. I don't know if what you are looking for is there, but it's a good place to start.
Where is the pdf? I would like to take a look and...
Select the archives choice on the left-size menu on the main Wizards Dnd page. When the archives page loads, Scroll down til you come to the entry on Rules Reference. It was posted on 1/10,
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With regards to Elementalist & Wild Mage - I am fairly certain that both are in the complete arcane. Also, there are some elemental-like classes in the planar handbook (Elemental Warrior comes to mind), and there might have been a spellcasting equivalent as well.
The animal lord was re-written for the complete adventurer. It was kinda gutted, but the wildshaping at will ability WAS a little broken (my husband is desperately hoping our GM won't pick up the complete adventurer and make him "update" his character to fit the new writing of the class). ;)
Perhaps an article focussing on the "dark side" of the Druid from its Celtic origins? It seems like there is too much of the Green Peace activist in the Druid, and I don't know that they need to be played that way.
It does seem that the druid is a greatly underappreciated character class. I’m glad to see that others love playing druids as much as I do!
Perhaps an article focussing on the "dark side" of the Druid from its Celtic origins? It seems like there is too much of the Green Peace activist in the Druid, and I don't know that they need to be played that way.
As for Sublimity’s suggestion, I find that evil druids of this sort (Celtic origins; think wicker men) make great villains, or even appropriate anti-heroes!
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Its not so much that the druid needs saving. It has good saves, good HD, pretty cool powers when you get to level five, ect. The only down side I see with the druid is its spells. I think its more on how people play the druid especially with people that like to powergame or DMs that powergame that cause the PC to do so as well. Multi-class the druid with the cleric class so that he can turn undead, get domains, and still use druid powers. Mix the druid with prestige classes that a normal druid wouldn't strive for like holy liberator or assassin. Granted it might take longer to achieve, but pretty cool none the less. If you are going for a role-play perspective have a druid that has certain quirks like being afraid of open spaces or refuses to cast fire based spells and role with that.
Well, I wouldn't mind more druid oriented material for no other reason than most druid stuff easily works for rangers as well. Maybe we could do an artivle looking at druids and rangers that hail from environments other than the usual. Tie parts of it in with certain other books that Wizards is doing. Although if you do it that way wait till like September or even December and feature Frostburn, Sandstorm and Maelstrom in the mix.
Its not so much that the druid needs saving. It has good saves, good HD, pretty cool powers when you get to level five, ect. The only down side I see with the druid is its spells.
I think the druid has great spells at all levels. I recently voiced my opinion of the lack of druid spells presented in Complete Divine, were I also felt many more of the Shujenga spells should have also been on the druid list. Complete adventurer really gave a lot more focus to the druid especially with new spells and prestige classes.
I don't think the druid needs more power (they've got more blast than clerics and more healing than wizards/sorcerers), I think they just need more 'cool'. Roleplaying suggestions as well as tips and tricks.