I am about to start a game as a gnome druid. I am not a big fan of wildshape and as i have covered in previous threads divine casters are seen as being spontaneous casters ("prayers known") in my group.
What I am looking at is a variant of the variant from Unearthed Arcana that trades out wilshape for monk's AC subsystem and movement...the ranger's Favored Terrain (the variation on the variation from UA ,this makes more sense to us than the UA version that grants Favored Enemy), Track and Swift Tracker.
Caster wise using the Sorcer/Oracle's spells per day and spells known. Summon Nature's Ally would be a free spell known at each level appropriate to the Summon Nature's Ally XX.
Thoughts?
-Weylin
Don't really have any thoughts on this, but will bump for ya so that you can get some opinions.
Acccording to my understanding of the rules, if you take a domain for your nature bond, you gain +1 spell per day per level, plus all the domain spells as spells known.
Sounds good. And balanced. You're losing a lot of versatility for some solid focus. A highly mobile spellcaster might be really fun to play. I think there is a 3.5 feat that is basically "Spring Attack for Spellcasters," maybe in PH2.