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Whenever there's a campaign that has anything to do with the forest, it's always about how the fey will do everything to keep "the man" out. Well, I'm going to take that one step further. What if the forest was in jeopardy from man? I'm talking rain forest deforestation here. Think "Avatar" or "FernGully". Who would be leading the team against that? Who would be the head person who'd gather everyone and go "Take them out." Like Godfather mafia status. And don't say "A druid" because that's a class, and the druid is always seen the hippie that ties themselves to the trees in hopes that the loggers don't chop them up too.
I'm looking more for a race. Would it be a forest giant? A dryad (even though it can't move more than 900 feet from their tree)? Something else? If it's the dryad, they can't move very fair so they'd probably get some kind of boss man to do it.
I'm looking to do a one-shot for a convention, and the story is that the humans have little regard to the forest, or nature in general (oh the surprise there). As such, they are constantly getting larger families and need more timber to build their homes and make room for their expansion. Finally, someone has had enough.
When the adventures arrive at the city, looking for work, or maybe they've been sent there on a mission, it's vacant. Not a single person is in the village. However, a new forest seems to have grown within the city itself. These trees are the people themselves, cursed by the green guardians who've decided to make the humans pay for their crimes by making them rebuild the forest with their own bodies.
Lycanthropes would be good. A pack of werewolves or even Dire Werewolves would be awesome.
Vegepygmies and other plant life can act as some horrific defenders. I'm actually running a campaign right now set in a rainforest. Although my plans revolve around tribes of drow in the rainforest, with one lead by a cannibalistic drow druid (so much for hippie). What level are you looking at?
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What level are you looking at?
It'll all depend on what they end up facing. Was thinking about level 5-6. However, for the curse to work, there'll need to be a few sorcerer or cleric levels involved as well, as well as a template for +1 CR (Green Guardian). So the level cap might be closer to 10. In the end, to break the curse, they'll need higher level spells too.
Ah, then definitely go with some Dire Werewolves, perhaps with some class levels in ranger. I just really like the idea of werewolves that turn into dire wolves. It's an old dog learning a new and terrifying trick.
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treants? you've seen the two towers i assume.
Elf. Nymph. Treant.
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And don't say "A druid" because that's a class, and the druid is always seen the hippie that ties themselves to the trees in hopes that the loggers don't chop them up too.
Huh, I always saw them as earthquakes, firestorms and tidal waves smashing civilization to bits. A new Archdruid taking power to bring nature to the fight would be a cool main threat, powerful too.
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And don't say "A druid" because that's a class, and the druid is always seen the hippie that ties themselves to the trees in hopes that the loggers don't chop them up too.Huh, I always saw them as earthquakes, firestorms and tidal waves smashing civilization to bits. A new Archdruid taking power to bring nature to the fight would be a cool main threat, powerful too.
Only if you're allowed to play them. Any group I've been in the GM's nerfed them so I've never been able to play one legit passed level 6 (E6 system). I honestly don't know much about their power.
What about a covey of hags trying to protect their land?
Or an awakened animal found normally in the environment, like a tiger.
Or a unicorn. Surely the entire forest would rally behind a unicorn.
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What about a covey of hags trying to protect their land?
Or an awakened animal found normally in the environment, like a tiger.
Or a unicorn. Surely the entire forest would rally behind a unicorn.
Funny enough, there's a sorcerer bloodline specifically for unicorns, and a race that has a horse head. I could change that to a unicorn. And, it'd give them the spells they need.
That might be plausible enough to work.
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I know this might sound... extreme... but I'm going to say the Jabberwock. It's classified as a dragon but it's from the primal realm of the fey, and it lives in forests so it would be more than happy to claim a village and turn it into one.
Jabberwocks don't normally go in for subtle revenge tactics, but perhaps the fey of this forest have come to see the Jabberwock as a false prophet of sorts-- it doesn't much care about their plight but it allows them to worship it, and they are convinced it will smite their enemies and bring new life to their forest (it may do the former, but likely won't do the latter).
The Jabberwock does have the mental stats to lead a cult of personality if it wanted to (INT 12 WIS 29 CHA 26, speaks Common, Draconic, Gnome, Aklo, and Sylvan) and if the fey of the forest have been looking for a champion and a Jabberwock showed up, they might curry favor with it in the hopes of gaining it as their savior (or at least not being destroyed by it).
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I know this might sound... extreme... but I'm going to say the Jabberwock. It's classified as a dragon but it's from the primal realm of the fey, and it lives in forests so it would be more than happy to claim a village and turn it into one.
Jabberwocks don't normally go in for subtle revenge tactics, but perhaps the fey of this forest have come to see the Jabberwock as a false prophet of sorts-- it doesn't much care about their plight but it allows them to worship it, and they are convinced it will smite their enemies and bring new life to their forest (it may do the former, but likely won't do the latter).
The Jabberwock does have the mental stats to lead a cult of personality if it wanted to (INT 12 WIS 29 CHA 26, speaks Common, Draconic, Gnome, Aklo, and Sylvan) and if the fey of the forest have been looking for a champion and a Jabberwock showed up, they might curry favor with it in the hopes of gaining it as their savior (or at least not being destroyed by it).
That's not bad at all, and it really does make perfect sense. Just too bad that it's a CR 23.
forest dragon you could use any size you like for this one