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A druid and it's large friends..overbalanced?
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Psyduck said:
Read the errata. It has been.
(WOTC Errata page: http://www.wizards.com/dnd/article1.asp?x=dnd/er/errata,3 )
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James McMurray
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What about it? Animal Growth is a highly useful spell, but its also fairly high level, and has the same downsides as all other boosting spells.
James
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James McMurray
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True, its only the travelling druids that are limited to their level in hitdice.
Actually the Druid is one of the most balanced classes in the Core Rules. Due to its weapon & armour restrictions along with alignment restictions it really drives the character down a specific yet flexible path.
With spella like Animal Growth, & Greater Natural Weapon a druid can make his animal companions realy strong, but at the cost of spells. Also as noted before you can only have double your Hit Dice if you stay in one area.
So it does keep the animal population under control, in a party siuation. And if your worried about a Druid's dire bear outshining a player in combat just remmber, it has a really low AC, lower in most cases then a player and will fall much faster and harder.
Animal companions are an avenue through which druids could maximize their combat capabilities, but from an RP siuation is every single animal you freshly reqruit gonna indanger itself? Animals are also built with a fight or flight mechanism. Don't get me wrong there is nothing wrong with having your animals fight for you but they should also on some level have a desire to protect you, and for you to protect them. Not just see them as a tool of combat.
Some other examples of ways people can get a strogn fighter to assist them, is Leadership.
With spella like Animal Growth, & Greater Natural Weapon a druid can make his animal companions realy strong, but at the cost of spells. Also as noted before you can only have double your Hit Dice if you stay in one area.
So it does keep the animal population under control, in a party siuation. And if your worried about a Druid's dire bear outshining a player in combat just remmber, it has a really low AC, lower in most cases then a player and will fall much faster and harder.
Animal companions are an avenue through which druids could maximize their combat capabilities, but from an RP siuation is every single animal you freshly reqruit gonna indanger itself? Animals are also built with a fight or flight mechanism. Don't get me wrong there is nothing wrong with having your animals fight for you but they should also on some level have a desire to protect you, and for you to protect them. Not just see them as a tool of combat.
Some other examples of ways people can get a strogn fighter to assist them, is Leadership.
In both the DMG and Masters of the Wild is is Clearly mentioned that
a. Any druid can ONLY EVAR have an animal companion with the DRUID level in HD or lower.
b. A stationary homey druid can have twice his level in HD BUT this in no way changes A above. So you could have 2 companions with you Level HD or LESS.
This simple confusion makes many DM's hate the druid. It's NOT that bad if you go by the above (i.e. as written)
a. Any druid can ONLY EVAR have an animal companion with the DRUID level in HD or lower.
b. A stationary homey druid can have twice his level in HD BUT this in no way changes A above. So you could have 2 companions with you Level HD or LESS.
This simple confusion makes many DM's hate the druid. It's NOT that bad if you go by the above (i.e. as written)
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