Proposed Class Names:
Fighting-
Magic User.
God Squadder.
Skill Brah.
Pact Person.
Conaner.
Hippie.
Annoying Ethicist.
Aragorn/Drizzt Hybrid.
Welcome to my Fist.
Magic User 2: 2 Magic 2 Usery.
Tool Time.
Oh, and Designated Target Practice.
D&D 5E WOTC Possibly Removing "Druids" for Religious/Cultural Sensitivity Reasons
- Thread starter The Myopic Sniper
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Proposed Class Names:
Fighting-
Magic User.
God Squadder.
Skill Brah.
Pact Person.
Conaner.
Hippie.
Annoying Ethicist.
Aragorn/Drizzt Hybrid.
Welcome to my Fist.
Magic User 2: 2 Magic 2 Usery.
Tool Time.
Oh, and Designated Target Practice.
MGibster
Legend
That particular version of clan isn't spelled with a C. And if we're going to go that far, Wizards of the Coast are going to have to change their name.
fluffybunbunkittens
Hero
They're not removing it, just because 'it is such a classic class' (meaning 3e had it).
But I do really wish Druids weren't a thing, when we can already have Nature Clerics. It's just conceptually muddy.
But I do really wish Druids weren't a thing, when we can already have Nature Clerics. It's just conceptually muddy.
What?
OD&D had the class.
For reference, of the twelve core classes .... 75% of them (nine of them) appeared in OD&D in some form (either in OD&D proper or in a magazine), and they were all present in the core PHB in 1e.
Admittedly, some names did change (Magic User -> Wizard, Thief -> Rogue).
(Bard, Cleric, Druid, Fighter, Monk, Paladin, Ranger, Rogue, and Wizard)
The Barbarian was also added during 1e.
That leaves only two classes that were added later- the Sorcerer (3e) and the Warlock (3.5e), although there were versions of both in other materials before that.
fluffybunbunkittens
Hero
Yes, but that is not their idea of classic DnD.
I'm just grumpy because they went with the 1-level dippy multiclassing featured in only one specific edition.
doctorbadwolf
Heretic of The Seventh Circle
The ditch nature clerics.
Sacrosanct
Legend
WHAT ABOUT THE WARLORD! GEEZ THEY GET NO LOVE!
...also, psionist in 2e, artificer, and probably a couple others.
TwoSix
Everyone's literal second-favorite poster
If we want to delineate more strongly, we should get rid of Nature Clerics (and Nature gods, really) rather than Druids.
"Druid" is a widely distributed and understood term of fantasy game jargon. If you say a character or class is a Druid in any fantasy media, there's an understood picture of roughly what type of character that is.
fluffybunbunkittens
Hero
I'd be cool with this too. Take a stance that NATURE is a big thing enough thing that it has its own class. It's just so messy having both, and the actual deciding factor between them being whether you want to shapeshift or not (or wear metal before OneDnD comes out).
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