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<blockquote data-quote="Stormonu" data-source="post: 6052381" data-attributes="member: 52734">I never want to see a monstrous dryad again.&nbsp; Not everything encountered in the D&amp;D game needs to be a combat machine.&nbsp; If a nymph or dryad is dangerous, I see it generally because they are capricious or mischievous.&nbsp; I also would have nothing against one whose &quot;gone bad&quot;, though as far as combat goes I'd envision her as an ambusher &quot;scorned woman&quot; - either like Batman's enemy Poison Ivy or the femme fatal Alex from Fatal Attraction.I've always associated nymphs being more attuned to the entirety of a forest and dryads to individual trees (hmm...does that mean Jon can't see the forest for the trees? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> ). This might translate to nymphs being more defenders, caregivers and protectors while dryads are more just &quot;inhabitants&quot; with carefree natures and mischievous curiosity about interlopers.&lt;EDIT&gt;&nbsp; I could almost see a scenario with treants being the father-like figures of the woods, and nymphs as a sort of &quot;mother superior&quot; over the impetuous &quot;young&quot; dryads.&nbsp; In this scenario, one of the dryads lures the party or individual into the deep woods for closer observation/play/whatever - only to face the wrath of a nymph (or attempt to dodge it) who believes the individual(s) to be up to no good or otherwise in a &quot;forbidden&quot; place - such as a treant's moot.&nbsp; I think it'd be quite an adventure with a climax of the entire forest seeming to uproot itself to drive out the characters...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Stormonu, post: 6052381, member: 52734"] I never want to see a monstrous dryad again. Not everything encountered in the D&D game needs to be a combat machine. If a nymph or dryad is dangerous, I see it generally because they are capricious or mischievous. I also would have nothing against one whose "gone bad", though as far as combat goes I'd envision her as an ambusher "scorned woman" - either like Batman's enemy Poison Ivy or the femme fatal Alex from Fatal Attraction. I've always associated nymphs being more attuned to the entirety of a forest and dryads to individual trees (hmm...does that mean Jon can't see the forest for the trees? ;) ). This might translate to nymphs being more defenders, caregivers and protectors while dryads are more just "inhabitants" with carefree natures and mischievous curiosity about interlopers. <EDIT> I could almost see a scenario with treants being the father-like figures of the woods, and nymphs as a sort of "mother superior" over the impetuous "young" dryads. In this scenario, one of the dryads lures the party or individual into the deep woods for closer observation/play/whatever - only to face the wrath of a nymph (or attempt to dodge it) who believes the individual(s) to be up to no good or otherwise in a "forbidden" place - such as a treant's moot. I think it'd be quite an adventure with a climax of the entire forest seeming to uproot itself to drive out the characters... [/QUOTE]

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