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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Theo R Cwithin" data-source="post: 4915084" data-attributes="member: 75712">A corrupted evil druid seems plausible to me, especially coming from an eternal night zone: an evil character who uses nature to his own dark ends, rather than protects it.A suggestion which may or may not fly for a lot of groups: strip the default conceptual fluff from class mechanics.  If there's a class with mechanics you like, the DM might allow you to use with plenty of reskinning and/or substitution.  Using the druid as an example, just call it "character class #4" (or preferably something a bit more evokative <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    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  say Feral Avenger or something), and create your own fluff, perhaps based one of the concepts Stream mentioned.  Then re-imagine all the rationales behind the mechanics:- Who are the Feral Avengers? When the dark forces fell to Pelor's treachery, many were forced into hiding in the night-shrouded forests on the dark side of earth, where they learned the secrets of their animal neighbors and slowly plotted their revenge.  (or something).- Wildshape?  Good for infiltration, movement and combat. Maybe limit it to culture-appropriate forms like wolves, bats, spiders, and other dark and menacing or sneaky things.  Or go with the PHB2 Shapeshifter variant to take a single form defined by the character - which meshes nicely with vampires' ability to change form, anyway, and is gained at first level.- No metal?  Chalk it up to "metal toxicity" arising from some weird ritual tied to the class (maybe can't learn Wildshape/Shapeshift without this ritual, which leaves the character sensitive to metal, like a more general form of silver sensitivity?)- Summon Nature's Ally? Limit it to appropriate animals like bats, rats, spiders, etc.  Or use Summon Monster, instead.- Animal and plant affinities? Where else to learn hunting, tracking, killing techniques than from Nature herself?- Druid weapons? Swap out them out for ones more appropriate to the character concept.- Reskin spells as appropriate: use Inflicts rather than Cures, "Entangle" become "Claws of the Soil", "Plant growth" becomes "Fungal growth", "Daylight" becomes "Moon's Wrathful Glare", etc.- Swap out Bonus languages for ones more appropriate to the character concept, maybe Infernal and "Feral" (which is shared by all Wild Avengers and certain other nature-related menaces).- Some class features are already assassiny with minimal tweaking: Trackless Step, Venom immunity, A Thousand Faces.</blockquote>

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