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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Speaks With Stone" data-source="post: 76904" data-attributes="member: 375">DREAD is a much better acronym, thanks.If you accept that dragons can polymorph into human and breed offspring with additional powers (aka sorcerors, if you believe the myths), then why not allow the wildshaped druid to breed?Back to the Awakened question, say you awaken a breeding pair (or say 7 breeding pairs), then could you not breed an entire new species of intelligent magical beasts?  This certainly explains the talking animal phenomenon, but has a lot of unusual possibilities.  First of all, if a lot of wolves become super intelligent and can talk, they could quickly replace the local wolf population.  From there things could spiral out of hand as druids expand on different species and leave no natural animals.It seems to me that an awakened animal would strongly desire an intelligent mate.  So it seems to me that any time you awaken an animal (or tree), you create the problem of having to handle the following questions:Can I make a breeding pair?Should I make a breeding pair?If I can, but I shouldn't how do I explain to my awakened friend that he can't get an equitable mate?  It seems to me that the awakened animal who has to reconcile such a life would be a fun character to roleplay.  Especially, if he became a druid specifically for the (unspoken) purpose of learning the awaken spell and making a mate on his own.Hopefully, the product of such magicly changed critters does not come out horribly warped/mutated.What bizarre possibilities!</blockquote>

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