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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sejs" data-source="post: 2706278" data-attributes="member: 4910">Essentially, through fluff.  You don't need to change anything mechanically from what it is now in order for druids to be very, very formidable figures.At later levels a single druid can kill the population of an entire city with appaling ease.  Control Weather, Contagion, Control Winds, Earthquake, Firestorm, etc.  All done while either flying about as a bird, scampering around as a rat, or looking like absolutly anyone thanks to Thousand Faces.Add on to that, the fact that old druids never go away.  Get a circle of elders going, people that are all in pretty tight with one another and are capable of casting Reincarnation.  If they have the Timeless Body ability, all the better.  When one of the circle gets old and they feel that their time is approaching an end, they get their affairs in order, throw a bit of a party, call a friend, and commit suicide.  Their fellow circle elder then Reincarnates them, and they come back in a brand-spanking-new young adult body, ready to spend another lifetime manipulating the world, or whatever.They can curl the world around their finger.  If they want a certain nation or group to prosper, they can see to it easily that they prosper.  Their harvests are always bountiful, their livestock is always hale and of exceptional quality, they always seem to know where to find ore veins they need, the woodlands they harvest for lumber spring back ridiculously fast, etc.  And it's just as easy to turn that favor against someone as well.And besides, do you really want to screw with someone who, at any time, can turn themselves into an 15-foot-tall bear and rip you clean in half?</blockquote>

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