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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jürgen Hubert" data-source="post: 3162166" data-attributes="member: 7177">The only ecosystem on Earth that could be considered to exist in "isolation" from other ecosystems are the microbe in Lake Vostok. That's that huge lake in the Antarctis that's buried under massive glaciers, if you must know.Apart from that, every ecosystem on Earth is connected to every other.Is it really that much of a stretch to see druids tending to a particular city than druids dending to a particular expanse of forest or desert?I was never arguing about that in the first place - and for the record, I dislike the proliferation of prestige and core classes. Personally, I'd prefer to leave it at specialized skill selections and feats appropriate for them.From a certain point of view, "wilderness" is just a word that people in the cities made up so that they can feel better than environment outside of the gates.But what is an ecosystem, really? A multitude of life forms interacting in numerous ways, each looking out for its own self-interest but yet creating a vastly more complex whole in the process.But the exact same thing can be said about cities. Druids living in urban environments might simply say that humans claiming that they are better than animals is hubris, since their societies are forming just another ecosystem - and the whole is much more complex than its individual parts. Their supposed intelligence does little to truly understand the environment they live in - they all are just focussed on their own little part of it, while ignoring the rest.But urban druids might just be the ones who grasp the whole - and who might be able to shape it.</blockquote>

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