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<blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 6664589" data-attributes="member: 6790260"><p>If it makes you feel better, OP, I would personally at least try to work out something with you, but it might require you to make important concessions. For example: Druids have a &quot;home territory.&quot; It's written into the nature of the Land Druid. Thus, if expect you to have a particular rapport with the spirits of your homeland. Why would those spirits take the form of animals neither they nor your character have seen? Now, if you're travelling through a land far from your &quot;home&quot; and working for spirits unfamiliar to you, that's a horse of a different color, but it also entails spirits that don't know YOU as a result. What will they think of your druid? Are you an intruder, begrudgingly allowed in but never truly welcome? Or perhaps you were summoned, outside eyes with an outside perspective to solve a problem the local druids could not. Or perhaps there are no local druids at all, and you are the first there's been in these parts for as long as the trees can remember. Each of these situations would shape (no pun intended) the way the spirits treated your char and what forms they would take. In some, I'd argue that unfamiliarity or even hostility would get in the way; in others, the spirits might want your char to maintain their perspective &quot;distance&quot; and would fear letting you take in too much of the local color. In yet others, they might do anything in their power to help you. Finding the right balance between flavor, coolness, and the rules might be tricky, but if done well it could drive the campaign in new and unexpected directions.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="EzekielRaiden, post: 6664589, member: 6790260"] If it makes you feel better, OP, I would personally at least try to work out something with you, but it might require you to make important concessions. For example: Druids have a "home territory." It's written into the nature of the Land Druid. Thus, if expect you to have a particular rapport with the spirits of your homeland. Why would those spirits take the form of animals neither they nor your character have seen? Now, if you're travelling through a land far from your "home" and working for spirits unfamiliar to you, that's a horse of a different color, but it also entails spirits that don't know YOU as a result. What will they think of your druid? Are you an intruder, begrudgingly allowed in but never truly welcome? Or perhaps you were summoned, outside eyes with an outside perspective to solve a problem the local druids could not. Or perhaps there are no local druids at all, and you are the first there's been in these parts for as long as the trees can remember. Each of these situations would shape (no pun intended) the way the spirits treated your char and what forms they would take. In some, I'd argue that unfamiliarity or even hostility would get in the way; in others, the spirits might want your char to maintain their perspective "distance" and would fear letting you take in too much of the local color. In yet others, they might do anything in their power to help you. Finding the right balance between flavor, coolness, and the rules might be tricky, but if done well it could drive the campaign in new and unexpected directions. [/QUOTE]

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