Druidic Tattoo's!!!

sithramir

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I'm putting this in general though it may need to go in in rules.

Anyways, I am making a monk 1/druid 10 character for a campaign I played in last year that is restarting back up. He is going to use the Tattoo Magic feat for scrolls (it works the same as a scroll but its a tattoo) as a way to use them while wildshaped and also to just fit the role playing idea of him being a spiritual leader shaman type of a destroyed city. The city's destruction changed his normally neutral attitude to one of wanting to help in the final battle that is nearing against a powerful illusionist.

I need you guys to help me with creative picture ideas for the druidic spells. I am hoping to get a list so that when I have all my tattoo's made I can have a lot of cool description.

For instance, I would have a bear drawn on my upper back to represent a summon monster spell to perhaps summon a bear (although it's not limited to only a bear then just role playing wise). I just seem to have some trouble with some of the spells.

So anything you guys can come up with that sounds cool would be great. For one I couldn't think of something to show for dispel magic and maybe a cool write up for fire spells like flame strike/produce fire/etc would help make it sound better than "a flame on my arm".

Here's a list of druid spells:
DRUID SPELLS
0-LEVEL DRUID SPELLS (ORISONS)
Create Water: Creates 2 gallons/level of pure water.
Cure Minor Wounds: Cures 1 point of damage.
Detect Magic: Detects spells and magic items within 60 ft.
Detect Poison: Detects poison in one creature or object.
Flare: Dazzles one creature (–1 penalty on attack rolls).
Guidance: +1 on one attack roll, saving throw, or skill check.
Know Direction: You discern north.
Light: Object shines like a torch.
Mending: Makes minor repairs on an object.
Purify Food and Drink: Purifies 1 cu. ft./level of food or water.
Read Magic: Read scrolls and spellbooks.
Resistance: Subject gains +1 bonus on saving throws.
Virtue: Subject gains 1 temporary hp.
1ST-LEVEL DRUID SPELLS
Calm Animals: Calms (2d4 + level) HD of animals.
Charm Animal: Makes one animal your friend.
Cure Light Wounds: Cures 1d8 damage +1/level (max +5).
Detect Animals or Plants: Detects kinds of animals or plants.
Detect Snares and Pits: Reveals natural or primitive traps.
Endure Elements: Exist comfortably in hot or cold environments.
Entangle: Plants entangle everyone in 40-ft.-radius.
Faerie Fire: Outlines subjects with light, canceling blur, concealment, and the like.
Goodberry: 2d4 berries each cure 1 hp (max 8 hp/24 hours).
Hide from Animals: Animals can’t perceive one subject/level.
Jump: Subject gets bonus on Jump checks.
Longstrider: Your speed increases by 10 ft.
Magic Fang: One natural weapon of subject creature gets +1 on attack and damage rolls.
Magic Stone: Three stones gain +1 on attack rolls, deal 1d6+1 damage.
Obscuring Mist: Fog surrounds you.
Pass without Trace: One subject/level leaves no tracks.
Produce Flame: 1d6 damage +1/level, touch or thrown.
Shillelagh: Cudgel or quarterstaff becomes +1 weapon (1d10 damage) for 1 min./level.
Speak with Animals: You can communicate with animals.
Summon Nature’s Ally I: Calls creature to fight.
2ND-LEVEL DRUID SPELLS
Animal Messenger: Sends a Tiny animal to a specific place.
Animal Trance: Fascinates 2d6 HD of animals.
Barkskin: Grants +2 (or higher) enhancement to natural armor.
Bear’s Endurance: Subject gains +4 to Con for 1 min./level.
Bull’s Strength: Subject gains +4 to Str for 1 min./level.
Cat’s Grace: Subject gains +4 to Dex for 1 min./level.
Chill Metal: Cold metal damages those who touch it.
Delay Poison: Stops poison from harming subject for 1 hour/level.
Fire Trap M: Opened object deals 1d4 +1/level damage.
Flame Blade: Touch attack deals 1d8 +1/two levels damage.
Flaming Sphere: Creates rolling ball of fire, 2d6 damage, lasts 1 round/level.
Fog Cloud: Fog obscures vision.
Gust of Wind: Blows away or knocks down smaller creatures.
Heat Metal: Make metal so hot it damages those who touch it.
Hold Animal: Paralyzes one animal for 1 round/level.
Owl’s Wisdom: Subject gains +4 to Wis for 1 min./level.
Reduce Animal: Shrinks one willing animal.
Resist Energy: Ignores 10 (or more) points of damage/attack from specified energy type.
Restoration, Lesser: Dispels magical ability penalty or repairs 1d4 ability damage.
Soften Earth and Stone: Turns stone to clay or dirt to sand or mud.
Spider Climb: Grants ability to walk on walls and ceilings.
Summon Nature’s Ally II: Calls creature to fight.
Summon Swarm: Summons swarm of bats, rats, or spiders.
Tree Shape: You look exactly like a tree for 1 hour/level.
Warp Wood: Bends wood (shaft, handle, door, plank).
Wood Shape: Rearranges wooden objects to suit you.
3RD-LEVEL DRUID SPELLS
Call Lightning: Calls down lightning bolts (3d6 per bolt) from sky.
Contagion: Infects subject with chosen disease.
Cure Moderate Wounds: Cures 2d8 damage +1/level (max +10).
Daylight: 60-ft. radius of bright light.
Diminish Plants: Reduces size or blights growth of normal plants.
Dominate Animal: Subject animal obeys silent mental commands.
Magic Fang, Greater: One natural weapon of subject creature gets +1/three levels on attack and damage rolls (max +5).
Meld into Stone: You and your gear merge with stone.
Neutralize Poison: Immunizes subject against poison, detoxifies venom in or on subject.
Plant Growth: Grows vegetation, improves crops.
Poison: Touch deals 1d10 Con damage, repeats in 1 min.
Protection from Energy: Absorb 12 points/level of damage from one kind of energy.
Quench: Extinguishes nonmagical fires or one magic item.
Remove Disease: Cures all diseases affecting subject.
Sleet Storm: Hampers vision and movement.
Snare: Creates a magic booby trap.
Speak with Plants: You can talk to normal plants and plant creatures.
Spike Growth: Creatures in area take 1d4 damage, may be slowed.
Stone Shape: Sculpts stone into any shape.
Summon Nature’s Ally III: Calls creature to fight.
Water Breathing: Subjects can breathe underwater.
Wind Wall: Deflects arrows, smaller creatures, and gases.
4TH-LEVEL DRUID SPELLS
Air Walk: Subject treads on air as if solid (climb at 45-degree angle).
Antiplant Shell: Keeps animated plants at bay.
Blight: Withers one plant or deals 1d6/level damage to plant creature.
Command Plants: Sway the actions of one or more plant creatures.
Control Water: Raises or lowers bodies of water.
Cure Serious Wounds: Cures 3d8 damage +1/level (max +15).
Dispel Magic: Cancels spells and magical effects.
Flame Strike: Smite foes with divine fire (1d6/level damage).
Freedom of Movement: Subject moves normally despite impediments.
Giant Vermin: Turns centipedes, scorpions, or spiders into giant vermin.
Ice Storm: Hail deals 5d6 damage in cylinder 40 ft. across.
Reincarnate: Brings dead subject back in a random body.
Repel Vermin: Insects, spiders, and other vermin stay 10 ft. away.
Rusting Grasp: Your touch corrodes iron and alloys.
Scrying F: Spies on subject from a distance.
Spike Stones: Creatures in area take 1d8 damage, may be slowed.
Summon Nature’s Ally IV: Calls creature to fight.
5TH-LEVEL DRUID SPELLS
Animal Growth: One animal/two levels doubles in size.
Atonement: Removes burden of misdeeds from subject.
Awaken X: Animal or tree gains human intellect.
Baleful Polymorph: Transforms subject into harmless animal.
Call Lightning Storm: As call lightning, but 5d6 damage per bolt.
Commune with Nature: Learn about terrain for 1 mile/level.
Control Winds: Change wind direction and speed.
Cure Critical Wounds: Cures 4d8 damage +1/level (max +20).
Death Ward: Grants immunity to all death spells and negative energy effects.
Hallow M: Designates location as holy.
Insect Plague: Locust swarms attack creatures.
Stoneskin M: Ignore 10 points of damage per attack.
Summon Nature’s Ally V: Calls creature to fight.
Transmute Mud to Rock: Transforms two 10-ft. cubes per level.
Transmute Rock to Mud: Transforms two 10-ft. cubes per level.
Tree Stride: Step from one tree to another far away.
Unhallow M: Designates location as unholy.
Wall of Fire: Deals 2d4 fire damage out to 10 ft. and 1d4 out to 20 ft. Passing through wall deals 2d6 damage +1/level.
Wall of Thorns: Thorns damage anyone who tries to pass.
 

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Dude...that's a sweet idea...get ahold of me, and I'd be glad to sit down with you, hang out, and discuss what wicked tats could go on your druid. I've got a few ideas... :-)

~Box ;-)
 

Polynesian designs

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or Japanese

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Tonguez said:
Polynesian designs

tatoo3.jpg
hommetatoue_02.jpg


or Japanese

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Jason I got the message and IM'd you so we will talk. Thanks. I hope you can still think outside of the "box". Get it.. your name is box... nevermind... ;)

Thanks for the pictures but i'm looking for things a bit more specific and those are hard for me to see well enough to understand if any of them could be useful to a spell.

Anyone else who could help it would be much appreciated.
 


Okay as I see it Tattoo motif have two types - real objects and geometric designs.

Polynesian tattoo used both and so along with the lines, whorls and other patterns were also depictions of fish, insects, people and birds.

Ergo all the spells with associations with real objects (the 'animal' spells etc) could be covered by depiction of said animal (eg cats grace = cats head tattoo, centipede = summon swarm). You could then start combining symbols for other spells (eg a man with a fish head = Breath water).

Anything left over at the end just apply a geometric design (eg a circle enclosed in a ring with five lines radiating out from its edge)

Malachi Legba (see below) has his right arm intricately tattoed with a mixture of geometric designs and depictions of fish etc. Taken as a whole it is a celestial map which means that by pointing to a given star or the sun on the horizon he can then find his way home by following the symbols)
 
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