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<blockquote data-quote="sniffles" data-source="post: 2648895" data-attributes="member: 30035">While I don't agree with the &quot;hippy tree-hugger&quot; variety of druid and don't run them that way myself, I also don't agree that historically conservationism didn't exist, or that ancient peoples always attributed everything to the gods or supernatural forces. I think we tend to assume that ancient peoples were a lot more gullible and less intelligent than we are, and that's a fallacy of our modern attitudes. I suspect ancient peoples recognized that deforestation and erosion were bad things, but they didn't worry too much about it because there were relatively few of them and lots of land for them to expand into if they overused their current territory. I could go on about how the druid class as designed ought to be called something else, since historically druids were apparently a priestly caste or organization, and most of the information we have about them is probably inaccurate since it was mostly written by Romans who'd never seen a druid. But I won't.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="sniffles, post: 2648895, member: 30035"] While I don't agree with the "hippy tree-hugger" variety of druid and don't run them that way myself, I also don't agree that historically conservationism didn't exist, or that ancient peoples always attributed everything to the gods or supernatural forces. I think we tend to assume that ancient peoples were a lot more gullible and less intelligent than we are, and that's a fallacy of our modern attitudes. I suspect ancient peoples recognized that deforestation and erosion were bad things, but they didn't worry too much about it because there were relatively few of them and lots of land for them to expand into if they overused their current territory. I could go on about how the druid class as designed ought to be called something else, since historically druids were apparently a priestly caste or organization, and most of the information we have about them is probably inaccurate since it was mostly written by Romans who'd never seen a druid. But I won't. ;) [/QUOTE]

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