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Message: <blockquote data-quote="leporidae" data-source="post: 2654014" data-attributes="member: 19624">It seems to me that the complaint about globally-conscious environmental Druids is internally inconsistent. One the one hand these Druids are criticized for taking a 'too-modern' overall view of the environment, but they are also supposed to not be upset because overall, in a traditional campaign, civilization is small in relation to nature.It seems to me that an actual druid would be more concerned about their own patch of forest, even if there was a continent of available wilderness, why would they necessarily be happy about civilized folk clearing and shaping the patch of forest that he considers it a sacred duty to defend? As to the concern for a wolf and not a goblin - would it be odd for a town's guard to be concerned for a resident of that town and not a goblin? The Druid is concerned about this proverbial wolf because that is his duty.To my way of thinking Real-Life historical druids are a poor model for in-game Druids. Iron Age druids were priests of a settled, agriculturally based civilization. Better examples would be to look at the religious leaders of hunter-gatherer cultures (Pygmies, New Guinea Headhunters, Yanamoni), which are getting pretty scarce these days, and disappeared from Western Europe about a thousand years before the druids arrived.The conflict between 'civilized' and 'wild' cultural groups is the opposite of unhistorical (and you can guess which side one by looking at those value-laden words). Just look at the story of Gilgamesh and Enkidu, or Jacob and Esau, or Cain and Abel - conflict between agricultural and traditional ways of life was familiar fodder for drama 3000 years ago.</blockquote>

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