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<blockquote data-quote="MNblockhead" data-source="post: 7601636" data-attributes="member: 6796661"><p>Has anyone played druids in the historical sense? As a religious class from an older religion, that does not revolve around gods. Nature is revered or at least understood as the primary source of power in the universe. They also have an older pantheon of gods, but have a different relationship to them. They are powerful beings, but also just part of nature. They believe in reincarnation, and act as mediators, judges, healers, wise men, and bearers of a peoples original oral history. </p><p></p><p></p><p>It would seem that these Druids and their religion are differentiated from the divine classes and their religions by their belief in reincarnation instead of an afterlife. They don't have the same relationship to the gods as the majority of people in a typical D&D world. </p><p></p><p></p><p>Because they are not deriving their power from a god and because their life is not ordered around a god's wishes and hope for the afterlife promised by a god, a druid really could be any alignment, because there is no god to take away their powers when they act "out of alignment."</p><p></p><p></p><p>This may be why MOST druids would naturally default to a neutral alignment. Perhaps as sentient beings with souls, they cannot be unaligned. They would be more drawn to the idea of balance and cycles. But there is nothing that would prevent or punish a Druid from being Lawful Good or Lawful Evil, it just wouldn't have anything to do with a god.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MNblockhead, post: 7601636, member: 6796661"] Has anyone played druids in the historical sense? As a religious class from an older religion, that does not revolve around gods. Nature is revered or at least understood as the primary source of power in the universe. They also have an older pantheon of gods, but have a different relationship to them. They are powerful beings, but also just part of nature. They believe in reincarnation, and act as mediators, judges, healers, wise men, and bearers of a peoples original oral history. It would seem that these Druids and their religion are differentiated from the divine classes and their religions by their belief in reincarnation instead of an afterlife. They don't have the same relationship to the gods as the majority of people in a typical D&D world. Because they are not deriving their power from a god and because their life is not ordered around a god's wishes and hope for the afterlife promised by a god, a druid really could be any alignment, because there is no god to take away their powers when they act "out of alignment." This may be why MOST druids would naturally default to a neutral alignment. Perhaps as sentient beings with souls, they cannot be unaligned. They would be more drawn to the idea of balance and cycles. But there is nothing that would prevent or punish a Druid from being Lawful Good or Lawful Evil, it just wouldn't have anything to do with a god. [/QUOTE]
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