Hey everyone, this is my first post and I have a dumb question. I am going to start playing in a 3.5 D&D world, which my DM wants to have my custom made metropolis and the whole campaign only exists within the city’s limits. So, I wanted to make an Urban Druid which to me seems cool and then I had the brain fart. I wanted my Urban Druid’s Urban Companion to be a, “Medium Animated Object”, but base on what I can find, nothing says I can’t have a “statue of a lion” as my “Medium Animated Object”. So if this is true then how do I make this work? But if this is completely wrong then what are my options for a “Medium Animated Object”. Sorry if someone already had a post like this, but I've been looking around for a while now and still no luck. Also, thanks for all good or any info at all that may help.
Help making an Urban Druid!!!
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I believe we briefly played with an urban druid in an old 3.5 campaign several years ago, but I don't know where they got the class from. I think it was a pdf from a 3rd party publisher, but maybe not. My googlefu brought up these links:
Urban Class Features -- A Web Enhancement for Cityscape For official urban related stuff.
Urban Companion - Eberron Unlimited For someone's idea of animated companions or critters you'd find in a city.
And according to a thread on RPG.net they published an urban druid in Dragon Magazine: Dragon Issue #317
...URBAN DRUIDS ... The druid class's nature gets civilized. With buildings as their trees and streets as their rivers, this highly anticipated character class protects cultural centers as jealously as their wilderness-bound...
I'd say you start with a small animated statue of a snake or something and when you level up you get a medium size object. You'd just use the stats for small and medium objects and the fluff description is a lion or dog or bogun or whatever. It looks like a wooden critter, you just use the stats like: Animated Object :: d20srd.org When you get to improve your companion, just follow what the PHB says, it shouldn't be that much different except maybe bonus points to Constitution, but I admit I haven't looked at druid animal companions for at least 3 years.
Hope that helps.
I believe we briefly played with an urban druid in an old 3.5 campaign several years ago, but I don't know where they got the class from. I think it was a pdf from a 3rd party publisher, but maybe not. My googlefu brought up these links:
Urban Class Features -- A Web Enhancement for Cityscape For official urban related stuff.
Urban Companion - Eberron Unlimited For someone's idea of animated companions or critters you'd find in a city.
And according to a thread on RPG.net they published an urban druid in Dragon Magazine: Dragon Issue #317
...URBAN DRUIDS ... The druid class's nature gets civilized. With buildings as their trees and streets as their rivers, this highly anticipated character class protects cultural centers as jealously as their wilderness-bound...
I'd say you start with a small animated statue of a snake or something and when you level up you get a medium size object. You'd just use the stats for small and medium objects and the fluff description is a lion or dog or bogun or whatever. It looks like a wooden critter, you just use the stats like: Animated Object :: d20srd.org When you get to improve your companion, just follow what the PHB says, it shouldn't be that much different except maybe bonus points to Constitution, but I admit I haven't looked at druid animal companions for at least 3 years.
Hope that helps.
Gilladian
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In the Ptolus book (only available now as PDF) there are some good tips on urban druids and rangers, but nothing on construct companions. In fact, the setting is totally urban and might give your DM some really good ideas. Even just buying the chapters on the delve and the banewarrens would probably be good.
There's a "Clockwork Creature" template in the Advanced Bestiary (a Green Ronin d20 book) that gives a +2 CR to the monster it is applied to, so it wouldn't work as is for 1st level, but could be modified by your DM if he wanted to go to that effort.
There's a "Clockwork Creature" template in the Advanced Bestiary (a Green Ronin d20 book) that gives a +2 CR to the monster it is applied to, so it wouldn't work as is for 1st level, but could be modified by your DM if he wanted to go to that effort.
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