I'll see your rage... and raise you one... animal companion?

[Empath Negative]

Of course it's upto the discretion of the DM. That I'm well aware of.


However, I was curious if the playing community in general felt that this would be "valid".


Let's say I wanted to make a non-wild shape druid. And I wasn't especially keen on having an animal companion either...

I could take the two variants from Unearthed Arcana and voila.

Except let's face it... Druidic Avenger kind of sucks. I guess the ability to rage while wildshaped is kinda nice.. but mleh.

I'd much rather have some of the abilities of the archery barbarian and so forth.

Any thoughts?

 

[Halivar]

If you want an archer druid, may I suggest taking a fighter/druid multiclass into the prestige ranger from Unearthed Arcana?

 

[RUMBLETiGER]

I'm having difficulty following what you are asking.

Which two variants are you suggesting, what kind of build are you suggesting?

 

[StreamOfTheSky]

Work with your DM. That's basically all there is to say. There aren't variants for every possible way to build every class. Druids in particular are not suited for archery at all. You would need to homebrew something to trade what you don't want for archery prowess.

If you could perhaps prestige class out of druid before gaining wildshape for a full casting prestige class that does not advance wildshape, perhaps that would suit you? Maybe dip a fighter level for some sort of martially inclined divine casting PrC? Not sure if such things exist, at least not without losing caster levels themselves and seemingly always being for clerics.

 

[RUMBLETiGER]

If you want to be a Druid, minus Wildshape, minus an Animal Companion...

...You're a Spirit Shaman.

Perhaps design your build off of this class?

 

[Empath Negative]

Well, see... imagine a monk/druid/archer based ranger... that's where I'm going, yo.

 

[orion90000]

I would say that dropping Wild Shape and Animal Companion and picking up the Ranger's Combat Style and I would probably throw in Evasion as well, would be a fair trade. I never use Wild Shape anyways. Why get rid of the Companion?

 

[Empath Negative]

Throwing in evasion would make this an amazingly good way to get fochlucan lyrist.

 

[RUMBLETiGER]

Well, see... imagine a monk/druid/archer based ranger... that's where I'm going, yo.

Hm...

So Druid for the spells?
Ranger for the ranged combat?
Monk for the, um, what is Monk in there for?

How about Ranger/Fist of the Forest?

 

[Empath Negative]

Wisdom based Defenses.