Olgar Shiverstone
Legend
My druids will all get Duck Form: you can turn into any animal you want, but always end up as a duck.
I was rolling in my seat giggling like a little girl when I read the article.
This is all a really big joke right? Right?
What's your problem with it?
Sooner or later a splat will ... and that's when this train is really going to run off the rails.
Dude, it's D&D. Of course that's going to happen.
I dunno, the free HP? Maybe it's the fact that resources intended for DM-use (monster statblocks) must now be designed at such a power level that druids can use them without being broken. Perhaps it's the fact that while every other classes are neatly defined within the scope of the player's handbook (except casters who invariably get the lion's share of new material in splatbooks in the form of new spells) the druid (in addition to being a caster with the aforementioned new spell benefits) now has access to various monster entries as additional resources to use at the table. Perhaps it's the fact that I know deep down in my heart that it'll never be just animals either. Sooner or later a splat will give us a feat that allows the druid to wildshape into just about anything and that's when this train is really going to run off the rails. Maybe, just maybe, it's hilarious because this same mistake has been made in three editions of D&D and I guess now it's become something of a sacred cow.
Other than those little quibbles? Nothing at all. Looks perfect to me.
Maybe it's the fact that resources intended for DM-use (monster statblocks) must now be designed at such a power level that druids can use them without being broken.
So, I'm guessing you haven't even looked at the playtest? Because the Druid player doesn't even have to look at the Bestiary for their wild shape forms. They're all right there in the class description.I dunno, the free HP? Maybe it's the fact that resources intended for DM-use (monster statblocks) must now be designed at such a power level that druids can use them without being broken. Perhaps it's the fact that while every other classes are neatly defined within the scope of the player's handbook (except casters who invariably get the lion's share of new material in splatbooks in the form of new spells) the druid (in addition to being a caster with the aforementioned new spell benefits) now has access to various monster entries as additional resources to use at the table.