Undrave
Legend
Imagine a half-pigeon-half-housecat urban griffin!!
D&D General Lamest D&D classes all time
- Thread starter toucanbuzz
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Imagine a half-pigeon-half-housecat urban griffin!!
I agree. Some of these could be utilized in some game but then by extension it would be lamest game ever. Did someone say Pest Controller, c'mon guys lets all roll up characters and be members of the streetsweepers guild, we can kill rats and empty chamber pots. For downtime activities we can get baths and our clothes cleaned.
toucanbuzz
No rule is inviolate
Love or hate, little in between for the urban druid, which isn't really a druid. In fact, it's not a druid so much that the description says they don't get their powers from the nature gods, they get them from the "spirit of the city." They worship the "purity of society," whatever the hell that means.
We can ask perhaps Huey Lewis or Glen Frey.
I'm not sure at what population a city becomes godlike and begins granting powers like "Crowdsurf" - I mean "Crowdwalk,", but ultimately it wouldn't have made much sense to have nature gods empowering vengeful druids to oppose cutting down trees to make cities and savage the land for precious metals and then empower the exact opposite to worship the end result of that.
Laurefindel
Legend
I fail to see what's wrong with an urban druid; cities, especially the bigger ones, have their own ecosystems and ecology. Taken to a more poetic/fantasy level, cities have their own spirits and souls, and their own menagerie of city-based critters and monsters. Druids take their power from nature, not necessarily wilderness.
Besides, they remind me of raccoon-totem street shamans in Shadowrun, which I always liked.
Besides, they remind me of raccoon-totem street shamans in Shadowrun, which I always liked.
Honestly thats probably the one class on this list I could justify. Wasnt there an Urben Ranger too?
Undrave
Legend
I think the problem is that in this particular case the Druid in question didn't have anything involving that urban nature AT ALL.
slobster
Hero
Yeah even though I'm on board for the urban druid concept, looking back on the actual execution of the class talked about here, it was pretty bad. Fortunately in literally any edition of D&D you can make an urban druid by writing "druid" on your character sheet and then discussing with your GM that you actually channel the spirits and creatures of the city, and then maybe swapping out a skill or two, and then you are good to go!
Or the traditional druid can dual class and Anchorite itself to the one tree in the city. Heros Garden in Waterdeep comes to mind.
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Guest
Warlord not on list. Didn't vote.
Itchy trigger finger?
Too late, that type of comment came and went with paladins and bards pages ago. The difference is paladins accepted it and bards rose up in defiant memes.
You also forgot an obligatory bard meme. ;-)
CleverNickName
Limit Break Dancing
Not all bard memes were defiant. Others were pure mockery (and rightly so.)
You forgot to tag me. If you want to troll bard players you can't forget the tags.
You also forgot the bard meme. The one that rightly so mocks the basis for your national anthem, which orginates from the same roots.
Y'all are laughing, but that's actually a killer idea.
slobster
Hero
I was laughing AND furiously stealing the idea for my game. I will bet a literal hundred dollars that my sorcerer player asks to get one as a familiar.
Of course I'll say "yes, there's a side quest for that..."
Laurefindel
Legend
Yes, vicious mockery
CleverNickName
Limit Break Dancing
I don't really need to troll bard players; they practically troll themselves. And not to get political or anything, but my national anthem was written to be mocked...just ask anyone in choir who ever had to sing the wretched thing, or anyone in band who had to play it. It's kind of a mess.
(I kid, of course. There's nothing wrong with bard players, although most of them need to finish reading Chapter 3. My barbs are for the bard class, which is so two-dimensional that it could have been replaced with a Rogue subclass and a lute.)
(I kid, of course. There's nothing wrong with bard players, although most of them need to finish reading Chapter 3. My barbs are for the bard class, which is so two-dimensional that it could have been replaced with a Rogue subclass and a lute.)
slobster
Hero
CleverNickName
Limit Break Dancing
But they would love it if they could!
Also, I agree...but it's an easy fix. They would just need to add four little words to the subclass to correct that. "Instead of sneak attack."
