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<blockquote data-quote="snickersnax" data-source="post: 7585433" data-attributes="member: 6888204"><p>For the longest time I've had a secret dislike as a DM for moon druids. Not because they are overpowered, but because I just couldn't make any sense of why they are called moon druids. The player's handbook description was so lame, I couldn't stand it.... Their order gathers during the full moon to share news and trade warnings... changeable as the moon, a druid of this circle [might change forms daily].</p><p></p><p>A player's short description of moon druids was this. "They are the druids that turn into dinosaurs and elementals." Where was the moon in all of this?</p><p></p><p>It just wasn't doing it for me. I tried to homebrew/houserule a cooler story versions of moon druids. Druids that messed around with lycanthropy. My homebrew moon druids would choose one of the were-animal forms and that should be the main form they change into. Ahhhh, this felt so much better. The moon in moon druid finally fit. </p><p></p><p>The problem was there were a few folks attached to the 5e RAW moon druid, and I needed a place for them. It finally hit me, I would simply change the name from Moon Druids to Primordial Druids</p><p></p><p>Primordial was a word that made sense instead of moon. It describes a PC druid's general trend in shapechanging from animals to prehistoric mammals to dinosaurs to elementals. It was the journey toward more and more fundamental life forms. Suddenly I loved the druid with a simple name change. Everything made sense.</p><p></p><p>Does anyone else suffer these kinds of 5e meaning crises or is it just me?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="snickersnax, post: 7585433, member: 6888204"] For the longest time I've had a secret dislike as a DM for moon druids. Not because they are overpowered, but because I just couldn't make any sense of why they are called moon druids. The player's handbook description was so lame, I couldn't stand it.... Their order gathers during the full moon to share news and trade warnings... changeable as the moon, a druid of this circle [might change forms daily]. A player's short description of moon druids was this. "They are the druids that turn into dinosaurs and elementals." Where was the moon in all of this? It just wasn't doing it for me. I tried to homebrew/houserule a cooler story versions of moon druids. Druids that messed around with lycanthropy. My homebrew moon druids would choose one of the were-animal forms and that should be the main form they change into. Ahhhh, this felt so much better. The moon in moon druid finally fit. The problem was there were a few folks attached to the 5e RAW moon druid, and I needed a place for them. It finally hit me, I would simply change the name from Moon Druids to Primordial Druids Primordial was a word that made sense instead of moon. It describes a PC druid's general trend in shapechanging from animals to prehistoric mammals to dinosaurs to elementals. It was the journey toward more and more fundamental life forms. Suddenly I loved the druid with a simple name change. Everything made sense. Does anyone else suffer these kinds of 5e meaning crises or is it just me? [/QUOTE]
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