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<blockquote data-quote="Saeviomagy" data-source="post: 6530220" data-attributes="member: 5890">That's completely false. In the general case tacking an explicit &quot;or do whatever you find fun&quot; onto the end of an awful rule doesn't make it any better. In the even more general case, if the group could always magically come up with rules that make for the best play experience, then no one would ever pay money for RPGs.In this specific case the awfulness comes from linking &quot;what the druid can do&quot; with the totally different quality &quot;what animals have the party met&quot;. It means that the DM either has to pay very close attention to the creature type of every monster he introduces and it's relative power AND specifically introduce beasts to fuel the druid's class power OR the druid's power level will be completely random. It's vastly inferior to a rule which simply says &quot;The druid's training includes a specific list of beasts, discuss with your DM what beasts your training included. At the DMs option, new creatures may be periodically added to this list&quot;, which does exactly what you want while not suffering from the drawbacks of the original rule, and in my opinion is still inferior to the same rule, but with an example list of beasts by level appended.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Saeviomagy, post: 6530220, member: 5890"] That's completely false. In the general case tacking an explicit "or do whatever you find fun" onto the end of an awful rule doesn't make it any better. In the even more general case, if the group could always magically come up with rules that make for the best play experience, then no one would ever pay money for RPGs. In this specific case the awfulness comes from linking "what the druid can do" with the totally different quality "what animals have the party met". It means that the DM either has to pay very close attention to the creature type of every monster he introduces and it's relative power AND specifically introduce beasts to fuel the druid's class power OR the druid's power level will be completely random. It's vastly inferior to a rule which simply says "The druid's training includes a specific list of beasts, discuss with your DM what beasts your training included. At the DMs option, new creatures may be periodically added to this list", which does exactly what you want while not suffering from the drawbacks of the original rule, and in my opinion is still inferior to the same rule, but with an example list of beasts by level appended. [/QUOTE]

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