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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aaron L" data-source="post: 8109638" data-attributes="member: 926">If you want actual differences then go back to look at the actual real-world source material rather than trying to shift through reams of previous D&D information.  Because I really don't care about whatever crap has built up over the editions to cloud the issue.Nature Clerics would be the Knights Templar of a God of Nature in a feudalistic society, while Druids are the mystical priestly class of deities who govern various aspects of Nature in a more rural pagan society.Too many people seem forget that the Cleric class doesn't represent a generic priest (who most likely couldn't even cast spells); Clerics are the militant fighting arm of a priesthood, the Military Orders of the Church.  Druids would have a more mystical social function, remembering things like laws, genealogies, and history, and would act as advisers to kings.</blockquote>