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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kennew142" data-source="post: 3970746" data-attributes="member: 18490">I agree that dryads are not obscure creatures. They are found in many literary and artistic references, as well as several fantasy series mentioned previously in this thread. I would disagree that the majority of people who regularly read fantasy have read the Narnia series. I usually have to explain the series to people (even gamers) I talk to. It is my experience that a distinct minority have read it.I also have to say that the argument about the validity of changing things from their mythological origins is nonsense. Every ancient author had his own take on mythological features. Medieval authors reimagined mythological figures on a regular basis. As I told my college myth class, the mythological figures in Clash of the Titans were no less valid than those same figures in ancient tales. Each author puts his/her own spin on the creatures and characters from mythology. The CotT version is just as valid, even if more recent. I cringe to say it, but the same holds true for that Kevin Sorbo Hercules series.Mythology was not written in stone, even in the ancient world. Okay, sometimes it may have been. But you be sure that two myths written on stone, from different periods, would differ in many details.For me, as a classicist and as a gamer, the new dryad is better in the context of a D&D game than the ones depicted in ancient wall paintings. The new version is more useful in a D&D game than the classical version. If you don't like the new version, remove its combat form. It's that easy.This argument smacks of the attitude that says, I don't want to use dryads with a treantish combat form in my game - and I don't think anyone else should have that option either.</blockquote>

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