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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 2996139" data-attributes="member: 158">I'm playing a high-level halfling druid currently; Druid is one class for whom strength, dex, and size really don't matter. I'm finding I spend almost nothing on melee or ranged weapons, and what I did spend, has been a waste. Instead, I carry direct damage spells from the PHB and the Spell Compendium; and those creatures for which magic is useless, I summon creatures and augment them (or I wildshape and augment myself). Animal growth and greater magic fang are fantastic spells to have; at high levels, Nature's Avatar and Greater Whirlwind (from SC) are unbelieveable. If you ever get to 17th level, Nature Swarm (coupled with Augment Summoning Feat) is a holy horror to behold (imagine 4 to 10 elementals, with max hit points, +2 bonus to CON and STR, who stick around for 3 hours obeying your commands.)As for roleplay, there are as many druid philosophies as stars in the sky. Additional templates to follow are the Eberron druids (the Wardens, the Gatekeepers, Greensingers, Ashbound, and Children of Winter) - those are some of the most evocative druid groups I've ever placed into a D&D game.Wardens - (pardon pun) these are Garden-variety "balance between civilization & nature" druids.Gatekeepers - these are druids who fought a genocidal war with chaos-aligned otherplanar invaders, and who see aberrations of all kinds as abominations to guard the world from.Ashbound - these are the "naturist" (naturalist?) fringe of the druids, and a subgroup of them are the "eco-terrorist" types.Children of Winter - these are nihilistic druids who raise vermin as animal companions and who want to hasten entropy and oblivion in the desire to see a new age dawn. Cool villains and antiheroes all in one!Greensingers - these are the "fay-lovin'" druids. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> These are the group that dryads, etc. are most likely to be members of, but they do have a mean streak when someone threatens their forests.</blockquote>

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