Mystery Man
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Urban Druids?
Not!
Not!
Pathfinder 1E [Paizo] Dragon #317
- Thread starter Knightfall
- Start date
Psychotic Jim
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Man, you guys are all wrong! Anthropomorphic sea cucumbers and amoeba are the KEWLEST 
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And the urban druid idea has some precedence. There's the half-fiend in Enemies and Allies and, IIRC, a gnome sewer druid who was abandoned as a young girl in another book I can't remember. Nature can adapt to coexist with humanity, even if it's a fringe idea. If you can have urban rangers, why not urban druids? I also like the take on protecting certain cultures.
!And the urban druid idea has some precedence. There's the half-fiend in Enemies and Allies and, IIRC, a gnome sewer druid who was abandoned as a young girl in another book I can't remember. Nature can adapt to coexist with humanity, even if it's a fringe idea. If you can have urban rangers, why not urban druids? I also like the take on protecting certain cultures.
Mystery Man
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Yeah they're called gardeners.
LoneWolf23
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Knightfall1972 said:
Well, my gaming group consists of furry fans, and yet they don't especially like that template. Their anthro animal PCs have basically been built using a combination of improvisation and bits and pieces of other optional rules found here and there. In fact, one of my players is trying to build his own Anthro Racial design system based on the Ironclaw RPG.
...But otherwise, I agree. The only thing that bothers me about the Anthro Animal template is that many of the resulting PCs have high ECLs, in part caused by racial Hit Dice, which I find unecessary.
I'm looking forward to issue #317 of Dragon myself.. Sounds promising.
Snapdragyn
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Consider that druids are concerned with the balance of life. The numerous (& how!) intelligent species in D&D are part of that balance. Why, then, would there not be druids concerned with the balance of power between sapients, rather than simply how sapient cultures affect 'wild' nature?
I'm thinking urban druids as racial (or city) guardians. Just as a more typical grove druid would protect their forest from non-forest incursions (not only woodcutters but also an encroaching marshland), so a human urban druid would protect their urban area from incursions by non-humans seeking to 'defile' the city. Their gnomish counterpart would protect the gnome town nearby, & they would likely even work together to ensure that each culture maintained its 'proper' place in the Great Balance.
I'm thinking urban druids as racial (or city) guardians. Just as a more typical grove druid would protect their forest from non-forest incursions (not only woodcutters but also an encroaching marshland), so a human urban druid would protect their urban area from incursions by non-humans seeking to 'defile' the city. Their gnomish counterpart would protect the gnome town nearby, & they would likely even work together to ensure that each culture maintained its 'proper' place in the Great Balance.
Knightfall1972 said:
There have been a few varieties of cat people in 2nd Ed.....the Tabaxi and the Rakasta among them.
There was a particular issue of Dragon featuring varieties of Rakasta based on wild and great cats. They'd be very cool to see in 3rd Ed. To date, I've just created them by using the Anthropomorphic Template.....I particularly like the Sherkasta (Large monstrous humanoid appearing as a manlike Tiger).
Banshee
