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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sejs" data-source="post: 3221041" data-attributes="member: 4910">Well bear in mind the nature of the subject.  Druids are, by way of their worship, very connected to nature and the natural world.Reincarnation is being able to continue to participate in that world that they connect with.  Going to an outer plane, deity or no, and eventually merging with it as a petitioner is basically quitting.  Taking your ball and going home.  Abandoning that thing that you love because you're so very tired.For a cleric or favored soul it's a bit different - for them going to the planes to become one with their deity is an ecstatic event.  For druids it's the opposite.  They'd be leaving the object of their worship and going away from it never to return. Oh absolutely, and frankly it should.  If you're an old druid, getting on the reincarnation circuit, you'd have to come to terms with natural self-identity and learn to define yourself as who you are instead of who you were.  That sort of thinking is pretty much the core of the concept.  You get to continue living, cycle after cycle, not because you're old you in a different body, but because you're new you.  If you're Studly McFarmhand, be Studly McFarmhand.  If you're Elly-May Halfelf, be Elly-May Halfelf.  If you're Skork the Goblin, be Skork the Goblin.Learning to get over yourself and be who you've become is part of the price of admission. The way I see it, having someone assist you in this is tantamount to asking someone to be your second when you commit seppuku.  It's something you'd only ask someone you really know and trust to perform.  You need to rely on this person to care for you enough to save you in a very real, tangible way. It's not a task you'd relegate to just anyone.</blockquote>

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