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<blockquote data-quote="Elder-Basilisk" data-source="post: 1711270" data-attributes="member: 3146">Bah. Give me real woodsmen rather than sissified eco-terrorists for rangers and druids. A ranger makes the perfect beast-hunter. Between Favored Enemy: Animals and Favored Enemy: Magical Beasts, he's the perfect person to take down those large predators.Druids often are played as eco-freaks but don't need to be. A druid needs to respect nature. That doesn't mean he necessarily wants to preserve it the way it is. A druid might well work to &quot;clean up&quot; nature and make it useful for civilization. Another druid might fit the standard eco-freak mold but still could want to eliminate the large magical beasts that form the majority of the big predators. They are not natural animals but rather magical beasts which could indicate a different relationship with nature. For that matter, it's perfectly possible that the druids would see such a campaign to exterminate the great toothed carnosaurus as the inevitable struggle for survival of the fittest. That is nature's way: the carnosaurus will demonstrate his fitness by surviving and beating the hunters. The hunters will demonstrate their fitness by slaying the carnosaurus. It is a sacred struggle and not to be interefered with.While one might well have druids in the campaign who would approve of, help, or at least not interfere with the great carnivore hunt. One could have druids who would interfere too. But that's a campaign choice rather than an inevitable consequence of the existence of the druid class.While one could have a semi-feral nature deity avenging the poor widdle animals, one could also have nature deities that are exclusively gods of the harvest or goddesses of the hunt. Arguably, Artemis and Demeter fit those roles. One could also have the gods of civilization to oppose them. That would make an interesting twist to the Race to Extinction campaign. &quot;The only good druid is a dead druid.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Elder-Basilisk, post: 1711270, member: 3146"] Bah. Give me real woodsmen rather than sissified eco-terrorists for rangers and druids. A ranger makes the perfect beast-hunter. Between Favored Enemy: Animals and Favored Enemy: Magical Beasts, he's the perfect person to take down those large predators. Druids often are played as eco-freaks but don't need to be. A druid needs to respect nature. That doesn't mean he necessarily wants to preserve it the way it is. A druid might well work to "clean up" nature and make it useful for civilization. Another druid might fit the standard eco-freak mold but still could want to eliminate the large magical beasts that form the majority of the big predators. They are not natural animals but rather magical beasts which could indicate a different relationship with nature. For that matter, it's perfectly possible that the druids would see such a campaign to exterminate the great toothed carnosaurus as the inevitable struggle for survival of the fittest. That is nature's way: the carnosaurus will demonstrate his fitness by surviving and beating the hunters. The hunters will demonstrate their fitness by slaying the carnosaurus. It is a sacred struggle and not to be interefered with. While one might well have druids in the campaign who would approve of, help, or at least not interfere with the great carnivore hunt. One could have druids who would interfere too. But that's a campaign choice rather than an inevitable consequence of the existence of the druid class. While one could have a semi-feral nature deity avenging the poor widdle animals, one could also have nature deities that are exclusively gods of the harvest or goddesses of the hunt. Arguably, Artemis and Demeter fit those roles. One could also have the gods of civilization to oppose them. That would make an interesting twist to the Race to Extinction campaign. "The only good druid is a dead druid." [/QUOTE]

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