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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 9359361" data-attributes="member: 4937">No.&nbsp; You can perfectly well have a priest of the god of rational thought.The difference between a priest and a wizard is what the source of the spells are - external power or internal power.&nbsp; The priest is acting as a servant to some external power that grants them spells to use in furtherance of the external power's goals.&nbsp; The D&amp;D wizard as it's been come to be understood studies natural process to try to master them and uses their intellect and refined mental prowess and willpower and knowledge to create seemingly supernatural events.&nbsp; Druid really shouldn't even be a class.&nbsp; It's too narrow and too confining and carries to much secondary baggage.&nbsp; The obvious proof of that is druids historically were confined to one small area of the world, and though we can't say much about them because the historical record is so thin, we can say that we shouldn't have a base class with such a narrow costume.&nbsp; The actual class is Shaman, which is a class about halfway between priest and wizard in its conception and represents animistic or occult magic where you make bargains or pacts with magical beings and use spells to command them.&nbsp; So you have external power, but lack the priestly concept of service to that external power.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 9359361, member: 4937"] No. You can perfectly well have a priest of the god of rational thought. The difference between a priest and a wizard is what the source of the spells are - external power or internal power. The priest is acting as a servant to some external power that grants them spells to use in furtherance of the external power's goals. The D&D wizard as it's been come to be understood studies natural process to try to master them and uses their intellect and refined mental prowess and willpower and knowledge to create seemingly supernatural events. Druid really shouldn't even be a class. It's too narrow and too confining and carries to much secondary baggage. The obvious proof of that is druids historically were confined to one small area of the world, and though we can't say much about them because the historical record is so thin, we can say that we shouldn't have a base class with such a narrow costume. The actual class is Shaman, which is a class about halfway between priest and wizard in its conception and represents animistic or occult magic where you make bargains or pacts with magical beings and use spells to command them. So you have external power, but lack the priestly concept of service to that external power. [/QUOTE]

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