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<blockquote data-quote="jgsugden" data-source="post: 9229458" data-attributes="member: 2629">We can easily do Undead focused Clerics, Paladins, Sorcerers, Warlocks and Wizards.&nbsp; It just seems odd that Druids don't really get to do so.&nbsp; heck, it is easier to build a Bard Necromancer than a Druid one.The absence strikes me more due to my setting.&nbsp; I just thought it would be something others noted as well. In my world, the Divine, Arcane and Nature classes receive their magic through the Weave.&nbsp; This is a conduit that connects all things and runs from the core of the Positive Energy Plane to the core of the Negative Energy Plane.&nbsp; Arcane spellcasters take from the Weave, Divine spellcasters are delivered gifts through the Weave, but Nature Spellcasters - Druids and Rangers, primarily - accept the gifts of the Weave and let it flow through them.&nbsp; As this flow is connected to both the source of all life force and the place all life foreces eventually end up (true death), my Nature casters tend to have a greater affinity for death magics than other druids and rangers - and I've inserted homebrew spells to support it.&nbsp; Thus, I do not see as a druid that uses natural forces to kill and destroy to be an Anti-Druid ... that is just a druid.&nbsp; In my setting they have a role supporting balance ... and when good is in control, that may mean taking down good.&nbsp; The Anti-natural life Druid as the Anti-Druid is different.&nbsp; It isn't destruction - it is about turning your back on the Weave itself.&nbsp; As the Weave is the conduit for life forces from beginning to end, the primary natural antithesis is undeath.&nbsp; I get that in some settings you might see a druid that burns the forest to kill a foe as an anti-druid, or as others have stated you might see an artificer and their devotion to technology over the natural order to be an anti-druid ... but in my setting, burning a forest is part of the natural order and technology is harnessing natural forces.&nbsp; It is the Anti-Life of the Undead that is a direct opposition to the Druidic ways.&nbsp; &nbsp; I could write how all of this is tied up in the Far Realms, Aberrations, Demons, Shadowfell, and various Powers (like Orcus) ... but ...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jgsugden, post: 9229458, member: 2629"] We can easily do Undead focused Clerics, Paladins, Sorcerers, Warlocks and Wizards. It just seems odd that Druids don't really get to do so. heck, it is easier to build a Bard Necromancer than a Druid one. The absence strikes me more due to my setting. I just thought it would be something others noted as well. In my world, the Divine, Arcane and Nature classes receive their magic through the Weave. This is a conduit that connects all things and runs from the core of the Positive Energy Plane to the core of the Negative Energy Plane. Arcane spellcasters take from the Weave, Divine spellcasters are delivered gifts through the Weave, but Nature Spellcasters - Druids and Rangers, primarily - accept the gifts of the Weave and let it flow through them. As this flow is connected to both the source of all life force and the place all life foreces eventually end up (true death), my Nature casters tend to have a greater affinity for death magics than other druids and rangers - and I've inserted homebrew spells to support it. Thus, I do not see as a druid that uses natural forces to kill and destroy to be an Anti-Druid ... that is just a druid. In my setting they have a role supporting balance ... and when good is in control, that may mean taking down good. The Anti-natural life Druid as the Anti-Druid is different. It isn't destruction - it is about turning your back on the Weave itself. As the Weave is the conduit for life forces from beginning to end, the primary natural antithesis is undeath. I get that in some settings you might see a druid that burns the forest to kill a foe as an anti-druid, or as others have stated you might see an artificer and their devotion to technology over the natural order to be an anti-druid ... but in my setting, burning a forest is part of the natural order and technology is harnessing natural forces. It is the Anti-Life of the Undead that is a direct opposition to the Druidic ways. I could write how all of this is tied up in the Far Realms, Aberrations, Demons, Shadowfell, and various Powers (like Orcus) ... but ... [/QUOTE]

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