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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Shadow" data-source="post: 6003551" data-attributes="member: 16760">First of all, I'm down with Wildshape being a spell, possibly an auto-prepared spell.  I'm also more than okay with it limiting what stats you can get, and with not allowing spellcasting in animal form.I think the idea of limiting the number of forms a druid can have learned is also very flavorful and cool.  Not sure if that's consistent with making it a spell, though.Animal companions just don't strike me as central to the druid class.  It was generally the ranger thing in 1e.  I agree that a specialty is the way to go, especially since they did it with familiars.I *don't* think the animal companion feat will require any kind of spellcasting.  Or if it does, the feat that comes before it will grant two druid cantrips and make the matter moot.  (There's a bit of druidic casting for your rangers, too!)  I doubt we'll see a 'primal source' in 5e.Now you can make Grizzly Adams as a fighter, if you want to. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Now for animal summoning.  I would very much like to see this either eliminated, or vastly simplified to run.  Summoning, at least 3e and PF style,  slows the game to a crawl.  It is annoying, to the point where I sigh if I find out somebody's going to be playing a druid.  Maybe something similar to swarm rules, so we don't have to roll to-hit for each of the 2-5 wolves or whatever?</blockquote>

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