The Druid - Historical Origin and Exploring New Druid Concepts (Tell a Better Story)
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- Опубликовано: 3 ноя 2018
- According to the D&D Beyond character creation survey, the Druid is the least popular class. I suspect the reason for this is because most people are not familiar enough with the historical origin and concepts for the RPG Druid.
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Do you have any cool Druid character ideas or concepts? Feel free to comment and share it with everyone.
I really want to see a Storm Druid. Someone who draws power from wind, sky, clouds, thunder. I also would enjoy seeing a shaman druid, who calls on spirits more than they call on nature
Let's see a cosmic druid who draws his power and uses the four fundamental of nature or reality... sounds like Magneto from the X-Men, I like it.
I like your idea of a cosmic druid. Let me see...
My druid will be a faun, that because of his connection to the huge cosmos, knows just how tiny and meaningless his puny existence is. But instead of crashing into nihilistic depression, he decides to just happily have fun and have adventures. He is basically a relaxed hippie, with flowers growing on his curly hair that covers his eyes.
I made a villain who was a Druid. Lawful Evil. Took issue to some peasants cutting down some forest and plowing some land so he decided to murder a few to teach them a lesson. To really cap it off, he dragged a peasant's child into the woods and threatened to sacrifice him in a wicker man!
In a campaign I’m a part of my character is a Druid who is half dryad
You have no idea how thankful I am of this video. I'm currently playing a druid in my current d&d game and the very first session I was completely lost because I didn't have much idea to go out for my character concept of how he'll be able to channel power.
I'd like to say I'm generally one for paladin, warrior, rogue and barbarian so magic classes are so foreign to me.
But this video really gives me an insight to develop my character a lot more than just being a guy who can do nature stuff and shapeshift.
My druid goes for a very witchdoctor-esque aspect,
deriving their power from the spirits of the forest,
be them native or those that have deceased and still cling on to the world.
They also talk about how death is the fuel of life,
and is quite adamant of making animal sacrifices and using everything she can from the foes they've fallen.
Ruki that sounds really interesting, can you give me a little build info on your character ? :D
I feel most modern fantasy Druids were derived from the idea of the Shaman.
Something I like to do when making a character is introduce random elements. I was making a Halfling Druid for a cousin's campaign, and I rolled for his background. I got 'Guild Artisan.' Not every background works cleanly with every class, but a good sign is if you find yourself thinking "I don't know if this can work but I really want to find out." And so, Roscoe Greenhill was born, a landscape painter. His hands would always be covered in paint, no matter what form he was in.
I'm playing a druid (Goblin, Circle of the Moon) who is more like a kid fascinated by animals. Kind of a Steve Irwin by way of Dora the Explorer? Her favorite animal is not even a real one, even in the fantasy setting of the game. (She loves Sheepicorns, which are like unicorns, but sheep). It's fun playing the druid as a naif who tries to do things like politely ask rats to stop swarming a tavern, or turn into a horse to talk to a magically uplifted horse (when she can't talk in her transformed self).
I had a concept for a lizardfolk druid w/ circle of the moon. The main gimmick is that is that he learns new wildshapes by eating the flesh of creatures and then digesting them. Rather than being the guardian of nature, he's the apex predator.
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THAT is a good concept for a druid.
Epic idea.
That should work because apex predator are keystone species that are vital to the natural ecosystem to stay healthy. Nice
Dehaka from Starcraft 😆
Druid is my favorite class honestly. I got really excited when they made druid of the spores because I had already had a halfling druid who was based on using nature's darker side through creating poisons and things of that nature. Instead of being a healer, he's a poisoner. He's a lot of fun to play.
Now I'm imagining Keyleth from Critical Role burning her enemies alive in a wicker man and saying "Moral Compass" and going on to lecture Percy.
the last druid I played had the spy background and used its wildshape to turn into small creatures like rats etc to infiltrate, or as a way to camouflage (it was set in a desert city, so turning into a camel was extremely viable). combined with druids having some of the best stealth magic (pass without trace especially) I was a very good rogue replacement with full spellcasting capabilities
My sister's druid character once transformed into a lizard to scout a cave. She failed a stealth check when spying on the boss. He noticed her and didn't care because she was just one of the dozens of lizards on the wall.
I had a similar idea
It came from a Druid who was an arcahelogist who wild shaped to grave rob and deafest ancient Evils
Then he became a thief
Then an elite governed asssian and then a spy
It’s cool to see someone actually played the concept tho
Looks like Circle of Stars Druid is a start towards your concept of the Druid that derives their power from the Cosmos :)
I actually had a fairly interesting. A druid subclass who's magical power reflects the savage aspects of nature, the "survival of the fittest" aspect if you will. Some abilities i thought of would include wildshaping into werebeasts at mid levels and possibly invoking beasts to invigorate allies
survival of the fittest has noting to do with Physical Fitness, otherwise worms and mold would've died out forever ago.
If you wanted a druid who followed "survival of the fittest" you'd want a subclass that can adapt to environments really easily, like gaining cold resistance while in a frosty setting.
Even that is a bit limiting to me RaHuHe. Survival of the fittest can be anything as long as it gets the job done. Like, most dark elves work via survival of the fittest in the most self serving sense. Don't got to be the best, just slightly better than the guy next to you. Just a bit faster, a bit stronger, thinks ahead one more step, a bit more cunning, a bit less hated, a bit more liked, a bit better at lying, slightly more pretty/handsome, etc. If I were to make a spell, it'd be a temp buff to any one trait. Gotta impress a king? buff cha. Goin for a bit o bear wrestling? buff str.
Pathfinder has the Shifter class. basically traded all spellcasting for full martial BAB and heavy focus on Wildshape, and improving base shape by mixing and matching different shapes.
@@rahuhe4102 I saw an idea one time where someone took circle of the land druid and changed it, so that instead of picking one terrain type at an early level, their character's terrain type is based on where they last took a long rest. They said it worked pretty well. Towards higher levels, once the party got access to instantaneous travel spells*, it got a little more powerful, since they could start strategically planning their long rests. For example, if the party thought they would be doing some sneaking the next day, they would travel to a grassland to sleep, so their druid could use Pass Without Trace without preparing it, and also cast Invisibility.
*I didn't want to call it teleportation since that's a specific spell, so I figured I would use a more generic term.
My wife loves cats. Tabaxi Druid was such an obvious choice for her, simply so she could spend all her time as a cat. I have another friend who likes cats. Made exactly the same choice. Maybe they draw all their powers from all the cats in the world.
Druid - circle of the cat.
The most useless but awesome circle xD
False, cats are constantly linked to government satellites. Your wife is clearly acting as an agent for the NSA, please be careful around her as anything you say and do can and will be used against you.
Radagast the Brown could also serve as a great blueprint for roleplaying as a Druid! 😁.
I just recently started playing a druid, circle of spores and I'm really enjoying it so far as I've never played a druid before this.
He is a young Half-Orc boy that survived a plague that swept through his town at a young age. His orc heritage allowed him to come back from the brink of death, but he was changed from then on. The disease became part of him, dormant but he can use his druidic magic to stir it up to take on his symbiotic entity and crown of spores abilities. His main goal is to use science and magic, to be the one to develop antibiotics and stop anyone else from having to suffer the way he did. All of his spells I try to flavour as him using his samples along with magic. For example, him blowing some magic on some bioluminescent mushroom spores from a jar for faerie fire.
Oh like the origns discribed to shaman in reality, good background.
Thank you…
3 years ago you sparked my interest in dnd and taught me how to play
My friend Emily started a druid and we love her for it. She's been a valuable teammate :)
I'm playing a High Elf Circle of the Land Druid for my first D&D campaign and I love it so far, but I've been struggling how to roleplay them. This video has really helped me realize there's more versions of druids than I thought there would be so thank you ❤
The human sacrificing variety of druid would be great for a dark fantasy setting.
I had made a "cosmic druid" circle called Circle of the Void that could transform into aberrations, manipulate space to teleport allies, and redirect attacks with wormholes etc. As well as resist effects that teleported them against their will.
I really love this series. Youre outdoing yourself and the content gets better and better each release
I keep having in my head my Druid of the swamp a unique symbiotic relationship with a few centipedes living inside of her. This comes from just wanting to use the spell giant insect but without having to carry a bag full of centipedes. The relationship is a simple one they provide her with the necessary tasks like scouting and what not and they have protection the form of a "home" inside of her where she feed them either her flesh should they get very hungry or other people. She has trust issues and has no problem having the little ones crawl inside other people like in the mummy movie.
Me: _Reads about a symbiotic relationship with centipedes_
Also me: _IMMORTALITY SEVERED_
I’m amazed. My first choice was Druid.
Me too! And I never end up playing one, because I like to have lots of different classes in a party, and there's always someone else who picks druid (including in different groups). I just assumed that meant it was a really popular class.
2:06 "Spoken today" is kinda stretch, France and Britain did a lot to suppress these language, and generally speaking French and English opens far more doors internationally than speaking Breton or Irish Gaelic, so it's mostly small groups or the government in Ireland's case that keep the language alive.
My cousins are Welsh and they all speak Welsh. If they go to a shop, bar, restaurant they talk in Welsh. All signs and roadsigns are in Welsh and English.
My grandma had to move during WW2 from Wales to England. When she moved she spoke no English at all. Implying it isn't spoke commonly is incorrect.
I can't speak for the Scottish and Irish as I've never been there.
My druid wondering revere the forces of nature, he'll be a force of nature. A beast in the body of a man.
Please , Do the “How to write a good story” or “How to make an adventure” because I want more and new content to make my own story adventure please
I'm currently playing a druid in a friend's campaign. She's more of a scholar who's interested in studying and documenting nature, with an obsession for documenting all the different types of fungi in the underdark. Instead of turning into animals, she uses wildshape to transform into plant creatures and oozes.
circle of spores?
@@Lyko5 Ooze master, although I think the kit is officially just called "underdark druid". It's a pathfinder campaign.
@@trinitydalfae8478 sorry, i meant the circle you would like to play would be that one, but thank you for the info
@@Lyko5 Ah. Okay. Then yes, if hypothetically we changed the campaign to 5E that's probably the circle she would be.
We definitely need more of in this series!
I love that you look beyond the confines of the fantasy genre to find inspiration. You Monk video did the same thing. It really broadens the scope of what can be done with these classes. Good work CJ.
My druid is an arctic warrior, circle of the land of course. He believes that the arctic is the perfect terrain for an apex predator. He sees the cold, slippery terrain, and scarce food allows for the perfect predator. He wants to make the whole world arctic. I reflavor many spells, such as Moonbeam being the Aurora Borealis.
Still a great video. Years later, and I still look back to it for inspiration.
Since then, I've studied a lot more about the world. I like to look at Ancient Greek Orphean beliefs, Ancient Indian gurus' lifestyles, and Shinto ideologies of kami to really give my druid some actual meat rather than an ambiguous "force of nature". Oh, and this is for me doing PF2e's druid. :D
Thanks again as always!
i know i'm a little late, but Since the Tasha's cauldron of everything came out, I have set up a Tabaxi Circle of Stars Druid based off the video game protagonist, Ori; from Ori and the blind Forest.
A good back ground. I like how you diversified the possible character archetypes
I have a druid of Dreams I'm playing as at the moment, and I'm trying to make her a stereotypical vegan 60's flower child with Janis Joplin and Bob Dylan influences on the one hand, and a practitioner of the mysterious and partially understood ways that predate the gods on the other. Kind of keeping a balance between both. I wanna both play on the fun and funny Hippie stereotype, while also keeping the vague and interesting things that we do and don't know about historical druids.
I have an idea of playing what look like a half elf druid that looks like a human. What has happen is that when she were you she almost got turned into hag by a coven, but a nature spirit took pity on the young child and spirited her away to an old druid couple that raised her as her own. But now her foster parents are dead (the died from old age) there is a risk that she will fall for the hags offer of power that they send to her thru her dreams.
Anyone have an idea what the source of this video part (around 4:45) is? it looks awesome :o
I’m writing my own in science fantasy series all about druids. Sort of a synthesis between the fantasy Druids and the real life ones. Stuff like this really helps.
Since the How to play D&D series is over for both players and dungeon masters, could you please make a tutorial for how to play Mutants & Masterminds?
I have been tooling around with an Idea I call a "Dark World Druid" which lets the druid expand on their understanding of "Nature" to include beast that have been altered by magic I.E. Monstrosities as magic can be natural part of many settings. To get a feel for the "Dark World Druid" just think of a druid's core abilities and spells but when it says beast add in " and Monstrosities "
Druid of the circle of cosmos? Defiantly needs to be maid
Also, I need to thank you for the inspiration
I've been working on an undead themed druid subclass for a world (called em the circle of decay)
It had to do with the wendigo, now I know what to call drudis who succumb to the curse but turn into the wendigo himself, skinwalkers (because there can only be one wendigo at a time)
Look at the Circle of Spores from Ravnica if you want some inspiration for an undead circle.
I always played my druids as more shaman both as in the nature and elemental focus and the shamans that dealt with spirits of the dead. I saw mine as a guide for the transition from one world to the next. Spirits form the material plane departing to the hereafter and those that were coming to the material plane to be born again. I haven't felt the itch to play druid in while but you mentioned the circle of dreams which reminded me of Le Reve and it's got some wheels turning.
Hey, I really like this concept of video. Are you planning to do this for every class? I believe the Druid was a great start but maybe next should be the cleric or the paladin
My Mother comes from Cornwall and she told me that the Druids there used to worship trees before St Piran converted them.
I played my druid as the "swamp root bender" from avatar. thanks for this video
Talking about the gaia theory and showing WoW made me think of Shamans from it. Which have more to do with the spiritual and elemental side of nature being negotiators between the elemental spirits and the planes they belong to and the physical world. They also have the close connection with the World Soul of Azeroth. Which is kind of like the gaia theory.
I love this ideas, that sounds like an excellent series of videos.
Yea, what a lot of people forget about the Druid in D&D is that they're a protector of the balance of the natural world. This doesn't mean a city rejecting hippy, this means a warrior who uses primal magic to make sure that the City doesn't destroy the very nature it relies on, this means the crazy bastard who rallies an army of beasts to fight the necromancer's undead horde. They're fast and brutal in their defense of their domain and likely friends as well.
Also, what people should very much remember is that Nature is goddamn brutal. It's literal dog eat dog on the harshest terms, it's a storm slamming into a dried forest to set it alight. It's a flood that scours the earth from the stone and buries a city in mud. It's the shaking and rumbling of earth that tears mountains asunder, it's the impact of meteors, it's a cold snap that splits trees in half, it's a plague that shatters entire world orders. The wilderness may look pretty from a distance, but mother nature is a hard core bitch who gives no god damn shit about your whining.
Could one of the factors be how much of a pain encounter balancing can be for a novice DM with a circle of the moon druid? Most experienced DMs seem to handle it just fine as far as I can tell.
I have a miscellaneous question, CJ. Can you put the music you use in the description of your videos or something? It sounds like good studying music.
Druids are my favorites! I'm excited for this!
I had a druid who did allot of "learning by doing", focusing greatly on having a direct connection with nature rather than simply observing it.
But this video got me thinking CJ; have you homebrewed/changed the monstrosity type?
I had a druid in a tomb of annihilation run for a little bit. It made my favorite spell shilleilagh and honestly I'd be down to make a more polished one.
The Druid also had a problem on DnD Beyond from the start they just fixed it. you could not find your wildscapes in there and had to close your character and finde the wildscape every time.
Yeah the hippie version was my first initial thought concept of a fruit. Then my first tabletop game happened and my view on them change completely
What about the circle of assimilation druid that shapeshifts into whatever it assimilates? think John Carpender's "The Thing"
Guess it's time for me to convince my DM to let me Wild Shape into a Spiral hahaha
To tell the truth I've never played a druid character before, however you got me thinking on the "natural" forms of what a druid can turn into. I'm going to give thought to this Cosmic druid idea that you have suggested. 😀😸;-)
My Druid is a half orc moonie. He is lawful neutral and believes in balance. He tells people he is a follower of AO. He thinks AO does not need to comunicate but shown by his actions that AO values balance.
This is the drill that will pierce the heavens! lol.
Anyway, I am intrigued by the notion of trying to find a balance between the traditional and tabletop fantasy to roleplay a proper druid with 5e, Pathfinder, or Starfinder spells.
The idea is to capture the personality of a fantasy world's nature-based spellcaster, but alter the character to reflect an actual member of a druidic clan.
👌nice
I think most monstrosities in D&D are races of creatures that were originally created by Wizards at one point or another using Wish level magic. While something like the Cranium Rats were regular rats that were modified by the Mind Flayers.
This isn't a perfect idea, but it's some sort of explanation.
Around the eight minute mark you mentioned some creatures that were in the beast category. With your accent I couldn't quite make out what day where. Could you give me the spelling of the two cats and the rats?
Is the concept of a "Shaman" also included in the druid? I don't know if the druid includes ancestor worship or nature spirits.
Nature spirits is a possible crossover, but I think anything that has to do with the use of spirits belongs to the shaman class.
@@DontStopThinking There is no Shaman class in official dnd 5e that I know of. I was referring to the trope more than anything. Shaman have similar things with druids, think elementals or storms. Is it possible to play a shaman with the framework of a duid or are they too different to make such a thing work?
Being the Druid lover that i am, i like the guardian of nature type, so i usually give them influences from Bron Taylor's Dark Green Religion Book, American transcendentalism for the likes of Thoreau's Walden and Emerson's Self-Reliance and use a Darwin's Quote "There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved." as their Maxim.
As a sidenote in case of multiclass i would prefer Monk (my second favorite class), and give them a Taoist martial artist outlook.
Currently playing a Shepherd Druid/Kensei Monk multiclass that is based on my build of William from Nioh. A sort of warrior onmyouji who summons guardian animal spirits for support.
Starting D&D with a dwarfen druid oder the land cycle, type Coast. His people live at undergound caveseas in mountain regions. They trait with Fish.
Wait a minute! So druids are these hunter-gathering, Neutral or balancing magic of good & evil, human sacrificing, cult leaders. who would use sacrifice (human or non-human) to channel, manipulate, summon, or control nature itself? Dude Awesome!
I remember back in Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, and the setting of the "Moonshae Isles", as having a very "Old Irish, Druid" type feel (I even read the paperback novel "Darkwalker on Moonshae".... wonder if I can find that in e-book form to read it again, for nostalgia's sake? ^_^).
I never played a druid in all my years of playing the game (late 80s till present day, on and off [mostly 'off' lately, unfortunately, goddamn Real Life! ^_^]). My favorite classes were always the Paladin (hey, I'm a sucker for the classic 'Knight In Shining Armor'), and the Wizard of course.
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Prediction for the Unearthed Arcana Circle of Wild Fire and Circle of Stars Sub-Classes?
Edit: Cosmic Driud? Yep, Circle of Stars prediction right there :)
CJ, PLEASE, Do warriors next! RAW POWER!
Ok, now i can comment, this is the best channel ever! I had to delete this comment because it sounded, wrong, as it was on the goblins slayer video, before I watched the part about the *things*. Still a good channel though!
Any literary works people can think of for inspiration? Tamora Pierce's "The Immortals" series is the only one I can think of off the top of my head that has a druid-equivalent as the main character.
The Iron Druid series by Kevin Hearne
Druid Circle of the stars can turn into any Constellation or celestial legend (EG: The white rabbit of the moon [Chinese Myth], Leo, etc..) When they finally reach level 20 they get the skill "Become one with the universe." Once a day/month/year they can become a cosmic being and they can do one action (Anyone action {Like End The Universe}).
Somebody heard your cosmic druid idea and made Circle of Stars druid for DnD. 😺
I'm playing a Kalashtar Circle of the Moon Druid and it's incredibly fun and epic. The Kalashtar can speak telepathically, so I can still communicate with the party when wild shaped. Plus, I'm a tank even though I have 10 and 11 for strength and dexterity scores. I only need Wisdom as druids can cast Shillelagh, so I use my +5 Wisdom modifier to hit with a quarterstaff, plus wielding with one hand I can still do 1d8 damage which gives me a free hand for a shield.
In the last session, one party member activated an ancient magical trap that was nice in that it displayed a countdown timer, so we are running out of the area as fast as we can. However, one party member was stuck behind another trap. With just seconds, I transform into a giant eagle, fly back, pick up the party member and fly back to safety. One slight issue, there was a wall of skeletons blocking the exit where there was a magical barrier that would stop an explosion. The DM described that skeletons were shoulder to shoulder and front to back for about 25 feet deep and 40 feet wide. The time runs out, and he gave us one last thing to do before we died. He rolled 90 for the damage, which would take us below our maximum HP, so instant kills. I said, so the skeletons are basically like a wall of bone since they are so close together, which he said yes. I then declared that was I going to dive behind the skeletons and roll into a ball so that the skeletons would block some of the force of the explosion and would also push us through the tunnel to safety. That halved the damage and we both survived! I ended up with 1 HP and the person I was carrying had -11 HP, so he was alive, but unconscious. It was really damn epic. Everyone at the table thought we were going to die and were holding their breaths. The DM was like, this is why druids make great tanks. For all the naysayers that say that druids can't be epic, well, this proves them wrong!
Nice content.
I don't play a Druid as necessarily worshipping nature, as using primal powers in some of the same ways that a Wizard uses arcane powers. They aren't inherently good or bad, peaceful or warlike. But like any class, uses a thematically linked set of powers to be individuals.
Hey CJ I have a question. I know how you mentioned we should look towards other places for inspiration such as other cultures how can we use inspirations from other cultures without culturally appropriating? Also if I want to play a character of another culture is it ok? Or is that being racially insensitive for instance someone wants to play an ethnically mesoamerican character because they took an interest in aztec society mythology and culture and are not trying to be disrespectful but have an idea to play a cleric who worships a serpent like Quetzelqoatl or worships an aztec God of death which I think is pretty cool. But maybe I'm just ignorant.....
I can see a druid that uses astrology, studying the nature of the stars and understanding the great phases of the heavens.
Blood sacrifices!
The Cornish Druids did worship trees or something like that.
Im actually homebrewing a Star Druid Subclass owo
I would like a druid that can change into abberations. Like a druid that turns into horrible monsters do to curruption, horrible tests by mind Flair's, a curse, or even a disease like the thing perasite or necromorfs from dead space.
Better start putting points into Craft: Wicker Man.
What comes to my mind when I think of druids: Shrooms
Are the people at the beginning Druids or cultists?
Do a summoner video because I’m a summoner in the game with my eidolon and the class is long forgotten
I'm not sure he covers much pathfinder on his channel?
Paul Rudd I know but hey you have to admit it’s a good class but it in d&d too look it up it’s a d&d class
I'm currently in a group who take their characters REALLY seriously.
First session rolls around and everyone has been talking about what they're playing except me.
We have: paladin noble, who ran away from his evil family and was adopted by a an order of knight redeemers.
Rogue: she was a member of a local thieves guild but in return for her testimony she was set free after selling them all out and has felt guilty ever since.
Cleric: he had a vision from his God to travel the lands, lending his aid where ever it was needed most.
My druid: Snow white.....I made snow white. And she is killing it. Trying to cheer up her friends with songs of friendship and love and happiness. And should someone attack her, well you've all seen what snow white can do when she's mad, shrek 2 sums it up lol.
You peaked my interest with the concept of the druid being a superstitious priest of sorts who sacrifices people to their god. Imagine a druid coming in to town playing the role of a mediator between nature & civilization. Instead of being a tree hugging hippy preaching about peace they could demand a sacrifice via fire or blood. If no sacrifice is offered nature will reclaim the land which was once hers, and the druid will be the harbinger. Probably not a good PC character, but maybe a antagonist of sorts.
The last time I made a druid, she was a noble who ran from the mafia/criminal organization, and got caught up in druidness in the wilderness. Returned as a full druid intent on being awesome.
She did not become awesome, however, and died before level 5.
I’m thinking of making a druid like Aang from the Last Airbender and drive my power from the “spirit world”
I AM THE DRUID THAT WILL PIERCE THE SKIES
Kars
Honestly, I always saw the wizards of Lord of the Rings as druids. Their powers seem to be based heavily on the cosmology in the movies at least, especially with Gandalf's rebirth. Plus, how Saruman falls as a result of focusing too much on corrupting nature to assist Sauron, while Gandalf only gets more powerful by relying on the forces Middle Earth already has really makes me feel like they're more in tuned with Druids than Wizards (at least in a DnD sense)
I have a holiday one-shot where I will have a sage druid. This one, will have a level if barabarian and professionally be a public school PE teacher. Why, because of your videos. Thank you CJ
I’ve always wondered about an enchanter/enchantress class/subclass. A character who specializes in magic that can increase the capabilities of items or give them extra effects and magic that can hypnotize other players in a pseudo-charisma sort of way. For example: increasing the durability and strength of armor, making enemies fall in love with you, making boots increase the wearer’s speed/agility etc. Infusing objects with magic that change its normal capabilities
Towards bondless naturral wonders of the cosmos.
Me: Ahh Kos or some say Kosm.
I LOVE Druids! It's my favourite class; I love that they're a sort of mix between Wizards and Rangers, with a bit of their own special flair added in! My character, Zolerik Sao, is a High Moon Elf hermit on the Circle of the Moon path. I chose the path because, although the Circle of the Land has some AWESOME spellcasting (I'm all about spellcasting in D&D), the Circle of the Moon GREATLY expands the super unique ’Wild Shape’ ability. The ability is, in my opinion, the most amazing part of the Druid class’
I find druids extremely intimidating to play, mostly on a mechanical level
Honestly, you're not wrong. Having to memorize your spells everyday, keeping track of your animal forms and animals you summon through spells, Wildshape scaling and limits, and that's all that comes off the top of my head before you put the Circles into play. It saying you shouldn't play one if you want to but a lot of responsibility gets put on you if you play one.
@@temotoes9182 Hey man, I strongly recommend an app called "Fight club" there's a function for the druid where it shows you what animals you can change into, and when you press the one you want to be it will automatically modify your characters sheet as appropriate, and then to switch back you just press another button
@@paulrudd1483 so you can put your character sheet into the app too? Does it also track spells and features?
@@temotoes9182 aye, but they're also so versatile which is largely why I would play one if I could wrap my head around it. I've also had an idea for a druid circle home brew partly based on the 1980s movie/90s TV show Beast master for those druids who want animal companions
@@toonezon4836 yeah it also tracks spells and features (: you can just click the spell and if there are dice involved it will auto roll it and display the spell description at the same time, it seriously helped me understand how to play a spellcaster when I was learning how they work
I know this is old, but you also have the Goddess Meilikki (goddess of the forest) lore her priests are a mix of Ranger Druids who protect the forest and are actually discuraged to not impose the cant use metal armor that other druids take on themselves. So RP wise if your god is Meilikki you can not be restricted by that hinderence and gives some flaver background if you multiclass as a druid ranger.
Druids actually arnt far off from Shamans of native american tribes, druids were both the healers and priests of the celtic gods. The Molach ritual done in freemasonry is actually a druid ritual, majoirty of rituals in druidic origin had human sacrafice to appease the gods, they didnt necissarily venerate nature but the gods that embodied an aspect of nature or the spirits of nature.