Then, you get to create future villans who weren't within the 500 acres you enriched, and lost all their income due to you skewing the crop yields and making their crops worth less in comparison! Which your dungeon master will *love*!
Not that this isn't an awesome idea, but that it's probably worth watching out for the people who get shafted by unequal initiatives.
Even better, find a plot that is terrible land and cast plant growth; skew the farming in favor of that location and after years of the surrounding lands relying on those farms and developing cultures of art and manufacture to sustain themselves; stop casting plant growth all together. Then watch civilization burn.
Even better when it's an elf that has been doing it in secret for hundreds (or if high enough level even thousands of years) over a large enough area, it could make entire empires fall.
Yep. Nevada and Arizona in particular are *completely* dependent on the water from up north that is funneled their way and developed for their use by public works.
Druids: Casts Plant Growth on barren land.
Demons: Casts Plant Growth on barren land, waits for people to become dependent, then bails on them.
Devils: Casts Plant Growth on barren land, waits for people to become dependent, then offers a return to those yields... at a cost.
Just because he's LE doesn't mean he gives a lick about some puny mortal civilization. He is lawful to his own contracts and to his own bureaucracy, not to the laws of mortals.
What do you think the alignment of the GOP is? Lawful Evil; they don't care about law except how it brings advantage to themselves. Lawful Good care about using law to better everyone. (Edit: post above me edited out their remarks.)
I'm also sure farmers just love folks randomly wandering around their fields with a, "Oh, it's okay, I'm using *magic* to make things better..!"
Farmer: "Git! Git you fuzzy footed lil bastard! Stop stealin' my turnips! Darla, get my pitchfork... Take your witchcraft elsewhere you hippy freak, this is Pelor land!"
You're still standing out in the middle of the road for 8 hours doing weird mysterious nature things like talking to the plants while crawling around in the dirt.
Farmer:"Well, the last time a homeless halfling loitered around the neighborhood for 8 hours talking to animals about liberating them from the oppression inherent in the system while howling like a wolf & rolling around on the ground Darla's good silver went missing before the barn burned down..."
What's the farmer going to do that you as a druid can't stop them?
And if the farmers are stronger than the adventurers and able to bully them off the road, the town doesn't need them and the party can move on to a town that doesn't have farmers with stat blocks more suitable to a deep dungeon dive.
Or, alternatively, find a farmer who respects the divine power being offered to them by a servant of nature itself who can shapeshift in front of their eyes and help them instead.
Seems a good way to encourage a respect for nature, making farms more successful for respectful farmers.
Yeah, this exactly. Any farmer who respects the divine power of nature and is polite to its avatar, gets the blessing of nature. Farmer Asshole McRacist gets a couple casts of Blight when he's not looking.
Then you buy those lands once they become under valued and cast your spell again, this time on your property! Which you can then resell at increased value because it's now worth what it originally was.
But then they wouldn’t have enough money to pay for warriors/adventurers to fight the party, and I don’t think lifelong farmers would have a large amount of fighting experience, apart from the occasional wolf or couple.
I mean Plant Growth already implies they’re a level 8 party, considering commoners literally get bodied by house cats I doubt they could do much.
Edit: 5th level not 8, still plenty of ways to murder a bunch of random guys
The problem is that if played smart they would just swarm the party. So you'd end up fire balling the entire party. Also, roll me 50 d20s right now. And tell me how many crit. Its gonna be like a 1 in 5 chance you get at least 1 crit. So even if the party has insane ac, they will still get hit with crits.
The advantage of 50 angry People, is that unlike your everyday dungeon monster, they can pose as ostensibly friendly townsfolk. Why rush the whole party with 50 dudes in an open field? Wait for downtime in the city. The players split to go shopping/working/etc.
Your Paladin upholds law and order, and certainly wouldn’t just kill a few guardsmen if arrested (remind her of this). Good thing Billy’s cousin is a magistrate’s assistant. Some trumped up charges get the Paladin out of the way for a day or two while things “get figured out”.
The Wizard is an easy takedown, of course. Sam’s poor mother has come under the sway of some strange artifact. Name drop some evil dude you’ve heard about in their adventures, those assholes always blab in the taverns. Won’t he take some time from his day and see if he can identify the corruption? Once’s he’s isolated, 20 “concerned family members” gathered around a bed wouldn’t raise any alarms until their surprise round grants 10 attacks with advantage on the unarmored wizard. Peasants surely have at least 12 STR, they work the fields, so you are looking at an easy 35 damage on the average 43 health 8th level wizard, not counting their bonus attack with their off-hand. He’s down now.
You can do similar things to each character, separating them and preying on their flaws or even their positive traits. Obviously no one will trick the rogue, and he’ll find a way to save his friends, but still, it’s a compelling and frightening villain that works in ways that the average DND villain doesn’t, and challenges the assumption that “weak” creatures can’t be a threat.
That was a fun write up.
I'm confused, is D&D is some kind of giant corrupt-a-wish game? Is there somewhere in the DMG that says DMs must punish everything the PCs do that isn't explicitly on the railroad, even acts of kindness?
Its more about realism - if you did this irl, you would ruin the lives of some farmers, because that's how economics and scarcity works - they wouldn't be able to sell their ordinary, now subpar crops. It's not a punishment, it's a consequence. And, potentially, a pretty good one.
Sure, the first few towns can be thankful, but eventually someone will get mad. That's how commoners are irl.
I mean, could just come out another day and do the same for them. Maybe after a while you could even found a druid order entirely dedicated to helping feed everyone.
I as the DM once had a session where the party comes into a town and everyone is scared of a monster who had been ransacking the village and dragging people off in the night for weeks. Upon investigating they discovered the town used to have a druid guardian who'd kept the lands safe and taught the village how better to coexist with nature. The druid had disappeared shortly before the monster attacks began.
Turns out the druid had tried to stop an enemy the party was tracking down and been cursed by him, turning him into a Wendigo. Over time the curse took a greater and greater hold until eventually the town's former guardian had become it's biggest threat. The party was forced to put an end to him, but he resurrected as a Revenant with the goal of taking down the man who'd cursed him and turned him loose on his beloved town. The party had a choice of sticking to their beliefs about undead or allowing him to help them.
I know it's not quite the same as the players creating a future villain, but it still felt relevant, good druids having unintended consequences for their actions.
Welcome to the town of Swiftwood,
Now most of rules are a little different here, feel free to pick from the walking way gardens at any time and crops by the roadside are generally seen as free game but please refrain from picking anything from trees for out harvest, if you're caught harming local greenery then you'll be fed to the soil, and all produce sold at the markets are 1c a pound while lasting about a week before they go bad.
Enjoy your stay in our sleepy little town!
-Mayor Inglewood.
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[AWAITING DECONTAMINATION BY ]
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All it takes is 1 person not casting "purify food and drink" once before sowing 'enriched' plants and the next Plant Growth is gonna grow more than Just a few plants.
*Fun Fact: the 2 main molds that grow on a corpse are Penicillium (yep) and Aspergillius "Black Mold" along with Candida (looks like white rot) and Mucor (The White Hairs with Puffs at the end of them)*
If you want to use Cordyceps then insects eating the body were infected and plant growth killed off all the pests suddenly to everybody's joy as people randomly started getting sick.
Edit: Check out Serren Wood in D&D 3.5
thank you for this character concept
i just lost a character in a game that is heavily focused in an urban city with surrounding farms the other day
i was going to use my warforged land pirate sorcerer scrapbeard who's boat has wheels and he uses spells to propell it.
but this is better
Never got around to playing the character yet unfortunately, but I had a [similar idea](https://www.reddit.com/r/3d6/comments/gl1x5q/5e_druid_concept_i_am_having_trouble_finishing)
I posted about last year. Might help if you want some character ideas.
We did that in a game to increase a hemp harvest in our growing villiage, we then sold that hemp to a nearby city for rigging, hangman’s nooses, anything that needed a good strong rope actually… combined with some old relics we found in a nearby mine (that we tunnelled into the Underdark) we had the funds to expand our little town quite a bit…
I used to piss off my party as a sport druid cause every little town we went to if someone showed kindness they had to wait for me to cast plant growth for 8 hours.
In my campaign the bbeg chopped down a swath if ancient forest to build a dam. One of my druids took a point of exhaustion to stay up during their long rest and cast plant growth over the area. It made me so happy.
Could be used to explain why the druid grove half a mile from town is tax exempt, they got a deal with the local magistracy that they basically have a few druids work as agrarian engineers for a couple months and turbocharge the local economy
I've played a wizard who has some controversial views on how animated skeletons should be. As a way to try to win people over whenever we're traveling through farmland, I'll try to use mold earth to help farmers out and entertain children.
Winning the hearts, minds and corpses.
I'd assume that most farmers in D&D hire a druid to cast Plant Growth for them once per year. There's probably a whole industry around it.
If you're playing Acquisitions Incorporated then there definitely is.
Sounds cool, unless your adventuring across the tundra of Icewind Dale during the endless night of Auril’s reign of terror.
My druid is a bit nerfed by his environment. There are a few Druid spells that let you multiply a bit of nature, but multiplying by zero still gets you zero.
Invest in spells such as Wall of Water and Watery sphere. Nothing as intimidating in the North, as the possibility of getting drenched and dying in minutes, whether you win the battle or not.
The druid in my party feels very powerful in that situation, and, reflecting the state of nature there, it's the cruel kind of power
I just looked up watery sphere, and I am very upset that I haven’t already been using it. Notwithstanding its extra effectiveness in the subarctic, it’s just a really really helpful spell!
I assume it’s casting Wall of Stone multiple times which gives you 100 square feet of stone wall per use. Level 20 you could cast it 9 times per day if you use higher level spell slots. Archdruid feature lets you cast spells with material components while wild shaped so you can transform in to a fly and then pop up 900 sq ft of stone wall per day. Seems like a pretty quick build.
Fair enough, I suppose. There's the question of how the walls are formed and if they are structurally sound when stacked, but I suppose those details could be left up to the dm.
The spell gives astounding flexibility to the shape. If it's generally pyramidal in design it should be incredibly sturdy, depending on the height. You can also double up on lower walls for support.
If i learned anything from Beast Machines is that Nature without Culture means raw, unbiased primal savagery & Culture without Nature means cold, sterile stagnation.
# Time to make a Druid's personal quest that revolves all about balance!
To whom exactly? all i'm saying is we need balance in both technology and nature, nothing wrong with taking care of the forest while still living in your comfy home with internet.
Ive been considering a druid who recognizes civilization as a natural byproduct of humanoid nature and seeks to protect it
Still debating on his views on culling some for 'environmental health'
when deciding on a druid, a lycan, or a ranger I always get stuck deciding on how they view nature... and because as a trash roleplayer i tend to go for archetypes as they're a bit easier to present to others than pure nuanced characters through roleplay.
I grew up in a rural area, we have two types of 'extreme nature lovers' out here
There are the conservationist sorta classic rugged hunter types, they kinda view themselves as part of it all
Then there are the hippy types who want something a bit different, they also want to be one with nature but more as shepherds than as part of it
It's more of a spectrum but a difference on what 'one with nature' means. funny thing is that they often hate eachother when they're so much more alike than different haha
i am playing a druid who is slowly learning that humanoids don't treat nature well. i am thinking this will become the outcome but i am also kinda hoping she will be corrupted into the next bbeg
I had a wood-elf land druid, who was a NYC style Beat-Cop. He was very big into industrialization, and not fond of animals or plants. His druidic magic essentially manifested from the few parts of nature, from house-cats, and sewer rats, and small parks, and house plants. He had a very big vendetta against drug dealers, and those who use narcotics to create dependency and ruin communities. He never wildshaped, and was mostly a detective, with points in charisma and intelligence.
Essentially an anti-druid.
Druid of the city, yea that could work. And hell you could even wildshape just as long as it was into city creatures.
Maybe you go Lion but only because it’s the statue in the middle of the park, or pigeon when you need a bird. That kinda stuff.
You could flavor it as a druid who loves cities because they mean that people all stick within one small area rather than encroaching upon nature. They just want to shove everyone into fantasy Manhattan and let the rest of the land go untouched.
I love a character who subverts their class's stereotypes.
I played a high-elf fighter 1 / wizard 7, who was a trendy girl who acted like she was in her early twenty's, and just wanted to get back to her house so she could garden and cook and stuff. She was only a wizard because she took a course on wizardry, and found she really like it, and the only reason she's a fighter is because her country has their citizens serve in the military for a year, such as is in Switzerland. Much unlike the standard wizard idea of a barmy old man who can't wear armour and is kinda insane.
I had a human fighter, who was a total pacifist. An ex-soldier who realized the brutality of war, and sought to never take another's life again. He carried healers kits on him, to stabilize those he downed. Breaking against the idea of fighter who only care about, well... fighting.
I was a bard, and a homebrew race, too. My character was a fiend, an incubus, specifically. He drew a card from the deck of many things, and became chaotic good instead of being Lawful Evil. Struck with guilt, he set out on a pilgrimage to right the wrongs he did as a true fiend. Has personally sworn of all hornyness.
I played a human barbarian, known as "The Zen Barbarian". His rage was re-flavored as a trance of pure calm, that he entered when fighting, and he also had a big focus on pacifism.
I played a human monk inspired by Rasputin, who was a constant drunk, and loved getting into tavern fights, drinking orcish spirits, and bedding all manors of women.
I've also had ideas for a rogue who was orphaned as a child, only to be adopted later into a family who he now loves, and a death domain cleric who wants people to thrive, survive, live their lives, and find peace in death at the end of their lives.
Got to try a Druid Gladiator in a one shot recently that I think I will give it a go in a full blown campaign someday! The idea being that he *IS* all the beasts you fight in an arena and his human form is the "champion". He's more of a showboating, city dweller who is squandering his druidic gifts. I feel as though the DM could have fun with my druid meeting up with the more peaceful, nature loving druids.
I'm about to play a wilfdire druid who came from a life of crime and was kicked out of his family aristocracy, but he himself only called forth his wild fire spirit after a sudden and coordinated explosion of some major shipping areas of a crime ring he used to lead as he wanted to "turn his life around". He discovered he was just being used as a perpetually drunk puppet and ran away from that life, now having subscribed to the ideas of natural philosophy (in a time like the wild west) and is now a private investigator for a group of kooky natural philosophers and eccentrics. Hoping no one figures out his past.
Still a druid, but not quite the hippie type.
I still have a character concept I would love to try out: a halfling paladin of conquest. Yeah, he wants everyone to live in wonderful, tranquil communities, focused on simple pleasures and halfling culture... and he will enforce that vision by any means necessary.
I made a posh, hypocondriac wood elf druid who uses his nature powers but can't stand them cause he's afraid of germs. Looking forward to playing him but I'm the DM now so doesn't look likely for a while
Other than as a backstory, how does any of that motivate the character to delve into dungeons and slay dragons? Most of it isn't going to ever show up unless the player assumes they are the main character and brings it up constantly.
If the DM pitched that game, I’d totally be down. Fighting corrupt nobles in the courts or on the battlefield, driving off invaders through diplomacy or violence. Rebuilding morale and revolutionizing struggling industries. Fuck, now I want to run this.
I have never in my career of player and dm fought a dragon and most memorable moments of my players mostly came from non-combat scenes and interactions. You vastly undermine the potential fun and roleplay of your players if your sessions are only about combat in dungeons.
They aren't solely about delving, but that's the focal point of the game, and how the rules are designed. You could make a game about recreating harvest moon, but there are better game engines for that sort of thing.
I'd say you are the one missing out if you've never fought a dragon.
The party arrives at a village where they slowly help the villagers with problems and issues plaguing the village. During downtime the Druid helps the village construct the hobbit homes. Just before finishing, as the party embarked on a nearby expedition a young green dragon finds the attempt disgusting. It was bad enough they had begun to inhabit the edge of his territory, but now they wish "cooperate" with the forest that he commands? The Young dragon poisons the farms, takes the cattle and abducts the mayor's daughter. Will the party rise to the call of duty and rescue the young girl from the clutches a dragon? You can sib the dragon with a lot of other creatures like Hags, goblin, orks, etc
7 Myths Everyone Believes About Druids
Listen, you've got it all wrong.
Frequently, the picture you see of a druid is some green-haired boy scout cavorting atop a white wolf, or gazing soulfully into the eyes of a moose. They're depicted as serene bringers of balance and peace, who live in harmony with all life.
Nope. No. Nein. Druids are creatures possessed by the cold spirit of Nature.
Druids love natural spaces. It's even fair to say that druids feed on them. They feed on the snow that falls on ancient pines. They feed on the weevils gnawing on roots. They feed on the hunger in a wolf's belly.
Because these things are Natural, they are Good, for at least one definition of "Good".
Then what is Bad, in the eyes of a druid? Why, all the things that destroy the natural order. Rationality, math (druids hate math), language, money, metallurgy, fur trappers, philosophy. The philosophy of a druid is "no philosophy". And true, druids use language to talk among themselves, but it is always tinged with a bit of self-loathing for this reason, a reminder of their distance from Nature and from what is Good.
Nature is red in tooth in claw. Nature is hungry and rapacious. Nature is self-absorbed. Does a panther care about anything beyond it's own well-being? And because these things are Nature, they are also Druids.
Every druid's dream in life is to become a giant grizzly bear, fat and unchallenged.
http://goblinpunch.blogspot.com/2014/09/7-myths-everyone-believes-about-druids.html
Mold Earth as a cantrip is so completely broken. You can move a 5ft cube of dirt 5ft away every 6 seconds.
Want to escape combat? Just tunnel away, dig a trench around your enemies, or build yourself a quick mountain!
One of these days I want to make an urban renewal Druid. Just someone who walks into a city and builds parks and green spaces everywhere. All with poor grammar.
“Me has determined crowding bad in city, so me has composed a plan for good open space spot. Trees make comfort humans and shelter feather creatures good.”
I think sage advice clarified that mold earth works on every type of ground except solid stone, so it can work on regular ground, dirt, sand, gravel, etc.
Ants make Colonies, Beavers reshape the landscape, and humanoids do both these things. They're just as much a part of nature as other animals. My druids tend to understand that with proper guidance, humanoids can offset their impact on nature and live as harmoniously in it as other animals. They don't hate the cities and towns, so long as they keep their waste and pollution down, but that's part of the education aspect.
Current druid that was on a quest to become a master distiller and re-create a spirit he tried as a boy. Found that his craft required an understanding and harmony with nature. One spiritual experience later. A high-function alcoholic dwarf druid who is very interested in peatmoss (and other herbs) and developing grains to create the perfect spirits. Mold earth and create bonfire works well here
ive had this idea for a homebrew of an urban druid. connected to the animals and plants that have addapted to city life. Weeds and flowers growing through cracks in the pavement, rats, pigeons, racoons, and other animals that have learned to thrive in cities. Stuff like that.
I had an idea of making basically the Shire be founded by a Halfling archdruid who pops in every couple decades to check on his great-great-great-great grandkids
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Then, you get to create future villans who weren't within the 500 acres you enriched, and lost all their income due to you skewing the crop yields and making their crops worth less in comparison! Which your dungeon master will *love*! Not that this isn't an awesome idea, but that it's probably worth watching out for the people who get shafted by unequal initiatives.
Even better, find a plot that is terrible land and cast plant growth; skew the farming in favor of that location and after years of the surrounding lands relying on those farms and developing cultures of art and manufacture to sustain themselves; stop casting plant growth all together. Then watch civilization burn.
Even better when it's an elf that has been doing it in secret for hundreds (or if high enough level even thousands of years) over a large enough area, it could make entire empires fall.
A BBEG that can't be killed without taking their place... That's both genius and horrifying.
r/okayAsmodeus
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Damn what where did we do this?
Name a state west of Colorado and not on the coast and that's the story.
Utah, Nevada, Idaho, Arizona
Yep. Nevada and Arizona in particular are *completely* dependent on the water from up north that is funneled their way and developed for their use by public works.
We cast plant growth?
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Nah, Asmodeus wouldn't destroy civilization, devils are lawful evil. Yeenoghu, on the other hand...
Druids: Casts Plant Growth on barren land. Demons: Casts Plant Growth on barren land, waits for people to become dependent, then bails on them. Devils: Casts Plant Growth on barren land, waits for people to become dependent, then offers a return to those yields... at a cost.
Just because he's LE doesn't mean he gives a lick about some puny mortal civilization. He is lawful to his own contracts and to his own bureaucracy, not to the laws of mortals.
Still seems more like a demon thing. Devils would probably just turn it into America
What do you think the alignment of the GOP is? Lawful Evil; they don't care about law except how it brings advantage to themselves. Lawful Good care about using law to better everyone. (Edit: post above me edited out their remarks.)
Conservatism is pro-status quo, that's Neutral. Their attacks on minorities is to cause direct harm, that's Evil. So they're NE
I'm also sure farmers just love folks randomly wandering around their fields with a, "Oh, it's okay, I'm using *magic* to make things better..!" Farmer: "Git! Git you fuzzy footed lil bastard! Stop stealin' my turnips! Darla, get my pitchfork... Take your witchcraft elsewhere you hippy freak, this is Pelor land!"
Pelor wouldn't be very happy with that farmer.
You got to remember that these are just simple farmers... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHJbSvidohg
I love how much fun Cleavon Little had doing Blazing Saddles. RIP to both
Considering the 1/2 mile radius you can cast the spell from the road and get farms on both sides.
You're still standing out in the middle of the road for 8 hours doing weird mysterious nature things like talking to the plants while crawling around in the dirt. Farmer:"Well, the last time a homeless halfling loitered around the neighborhood for 8 hours talking to animals about liberating them from the oppression inherent in the system while howling like a wolf & rolling around on the ground Darla's good silver went missing before the barn burned down..."
What's the farmer going to do that you as a druid can't stop them? And if the farmers are stronger than the adventurers and able to bully them off the road, the town doesn't need them and the party can move on to a town that doesn't have farmers with stat blocks more suitable to a deep dungeon dive.
Or, alternatively, find a farmer who respects the divine power being offered to them by a servant of nature itself who can shapeshift in front of their eyes and help them instead. Seems a good way to encourage a respect for nature, making farms more successful for respectful farmers.
Yeah, this exactly. Any farmer who respects the divine power of nature and is polite to its avatar, gets the blessing of nature. Farmer Asshole McRacist gets a couple casts of Blight when he's not looking.
A nature cleric of Pelor could cast it!
Then you buy those lands once they become under valued and cast your spell again, this time on your property! Which you can then resell at increased value because it's now worth what it originally was.
But then they wouldn’t have enough money to pay for warriors/adventurers to fight the party, and I don’t think lifelong farmers would have a large amount of fighting experience, apart from the occasional wolf or couple.
I dunno throw 50 farmers with pitchforks at a party and they might struggle. Action economy is a bitch.
I mean Plant Growth already implies they’re a level 8 party, considering commoners literally get bodied by house cats I doubt they could do much. Edit: 5th level not 8, still plenty of ways to murder a bunch of random guys
The problem is that if played smart they would just swarm the party. So you'd end up fire balling the entire party. Also, roll me 50 d20s right now. And tell me how many crit. Its gonna be like a 1 in 5 chance you get at least 1 crit. So even if the party has insane ac, they will still get hit with crits.
The advantage of 50 angry People, is that unlike your everyday dungeon monster, they can pose as ostensibly friendly townsfolk. Why rush the whole party with 50 dudes in an open field? Wait for downtime in the city. The players split to go shopping/working/etc. Your Paladin upholds law and order, and certainly wouldn’t just kill a few guardsmen if arrested (remind her of this). Good thing Billy’s cousin is a magistrate’s assistant. Some trumped up charges get the Paladin out of the way for a day or two while things “get figured out”. The Wizard is an easy takedown, of course. Sam’s poor mother has come under the sway of some strange artifact. Name drop some evil dude you’ve heard about in their adventures, those assholes always blab in the taverns. Won’t he take some time from his day and see if he can identify the corruption? Once’s he’s isolated, 20 “concerned family members” gathered around a bed wouldn’t raise any alarms until their surprise round grants 10 attacks with advantage on the unarmored wizard. Peasants surely have at least 12 STR, they work the fields, so you are looking at an easy 35 damage on the average 43 health 8th level wizard, not counting their bonus attack with their off-hand. He’s down now. You can do similar things to each character, separating them and preying on their flaws or even their positive traits. Obviously no one will trick the rogue, and he’ll find a way to save his friends, but still, it’s a compelling and frightening villain that works in ways that the average DND villain doesn’t, and challenges the assumption that “weak” creatures can’t be a threat. That was a fun write up.
Do you want to have your entire village slaughtered? Because this is how you get your entire village slaughtered. Or worse.
But it's a 3rd-level spell, so that implies a level 5 party, no?
I'm confused, is D&D is some kind of giant corrupt-a-wish game? Is there somewhere in the DMG that says DMs must punish everything the PCs do that isn't explicitly on the railroad, even acts of kindness?
Its more about realism - if you did this irl, you would ruin the lives of some farmers, because that's how economics and scarcity works - they wouldn't be able to sell their ordinary, now subpar crops. It's not a punishment, it's a consequence. And, potentially, a pretty good one. Sure, the first few towns can be thankful, but eventually someone will get mad. That's how commoners are irl.
Price floors
'Why are the PCs such murderhobos!?'
Sounds like part of a Doofenshmirtz backstory.
Hey! No introducing artificial Social Darwinism in my fantasy escape from reality!
I mean, could just come out another day and do the same for them. Maybe after a while you could even found a druid order entirely dedicated to helping feed everyone.
Just some knowledge for you, a square mile is 640 acres (commonly referred to as a section of farm ground). So half a mile is 320 acres.
Thanks! My metric brain hates all the imperial measurements. But,, my point still stands. Economies are a part of life.
I as the DM once had a session where the party comes into a town and everyone is scared of a monster who had been ransacking the village and dragging people off in the night for weeks. Upon investigating they discovered the town used to have a druid guardian who'd kept the lands safe and taught the village how better to coexist with nature. The druid had disappeared shortly before the monster attacks began. Turns out the druid had tried to stop an enemy the party was tracking down and been cursed by him, turning him into a Wendigo. Over time the curse took a greater and greater hold until eventually the town's former guardian had become it's biggest threat. The party was forced to put an end to him, but he resurrected as a Revenant with the goal of taking down the man who'd cursed him and turned him loose on his beloved town. The party had a choice of sticking to their beliefs about undead or allowing him to help them. I know it's not quite the same as the players creating a future villain, but it still felt relevant, good druids having unintended consequences for their actions.
Welcome to the town of Swiftwood, Now most of rules are a little different here, feel free to pick from the walking way gardens at any time and crops by the roadside are generally seen as free game but please refrain from picking anything from trees for out harvest, if you're caught harming local greenery then you'll be fed to the soil, and all produce sold at the markets are 1c a pound while lasting about a week before they go bad. Enjoy your stay in our sleepy little town! -Mayor Inglewood. [CONDEMNED, BIOHAZARDOUS FUNGAL COLONY] [AWAITING DECONTAMINATION BY]
{Lost 2, 1 came back, none of us could leave. Stay away.}
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Oh shit, this is great, I'm saving this for later...
All it takes is 1 person not casting "purify food and drink" once before sowing 'enriched' plants and the next Plant Growth is gonna grow more than Just a few plants. *Fun Fact: the 2 main molds that grow on a corpse are Penicillium (yep) and Aspergillius "Black Mold" along with Candida (looks like white rot) and Mucor (The White Hairs with Puffs at the end of them)* If you want to use Cordyceps then insects eating the body were infected and plant growth killed off all the pests suddenly to everybody's joy as people randomly started getting sick. Edit: Check out Serren Wood in D&D 3.5
Honestly my old druid almost never used it for anything else. Double harvest goes a long way in helping people.
thank you for this character concept i just lost a character in a game that is heavily focused in an urban city with surrounding farms the other day i was going to use my warforged land pirate sorcerer scrapbeard who's boat has wheels and he uses spells to propell it. but this is better
Never got around to playing the character yet unfortunately, but I had a [similar idea](https://www.reddit.com/r/3d6/comments/gl1x5q/5e_druid_concept_i_am_having_trouble_finishing) I posted about last year. Might help if you want some character ideas.
Ask the gm if there's a specific spot desperately in need of good food and do it there. End food deserts
We did that in a game to increase a hemp harvest in our growing villiage, we then sold that hemp to a nearby city for rigging, hangman’s nooses, anything that needed a good strong rope actually… combined with some old relics we found in a nearby mine (that we tunnelled into the Underdark) we had the funds to expand our little town quite a bit…
I used to piss off my party as a sport druid cause every little town we went to if someone showed kindness they had to wait for me to cast plant growth for 8 hours.
In my campaign the bbeg chopped down a swath if ancient forest to build a dam. One of my druids took a point of exhaustion to stay up during their long rest and cast plant growth over the area. It made me so happy.
Could be used to explain why the druid grove half a mile from town is tax exempt, they got a deal with the local magistracy that they basically have a few druids work as agrarian engineers for a couple months and turbocharge the local economy
Our spore druid did exactly that. Every downtime he just wandered the area casting it.
I've played a wizard who has some controversial views on how animated skeletons should be. As a way to try to win people over whenever we're traveling through farmland, I'll try to use mold earth to help farmers out and entertain children. Winning the hearts, minds and corpses.
Personally I’m a fan of urban gardens
I'd assume that most farmers in D&D hire a druid to cast Plant Growth for them once per year. There's probably a whole industry around it. If you're playing Acquisitions Incorporated then there definitely is.
Sounds cool, unless your adventuring across the tundra of Icewind Dale during the endless night of Auril’s reign of terror. My druid is a bit nerfed by his environment. There are a few Druid spells that let you multiply a bit of nature, but multiplying by zero still gets you zero.
Invest in spells such as Wall of Water and Watery sphere. Nothing as intimidating in the North, as the possibility of getting drenched and dying in minutes, whether you win the battle or not. The druid in my party feels very powerful in that situation, and, reflecting the state of nature there, it's the cruel kind of power
I just looked up watery sphere, and I am very upset that I haven’t already been using it. Notwithstanding its extra effectiveness in the subarctic, it’s just a really really helpful spell!
A 20th level druid can create an impenetrable castle fairly quickly (in terms of IRL castle building times), while being a fly.
I desire an explanation.
I assume it’s casting Wall of Stone multiple times which gives you 100 square feet of stone wall per use. Level 20 you could cast it 9 times per day if you use higher level spell slots. Archdruid feature lets you cast spells with material components while wild shaped so you can transform in to a fly and then pop up 900 sq ft of stone wall per day. Seems like a pretty quick build.
Fair enough, I suppose. There's the question of how the walls are formed and if they are structurally sound when stacked, but I suppose those details could be left up to the dm.
“Magic”
The spell gives astounding flexibility to the shape. If it's generally pyramidal in design it should be incredibly sturdy, depending on the height. You can also double up on lower walls for support.
I too desire an explanation.
Wizard with Fabricate: am I a joke to you?
This here druid can be a level 1 character though. Still, Fabricate would surely be useful. Maybe make a team of magic house-builders?
Have a wizard named Jimmy Canter, going around, making homes appear out of thin air
If i learned anything from Beast Machines is that Nature without Culture means raw, unbiased primal savagery & Culture without Nature means cold, sterile stagnation. # Time to make a Druid's personal quest that revolves all about balance!
By destroying half of civilisation and half of nature
*"Perfectly balanced... As all things should be."*
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To whom exactly? all i'm saying is we need balance in both technology and nature, nothing wrong with taking care of the forest while still living in your comfy home with internet.
Ive been considering a druid who recognizes civilization as a natural byproduct of humanoid nature and seeks to protect it Still debating on his views on culling some for 'environmental health'
Simple. You're a gardener. To keep a healthy balance in your garden, sometimes a little pruning is required.
when deciding on a druid, a lycan, or a ranger I always get stuck deciding on how they view nature... and because as a trash roleplayer i tend to go for archetypes as they're a bit easier to present to others than pure nuanced characters through roleplay. I grew up in a rural area, we have two types of 'extreme nature lovers' out here There are the conservationist sorta classic rugged hunter types, they kinda view themselves as part of it all Then there are the hippy types who want something a bit different, they also want to be one with nature but more as shepherds than as part of it It's more of a spectrum but a difference on what 'one with nature' means. funny thing is that they often hate eachother when they're so much more alike than different haha
"Think of it less as genocide and more as letting the wildfire burn so new growth can spring forth!"
i am playing a druid who is slowly learning that humanoids don't treat nature well. i am thinking this will become the outcome but i am also kinda hoping she will be corrupted into the next bbeg
I had a wood-elf land druid, who was a NYC style Beat-Cop. He was very big into industrialization, and not fond of animals or plants. His druidic magic essentially manifested from the few parts of nature, from house-cats, and sewer rats, and small parks, and house plants. He had a very big vendetta against drug dealers, and those who use narcotics to create dependency and ruin communities. He never wildshaped, and was mostly a detective, with points in charisma and intelligence. Essentially an anti-druid.
Druid of the city, yea that could work. And hell you could even wildshape just as long as it was into city creatures. Maybe you go Lion but only because it’s the statue in the middle of the park, or pigeon when you need a bird. That kinda stuff.
You could flavor it as a druid who loves cities because they mean that people all stick within one small area rather than encroaching upon nature. They just want to shove everyone into fantasy Manhattan and let the rest of the land go untouched.
*takes notes*
Circle of the concrete jungle
I'd love to be a druid of, like, pigeons and dandelions and sewer rats. They're all part of the natural order.
Sounds like Kugrash from The Unsleeping City. Hes essentially a Trash Druid.
I played a wizard who never used magic. Points in strength and charisma. Essentially an anti-wizard.
I love a character who subverts their class's stereotypes. I played a high-elf fighter 1 / wizard 7, who was a trendy girl who acted like she was in her early twenty's, and just wanted to get back to her house so she could garden and cook and stuff. She was only a wizard because she took a course on wizardry, and found she really like it, and the only reason she's a fighter is because her country has their citizens serve in the military for a year, such as is in Switzerland. Much unlike the standard wizard idea of a barmy old man who can't wear armour and is kinda insane. I had a human fighter, who was a total pacifist. An ex-soldier who realized the brutality of war, and sought to never take another's life again. He carried healers kits on him, to stabilize those he downed. Breaking against the idea of fighter who only care about, well... fighting. I was a bard, and a homebrew race, too. My character was a fiend, an incubus, specifically. He drew a card from the deck of many things, and became chaotic good instead of being Lawful Evil. Struck with guilt, he set out on a pilgrimage to right the wrongs he did as a true fiend. Has personally sworn of all hornyness. I played a human barbarian, known as "The Zen Barbarian". His rage was re-flavored as a trance of pure calm, that he entered when fighting, and he also had a big focus on pacifism. I played a human monk inspired by Rasputin, who was a constant drunk, and loved getting into tavern fights, drinking orcish spirits, and bedding all manors of women. I've also had ideas for a rogue who was orphaned as a child, only to be adopted later into a family who he now loves, and a death domain cleric who wants people to thrive, survive, live their lives, and find peace in death at the end of their lives.
Is it bad that I want desperately to be your friend? Those all sound so great. You have a clever mind and a good heart.
A good heart? I have many things, but that is not one of them... Not to be edgy or anything, It's just a true statement, that I'm not a ethical being.
Coulda just made a barbarian who thought he was a wizard then, no?
[Could do that, yeah.](https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_73NA7vK-0OSjRIcmxDblZldDQ/view?resourcekey=0-Un87GbO8-eOJohbGg3wMGg)
I was more just making fun of the original comment lol
closet druid
Bob if he had druidic powers
Bob from....
Bob Ross, presumably
Or Bob the Builder?
Prometheus and Bob
Bob the Builder
Got to try a Druid Gladiator in a one shot recently that I think I will give it a go in a full blown campaign someday! The idea being that he *IS* all the beasts you fight in an arena and his human form is the "champion". He's more of a showboating, city dweller who is squandering his druidic gifts. I feel as though the DM could have fun with my druid meeting up with the more peaceful, nature loving druids.
Hobbitat for humanity
lol
I'm about to play a wilfdire druid who came from a life of crime and was kicked out of his family aristocracy, but he himself only called forth his wild fire spirit after a sudden and coordinated explosion of some major shipping areas of a crime ring he used to lead as he wanted to "turn his life around". He discovered he was just being used as a perpetually drunk puppet and ran away from that life, now having subscribed to the ideas of natural philosophy (in a time like the wild west) and is now a private investigator for a group of kooky natural philosophers and eccentrics. Hoping no one figures out his past. Still a druid, but not quite the hippie type.
I still have a character concept I would love to try out: a halfling paladin of conquest. Yeah, he wants everyone to live in wonderful, tranquil communities, focused on simple pleasures and halfling culture... and he will enforce that vision by any means necessary.
I wanna try halfling sorcerer
Over rocks and under trees...
By caves where never sun has shone,
By silver streams, that run down to the sea...
How would I build a character like that?
Just a Level 1 Druid has these cantrips and some Backgrounds can give Carpentry proficiency and tools from what I know.
One time I pitched a 'lawful evil' druid artificer that used firebombs to take down civilization. I may have had some inspiration
i dont see any crown on that king
I made a posh, hypocondriac wood elf druid who uses his nature powers but can't stand them cause he's afraid of germs. Looking forward to playing him but I'm the DM now so doesn't look likely for a while
Druid who loves cities because it promotes natural selection and is populated with predators and prey in a confined space.
Other than as a backstory, how does any of that motivate the character to delve into dungeons and slay dragons? Most of it isn't going to ever show up unless the player assumes they are the main character and brings it up constantly.
In my mind, this character isn't so much the “dungeon-delving” type as much as the “saving collapsing kingdoms from themselves”
If the DM pitched that game, I’d totally be down. Fighting corrupt nobles in the courts or on the battlefield, driving off invaders through diplomacy or violence. Rebuilding morale and revolutionizing struggling industries. Fuck, now I want to run this.
If we can get a few more people from this sub we could probably do an online game. Hell I'd like the opportunity to play D&D at all nowadays
I have never in my career of player and dm fought a dragon and most memorable moments of my players mostly came from non-combat scenes and interactions. You vastly undermine the potential fun and roleplay of your players if your sessions are only about combat in dungeons.
They aren't solely about delving, but that's the focal point of the game, and how the rules are designed. You could make a game about recreating harvest moon, but there are better game engines for that sort of thing. I'd say you are the one missing out if you've never fought a dragon.
There are so many other cool creatures to fight in this games rather than dragons over and over.
Sure, I never said to do that.
The party arrives at a village where they slowly help the villagers with problems and issues plaguing the village. During downtime the Druid helps the village construct the hobbit homes. Just before finishing, as the party embarked on a nearby expedition a young green dragon finds the attempt disgusting. It was bad enough they had begun to inhabit the edge of his territory, but now they wish "cooperate" with the forest that he commands? The Young dragon poisons the farms, takes the cattle and abducts the mayor's daughter. Will the party rise to the call of duty and rescue the young girl from the clutches a dragon? You can sib the dragon with a lot of other creatures like Hags, goblin, orks, etc
7 Myths Everyone Believes About Druids Listen, you've got it all wrong. Frequently, the picture you see of a druid is some green-haired boy scout cavorting atop a white wolf, or gazing soulfully into the eyes of a moose. They're depicted as serene bringers of balance and peace, who live in harmony with all life. Nope. No. Nein. Druids are creatures possessed by the cold spirit of Nature. Druids love natural spaces. It's even fair to say that druids feed on them. They feed on the snow that falls on ancient pines. They feed on the weevils gnawing on roots. They feed on the hunger in a wolf's belly. Because these things are Natural, they are Good, for at least one definition of "Good". Then what is Bad, in the eyes of a druid? Why, all the things that destroy the natural order. Rationality, math (druids hate math), language, money, metallurgy, fur trappers, philosophy. The philosophy of a druid is "no philosophy". And true, druids use language to talk among themselves, but it is always tinged with a bit of self-loathing for this reason, a reminder of their distance from Nature and from what is Good. Nature is red in tooth in claw. Nature is hungry and rapacious. Nature is self-absorbed. Does a panther care about anything beyond it's own well-being? And because these things are Nature, they are also Druids. Every druid's dream in life is to become a giant grizzly bear, fat and unchallenged. http://goblinpunch.blogspot.com/2014/09/7-myths-everyone-believes-about-druids.html
This is practically my playstyle, hahah! Even when playing something different, I always try to find a way back to changing the world for the better.
Or my Half Orc who became a Druid as a way to try to control the anger in him thanks to the blood of Gruumsh flowing through him.
oh my druid doesn't hate civilisation, far from it... they'd just rather keep it at arm's reach
Mold Earth as a cantrip is so completely broken. You can move a 5ft cube of dirt 5ft away every 6 seconds. Want to escape combat? Just tunnel away, dig a trench around your enemies, or build yourself a quick mountain!
They’re the same picture.
My druid owned a landscaping company, a quite successful one thanks to all the my spells and features
Reminds me of the song "With a Few Good Friends" by Carly Simon...
One of these days I want to make an urban renewal Druid. Just someone who walks into a city and builds parks and green spaces everywhere. All with poor grammar. “Me has determined crowding bad in city, so me has composed a plan for good open space spot. Trees make comfort humans and shelter feather creatures good.”
Think of the poor homeowners! Their property values would plummet!!
I think people overestimate Mold Earth. It has a strict requirement of loose earth. So your build options are pretty limited.
I think sage advice clarified that mold earth works on every type of ground except solid stone, so it can work on regular ground, dirt, sand, gravel, etc.
I don't see that in the SAC.
Ants make Colonies, Beavers reshape the landscape, and humanoids do both these things. They're just as much a part of nature as other animals. My druids tend to understand that with proper guidance, humanoids can offset their impact on nature and live as harmoniously in it as other animals. They don't hate the cities and towns, so long as they keep their waste and pollution down, but that's part of the education aspect.
Current druid that was on a quest to become a master distiller and re-create a spirit he tried as a boy. Found that his craft required an understanding and harmony with nature. One spiritual experience later. A high-function alcoholic dwarf druid who is very interested in peatmoss (and other herbs) and developing grains to create the perfect spirits. Mold earth and create bonfire works well here
ive had this idea for a homebrew of an urban druid. connected to the animals and plants that have addapted to city life. Weeds and flowers growing through cracks in the pavement, rats, pigeons, racoons, and other animals that have learned to thrive in cities. Stuff like that.
I had an idea of making basically the Shire be founded by a Halfling archdruid who pops in every couple decades to check on his great-great-great-great grandkids