IceDragonDuvessa - 2/21/2007 3:15 PM People are part of the great cycle too... sometimes they eat.. sometimes they are eaten though the latter less often. Theres a lot of ways of interpretting the balance but anyway you look at it good, evil, law, chaos, life and death are all necessary to not tip the scales in one direction or the other. The fanatical preservationist is just as much danger as the wanton slayer of everything.
Ioskeha - 2/20/2007 5:38 PMIn my year and a half of playing one I have not seen another class get as little respect as a Druid does. Almost half of my RP with her comes from people going out of their way to make her angry. And let me tell you that this gets old fast. It's really no fun to have to RP negative things all the time. When it comes to battle tactics Druids are alway left out of the planning, from what I've seen. When I think that any party would like to have us around. There is no other class that has as much verity as the Druid class does. We can serve as the main healer (minus res), scout, tank, and supporter. I know some of it comes from RP, but at times it seems like people break their alignment just to annoy us.
Laldiien - 2/20/2007 6:38 PM Are people going out of their way or just being people? In my experience, druids are tree-hugging, animal-loving, nature worshippers. Go druids. The rest of us, aren't. I have never gone out of my to annoy a druid, but here's an example. I am on my way to the Sielwood when I run past a goblin. As I am smacking down the goblin, when a druid happens by Just after the goblin is dead, the raven starts in. I kill it. Not really much of a choice, as I can't pacify and I didn't have sanctuary or invis up. As the raven has nothing of interest, I start walking away. The druid starts in on "Why am I killing nature", and "Why am I wasting natures bounty?" yadda yadda. My reply is this. I am perfectly happy to leave nature alone, if nature leaves me alone. If nature decides it doesn't like me, well, may the most sentient win. That being said, I have seen some of the best RP out of druids when they are defending what they perceive to be the right thing. But my character really isn't concerned with their dogma, so it slides in one ear and right out the other. Now, at the same time, almost without exception, I have not seen a druid that wasn't a fanatic about it. That get's old, too. If people are breaking their alignment just to annoy you, I submit they aren't role playing, they're just being asses.
Harlas Ravelkione - 2/21/2007 8:05 AMThere is a faction within the world of Layonara that believe that nature should be put above anything else. That cities should be razed and hunters slain before they slay an animal.But if druids that belong to the "regular" druid network threaten to kill others for hunting badgers for a skin that will enable the pelt trader in the crafthouse to heal his wife they are probably in the wrong place.
Drizzlin - 2/21/2007 2:13 PMQuoteHarlas Ravelkione - 2/21/2007 8:05 AMThere is a faction within the world of Layonara that believe that nature should be put above anything else. That cities should be razed and hunters slain before they slay an animal.But if druids that belong to the "regular" druid network threaten to kill others for hunting badgers for a skin that will enable the pelt trader in the crafthouse to heal his wife they are probably in the wrong place.There is a reason a Druid is suppose to be TN and believe in balance. There is nothing wrong with taking from the land, as long as you are taking only what you need, and giving back what you can. Killing a deer for the hide and meat is acceptable. It is the slaughtering of animals for only their hides that would be frowned upon, or should be frowned upon.
miasma_hemlock - 2/21/2007 4:46 PM Uh, I did not post it twice, I edited it because I did not want to name that person specifically; he was certainly a problem but not the only one at the time. And the post itself did not bother me, but the fact that the contents were were typical of what was being said to me on a near-daily basis over and over (and worse). And I did try to get some GM help but there is a limit to how much I want to go crying to the teacher when there's a bully on the playground. But I don't want this to be about me getting harassed and what to do in that situation, I just use my story as an example that druids are a favorite target by some people who may not even have a good reason why (as if all the hatred that was supposed to go to drows is reserved for druids instead.)
Looking at a druids uses in a party rather than RPing your character as they would react to one is metagaming and poor RP.
The times I get angry are when I have tamed an animal and someone decides its necessary to force attack it anyhow or does not give me the time to tame it before turning to kill it.
Talan Va'lash - 2/21/2007 11:36 PMQuoteThe times I get angry are when I have tamed an animal and someone decides its necessary to force attack it anyhow or does not give me the time to tame it before turning to kill it.I don't think this happens. I've killed stuff thats been tamed, but it's because the thing doesn't become non-hostile for a couple seconds and unless you're constantly holding tab you have no way of knowing since it doesn't cancel attack actions when they become friendly.
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