Vattic
2007-06-12, 12:16 PM
Hey guys, please forgive me if this has been posted before. I did a few searches using different terms and nothing like this came up so I thought I'd go ahead and ask the community.
I was running a campaign for a while that had an npc that was basically Allanon from the Sword of Shannara series. He was the all around party leader, but just like in the books he'd show up for only a little while, do something impressive and then leave letting the party do what ever they thought they needed to after hearing his advice. Pretty standard stuff, right?
Well for his stat block I went with the normal D&D druid class. As we all know this is actually nothing like the Druids are described in the Shannara books. So basically my solution was to have him in all ways act like the Druids of that series, for example using Druid Fire and the like, but when ever he interacted with the PC's I used his normal character sheet. Obvioulsy this was less than ideal.
It's been years since that campaign and I find myself still wanting to run that type of a character but this time as a player instead of a DM. Unfortunately, I have yet to find a decent class progression for this. I've seen the one presented in Dragon #286 but I have a lot of issues with it. I like how they handled the druid sleep and things like that, but Druid Fire being usable only once a day per every two class levels of Elder Druid is a little, well, retarded. Also, Druids were presented in the novels as being trained in that one discipline from day one, and it seems out of place to take 7 levels of a spellcasting class and then prestige.
So, without further ado, I was wondering if I could pick the collective brain of these forums and see if we could come up with some decent ideas for a class progression for a different, Shannara-setting based Druid that one could start taking at 1st level.
I would think that it would basically be similar to the Warlock class in that Druid Fire should be an at will ability. However, it would start of weak and increase in power over time, and I love the idea that using it excessively causes one to age rapidly and possibly lose con.
If you got this far, I thank you for taking the time to read all of my blathering and I look forward to your responses.
I was running a campaign for a while that had an npc that was basically Allanon from the Sword of Shannara series. He was the all around party leader, but just like in the books he'd show up for only a little while, do something impressive and then leave letting the party do what ever they thought they needed to after hearing his advice. Pretty standard stuff, right?
Well for his stat block I went with the normal D&D druid class. As we all know this is actually nothing like the Druids are described in the Shannara books. So basically my solution was to have him in all ways act like the Druids of that series, for example using Druid Fire and the like, but when ever he interacted with the PC's I used his normal character sheet. Obvioulsy this was less than ideal.
It's been years since that campaign and I find myself still wanting to run that type of a character but this time as a player instead of a DM. Unfortunately, I have yet to find a decent class progression for this. I've seen the one presented in Dragon #286 but I have a lot of issues with it. I like how they handled the druid sleep and things like that, but Druid Fire being usable only once a day per every two class levels of Elder Druid is a little, well, retarded. Also, Druids were presented in the novels as being trained in that one discipline from day one, and it seems out of place to take 7 levels of a spellcasting class and then prestige.
So, without further ado, I was wondering if I could pick the collective brain of these forums and see if we could come up with some decent ideas for a class progression for a different, Shannara-setting based Druid that one could start taking at 1st level.
I would think that it would basically be similar to the Warlock class in that Druid Fire should be an at will ability. However, it would start of weak and increase in power over time, and I love the idea that using it excessively causes one to age rapidly and possibly lose con.
If you got this far, I thank you for taking the time to read all of my blathering and I look forward to your responses.