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Art, Writing, and Learning: The Clerisy Quarter => Arts, Crafts, Music & Drama - The Artisans' Guilds => Topic started by: dubsartur on April 13, 2023, 02:20:58 AM
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This blog post leans in to the True Neutral, battling-for-rank nature of Druids in 1e D&D and the possibility of Druids as major antagonists or villains rather than Radaghast figures. Its take is one take!
https://goblinpunch.blogspot.com/2014/09/7-myths-everyone-believes-about-druids.html
https://www.xenograg.com/1158/role-playing/jealous-hoarding-of-magic-spells
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The sort of dark druid archetype is actually a pretty major point in the Baldur's Gate games, you can't go into a forest without tripping over a camp of them, and in BG2 there's definitely a section of competing druid ideologies becoming a side plot point, which I think is really interesting.
This reminds me I had a good Mastodon post on alternative biome druids from the Exilian account, which I meant to write into an article but never did. I should get back to that.
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The sort of dark druid archetype is actually a pretty major point in the Baldur's Gate games, you can't go into a forest without tripping over a camp of them, and in BG2 there's definitely a section of competing druid ideologies becoming a side plot point, which I think is really interesting.
This reminds me I had a good Mastodon post on alternative biome druids from the Exilian account, which I meant to write into an article but never did. I should get back to that.
I've always been a big fan of the feral 'return the world to wilderness by destroying all civilizations' druid mentality ;D
Not really a 'light or dark' archetype, since they despise good and evil civilizations equally.
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The sort of dark druid archetype is actually a pretty major point in the Baldur's Gate games, you can't go into a forest without tripping over a camp of them, and in BG2 there's definitely a section of competing druid ideologies becoming a side plot point, which I think is really interesting.
This reminds me I had a good Mastodon post on alternative biome druids from the Exilian account, which I meant to write into an article but never did. I should get back to that.
Humh, I played BG 2 and the expansion and I do not remember that! It must have been almost 20 years ago which is a long time.
Pop culture druids do have tropes around human sacrifice and survival of that which should be forgotten.
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I've always been a big fan of the feral 'return the world to wilderness by destroying all civilizations' druid mentality ;D
IIRC this was basically the faction I played the one time I did a full run of Wizard Warfare, it was very enjoyable :)