Warforged + Druid?

[Hellllboy]

Speculation on body feats available?

[voodoogroves]

There was a druid-centric body feat.

There was also a PRC, Landforged Walker, which was pretty spiffy - but I don't think we'd be so lucky ... esp. if we're not getting juggernaut ...

[dkyle]

My guess is they'll just treat the default Composite body as kosher for Druids, like it is for Monks, and leave it at that.

[Chai]

First we get toaster liches, now we can have golem bear-barians.

Bearsharktopus, FTW

[thwart]

I thought druids were tree loving hippies ... why would a race made out of wood be permitted to be a druid? Druids wouldn't want to kill a bunch of trees to make a robot would they? Or should I say ... wood they?

[Zachski]

I thought druids were tree loving hippies ... why would a race made out of wood be permitted to be a druid? Druids wouldn't want to kill a bunch of trees to make a robot would they? Or should I say ... wood they?

Yeah no.

The misconception that druids are tree loving hippies is just silly.

For one thing, have you looked at the armor they can wear? They can't use metal of any sort. That means their armor has to be made from either animal hide (which means animals must be killed) or cloth (which means that plants had to be harvested, which kills them) and their shields have to be made from wood (which means that a tree had to be cut down at one point)

Druids respect nature and seek to balance it out. And if you look out the window, nature isn't sunshine and daisies... it's a dog eat dog world out there. Balancing it out means that when you cut down a tree, you plant another tree. That sorta thing.

[hermespan]

Yeah no.

The misconception that druids are tree loving hippies is just silly.

For one thing, have you looked at the armor they can wear? They can't use metal of any sort. That means their armor has to be made from either animal hide (which means animals must be killed) or cloth (which means that plants had to be harvested, which kills them) and their shields have to be made from wood (which means that a tree had to be cut down at one point)

Druids respect nature and seek to balance it out. And if you look out the window, nature isn't sunshine and daisies... it's a dog eat dog world out there. Balancing it out means that when you cut down a tree, you plant another tree. That sorta thing.

Maybe druids cull diseased trees and use the wood from them. A fungal tree disease is usually contagious and will kill the tree and spread to other trees, but you can still usually use the wood if the tree hasn't died and rotted. Another situation would be cutting a fire line into a forest to contain a forest fire. Those trees most assuredly wouldn't go to waste (assuming druids used this fire control technique).

Lightning strikes can also kill a tree without necessarily destroying all of the wood.

There are all sorts of situations where natural resources can be harvested in such a way to be beneficial to the forest. Sometimes nature provides a necessity to harvest in order to keep the forest healthy.

[wax_on_wax_off]

Maybe druids cull diseased trees and use the wood from them. A fungal tree disease is usually contagious and will kill the tree and spread to other trees, but you can still usually use the wood if the tree hasn't died and rotted. Another situation would be cutting a fire line into a forest to contain a forest fire. Those trees most assuredly wouldn't go to waste (assuming druids used this fire control technique).

Lightning strikes can also kill a tree without necessarily destroying all of the wood.

There are all sorts of situations where natural resources can be harvested in such a way to be beneficial to the forest. Sometimes nature provides a necessity to harvest in order to keep the forest healthy.

If a tree falls in a forest ... there's a druid there ready to make a shield out of it?

[Zachski]

Maybe druids cull diseased trees and use the wood from them. A fungal tree disease is usually contagious and will kill the tree and spread to other trees, but you can still usually use the wood if the tree hasn't died and rotted. Another situation would be cutting a fire line into a forest to contain a forest fire. Those trees most assuredly wouldn't go to waste (assuming druids used this fire control technique).

Lightning strikes can also kill a tree without necessarily destroying all of the wood.

There are all sorts of situations where natural resources can be harvested in such a way to be beneficial to the forest. Sometimes nature provides a necessity to harvest in order to keep the forest healthy.

And I'm sure the non-druid shopkeepers that all player characters buy from took perfect pains to make sure to only take diseased wood.

And I'm pretty sure they figured out a way to skin animals without killing them, too.

[Tsuarok]

Maybe druids cull diseased trees and use the wood from them. A fungal tree disease is usually contagious and will kill the tree and spread to other trees, but you can still usually use the wood if the tree hasn't died and rotted. Another situation would be cutting a fire line into a forest to contain a forest fire. Those trees most assuredly wouldn't go to waste (assuming druids used this fire control technique).

Lightning strikes can also kill a tree without necessarily destroying all of the wood.

There are all sorts of situations where natural resources can be harvested in such a way to be beneficial to the forest. Sometimes nature provides a necessity to harvest in order to keep the forest healthy.

No, that way they'd be killing the tree AND the fungus! Balance involves some trees dying.

And really, fungus can't be good for shield strength.

[UrbanPyro]

Deleted.

[Meetch1972]

Lightning-Split Soarwood?

Good stuff.

Given the choice, I'd rather use Sapient Pearwood

Oh hang on, wrong world...

[HatsuharuZ]

Well, if a warforged can become a druid, then I insist that they get the option to plant flowers on themselves to gain a bonus to Hide when they're in a woodland area. Oh, and a special "Polymorph Self Into Tree-form" feat!

[Bacab]

Maybe they will add some flavor into the description like "Warforged Druids are not metal, but are actually wood treated with the Iron-wood spell".