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Sunday Respite - A Druid’s Arsenal
Druids suffer when it comes time to divvy up loot and salvaged equipment throughout the party. They often cannot wield metal weapons nor armours, the tenants of their faith explicitly restricting them from doing so. Instead, they must only lay hands upon whatever the earth gifts them.
Sometimes that is just a stick. Maybe, if you’re lucky, a pointy stick.
Let’s change that now, shall we?
Here are five pieces of equipment for the walking wrath of a winter’s storm, the living breath of the wild, and the legends that take the responsibilities of the world. A Herculean task indeed, for they bare the entirety of it upon their shoulders and may well be the last few keeping it from shattering upon the ground.
I love me a good Druid.
Rootbreaker
A casual passer-by would never discern this gnarled branch of wood as anything above the leaf-litter it hides within. A wise-hearted man of the world may be able to identify the true potential held within if they search close enough. They will see a boiling, primal strength stored amongst its coiled fibers; a seething hatred that predates most venerable civilisations and folk who reside within. It carries itself through the air like an ogre’s club, promising unrivaled impact with every hurl of the shoulder, roaring with every swing. Often, however, the weapon remains undiscovered and lies for years on-end without recognition. That is until a wandering child takes up the club and plays with it for a while, miming the sword-swings and parries of a mighty knight or storied warrior of old, until that is they accidentally topple an oak tree with a single strike to the trunk.
Blackboar Cloak
This item of apparel is a hooded cloak constructed from the hide and head of a huge boar with fur as dark as coal dust. The head is hollow and jawless, sitting atop the wearer’s scalp as if they indeed were a boar on human legs. Its trailing fur is coarse and warm, nearly entirely resistant to arrows and bolts, bouncing them away like glancing blades of dry grass off of a stone wall. Whenever the possessor has the capability to transform themselves into other creatures, they find that their new forms possess the strength of the boar itself. Many foes think twice of attacking a party when they see that they possess a house cat that can push merchant-carts clean off of roads and break a man’s knee backwards at the joint with a single brutish kick.
Spear of Sanctuary
This lancing pike, nearly 7-foot in height, is decorated at the head by a collection of half-a-dozen brightly-coloured feathers and leaves that never rot or discolour. The spearhead is a wicked, snaking stone that is saber-sharp on its bladed edges. It can easily puncture through steel plate if directed well enough. More interestingly, this spear, when held aloft and proudly, allows all those within a few yards to be utterly unharmed by natural weathers. Blizzard winds and snowstorms will pass over like a blanket of cotton, hail and flash-flood rains will bounce away and around as if they were afeared to land at your feet, and oppressive sunlight and searing heat will simmer down to a cool day of gentle temperature and calm.
Palm of the Patriarch
An ancient Druid and wise leader of his people was faced with war. He had several allies, but possessed little to no preparation for outright hostile conflicts. Noticing this, one of these allied civilised regions offered an entire arsenal of fine steel and wicked silver; swords with strength and craft of enough quality to surely sever a mountain from its peak. However, the Druid’s devotion to his deity made it impossible to willingly wield metal. His allies merely smiled and revealed the second shipment they had brought; a single chest. Inside were dozens of red-leather hand-wraps that looped around the palms of the wearer. It was explained that whatever weapon was wielded within a hand that was dressed in one of these, regardless of the manner of its manufacture, would become something else; a stone just as fine and sharp as steel, yet not. The Druid accepted the gifts and paid with a thankful smile and warm embrace of his allies. He would stand beside them when war finally came to their lands.
Wrath Bolt
This crossbow bolt is large and heavilly damaged. It’s shaft is crooked and queer, nearly as awkward to aim with as it would be with a writhing ferret instead. It’s chipped flint head is loosely attached with frayed string and wire. The entire body of the object is unattractive to a worrying degree. Once fired it will collide with the target and merely splinter upon impact; the head breaking into dust and the shaft thudding into the obstacle. Then, a few moments later, a great disturbance will echo around as the trees themselves shake and quiver, the skies cry with a thousand songs, and the ground rattles in fear as every living creature within a mile around will halt whatever they were attending to and focus solely on destroying the target. A thousand gulls, a hundred rabbits, a dozen deer, three-hundred wasps, a few-thousand ants, and every squirrel, hedgehog, badger, beaver, otter, and wolf will chase the recipient until his feet collapse away from under him through sheer terror, just before a colossal wave of roaring ferocity rolls over their carcass like an avalanche of tooth and claw.
Enjoy
Pixie x
5/2/17
P.S.
Happy birthday to me (for yesterday) and anyone else who celebrated their birthday in this general allotment of time.
I, for one, approve of the new starters. Especially Rowlet.
Courtesy!! A random tiefling I made and named based on her kind looks (you can tell I like tieflings a whole lot for their varying designs huh?). A normal (druid) human dude that I'll be playing soon!! And just some fun drawing a dragonborn.
My gorgeous friend (soon to be sister-in-law 💕) changeling druid Fawn from our last campaign. I need to draw the new crew!
my Circle of Stars druid, Sùje!
First commission I got were some goobers!
Oh shit, it's #GOBLINWEEK ! Here's my bugbear druid, Jerry Goodberry. I'll be posting all the drawings I have of him this week :P
Pathfinder 1E - Feral Archetypes
Art by Pathfinder artist Will O'Brien I'm diving back into Pathfinder again for more monstrous character flavour. Rather than races and traits, this time I'm looking at class archetypes that have a wild/feral feel to them (mostly Druid and Barbarian) I found all of these on the Archives of Nethys, which is a great resource for Pathfinder content, so consider supporting them if you find their stuff useful! Archetypes in Pathfinder 1E work differently to D&D. Instead of every character getting one at an early level, they're optional, and you swap out of some of the core class abilities for the archetype versions.
Feral Gnasher (Barbarian; goblin-only)
Feral gnashers grow up in the wild, either raised by animals or scraping by on their own, and soon learn to fend for themselves. These barbarians often utilize pieced-together armor and fight with their sharp teeth and whatever improvised weapons are within reach.
Alternate Abilities: Savage Bite, Lockjaw, Wicked Improvisation
Devolutionist (Druid)
Full of simmering hatred toward civilization and those who dwell within it, devolutionists believe that the world would be better off without any sentient life at all. They transform intelligent creatures and domesticated animals into throwbacks to their feral ancestors. Alternate Abilities: Undomesticate, Devolution I really like this one as a concept for a villain or an evil PC. This kind of insane Darwinism makes for a compelling bad-guy motivation. It's exactly the kind of insidious ideology Thrash is struggling against in his arc as a PC as well.
Flesheater (Barbarian)
A flesheater eats flesh to create a spiritual bond between herself and the consumed creature, allowing her to take on aspects of the creature that served as the meal. Alternate Abilities: One Flesh, Feast, Unbound Form
Pack Lord (Druid)
Some druids bond with many animal companions rather than just one, achieving a level of communion rare even in druidic circles and leading their pack brothers and pack sisters with total authority.
Alternate Abilities: Pack Bond, Improved Empathic Link
Mad Dog (Barbarian)
Though named for the wild savages who fight alongside rabid dogs, mad dogs employ all manner of beasts as their battle brethren.
Alternate Abilities: War Beast, Pack Tactics, Ferocious Fetch
River Rat (Rogue)
What highway robbers are to roads, river rats are to waterways. Skilled at hiding amid reeds and roots, these rogues strike the unwary from the shallows as others would from the shadows. Despite their strong association with banditry, river rats make excellent guides and hunters.
Alternate Abilities: Swamper, Rat's Resilience
Wild Rager (Barbarian)
Rages are barely controlled, but there are those who wholly give in to their more savage side, letting their rages take them to a confusing and uncontrolled place of terrible savagery. These barbarians become beasts, consumed with absolute bloodlust to the point where they cannot tell friend from foe.
Alternate Abilities: Uncontrolled Rage, Wild Fighting, Rage Conversion
Holy Beast (Shifter)
Thousands of gods are venerated in Vudra, and devoted followers might have personal relationships with their chosen deities. Holy beast shifters pledge to hunt down their deity’s enemies to earn that deity’s blessing. These shifters tend to take on the aspect of their deity’s sacred animal, and many of them seek to destroy rakshasas.
Alternate Abilities: Blessed Claws, Divine Fury
Feral Child (Druid; human-only)
Some youths, abandoned in the wilderness and then raised by animals, are so connected with their adoptive home and family that they become feral. Suspicious of civilized society, these foundlings often choose allegiance to the wild over their human forebears.
Alternate Abilities: Illiteracy, Beast Family, Native Cunning,
Rageshaper (Bloodrager)
All bloodragers blend the unpredictable surge of arcane power with the savage fury of battle lust. For most, their rage is a conduit for the eldritch power locked in their heritage, but for a rageshaper, the latent magical energies in his blood bring about physical transformations and facilitate the blending of arcana and aggression into a deadly synthesis that few other barbarians (or even other bloodragers) can match.
Alternate Abilities: Bestial Aspect, Furious Transformation
Wild Hunter (Ranger)
A wild hunter seeks to emulate the animals around him to keep him safe while he tracks his prey. Instead of studying the traits and behaviors of a favored enemy, a wild hunter studies those of various animals, incorporating those attributes into his hunting strategy.
Alternate Abilities: Animal Focus, Shared Focus
Mooncursed (Barbarian)
Some barbarians exhibit an unusual form of lycanthropy powered by their fury. Such a character transforms willfully but can maintain her animal or hybrid forms only while raging.
Alternate Abilities: Shifting Rage, Hybrid Rage
Weretouched (Shifter)
Weretouched shifters are scions of lycanthropic forces, whether hereditary or supernaturally imposed. They can assume both animal and hybrid forms, as a lycanthrope does.
Alternate Abilities: Lycanthropic Aspect, Lycanthropic Empathy, Lycanthropic Wild Shape
imagine how sick casting call lighting must look like just raising your hand and calling forth lightning from the sky to annihilate your enemies
I’ve been trying to make a point of drawing more often recently and I think I’ve made some improvements. I actually feel ok about uploading these. The top one is the human Druid I’m playing in a D&D campaign, the second one is one of the NPCs that have turned up and the last one is the Drow Bladesinger I’m going to be playing in a oneshot. If things continue to go well then hopefully I’ll have more stuff I feel ok about uploading.
Meet Ivetta! My latest D&D character for a new campaign. She’s a Druid Shifter, and I’m excited to see how her character develops! • • • •⠀⠀ • #love #characterdesign #me #cute #art #photooftheday #instamood #dnd #dnd5e #dnd5e #igers #girl #beautiful #instadaily #summer #dndart #artwork #follow #moondruid #bestoftheday #happy #artists #myart #digitalart #artsy #druid #fashion #illustration #fun #moon via https://www.instagram.com/p/BwGCOzfFjy3/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=nyyy9sgwc69d
Is it bad that I like the design of my character more than the actual character? Idk druids are just seeming like worse plant wizards.... • • •⠀⠀ • #dnd #dungeonsanddragons #dnd5e #dndart #dndcharacter #dnddruid #druid #moondruid #fantasyart #rpg #tabletop #rpgcharacter #myoc #oc #myart #art #digitalart #moon #celestial #panther #gold #5edruif #magic #characterart #fanart #mycharacter #design #fashion #vintage #elf via @preview.app https://www.instagram.com/p/BwVNftxDlaW/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=7qklnvm8fs36