[Dungeon Fantasy] Druid without obligation to Nature - Page 2

patchwork · 05-09-2016, 10:44 PM

Well, "Nature" is not precisely defined generally. In that other game, we have Druidic schools named after seasons, with Winter Druids revering "nature red in tooth and claw", "survival of the fittest" and that sort of thing. A Duty to that conception of Nature could involve culling the weak, constant exercise and tests to prove and ensure that you yourself weren't one of the weak, foregoing the use of devices (and making other people forego them), et cetera. (for the record, Summer is Nature as Bountiful Provider, Spring is Nature as Self-Organizing and Maintaining System, and Autumn is Nature as Unfettered by Reason or Discipline). Summer and Winter Druids both would agree that Nature is there to be used by people (Spring and Autumn Druids would not).

DocRailgun · 05-12-2016, 10:21 PM

What do people who want to drop out of a culture they saw as too worldly (hippies) have to do with nature priests? Historical druids (if they even existed) probably weren't part of a nature cult at all.

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Originally Posted by Randyman

Hence the original question: non-hippy Druids? I still say yes.

Randyman · 05-13-2016, 07:06 AM

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Originally Posted by DocRailgun

What do people who want to drop out of a culture they saw as too worldly (hippies) have to do with nature priests? Historical druids (if they even existed) probably weren't part of a nature cult at all.

It's a prominent trope among fantasy gamers. "Environmentalist" might be a more accurate contemporary comparison, but "hippy" is an older pejorative; in this context, modified by "tree-hugging".

weso12 · 05-10-2016, 11:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Dammann

What? My copy does. Sense of Duty (Wild Nature), DF1 page 7. I mean, play whatever is fun, but DF Druids are hippies, afaict.

I just checked and it's not required, you don't have to be a hippie if you don't want.

Dammann · 05-11-2016, 10:27 AM

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Originally Posted by weso12

I just checked and it's not required, you don't have to be a hippie if you don't want.

Ah, yes, I misread it. It's just one of the options for quasi-pact Disads.

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patchwork Join Date: Oct 2011	Re: [Dungeon Fantasy] Druid without obligation to Nature Well, "Nature" is not precisely defined generally. In that other game, we have Druidic schools named after seasons, with Winter Druids revering "nature red in tooth and claw", "survival of the fittest" and that sort of thing. A Duty to that conception of Nature could involve culling the weak, constant exercise and tests to prove and ensure that you yourself weren't one of the weak, foregoing the use of devices (and making other people forego them), et cetera. (for the record, Summer is Nature as Bountiful Provider, Spring is Nature as Self-Organizing and Maintaining System, and Autumn is Nature as Unfettered by Reason or Discipline). Summer and Winter Druids both would agree that Nature is there to be used by people (Spring and Autumn Druids would not).