Most races that fail to support Con or Wis will be uncommon obviously but I don't think I've ever seen someone play with a tiefling or orc druid. And actually an orc druid sounds amazing and I want to see that.
Most races that fail to support Con or Wis will be uncommon obviously but I don't think I've ever seen someone play with a tiefling or orc druid. And actually an orc druid sounds amazing and I want to see that.
I've seen at least one tiefling druid. And Elves get made into druids regularly but they don't boost wis. I've seen several halflings and they have the same thing. But they are races that get seen as in tune with nature so druids naturally come to mind.
It's the physical races despite things like con boosts that seem to be lesser made into Druids. Probably because a lot of people focus on the idea of shape shifting and the Circle of the Moon for the early level boosts that it gets and so they feel that physical stats are somewhat irrelevant.
Half-Orcs could make some very awesome druids however and embrace sides of nature that we don't often see as much played in Druids very easily. But we could also see a half-orc druid that was very tree hugger to defy it's nature equally as well.
I played an elderly (50) half-orc druid for a bunch of years back in 3.5 I picked it just because of how not normal it would be, and I have to say I had a lot of fun with it! I was a summoning focused melee dps-healer. I would summon a ton of creatures to tank for the group, while also hitting fools with my scimitar, and then healing whoever got too low. All the while my owl companion would help with spotting stuff and picking off enemies who tried to run. And then at higher levels, oh boy, finger of death and animate plants are FUN spells!
I RPed him as coming from a small village of half-orcs set in a grassland between a human river city and a orc mountain city. The humans and orcs used to be enemies until thri-kreen attacked both groups, forcing them to work together to fight off the invading bugs. Their alliance resulted in half-orcs, who were too orcish for the humans and too human for the orcs, so they made their own village in the middle. But the grassland was infertile land and so they turned to magic and combined human wizardry with orcish shamanism to form a druidic tradition to help with farming and providing food. My character, being elderly, decided to go on an adventure to learn about the world and try to find any other forms of magic or plants to help his village move beyond just barely surviving.
By the end of the 6+ year campaign my archdruid returned home with an army of exotic plants who formed a forest around his village and would occasionally walk around to help with labor or kill bandits. Fern the bartending fern was my favorite.
As to having ever seen a particular race as a druid, its pretty awesome what a Google image search reveals. Tho maybe the artist was just pondering an unusual combo too, its fun to see the interpretations!
hi there! 4:31 in the morning, and my brain is trying to think of random facts. As such, I wander upon this question:
What is the least played race in tandem with the Druid class?
by this I mean; Which races aren’t ever used when playing as a Druid?
feel free to share your thoughts!
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Most races that fail to support Con or Wis will be uncommon obviously but I don't think I've ever seen someone play with a tiefling or orc druid. And actually an orc druid sounds amazing and I want to see that.
I've seen at least one tiefling druid. And Elves get made into druids regularly but they don't boost wis. I've seen several halflings and they have the same thing. But they are races that get seen as in tune with nature so druids naturally come to mind.
It's the physical races despite things like con boosts that seem to be lesser made into Druids. Probably because a lot of people focus on the idea of shape shifting and the Circle of the Moon for the early level boosts that it gets and so they feel that physical stats are somewhat irrelevant.
Half-Orcs could make some very awesome druids however and embrace sides of nature that we don't often see as much played in Druids very easily. But we could also see a half-orc druid that was very tree hugger to defy it's nature equally as well.
@Fateless the most common elves made into Druids are wood elves, which do get a bonus to Wisdom.
I played an elderly (50) half-orc druid for a bunch of years back in 3.5 I picked it just because of how not normal it would be, and I have to say I had a lot of fun with it! I was a summoning focused melee dps-healer. I would summon a ton of creatures to tank for the group, while also hitting fools with my scimitar, and then healing whoever got too low. All the while my owl companion would help with spotting stuff and picking off enemies who tried to run. And then at higher levels, oh boy, finger of death and animate plants are FUN spells!
I RPed him as coming from a small village of half-orcs set in a grassland between a human river city and a orc mountain city. The humans and orcs used to be enemies until thri-kreen attacked both groups, forcing them to work together to fight off the invading bugs. Their alliance resulted in half-orcs, who were too orcish for the humans and too human for the orcs, so they made their own village in the middle. But the grassland was infertile land and so they turned to magic and combined human wizardry with orcish shamanism to form a druidic tradition to help with farming and providing food. My character, being elderly, decided to go on an adventure to learn about the world and try to find any other forms of magic or plants to help his village move beyond just barely surviving.
By the end of the 6+ year campaign my archdruid returned home with an army of exotic plants who formed a forest around his village and would occasionally walk around to help with labor or kill bandits. Fern the bartending fern was my favorite.
@starkill20 that's awesome!
As to having ever seen a particular race as a druid, its pretty awesome what a Google image search reveals. Tho maybe the artist was just pondering an unusual combo too, its fun to see the interpretations!