I got to thinking about these experiments, and I realized that I had yet to try converting a druid. I am a huge fan of druids, both as a concept and as a character class, with the 1st Ed AD&D one near the top of my list. I have done more than a few Bards, but no druid yet.
This also got me thinking about which Druid to use. I have plenty, including a few that have never seen "print" on these pages. But in the end, I am opting for an atypical druid. I am going to build Fear Dorich, the Dark Druid.
Fear Dorich has a history in my games. I stated him up once for Castles & Crusades for a previous Character Creation Challenge, and he was the main antagonist of the Buffy adventure The Dark Druid. He is a great character with quite a lot of history with me.
Fear Dorich, and that is not his name, It means "Dark Man," is or was a normal Druid. But in my games he is fighting the rising tide of Christianity. So he has taken it upon himself to keep the worship of the new God to a minimum by killing all the new worshipers. It is a losing battle, we all know, but that is the character I am playing here. So he is not about grabbing what power he can to achieve those ends.
Class: Sorcerer
Level: 5
Species: Human
Alignment: Dark
Background: Animistic
Abilities
Strength: 12 (+0)
Agility: 16 (+2)
Toughness: 14 (+1) N
Intelligence: 18 (+3) N
Wits: 17 (+2) A
Persona: 18 (+3)
Fate Points: 1d8
Defense Value: 8
Vitality: 25
Degeneracy: 0
Corruption: 1
Check Bonus (A/N/D): +3/+2/+1
Melee Bonus: +1 (base)
Ranged Bonus: +1 (base)
Spell Attack: +3
Saves: +4 (+2) to Spells and Magical effects (Sorcerer), +2 to Persona saves, -2 to magic saves if far from a source of Radiance
Sorcerer Abilities
Arcana, Arcane Powers (2): Wild Form, Shadow Walk
Sorcerer Spells
First Level: Armor of Earth, Bless, Restore Food and Water
Second Level: Beguile Person, Invoke Fear
Third Level: Dark Lightning
Heroic/Divine Touchstones
1st Level: +1 to combat, Scimitar
2nd Level: Precognition Power
Animistic Background
Animal Summoning 1
Speak with Plants and Animals
Heroic (Divine) Archetype: Death
Gear
Scimitar
Wasted Lands Druids
This is Fear Dorich early into his career of killing members of the new faith. He already has a 1 point of corruption, and I am expecting a lot more.
Wasted Lands does an excellent job with druids; to be honest, you just have to choose your arcane powers and divine touchstones well.
He also fits in well to something else I am working on, but maybe more on that next week or even later down the line.
You can get the Wasted Lands RPG and the NIGHT SHIFT RPG at Elf Lair Games.
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