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[3/3.5] Something for Wild Shapers
« on: August 27, 2009, 12:26:55 AM »
While digging around in my stack of books and files, I found The Quintessential Druid. It has a rather interesting wild shape variant. It lets you customize your W.S. to suit your wants and needs. Never want to be a plant? fine! change into an animal a few extra times, or pick a favorite shape and get bonuses in that form.

A few downsides: it's a D20, 3rd edition book, so a few things need hashing out (if you want Dragons later in your career, you'll need to take Beasts, witch don't exist any longer) and the second book in the series does nothing to errata this. It also clashes with MoMF, as most of what it gives you you can pick up with this variant. It can also up the Druids power even further, But the Wild Shape Ranger might be okay with it.

Anyways, I just thought I'd bring this to light for those that want to have a few more options for Wild Shaping but didn't want to make something themselves.


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Re: [3/3.5] Something for Wild Shapers
« Reply #1 on: August 27, 2009, 05:54:18 AM »
Ofcourse it's a third party book, so it might not fly with a lot of DMs :)
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Re: [3/3.5] Something for Wild Shapers
« Reply #2 on: September 30, 2009, 03:28:24 PM »
Too true but I still think it is worth a look :)

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Re: [3/3.5] Something for Wild Shapers
« Reply #3 on: September 30, 2009, 06:40:39 PM »
Interesting for the Druid guys.

I don't think WildShape has as much going for it, than say PAO or Shapechange or Metamorphic Transfer.
So it looks on speedy eye-ball, like a new mini tactic set for mid-level games, and high Tier classes.
Well, if you are bored with such a game, this can provide some zest.

v3.0e stuff usually doesn't feel very problematic to me.
Anything un-updated is supposed to be v3.5e kosher in any case.
iirc - Haste, Heal, and Ranger 1 dips were the stuff people got most cranky about, back then.
That was the Fighter 18 / Barbarian 2 vs Fighter 20 argument days. Heh.

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Re: [3/3.5] Something for Wild Shapers
« Reply #4 on: October 01, 2009, 05:52:53 AM »
Meh, plenty of feats and spells to make Wild Shape interesting as far as I'm concerned :)

But yeah, it can be nice if your DM allows it :)
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