Soulthieves: Druid class revisions.
This is a change I'd been chewing on a while.
Druids worship Eyon the Robust, the Goddess of Nature in the Clear Pantheon. She supplies their clerical magic, under the discipline of natural witchcraft. They are also strongly attuned to the elemental planes, so they also begin the game with some elemental magic skills.
Previously, they also had additional clerical magic options in biomancy and necromancy (the magics of life and death respectively), which broadly fit their mission to enforce equilibrium. But I've been on the fence about that since I first conceived it, since it arguably unbalances the class entirely; with natural witchcraft supplemented by elemental magic abilities, they are already quite powerful. The main balancing consideration is that druids are essentially not allowed to kill animals if they can at all avoid it; their lowest-level invocation, Empathy of the Wilds, in fact allows them to calm hostile animals. An occasional kill for food could be okay, but since druids don't possess the Hunting skill (which increases the likelihood of a kill yielding a corpse) and do possess the Foraging skill (which allows you to gather plant and mushroom products), they probably shouldn't even try to do that, and in any case they do eventually gain access to the invocation Fey Satiety, which satiates when your food inventory is low. On biomancy and necromancy themselves, obviously those enforcing balance would have to practise both, not just one or the other. This obligatory study of both just gives druids a ridiculous amount of power (the animal restriction notwithstanding), even if they have to balance their use of each against the use of the other. No other cleric comes close to having that kind of ability.
Thus, druids may no longer practise biomancy or necromancy in addition to natural witchcraft, because Eyon no longer supplies either. They have more than enough options as is. Biomancy may now only be practised under Ilene the Soft-spoken, the Goddess of Peace in the Light Pantheon; Necromancy may only be practised under Martes the Chain Bearer, the Goddess of Death in the Dark Pantheon. Druids who wish to practise those arts will have to do what everyone else has to do: convert.
Druids worship Eyon the Robust, the Goddess of Nature in the Clear Pantheon. She supplies their clerical magic, under the discipline of natural witchcraft. They are also strongly attuned to the elemental planes, so they also begin the game with some elemental magic skills.
Previously, they also had additional clerical magic options in biomancy and necromancy (the magics of life and death respectively), which broadly fit their mission to enforce equilibrium. But I've been on the fence about that since I first conceived it, since it arguably unbalances the class entirely; with natural witchcraft supplemented by elemental magic abilities, they are already quite powerful. The main balancing consideration is that druids are essentially not allowed to kill animals if they can at all avoid it; their lowest-level invocation, Empathy of the Wilds, in fact allows them to calm hostile animals. An occasional kill for food could be okay, but since druids don't possess the Hunting skill (which increases the likelihood of a kill yielding a corpse) and do possess the Foraging skill (which allows you to gather plant and mushroom products), they probably shouldn't even try to do that, and in any case they do eventually gain access to the invocation Fey Satiety, which satiates when your food inventory is low. On biomancy and necromancy themselves, obviously those enforcing balance would have to practise both, not just one or the other. This obligatory study of both just gives druids a ridiculous amount of power (the animal restriction notwithstanding), even if they have to balance their use of each against the use of the other. No other cleric comes close to having that kind of ability.
Thus, druids may no longer practise biomancy or necromancy in addition to natural witchcraft, because Eyon no longer supplies either. They have more than enough options as is. Biomancy may now only be practised under Ilene the Soft-spoken, the Goddess of Peace in the Light Pantheon; Necromancy may only be practised under Martes the Chain Bearer, the Goddess of Death in the Dark Pantheon. Druids who wish to practise those arts will have to do what everyone else has to do: convert.