Druids in Basic Fantasy RPG

[@praxistallyogarro]

I love the idea of "Slow Potion" as a spell, where in it would extend the duration of a consumed potion. Thanks for the idea. I know you just misread that but it's still a good idea for a handy little spell.

[@toddlyons]

Thanks for saying so. That might be the first time that an error I left in (why pretend to be perfect?) ended up as value-added content.

[@retrodmray]

Great video, Todd! I've kinda been away from the BFRPG scene for a while now, but getting back into it with the family and will likely be binging on your stuff again! Do you have a video comparing the 3rd edition vs the 4th? I'm on the fence about picking it up due to having 4 copies of 3rd already. Thnx! 👊🤓

[@toddlyons]

Hey, Ray. I don't, but I highly recommend this one from Wes @DMTalesTTRPG : kzbin.info/www/bejne/n5qtiWl-gp1-rs0

[@MrSteveK1138]

Great video as always! I know Illusion magic isn't to your liking, but having played one on AD&D 1e I'd be interested in your views after a deeper delve. 🌈🧙🏻‍♂️

[@toddlyons]

I wish I had the opportunity to observe a skilled Illusionist the way I've played with skilled Druids. It's likely that my failure to appreciate certain classes is due to a failure of my own imagination.

[@MrSteveK1138]

​@@toddlyons It's always better to see that in action. I see illusions as a Sun Tzu way of fighting: warfare is all about deception

[@SteveSwannJr]

Could you make a volume 2 with the illusionist, ranger, paladin, druid, etc? Then volume 1 would contain the core, volume 2 with the supplements.

[@toddlyons]

Are you referring to the Basic Fantasy Core Rulebook?

[@SteveSwannJr]

@@toddlyons the illusionist, ranger, paladin, druid, etcetera are not in the cool rule book. They are supplements on the BF site. You did such a great job with the first compendium, it was just an idea for a second edition.

[@PvtSchlock]

I used to accept the granola hippy type druid, but over the decades I have come to a different perspective. I blame anthropology and literature. But the notion that animals are different than humans is a notion that is more modern than not. When you wear the monkey mask are you like the monkey, or do you become the monkey? The similarities between animism and the system of concordance-opposition we see in medieval astrology is no mere coincidence to my mind. What gods of the ancients didn't reference the natural world? "Nature Gods" is a kind of silly distinction really. "Old Gods" I can see because we can see shifts and displacement in peoples as outside groups move into territory and [ahem] "replace" those already present (it wasn't always genocidal as we see with the Bom Santo Cave Necropolis or the Amesbury Archer, but I don't wish to make the exception the rule here). Are druids in the magi archetype, or are the closer a priesthood? In reality nobody in the Neolithic or ancient thought of this natural balance/preservation stuff. The priesthood or perhaps "Druid" saught to assist their people, their ethnos in exploiting the natural resources in order to live and thrive. That said, we have hard evidence that these people would thin heavier woods so as to expand the forest edge, which has a greater variety of resources and hosts a wider range of animal life. At any rate, in a game it all depends on what you are trying to set up and the stories players will create by interacting with that. Thanks for the wonderful video production and for sharing your thoughts.