Can a Druid be greedy! [Archive] - Wizards Community

Can a Druid be greedy! [Archive] - Wizards Community

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Lokik
03-30-04, 10:57 AM I play a druid in my friends campain. I ended up leading the group as I have the best ideas, awsome cha. and maxed out diplomacy. My DM keeps putting me in situations where people give me missions to go on and I always push for the maximum payment. One of the other players is a veteran and scoffs at me out of game and tells me that druids are not greedy. I never keep the gold or hoard anything. I always buy supplies or potions or the best stuff that I can find, which is one of the only reasons I will go into town. What do you think?
Lord of the Pebble
03-30-04, 11:08 AM I think it is not as much as the actions you take, but more the purpose which lies behind.
lancean
03-30-04, 11:11 AM I don't recall reading anyplace that a druid can't be greedy. That's like saying a dwarf can't run from a fight, or a halfling MUST be sneaky, or all monks talk with a soft oriental accent. You might not match his personal vision of a druid, maybe, but then you're not playing HIS druid, are you? :cool:

And I don't see what you have described as greed. I have no problem with a forceful and pragmatic druid. Survival of the fittest, top of the food chain kind of thinking there. Maybe the other player doesn't like it much, but that hardly gives him grounds to complain about character conception.
LordObsidion
03-30-04, 12:26 PM Thanks Iancean.
Shadowfax7
03-30-04, 01:01 PM The fact that you want to roleplay your druid as "greedy" or not is a factor of your alignment, not your class.

From the 3.5 SRD showing which alignments a Druid can have:

Alignment: Neutral good, lawful neutral, neutral, chaotic neutral, or neutral evil.

I would say that with any of those alignments you could be greedy if you wanted to. :D
SmiloDan
03-30-04, 01:16 PM My druid is kind of greedy too, but I blame the party's "professional adventurer" for rubbing off on me. And he was the heir to the throne of the equivalent of the Unseelie Court in the campaign we play in, so he used to the "good" life. Well, the viley evil life with lots of stuff, anyways.

Also, my other character in the "other half" of the campaign is a Vow of Poverty monk, so he don't get squat.

A greedy druid actually makes a lot of sense from a sociobiological point of view. You need to maximize your resources to maximize your genetic fitness. Wealth is actually a very good and versatile commodity to possess, because it can be converted to food, drink, sexual access, shelter, protection from rivals, protection of offspring, a tool for bartering for favors and/or information, etc. In a fantasy campaign, you can even use it to influence the weather if you know the right spellcaster! A behavioral ecological druid would maximize her fitness with any tool she has available, be this a politics, powerful spell, might of arms, or great wealth.

Post/Author/DateTime	Post
Lokik 03-30-04, 10:57 AM	I play a druid in my friends campain. I ended up leading the group as I have the best ideas, awsome cha. and maxed out diplomacy. My DM keeps putting me in situations where people give me missions to go on and I always push for the maximum payment. One of the other players is a veteran and scoffs at me out of game and tells me that druids are not greedy. I never keep the gold or hoard anything. I always buy supplies or potions or the best stuff that I can find, which is one of the only reasons I will go into town. What do you think?
Lord of the Pebble 03-30-04, 11:08 AM	I think it is not as much as the actions you take, but more the purpose which lies behind.
lancean 03-30-04, 11:11 AM	I don't recall reading anyplace that a druid can't be greedy. That's like saying a dwarf can't run from a fight, or a halfling MUST be sneaky, or all monks talk with a soft oriental accent. You might not match his personal vision of a druid, maybe, but then you're not playing HIS druid, are you? :cool: And I don't see what you have described as greed. I have no problem with a forceful and pragmatic druid. Survival of the fittest, top of the food chain kind of thinking there. Maybe the other player doesn't like it much, but that hardly gives him grounds to complain about character conception.
LordObsidion 03-30-04, 12:26 PM	Thanks Iancean.
Shadowfax7 03-30-04, 01:01 PM	The fact that you want to roleplay your druid as "greedy" or not is a factor of your alignment, not your class. From the 3.5 SRD showing which alignments a Druid can have: Alignment: Neutral good, lawful neutral, neutral, chaotic neutral, or neutral evil. I would say that with any of those alignments you could be greedy if you wanted to. :D
SmiloDan 03-30-04, 01:16 PM	My druid is kind of greedy too, but I blame the party's "professional adventurer" for rubbing off on me. And he was the heir to the throne of the equivalent of the Unseelie Court in the campaign we play in, so he used to the "good" life. Well, the viley evil life with lots of stuff, anyways. Also, my other character in the "other half" of the campaign is a Vow of Poverty monk, so he don't get squat. A greedy druid actually makes a lot of sense from a sociobiological point of view. You need to maximize your resources to maximize your genetic fitness. Wealth is actually a very good and versatile commodity to possess, because it can be converted to food, drink, sexual access, shelter, protection from rivals, protection of offspring, a tool for bartering for favors and/or information, etc. In a fantasy campaign, you can even use it to influence the weather if you know the right spellcaster! A behavioral ecological druid would maximize her fitness with any tool she has available, be this a politics, powerful spell, might of arms, or great wealth.