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Perhaps the most educated of priests and
characters, druids must pass 20 years of schooling
before earning the title of druid. Therefore, due to
the intensive training and education, a character must
begin as a druid at 1 st level, and also add 10 years to
their starting age. In order to become a druid after
gaining levels in another occupation, the character
must solely devote 20 years to druidic study.
While druids are priests, they also perform
other functions where their culture is dominant, including
religious teachers, judges, and civil administrators.
Supreme power is vested in the archdruid
of a culture.
There are 3 classes of druids: bards, prophets,
and priests. Bards function as per the bard occupation
(not druids), except bardic druids are very
concerned with nature and balance. Prophets function
as per the sorcerer occupation (not druids), except
that they are always female, do not enjoy the
powers and privileges of the druidic priests, and are
very concerned with nature and balance. Druidic
priests, the actual druids, are always male and assisted
by prophets.
Character
Level
Spell
Level
Druids consider the oak tree, mistletoe, and
yew tree as sacred. Rituals are customarily conducted
in oak forests. Druids extensively use altars, usually
as unhewn stone slabs or megaliths found in chambers
in small caves. Atop these caves, when possible,
are circles of megaliths or large stones. Circles
are important to druids, symbolizing the cycles of
nature.
Regarding spells, druids must choose 2 of
the 5 magical disciplines, avoiding the opposite disciplines
(see Chap. 11: Magic). 1 st level druids begin
with 2d6 spells, which are determined randomly
within their disciplines. Spells are granted collectively
by the gods worshipped. By advancing an
occupational level, druids automatically learn (1d4 -
1) new spells, selected randomly from the chosen
disciplines.
When a druid advances an occupational level,
the player must roll 1d100 and consult the table below.
The table lists the percentage chance of advancing
to a higher spell level. Future spells are determined
randomly by spell level and discipline.
Likelihood of Advancing in Spell Level
2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
2 20%
- - - - - - - -
3 28%
16%
- - - - - - -
4 35%
24%
13%
- - - - - -
5 43%
32%
19%
10%
- - - - -
6 50%
37%
25%
15%
7%
- - - -
7 60%
44%
32%
21%
13%
5%
- - -
8 70%
50%
38%
27%
18%
10%
4%
- -
9 80%
60%
44%
33%
24%
15%
12%
3%
-
10
90%
70%
50%
38%
29%
20%
16%
10%
2%
11
100%
80%
60%
44%
34%
25%
22%
14%
12%
12
- 90%
70%
50%
40%
30%
25%
18%
16%
13
- 100%
80%
60%
45%
35%
29%
22%
20%
14
- - 90%
70%
50%
40%
33%
26%
24%
15
- - 100%
80%
60%
45%
38%
30%
28%
16
- - - 90%
70%
50%
42%
34%
32%
17
- - - 100%
80%
60%
46%
38%
36%
18
- - - - 90%
70%
50%
42%
40%
19
- - - - 100%
80%
60%
46%
44%
20
- - - - - 90%
70%
50%
48%
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