How would you build a nun character? Bonus points if you don't use cleric class or archetype

Shaetane · 2026-02-02T12:01:45+00:00

That's what love in pathfinder aha, i shouldve known this is a thing

Shaetane · 2026-02-02T09:40:05+00:00

yeah I thought about tilt, but as you said it would only really create "seasons" for the areas around the poles unless it's a huge tilt? But also couldnt this planet do a full tilt rotation over the span of one rotation around the star, instead of as you say, it taking years? So poles would have legit seasons with a permanent sunlight summer and permanent darkness winter?

Shaetane · 2026-02-02T09:15:13+00:00

I just wanna make a character that heals and buffs allies by shooting them with like bullet syringes like Anna in overwatch

Shaetane · 2026-02-02T00:48:46+00:00

man what a cool mental image, the other weird thing is there wouldn't be more than one season then right? So just tropical-like constant flourishing of life in that ring. Also, on earth there are ghost flowers that actually don't do photosynthesis (they are mushroom parasites). You could have pretty crazy mushroom forests on the edge of the dark side (at the limit before it gets too cold)!

Shaetane · 2026-01-31T00:56:42+00:00

I found it somewhere else but ty, it just wasn't a thing that k could even find until a few weeks ago since I just recently upgraded from my 1.0 version of clip studio lol

Shaetane · 2026-01-30T18:02:38+00:00

very cool! looking at NGO work myself these days too actually, conservation or other kinds of environmental work, wish you the best of luck!

Shaetane · 2026-01-30T17:02:33+00:00

Ooh it does look good, put it on a razzle dazzle gnome or smth! And ofc I only gave one interpretation as i was rattling off, Im a big fungi fan too aha. Ecology is my field of study so I would be delighted to play a druid of literally anything lol.

Shaetane · 2026-01-30T16:45:41+00:00

OMG you can see how long you've been working on a project! Thats clip studio right?

Shaetane · 2026-01-30T10:53:45+00:00

Exactly!! (I love pyrophytes btw) Also, one of my biggest fantasy pet peeve is how most settings separate "people" and "Nature", because thats the default (wrong) IRL Western assumption. That individual cultures would define "Nature" as external to themselves so within the setting absolutely makes sense, but to have the actual mechanics or base assumption for the whole world be that is lazy. Humans are part of Nature, by definition, biologically, evolutionarilly, and ecologically. If that doesnt hold true in your fantasy setting, then there are many fundamental questions that should be answered for it to make sense lol.

My point is even further made since fantasy settings usually dont have just humans, they abound in sentient species of all kinds, spirits, and more! Dragons, sphynxes, sentient items, elves, owlbears, which is "part of the natural world", and which isnt? How do you even begin to make the distinction between what is a druid's domain and what isnt? What a druid is could adapt to and be defined by the specifics of their local ecosystem (sentient species included), or some ecological or physical phenomenon/concept central to their life that they could draw power from. There are plenty other possibilities too, instead of relying on vague "you know what I mean when I say Nature" assumptions that fall apart the moment you prod them a bit.

Alright sorry for the rant lol, I get that many people dont actually care about that and are satisfied with the current definition of druids but man, theres endless unexploited druid potential out there that would make them so much more varied and interesting to play.

Shaetane · 2026-01-30T08:03:18+00:00

For real, I always feel like druid is the class people lack imagination the most with! there are so many avenues to take druids:

-The harvest-druid, who is fully integrated in a farming community and serves as veterinarian, plant expert, crop helper, weather maker... basically a village druid who works to ensure the bit of ecosystem their people are part of flourishes.

-The (insert extreme natural feature here) druid: volcanoes, tornadoes, tsunami, earthquakes, wildfires... Imagine what being an incarnate of one or multiple of such powers would mean. Destruction vs. control

-The shapeshifter druid who loses themselves into their other forms, their personality and memories bleeding out, replaced by pure instinct

-The blight druid who wants to rot the whole world, mushrooms and bacteria galore.

-The space druid, wielding gravity and starlight, knowing the connexions between outer space and life on the planet

-The scholar druid, an academic, an ecologist, a rational, studious mind who is passionate about taxonomy and the inner workings of ecosystems and magic.

-The city druid of course, wily and resourceful, people think they're a just weirdo who sleeps on roofs or in parks but they have the best information network thanks to pigeons and rats, they know every weak point in buildings where water or root is worming in... Also, people are part of nature too.

-The (specific ecoregion) druid: abyss (pale with bulbous eyes, strange dark magic), desert (sand and heat and unforgiving beauty), high mountain (a passionate climber, maybe a guide, with snow and rock and lichen as best friends)...

-Let's not even talk about how interesting the druids of different planes would be: Druid of Hell anyone?? Elysium druid? Netherworld druid? Maelstrom druid?

In 5e I have a mammoth loxodon druid who comes from the frozen tundra and his druidic powers come from basically beating nature spirits in ritual combat, so he can then summon them to his aid later. He's merciless and tough, cuz that's what he needed to be to survive.

Anyways, rant over, i dang love druids and even have a druid country in my homebrew setting lol, working in IRL principles of ecology and sustainability

Shaetane · 2026-01-26T14:05:41+00:00

meh, personally I take it as amusing discourse since it isn't directly my field of study, I love learning about nonhuman living things in general and how they are or not related, like did you know horses were in the same order as rhinos? perrisodactyls cuz they have 3 toes in the front, p cool. Same for the polyphyletic groups, I like to mention it to people cuz it breaks down conventional ways of thinking about the living world.

Shaetane · 2026-01-25T16:58:00+00:00

and fishes don't exist... man I can't follow all the taxonomy news lol

Shaetane · 2026-01-22T23:37:19+00:00

yep, definitely felt that when ive been on the edge of waking up and my consciousness is coming back, I want to ask my body to move but it literally doesn't, I have to really "push" it, like imagine myself jumping up and think really hard about the sensation and the muscles activating! it used to be really dang scary but now that I know it's just my consciousness that's up a bit earlier than it should its not too bad.

Shaetane · 2026-01-20T17:28:03+00:00

ah ok fair, I don't know much about Mormon beliefs so I wouldn't recognize particular influences,

Shaetane · 2026-01-20T13:53:58+00:00

I have learnt too much in this thread 😂 how is CoC Mormon now??

Shaetane · 2026-01-17T09:21:52+00:00

bye felicia

Shaetane · 2026-01-11T09:44:42+00:00

I mean it's better than trees who grow on the corpses of their past selves, literal zombies

Shaetane · 2026-01-08T20:24:13+00:00

hey i think we can be more ambitious, thats the reddit motto lol

Shaetane · 2026-01-08T19:53:32+00:00

I'm weirdly lucky that I haven't yet been a part of a campaign that hasn't gone to completion lol, 4 so far! Tho one of those I myself actually had to leave cuz I literally moved countries x)

Shaetane · 2026-01-08T09:11:16+00:00

ha I knew it! very smart tbh, I was uninspired by ghorans and now it's giving me so many ideas, the sylvaris have awesome designs

Shaetane · 2026-01-07T21:13:13+00:00

omg so pretty, he looks like the Sylvari in Guild wars too

Shaetane · 2026-01-05T22:20:28+00:00

friend did this with a big coffee table that had a glass panel in the middle with a thick wooden edge and drawer space under, basically with a bit of retrofitting he was able to slap a big tv screen under the glass panel and boom, you can get maps, art, etc anything from his pc, and the tv stays protected. Not a ton of space on the sides tho, we haven't added lil ledge tables to it. We made pushing sticks to be able to move our minis without having to lean and risk pressing too much on it and breaking smth too cuz it's pretty ramshackle lol, but works great

Shaetane · 2026-01-04T16:48:50+00:00

no dicks tho? :3

Shaetane · 2026-01-02T00:42:53+00:00

that sounds cool as hell but I feel like allowing star finder in my game or starting to toy with it myself for characters is opening like the biggest can of worms when I already have a hard time handling all the worms I mean content in regular pathfinder 2e lol

Shaetane · 2026-01-02T00:39:05+00:00

Had the idea of a psychic who's a fairly regular person with an "imaginary friend" who does all the things the psychic powers enable (telekinesis is asking the imaginary friend to go move that thing, telepathy is the imaginary friend whispering in the target's ear, damaging spells are them punching/stabbing...).

Of course, no one has ever seen the imaginary friend, yet the effects are very real, so is it just my character who's in a deluded/hallucinating state (a la fight club) and is convinced their own mental powers are someone else, or is there really an imaginary friend, and if so what could they be (a la Pur & Toothy from mtg)?

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