Hawk Companion

[N/A]

If you really want to talk to something with four legs, talk to a worg.

You and your furry dreams.

[Jayde Moon]

IT WAS IN A DRIZZIT DOORDEN BOOK!

I DEMAND WE DO IT THAT WAY!

So, the novels don't have detailed rules on how they went about doing what they did.  Montolio may have been a special prestige class of Owl-Talkers or some shat (I can't find a canon character sheet on the guy).  There are literally hundreds of prestige classes, which may or may not have an ability detailed that could correspond to the one used by a character in a book.  The guy was blind and was said to have developed his other senses "to their fullest extent".  Perhaps he just had the blind fight feat.  Perhaps he had some other ability.  Perhaps he had a special prestige class.  Perhaps it was a touch of literary cheez on Salvatore's part to make the guy seem larger than life relative to a drow.

We have rulebooks that we must look to for our inspiration, balance, and concepts, the numbers and abilities of our characters.  According to 3d Ed DnD and 3.5, rangers and druids do NOT have the ability to speak to animals, outside of the spell.

THAT SAID, is it possible for an owl (very intelligent bird) to be in tune with a person so that they can 'communicate' in a sense?  Like the horse that could do math, or some shat?  Sure.  Possible, but improbable.

[Drakill Tannan]

Actually, it got me thinking, if such spell exists why not add it? I mean you haven't said clearly "No because we don't want to" you instead put an exuse such as "rangers can't speak to animals" and "only if there was the spell, but there isn't" If i'm not mitaken detect evil isn't mechanically in NWN, as such no paladin should posibly be able to do so, and yet they can.

Maybe we can add a duid/ranger ability that allows to speak to animals?

Or is it, as i had typed before i edited, that anything that buffs druids is a simply not allowed? In wich case just say it, don't give us false hopes, if it's a plain no i can move to something else.

[DeputyCool]

We're not going to allow Druids/Rangers to converse fluently with animals, it is simply not desireable.

That said, your statement that "anything buffing druids" is not done, is just untrue. We've done a lot to improve druids, including a change implemented just yesterday that makes them at least 10x better.

[Jayde Moon]

ROFL

We'll never get to the forest!  There's all these stupid TREES in the way!

[Drakill Tannan]

We're not going to allow Druids/Rangers to converse fluently with animals, it is simply not desireable.

That said, your statement that "anything buffing druids" is not done, is just untrue. We've done a lot to improve druids, including a change implemented just yesterday that makes them at least 10x better.

Don't take the last part seriously, i meant it mostly as a joke, i foghtot to add the smiley though. It's part of my eternal rant for not being able to play a druid properly. (agan, nothing serious)

[Mort]

Similarly, I just fixed the druid/ranger wild bonuses ( speed, hide, ab, spot) bonuses for druid and ranger in the wild.

Additionally, this is efu:a, not Paper D&D, not NWN, not forgotten realms but a modified version of all of those. We do share a lot of properties with the above, but are not the same.

I do think this topic has run its course.