Wednesday, September 14, 2016

Primeval Awareness (new, not old)

I am quite fond of the new Ranger class, introduced in Unearthed Arcana: The Ranger, Revised (2016 September).  A portion of one class feature in particular, Primeval Awareness, seems well suited for the Druid class, and I would add it to the Druid class as follows:

Primeval Fauna Awareness
Beginning at 3rd level, your mastery of ranger druid lore allows you to establish a powerful link to beasts and to the land around you.
You have an innate ability to communicate with beasts, and they recognize you as a kindred spirit. Through sounds and gestures, you can communicate simple ideas to a beast as an action, and can read its basic mood and intent. You learn its emotional state, whether it is affected by magic of any sort, its short-term needs (such as food or safety), and actions you can take (if any) to persuade it to not attack.
You cannot use this ability against a creature that you have attacked within the past 10 minutes.

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