Nine of my learnings from the first Meeting Design Practicum — 30 meeting designers together for 48 hours in Utrecht, The Netherlands

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2016/02/nine-learnings-from-the-first-meeting-design-practicum

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4e Druid Stuff (That I Just Made Up)

I make no secret that one of my favourite character classes in Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition (the best edition) is the druid. After a 3rd edition period where I feel that bringing a druid to the table and using it to its utmost is basically a kind of social cruelty, what with how powerful they are, the druid of 4th edition had a lot to live up to, and it couldn’t. Instead of trying to replicate 3rd edition’s quite frankly ridiculous panoply of powers, the 4th edition Druid instead is designed to be an interesting class about as powerful as the other classes which can do interesting things in its own right.

You know that thing about how when you’ve been the recipient of overwhelming privilege, any cessation of that privilege feels like oppression? That. Wizards and Clerics got it too, but fuck them. I like Druids so I’m talking about Druids this time.

The Druid of 4th edition stripped the concept back to its studs. A druid in 4th edition Dungeons & Dragons is a nature-themed spellcaster who can turn into an animal-like form, and each form is equally capable of doing things to fulfill a role on a team. The druid can be seen as a binary of in and out of wild shape, and out of wild shape, they’re basically a spellcaster. In wild shape, they are a secondary role, which is usually something like an off-defender or an off-striker. This made some people unreasonably mad, because multiclassing to add healing to a druid was an affront to their moral senses I guess.

I get pretty defensive about the 4th edition Druid, but that’s not to pretend it’s perfect by any means. In the effort to take care of things and ensure that the Druid doesn’t start climbing up the tower of its previous power, the writers glowered at it and showered it with options that were just… a little… sour.

I think that the 4th edition Druid, as much as it’s a class I love and works fine, could do with a little help in choice support, and maybe some of the options available to it are a bit crap.

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https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Berthet-Paris/pages/333-la-fondation-de-paris/

A somewhat fanciful illustration of the founding of Paris; probably it is depicting the Roman conquest of the encampment of the Celtic Parisii tribe.

I’m not 100% happy with the way the Web resolutions came out, but the print resolution will reproduce well.

#quintessentiallyFrench #Paris #history #celts #druids #fobo #vintageEngraving #vintageArt #GIMP #GIMP3 #xsane

Nine of my learnings from the first Meeting Design Practicum — 30 meeting designers together for 48 hours in Utrecht, The Netherlands

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2016/02/nine-learnings-from-the-first-meeting-design-practicum

#meetings #EventDesign #Practicum #learning #ElementaryMeetings #metaphor #Druids #EscapeRoom #fun #eventprofs