I feel like, related to this meme, cats in particular would be a lot more common, and trained to hunt pests. Sure, most people can’t identify one rat from another, but they can identify cats. The cars kill infiltrators (druid or just pests), and they cut their numbers down so new ones are more obvious. They themselves are known to the guards so they know if some new cat appears.
The same is true for dogs, and they could sniff out intruders. They could also be trained to hunt, which could be useful for a different set of pests. I’d imagine, in this world, probably hawks or something would be really common for guard stations too, and people would be used to identifying them. They would have developed tactics to deal with this that aren’t necessarily common or available in our world.
Druids keep their hit points, so it would be a very hard to kill small creature, and it has to be a pretty high level druid able to wildshape into a hummingbird. I don’t think such small animals are available in the current version, a 12th level druid in version 3.5 can wildshape into a tiny animal, but I think a hummingbird would be a size category smaller than a rat, which isn’t available until epic levels (beyond level 20)
Also a 12th level wildshaped druid is more than a match to anything in a castle. They have access to their magic after level 6. Igor would be in trouble
That’s not an argument against it. It doesn’t matter if they suvive. It matters if they’re discovered. If there are no rats/hummingbirds/whatever near your keep, when one shows up you pay attention.
For an example in our world, you don’t need to be able to kill a spy drone to sound the alarm that a spy drone is flying around, because there normally aren’t spy drone hanging about. If similar drones became incredibly common then you wouldn’t know it’s a spy drone or not. If you keep the numbers down, you know it’s an issue when one is there.
The are so few high level casters, people wouldn’t have seen a wildshape infiltration in generations. Maybe it’s on the radar in large cities but not out in that country
I feel like, related to this meme, cats in particular would be a lot more common, and trained to hunt pests. Sure, most people can’t identify one rat from another, but they can identify cats. The cars kill infiltrators (druid or just pests), and they cut their numbers down so new ones are more obvious. They themselves are known to the guards so they know if some new cat appears.
The same is true for dogs, and they could sniff out intruders. They could also be trained to hunt, which could be useful for a different set of pests. I’d imagine, in this world, probably hawks or something would be really common for guard stations too, and people would be used to identifying them. They would have developed tactics to deal with this that aren’t necessarily common or available in our world.
Druids keep their hit points, so it would be a very hard to kill small creature, and it has to be a pretty high level druid able to wildshape into a hummingbird. I don’t think such small animals are available in the current version, a 12th level druid in version 3.5 can wildshape into a tiny animal, but I think a hummingbird would be a size category smaller than a rat, which isn’t available until epic levels (beyond level 20)
Also a 12th level wildshaped druid is more than a match to anything in a castle. They have access to their magic after level 6. Igor would be in trouble
That’s not an argument against it. It doesn’t matter if they suvive. It matters if they’re discovered. If there are no rats/hummingbirds/whatever near your keep, when one shows up you pay attention.
For an example in our world, you don’t need to be able to kill a spy drone to sound the alarm that a spy drone is flying around, because there normally aren’t spy drone hanging about. If similar drones became incredibly common then you wouldn’t know it’s a spy drone or not. If you keep the numbers down, you know it’s an issue when one is there.
The are so few high level casters, people wouldn’t have seen a wildshape infiltration in generations. Maybe it’s on the radar in large cities but not out in that country