You and everyone in my d&d group :) we're lucky enough to have one always wizard, one always rogue, one always cleric, over almost always druid, and two minmaxers
There have been fan works online explaining how to be an effective druid, see also though the guide to being everything a how-to for the Master of Many Forms druid prestige class
5e druids are easier - as casters they are excellent for battlefield control, as wildshape users they are a front line thwackers almost on par with fighters
3.5e druids seem most optimised as summoners, with you controlling numerous summons, but also capable in utility, buff, and battlefield casting
In 3.5 I like to have a spreadsheet listing all the spells for each level and allowing selection of the correct number of spell slots, it's hard to manage on paper, especially when you're using several books
Indeed, the class has a few fans like me. I don't get why they're so unpopular, druids are powerful and probably more broken breakable than any of the basic classes (at least in 3.5)
I'm pretty sure loads of other classes have alignment restrictions - notably clerics and paladins
Early d&d had the universe constructed as interlocking planes of law, chaos, good, and evil, with the world on the intersection of all those. That was the reason for heroes and monsters - they were touched by our created from one of the planes.
The world was a battleground between the planes, and alignment was your alignment to the planes, which side of each fight you were on. It has gotten weaker each version since
In 3.5 I usually play druids and usually neutral-good as I still have that old model in my head and if I'm not going to care about one axis, it's going to be law/chaos
I'm pretty sure allergies are due in part to our crap diets. I changed my diet to one with only food my thrice great grandparents would recognise, also very low carb, no modern vegetable oils, and my allergies vanished (seasonal rhinitis) or became minor (cats)
People who have tried to gain literacy later in life have had a lot more trouble learning to write than read. It seems that the fine motor skills to drive a pen are best learnt early
Yeah, I'm pretty sure red shift is our best method for getting distances on billions of light year distant objects, no idea of it's the only one at that range
Surely you're editing right before exiting, why else would you be saving?