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A real thing that some people are way too into.
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Night10194 posted:That Basilisk thing is a little too 'this is literally just that thing'. I don't usually talk like this, but I'm going to make an exception for this case. Listen to me very closely, you idiot. YOU DO NOT THINK IN SUFFICIENT DETAIL ABOUT SUPERINTELLIGENCES CONSIDERING WHETHER OR NOT TO BLACKMAIL YOU. THAT IS THE ONLY POSSIBLE THING WHICH GIVES THEM A MOTIVE TO FOLLOW THROUGH ON *is eaten by an angel*
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Generate a character, then use the sheet as inspiration for freeform RP with occasional dice. Basically 3e D&D but with D6s.
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Thank you for introducing me to matrix 2: plane of dead lains.
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Flail Snail posted:
I guess it's the one place the author kind of tried, even if he didn't get it at all? Probably giving him way too much credit there.
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That Old Tree posted:Jesus at first glance I thought this was a dungeon map.
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Si, Elf, si.
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Elves being enormous assholes dates right back to Tolkien. Galadriel's husband Teleporno literally exists to get her across the ocean without being tainted by Fëanor's bullshit. That's his purpose. He's a hot bit of rough with a boat. well, it depends which version you read
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EimiYoshikawa posted:Was he in the movies, the kind of prominent guy in Lothlorien who also showed up to lead the Elvish contingent at the siege? That guy always seemed, like, almost as important 'round those parts as Galadriel, but I honestly can't remember if he even had a name.
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PurpleXVI posted:Or at the very best you're "neutral" because you're doing it "for the cause of magic." Which in D&D feels a lot like doing it "for the cause of battlefield artillery."
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Too much good is nazis, what, how dare you accuse me of saying the Nazis are good, I'm just saying that you people trying to "do the right thing" are going too far and just as bad. D&D is a land of contrasts, full of enlightened centrists and rabid ancaps and also genocidal monarchists.
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Libertad! posted:As someone who has yet to watch Blackadder, is this a good thing or a bad thing?
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PurpleXVI posted:I think this is probably just me, but one of my personal little petty grievances with fantasy writing is when authors take a perfectly normal Earth English term and flip a couple of letters or something to pretend they're a store-brand Tolkien who actually thought about any of their fantasy linguistics. Like, either you go full loving Tolkien and you give us a language, or you only make up/twist words to name stuff that has no exact real world analogue. Anything in the middle just tends to grate on me.
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PurpleXVI posted:"you come across an inn run by a gelatinous cube and her husband, an iron golem. their clanking iron cube children play in the yard out front."
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d66 is technically a d36. It's good and cool. More entries than a d20, not as giant a list as a d100, usually presented as just 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 21, and so on.
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:Tolkien's elves should basically be understood as human beings without Original Sin (although they can be and frequently are huge loving assholes entirely of their own volition), and make zero sense outside of an extremely Catholic context. But yeah, they're kind of humans except their fëar and hröar are properly in-tune, making them superhuman immortals who only started dying because of Melkor marring the world.
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Nessus posted:If you mean that JRRs elves weren’t that horny, I think you are correct.
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Gun Jam posted:Their opening post says it's based on the books, and not the show, sooo
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It's time to bring back Angel Summoner & BMX Bandit references. You can't stop me. I cast protection from normal mods. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFuMpYTyRjw
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Nuts are biggest because they come from trees. Berries are smallest, because they come from bushes that are smaller than grain stalks. That writeup was disappointing but I am eager to see more Moles. Jesus though, detect evil?
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Who needs sleep when you can get by on a cup of tea every eight hours for your entire life?
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PoontifexMacksimus posted:Wow, was not really expecting that. Is it being discussed elsewhere on the forums?
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My mobile internet's trying to save me by not letting the twitter hellsite work right now but the tragic meat machine tweet seems relevant here.
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By popular demand posted:Why does DnD even has such a hard-on for traps and locks? They were never a major part of western fantastic tradition.
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Glagha posted:I feel like any Kender who has spent any time among humans is gonna figure out pretty quickly not to just grab their poo poo. It might still happen but like, it's like learning the local customs. Humans get offended when you Handle their stuff so don't do that. Otherwise it makes no sense anyone would ever associate with them. They can have a loose concept of ownership but they have to be intelligent enough to fit in with people who don't. Everyone posted:Except that ducks can be reasoned with, or at least trained in some ways. Kender can't.
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hyphz posted:A very experimental F&F...
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Dragon dragon Dragon dragon dragon dragon Dragon dragon.
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BattleMaster posted:That +7 may have been from OCRing gone wrong.
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Tibalt posted:To point to d&d 3.5, the interesting thing about the Toughness feat isn't the +4 HP.
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He can still end up as an ashtray, right?
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Night10194 posted:Didn't he cause immense problems? I've never read the Simarillion but his name sounds familiar. I have have spent too long in silmarillionmemes. Fivemarks posted:Yes but that's besides the point of Feanor being elven doomguy.
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They're foreign, which is an accent. Just speak louder at them.
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At least he can keep his arms on.
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Mors Rattus posted:I should correct myself.
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I like the Gorkamorka stuff. I especially like the idea of human worshippers struggling with their base human natures, knowing intellectually that they shouldn't give in to hate but finding it awfully difficult to avoid.
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A d66 only has 36 outcomes, not 66.
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Night10194 posted:Right. Dangit. Still, it is a small fraction and the book is worth reading. It is, but it's even more worth reading because it uses the noble d66. It's a good size for a table! Easy to roll, not as small as a d20 and you get to roll multiple dice, but not as bloated as a d100 table.
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d666 for that sweet sweet 216 result table and whiff of sulphur.
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Esoteric Enterprises has a lot of issues, but it's got so much heart I can't not overlook them. Oh god Emmy put that away there's blood everywhere where did you even get it, etc.
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They're not a great empire, but I don't think they're all villains.
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