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2022-11-28, 03:27 AM (ISO 8601)
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2022-11-29, 04:43 PM (ISO 8601)
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2022-11-30, 01:42 AM (ISO 8601)
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It's not too difficult for a mage to raise a few skeletons or zombies, powering and controlling them solely through their own energy. It's a useful trick, and there's nothing morally objectionable about it, besides being a bit icky.
But that takes energy and spell slots, and it's difficult to keep up for long. You can't really make armies of undead with that. But what you can do is force a soul back into their recently dead body and power it like that. That gives you undead minions that last until they're hacked into pieces, can be as intelligent as you want, and don't draw on your own energy at all. It also leaves the soul trapped and suffering until it's severed from the body with divine magic. That is why people don't like necromancers.
And the thing is, the souls aren't neccesarily freed when the undead are killed. Only divine magic or certain arcane spells can do that. Just hacking them apart leaves the soul still bound to it. That's why people really, really don't like necromancers.
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On an unrelated subject: once someone chipped a shard from the Spire at the heart of the Outlands, and made it into a sword. Unfortunately, it proved impossible to transport by any magical means. They say it's still stuck somewhere past the Gatetowns, surrounded by a field of anti-magic.
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2022-12-18, 03:35 AM (ISO 8601)
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You know how elves don't sleep, they just meditate, well they don't strictly speaking have to meditate and they can sleep just like anyone else. However, Elves are wildly emotional if they don't meditate, feeling everything so much more intently than everyone else. Means they become total vengance at the drop of a hat, fall in love with a moment's glance, completely unmanageable.
Thing is, when elves sleep they dream, and those dreams can influence people outside their own minds. With one or two sleeping elves people just get a few vivid dreams, all good fun, sometimes laid on at the right sort of parties. Get a lot of sleeping elves together and you get something quite different.
Ever hear of the wild hunt? When enough elves dream their minds produce the hunt, terrible riders who will seek all about for something to kill and will turn on the elves if they can't find anything else.
So, that's why elves meditate, keeps them calm and stops the wild hunt.
Then there's the renegade sleepers, gangs of elves, several dozen strong who rove around doing whatever they please, their emotions running wild. Bandits, heroes, whatever mood strikes them at the time, mad bastard fighters too, nothung quite like an elf who really wants you dead!
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2022-12-18, 02:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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It is also a gross waste of ressources. The Book of Vile Darkness shows that you can have souls suffer eternally to power your evil plans like a perpetuum mobile of debasedness. Instead you just destroy them for instant power. That's the kind of horrific thing an engineer would see if you sold a solar panel's electronics to pay for your next bunch of coal to heat your home.
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2022-12-21, 01:50 PM (ISO 8601)
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The plane of Ravenloft is ruled over by the ancient baernaloth lords and is a sort of laboratory for studying applied evil
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2022-12-24, 03:28 AM (ISO 8601)
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When a Dread Domain strays too far from the Dark Powers’ desires, too far for the subtle approach to get it back on track, they have one ace up their sleeves. Domain reset: roll back the domain to the day it first entered the Mist, usually with a few elements changed to fix the “bug” that necessitated the reset in the first place.
I imagine Elminster's standard day begins like "Wake up, exit my completely impenetrable, spell-proofed bedroom to go to the bathroom, kill the inevitable 3 balors waiting there, brush my teeth, have a wizard fight with the archlich hiding in the shower, use the toilet..."
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2022-12-28, 11:30 AM (ISO 8601)
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2023-01-02, 03:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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That’s the guy who got kicked out because he stopped taking the bait right? He admittedly wasn’t on my mind when I came up with the idea, but I vaguely remember reading something that said that afterward he outright re-died a hero. So perhaps at some point he had a change of heart that couldn’t be “fixed”. I’m decently sure the Dark Powers avoid outright mind controlling Darklord candidates (because what would that prove?) so they had to leave him with that.
I imagine Elminster's standard day begins like "Wake up, exit my completely impenetrable, spell-proofed bedroom to go to the bathroom, kill the inevitable 3 balors waiting there, brush my teeth, have a wizard fight with the archlich hiding in the shower, use the toilet..."
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2023-01-03, 02:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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2023-01-04, 02:47 PM (ISO 8601)
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2023-01-05, 03:25 AM (ISO 8601)
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I imagine Elminster's standard day begins like "Wake up, exit my completely impenetrable, spell-proofed bedroom to go to the bathroom, kill the inevitable 3 balors waiting there, brush my teeth, have a wizard fight with the archlich hiding in the shower, use the toilet..."
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2023-02-16, 11:43 AM (ISO 8601)
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There is a supernatural force, perhaps a god, of locksmithing and trapping. This is why special training requiring an entire character level is sometimes required to open locks and disable traps without setting them off; this entity has inspired locksmiths and trap makers to the point they can produce works far beyond medieval/Renaissance and sometimes even modern levels of craftsmanship and security
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2023-02-20, 09:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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The spellplague didn't reconfigure the planes as such, Realmspace collapsed in on itself and took a bit of every plane it had a permanent portal to with it, which formed new planes in wherever it landed
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2023-02-21, 08:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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Gemstone dragons are descendants of the first children of Io, before he was split and unmade.
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2023-02-22, 06:09 PM (ISO 8601)
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For whatever reason, every wizard's spellbook is full of these and that's why you can't just copy them normally
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2023-03-03, 03:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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Something that just popped into my head while playing CK, that I'll be adapting going forward:
In an effort to combat their implied depressed birth rates, dwarves and elves practice either polyamory or concubinage.
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2023-03-03, 04:38 PM (ISO 8601)
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While polyandry certainly makes sense for stereotypical dwarves, it doesn't do much, if anything, in terms of bolstering birth rates. It might help with keeping the genetic material comparatively diverse, on the other hand.
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I concur. Realmspace was connected to the Great Wheel through the World Tree, of which the roots descended into the Inner Planes and the branches stretched to the Outer Planes. When the spellplague occurred, the World Tree withered, collapsed inward, and dislodged various locations from their planes, leaving them adrift in either the Elemental Chaos or the Astral Sea.
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2023-03-08, 08:04 AM (ISO 8601)
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The Rod of Seven parts can be assembled in different orders, and its powers change depending on the order of assembly.
Avatar by linklele. How Teleport Worksa. Malifice (paraphrased):
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2023-03-10, 11:14 AM (ISO 8601)
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2023-03-11, 01:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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I'm currently leaning towards the idea of the species languages - ie. dwarvish, elvish, etc. - consisting mostly of hardwired calls built into the species by their creators
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Much more plausible to be "rooted" in them like how birdsong has a "base" instinctive pattern "fleshed out" by learning rather than directly using wholly instinctual calls, if one wishes to mix creationism with natural language development. Especially on the Chaotic side of things, where artistic expression tends to drive strongly toward stuff like the verbing of nouns, as seen with the massive escalation of such on the Internet.