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2023-03-13, 09:23 AM (ISO 8601)
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Yeah, different groups would probably have different words for things that were outside of the base vocabulary
Speaking of words, a second headcanon is I think "plane" could be short for "3-hyperplane""If you want to understand biology don't think about vibrant throbbing gels and oozes, think about information technology" -Richard Dawkins
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I think we're under the time limit. If not someone should start a new thread. Anyway: combining Gnomes and Trolls (somehow, probably via magic) still results in Gnolls like it did back in early D&D, but inexplicably it always results in the Hyena-headed, quasi-demonic kind of gnoll
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2023-04-27, 03:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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I think the Thoul was supposed to be a trap monster though:
"you see what appears to be four hobgoblins"
"There's seven of us plus our men-at-arms. Lets charge them!"
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Whereas I think Gnolls were a joke:
"What is it it?"
*Wide smile* "Its a gnoll"
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Thouls were a typo in the fifth printing of OD&D. TSR sure picked it up and ran with it pretty quick, though. Always liked that critter.
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Why were there so many more "two creatures combined into one" back in the olden editions? I wish they'd kept doing that!
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Orcs sound kind of British and Yugoloths sound kind of Bostonian due to a tendency of the orcs to use the word "smashing" to mean "wonderful" and a tendency of the yugoloths to use the word "wicked" to mean "awesome" and as an intensifier. And these are the most literal translations of the corresponding words in their respective languages.
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The difference between fey magic and divine magic is that divine magic is fey magic that took the time to grow up. If a fey being can abandon its petulance, it becomes divine. This is why unicorns are celestial instead of fey. Of course, this is as rare as humans superseding their desires and achieving enlightenment.
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I am somewhat partial to the idea of Sigil being a flat/clifford torus
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Druids can use steel armor and weapons if they personally forge them out of bog or Telluric iron.
(Meta-headcanon: the origin of the ban on metal armor was due in part to the fact that as residents of the industrial Upper Midwest, Gygax et al had seen firsthand the environmental devastation caused by iron mining and steel mills.)
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I have a new headcanon that epic level wizards tend to go a little loopy from ultimate magical power, which is why they think owlbears and whatnot are a great idea.
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One of the stipulations of the Pact Primeval is that Baator can’t send Hellfire Engines to the material plane to bulldozer a few towns and lemure-ize their inhabitants souls regardless of those people’s alignment or lack of pacts. Now, if a mortal army decides invading Baator is a good idea on the other hand….
I’ve actually been thinking of this for a while and I have one for the vampire himself. Underneath the matter of Tatyana, even underneath Sergei retaining his youth and innocence Strahd lost in the war, Strahd’s hatred of Sergei stems from one main source.
Strahd blames Sergei for their mother’s death. And with that in view, anyone coupling with Sergei would provoke an “absolutely not!” response in Strahd.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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Given the Pact Primeval is the "constitution" establishing Heaven/Hell relations and the Good/Evil divide, I imagine it's a more general forbiddance of such "conscription" as a whole, with the Pacts being the chief work-around. The mirror for Celestials beholden to it would be not being allowed to deploy the likes of Redeemeries. I would not be surprised in the slightest if there exists a strain of Formian or Beastlands resident quietly getting up to such shenanigans, if in a less painful way due to not being obligatorily sadistic.
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The solar deities work in a way that is, in a way whose details I cannot pin down exactly because I don't know enough about business, analogous to the business models of the phone company, the electric company, and the internet service providers and so forth. I feel that if I had a better handle on how all these competing companies connect you to the same power grid, the same phone network, the same internet, etc I might be able to explain how there are multiple unaffiliated but equally valid gods of the same sun.
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There's at least 3 gods of "magic" or "nature" or "deceit" in every setting, I don't see what's so special about the sun, it's not even a vague concept
Honestly, I rarely think of D&D sun gods as being in direct control of the actual sun (even though that's how it works in a lot of myths about sun gods), so I don't think it even occurred to me to question the number of them that existAvatar by linklele
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Ever since I read the creation myth of Realmspace, I have been imagining Amaunator as actually being its sun.
Indeed, the myth goes:
- Selûne and Shar are all the light and darkness in Realmspace.
- They create Toril and other worlds, which together are Chauntea.
- Chauntea demands warmth to nurture life. Selûne says yes, Shar no.
- Selûne reaches to the Plane of Fire and gives Realmspace a sun.
- Further battle between Selûne and Shar results in the Weave/Mystril.
In step 4, Amaunator could be a massive fire elemental that was summoned to warm Realmspace.
As such, he wouldn't need followers to be, pun intended, powerful beyond belief. However, all he could do with his non-divine abilities is:
- Expand and burn the whole neighborhood.
- Return home and leave the worlds to freeze.
- Stay where he is and watch the merry-go-round.
So he would generally prefer being able to influence mortals through his clerics.
The rest of Toril's sun gods wouldn't be as literal. Lathander, for example, would only bring the dawn in a metaphorical sense, by encouraging people to follow ideals of renewal and seizing the day.
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Thinking about it, it just dawned on me that Chauntea plays a big role in Faerun, but it should be by far bigger. Her role should be at least as big as Freya from norse mythology. This leads to the following canon for me, since a god's power directly results from the number of followers.
The rarity of earth and nature gods being popular in cities and settlements with larger administrative bodies is not due to a lack of faith in the deity in a feudalistic setting. It is to limit the power of said deities' clerics and druids, so the ruling class has the upper hand. Faith in gods of order and law, of good and sun is encouraged, faith in earth and bounty gods and goddesses is not banned, but laughed about for being savage, gaunt or simplistic. If it were any other way, druids of more radical sects of environmentalists would crush cities with huge rituals and reestablish nature in their place.
In a fair system the gods of sun, nature, sea and probably conflict or war would reign supreme. A god that encompasses altruism and loving thy neighbor with a close second (because evil people in Faerun still want to be loved and love themselves, of course some writing is just moustached BBEGs which is fine but not believable.)