Greenhilt afterlife conundrum.

[Jasdoif]

Let's conpromise with tic tac toe.

Let's compromise on the conpromise: Archon.

[Wizard_Lizard]

Let's conpromise with tic tac toe.

Why not rock, paper, scissors?

[The Pilgrim]

Let's compromise on the conpromise: Archon.

Good choice. Phoenix vs Shapeshifter on a neutral square feels a lot like a game of TicTacToe. Or a Global Thermonuclear War. Or a discussion in the Internet.

[Squire Doodad]

Why not rock, paper, scissors?

What ever happened to good old-fashioned Fire, Water, Grass?

[brian 333]

Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock is the superior method of tiebreaking.

[Wizard_Lizard]

What ever happened to good old-fashioned Fire, Water, Grass?

The druids got upset about it causing "an imbalance amongst th elements..."

[Darth Paul]

My neighborhood miscreants tell me Glock beats paper...

[Squire Doodad]

My neighborhood miscreants tell me Glock beats paper...

Clearly you are using the wrong kind of paper.

[Wizard_Lizard]

My neighborhood miscreants tell me Glock beats paper...

The instrument? coz' that's metal.

[Squire Doodad]

The instrument? coz' that's metal.

And metals are like rocks, so it's obviously doing it wrong.

[Crusher]

Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock is the superior method of tiebreaking.

This!

Its clearly superior, and my kids have become big fans of it as well so I've gotten a lot of practice.

[Peelee]

Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock is the superior method of tiebreaking.

This!

Its clearly superior, and my kids have become big fans of it as well so I've gotten a lot of practice.

Imean, you guys are allowed to be wrong.

For reals, though, nothing beats odds and evens. Simple, elegant, doesn't ever tie, and can be played with more than two people.

[The Pilgrim]

Russian Roulette is the best way to break ties. The trick is to play with a semi-automatic pistol and always choose to move second.

(Kids, don't try this at home. Or anywhere, actually).

[D.One]

Forget about rock or paper. Scissors alone can cut most ties with little effort.

[Jasdoif]

Good choice. Phoenix vs Shapeshifter on a neutral square feels a lot like a game of TicTacToe. Or a Global Thermonuclear War. Or a discussion in the Internet.

If by "Phoenix vs Shapeshifter on a neutral square" you mean "Archon", then yes: It's all great fun, unless/until someone intentionally makes a move that drags the whole thing to a standstill, potentially harming relationships outside the context of the game itself. (A lot of the changes/additions in Archon Classic are...questionable; but at least the Phoenix changes makes this scenario attrition rather than virtual stalemate)

[Honest Tiefling]

So...I would apologize for commenting on a tangent, but I've been beaten to the punch. But is no one else wondering how Eric managed to go to the LG after life? It's something fully fledged adults have troubles with, and yet a baby managed to pass the tests? Or as a baby is he just attached to his parental figures?

Or...Is that not actually Eric?

[Peelee]

So...I would apologize for commenting on a tangent, but I've been beaten to the punch. But is no one else wondering how Eric managed to go to the LG after life? It's something fully fledged adults have troubles with, and yet a baby managed to pass the tests? Or as a baby is he just attached to his parental figures?

Or...Is that not actually Eric?

Wheeeeeee!

D&D cosmology is utterly incoherent, being a pastiche on several real world religions that's then strained through a fundamentally incompatible alignment system where Good and Evil are both valid life choices with equally powerful patrons. D&D writers have been trying to make it make sense for 40 years; it still doesn't. My version doesn't either. It's good enough for the story to get where it's going.

If you really need an answer, let's say that babies go wherever their mother is/will go, because of the psychic umbilical cord that stretches through the Uterine Plane. When you get older and determine your own alignment, marauding githyanki doctors with special silver clamps cut the cord. Because why not?

And since people have mentioned how creeped out they are about the fact that Eric doesn't ever get to grow up, let's say that when everyone who knew him in life gets over their baggage about his death and ascends higher up the mountain, he either reincarnates or grows up or something. I don't know what. Something. Whatever doesn't creep you out. Again, not important to the story.

[Honest Tiefling]

Peelee, I just saw Uterine Plane and I am not sure if that's real. On second thought, I don't want to know.

Never saw that quote before, but I'm just going to assume that young children are connected to their parents (hence why adulthood rituals are so important) and that in time, once their parents and other family have accepted their loss can grow up to be celestials or something because now I worry for little Kudzu.

[D.One]

Never saw that quote before, but I'm just going to assume that young children are connected to their parents (hence why adulthood rituals are so important) and that in time, once their parents and other family have accepted their loss can grow up to be celestials or something because now I worry for little Kudzu.

Wow, I really liked that. I mean, most cultures have some kind of ritual that marks the passage from childhood to adulthood, and what if such rituals have some supernatural/free will meaning? What if, before such ritual, the infants have no option in their afterdeath plane, and go to their parents plane (and maybe their get stuck in the door, if they aren't fit)? That's an interesting theme for a series of adventures.