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Thread: MitD XV: The Other Dark One
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Or a monster that has to constantly use one action to do something, like maintain a face, and thus finds doing two other things at the same time practically impossible.
EDIT: More to the point, really, is that to pull things one must have a prehensile limb, which is not required for pushing. Perhaps, say, it is difficult for MITD to manifest a limb AND concentrate on pulling AND whatever else he might be concentrating on. (After all, you don't have to hold something to push it, his expressed complaint about the difficulty of pulling-- "Pulling has all those tricky parts where you hold something AND move it. At the same time!")Last edited by Ruck; 2020-09-23 at 06:38 PM.
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Thanks for the info, folks. I suppose asking for a "consensus" was pretty daft of me, but I got a good range of information which satisfied my curiosity, I appreciate it.
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“Evil is evil. Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.”
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“Evil is evil. Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.”
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Herman Munster?
Wait, that reference is too old...
Kool-Aid Guy?
Is there a point between Defenestration and Refenestration where one is in a state of Fenestre, where you *are* the window?
I kinda want to stat up a Windowscourge Slaad with a permanent Defenestrating Aura, but I'm also aware I should get some sleep.Last edited by Riftwolf; 2020-09-23 at 10:10 PM.
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In the final book I would like to see a comprehensive list of all the clues and a discussion of them.
Did we miss any? Was our interpretations wrong? Would be very interested in finding out.
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2020-09-24, 04:45 PM (ISO 8601)
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I doubt he'd go "comprehensive" in a printed book as that could be a lot of pages for the minority that cares about that level of detail. But I would be surprised if he didn't address what he considered the main clues to some degree in a section after the reveal. He can be comprehensive after publication* here, on Patreon, in a post-wrap up AMA interview, or any number of ways. Or he may just assume he'll get much negative pushback on little details and just leave it at a less-than-comprehensive list and let us argue until the sun goes dark.
* Heck, he might not even wait for the book since unless it is literally the last page once it happens online there could be daily threads about how his choice doesn't make sense because of someone's interpretation of a strip/comment/calendar page/whatever and he'll need to make a list just to preemptively be able to have one thread for the discussion.
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“Evil is evil. Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.”
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2020-09-24, 06:09 PM (ISO 8601)
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There is a large distance between "that which Rich can get away with changing for the purposes of the story" and "that which this thread can assume Rich has changed for the purposes of the story". I therefore suspect our biggest issues will turn out to be the places were Rich took liberties with RAW and we did not. Not that there is anything we can do about it, given we cannot possibly outguess Rich.
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"For you see, I theorize that the halfling does not possess a true sentient brain, like you or I, but rather a simple lump of nerve tissue that serves as a primitive "proto-brain" that can only process two emotional reactions to people: Hate or Lust."
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Laurin was using some nonstandard powers, the one that immediately comes to mind is the wormhole. There was forum discussion around it at the time though it has been some years.
Another interesting thing about Will and the Way is that there's a power in there that would explain the tower scene pretty well. I've mentioned it before in this thread but I think people just don't like the idea of MiTD having class levels. Agree to disagree..."For you see, I theorize that the halfling does not possess a true sentient brain, like you or I, but rather a simple lump of nerve tissue that serves as a primitive "proto-brain" that can only process two emotional reactions to people: Hate or Lust."
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will and the way? Flexible use of psionics?
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"For you see, I theorize that the halfling does not possess a true sentient brain, like you or I, but rather a simple lump of nerve tissue that serves as a primitive "proto-brain" that can only process two emotional reactions to people: Hate or Lust."
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2020-10-07, 07:57 PM (ISO 8601)
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I recall reading Rich said he just plain ol' made up the Laurin's powers because there was probably some ability or other like that. I wouldn't say Laurin's powers are not strong evidence of use of a particular book. It could mean he has read it though if that's what Rich was expecting from psionics.
Also, could you repeat the power here? I haven't seen any spell or ability besides wish and friends that can do such things, and having something that is not a 9th-level power or spell could help make finding creatures easier.
Eh, it's more of a shape-changing peg that can fit in just about anything, though there are arguments unique to itself as Ruck's essay demonstratesActually, that's false. Its shapechanging abilities are not the bread and butter of the protean, and the main application of them is the escape scene. My bad. See arguments below by people who actually thought out their statements.Last edited by catagent101; 2020-10-08 at 12:12 AM.
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I keep hearing this argument, and it keeps not being true. The protean uses its alter shape ability to explain exactly one thing, the Escape. Otherwise? It is the right size, it is by far the strongest monster - no "well, 30 is ok, I guess, bit on the low side" like for most other suggestions - it is a solid 50 strength on a Large creature, so even if it is a young version, it's still bloody strong. Few other creatures can say that. And yes, the boiling of flesh explains the Circus, but that's not because it is a shape-changer that fits anything - indeed, true shapechangers cannot use that argument.
The protean is many things, but it has never been "a shape-changing peg that can fit in just about anything".
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Sure it has been. We dont have a huge number of scenes that specifically require it, but should any future FBS scenes come up, the protean fits them almost by default. Its almost as bad as the potted plant with an arbitrary number of templates in terms of its sheer ability to just do whatever we need it to in whatever way we want it to. The only thing it has going over the plant is that its powers are technically part of the base creature.
“Evil is evil. Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.”
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