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Post by GravityEmblem on Apr 19, 2022 7:41:46 GMT -8
Troll 2 Attack: xP3oH5pF1d20+72d6+41d20+72d6+41d20+71d6+4
Golden Knight 1: 1d20+52d10
Golden Knight 2: 1d20+62d6+31d20+62d6+3
Golden Knight 3: 1d20+52d10
Valerie: 1d20+53d6+31d20+7·2d6+4·1d20+7·2d6+4·1d20+7·1d6+4·1d20+5·2d10·1d20+6·2d6+3·1d20+6·2d6+3·1d20+5·2d10·1d20+5·3d6+3
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Post by GravityEmblem on Apr 22, 2022 4:29:59 GMT -8
You know, all this discussion about setting ethos and where Wizards of the Coast went wrong made me start thinking about how I want to do my own setting differently. One of the ways being making exotic races like Dragonborn and Tieflings a little more exotic. You guys kind of knocked the wind out of my sails just now.
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Post by Daos on Apr 22, 2022 13:48:18 GMT -8
Oops. Well, Daos has met a dragonborn before--and a silver one, at that. He's also encountered like three tieflings so far? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Post by GravityEmblem on Apr 22, 2022 13:53:22 GMT -8
There was the tailor in Foccupolis, the gang boss in Deppsburg, and the merchant on the way back to Foccupolis. So, yeah, three. Nowadays, I definitely wouldn't use a Tiefling as a generic NPC like in the last case.
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Post by Daos on Apr 22, 2022 14:38:58 GMT -8
Well, he hasn't encountered any aasimar or genasi yet, so that's something.
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Post by GravityEmblem on Apr 22, 2022 14:41:55 GMT -8
Well, he hasn't encountered any aasimar or genasi yet, so that's something. That would very difficult, since neither of them exist in this setting. (By virtue of Celestials and Elementals not existing...)
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Post by Daos on Apr 22, 2022 17:05:46 GMT -8
Does that mean there's no Upper Planes, either? Would explain why they'd not intervene on the whole 'portal to Hell' thing.
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Post by GravityEmblem on Apr 23, 2022 5:09:18 GMT -8
Right, no Upper Planes. Just the Abyss, the Feywild, and the Void (a parallel plane to the Material where you can see the Material Plane, but can't interact with it. Think the Shadowzone from Transformers Prime)
I don't find the cosmic side of D&D very interesting, so I really scaled it down in my world. Rather than dozens of planes ready for dimension-hopping adventures, there's only a few--and they're dangerous and not well-understood. (Spells like Plane Shift and Contact Other Plane haven't been developed--and you've seen how attempts to enter other planes worked out)
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Post by Daos on Apr 23, 2022 13:42:45 GMT -8
...the Void (a parallel plane to the Material where you can see the Material Plane, but can't interact with it. Think the Shadowzone from Transformers Prime) In 2E, we just called that the Ethereal Plane. Is that not a thing anymore? It was basically a parallel plane with the Prime, and if you enter it you are sort of 'out of phase' like a ghost, and can walk through walls and such. I really scaled it down in my world. Rather than dozens of planes ready for dimension-hopping adventures, there's only a few That's how it is with Dragonlance, too. It has the standard Inner Planes, but the Outer Planes are just the Dome of Creation, the Grey, the Hidden Vale, and the Abyss, plus a few minor planes like the Plane of Shadow. Really kept it simple.
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Post by GravityEmblem on Apr 23, 2022 13:47:13 GMT -8
Well, I wanted to combine the Astral Plane and Ethereal Plane into one, but I ended up just copying the Ethereal Plane by mistake. Right, so: the Abyss and the Feywild on the outside, then the Ethereal Plane sort of floating on top of the Material.
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Post by Daos on Apr 23, 2022 15:50:19 GMT -8
Curious, though, where do the gods reside then? I doubt Elshodi is hanging out in the Abyss?
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Post by GravityEmblem on Apr 24, 2022 3:16:58 GMT -8
Curious, though, where do the gods reside then? I doubt Elshodi is hanging out in the Abyss? The gods don't reside in a particular plane, they just sort of...are. Or if you ask certain people, they just sort of aren't. Or you might say that the gods reside in their own personal demiplanes (with the exception of Persephone, who doctrine says is sleeping in the material plane, and the Archfey, who doctrine says rules the Feywild). But the people of Othus wouldn't call them that, because the nature of other planes isn't well-understood.
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Post by Daos on Apr 24, 2022 10:36:48 GMT -8
So how does the afterlife work? If there's no Upper Planes, and the gods don't really have their home planes, what happens after death?
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Post by GravityEmblem on Apr 24, 2022 13:07:04 GMT -8
So how does the afterlife work? If there's no Upper Planes, and the gods don't really have their home planes, what happens after death? Nobody knows. It's a mystery. Resurrection magic doesn't really exist--at least, nothing that actually works. Reincarnate gives the person a new body and personality, and becoming a sentient undead (like a Vampire) strips them of their ability to feel empathy. In both cases, they only have memories from before their death. There are lots of different ideas floating around, though. Worshippers of Elshodi believe that the souls of the good dwell with him in his domain, and evil ones are banished to the Abyss, where they are transformed into Demons. Worshippers of the Archfey believe that his followers have their souls transformed into Fey, those sacrificed to him are consumed for sustenance, and the rest simply dissipate into the Ethereal Plane. Worshippers of Persephone don't believe in an afterlife at all, aside from a belief that their bodies should feed the ground, which feeds the land, Circle of Life etc. Followers of T'Rack believe that everyone goes to an pleasant afterlife--but one constantly under the threat of Demons; they believe T'Rack and an army of his followers wage an everlasting war to prevent the souls of the faithless from being consumed by the Demons. Worshippers of Thor believe in reincarnation into precious metals, the more faithful the follower, the more precious the metal. The sinful get turned into normal rocks. And the common viewpoint of atheistic mages is that the souls of deceased Mortals are absorbed into the weave of magic.
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Post by Daos on Apr 24, 2022 13:30:10 GMT -8
Oh, should I stop asking them then?
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