The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

I think I've just come to the conclusion that the small bit of background in new race write up's is actually more than sufficient. I'm 99% sure that 'fantasy culture' is actually irrelevant, and not a meaningful contribution to nearly the entire played experience.

I think that if the books just said "Goblin" and gave its player/monster stats, 90% of DMs and players would have enough imagination to find how they fit in their game.

 

[Mad_Jack]

Sounds like a "Hot Fuzz" moment.

Oh, I'm sure it looked hysterical...
On the other hand, driving down the highway at sixty miles an hour while trying to steer with your knees and simultaneously engaging in an MMA fight with a panicked thirty-lb. bird in an enclosed space is not something I'd care to try again.
(At least with the first time I got into a fight with a turkey (a flock of them, actually) I had a broomstick and enough room to swing it.)

I have no idea what the officially published CR of a turkey is, but I'm sure it's been vastly underrated.

 

[Scribe]

I think that if the books just said "Goblin" and gave its player/monster stats, 90% of DMs and players would have enough imagination to find how they fit in their game.

For all the usual types? 100%

 

[Scribe]

On the other hand, driving down the highway at sixty miles an hour while trying to steer with your knees and simultaneously engaging in an MMA fight with a panicked thirty-lb. bird in an enclosed space is not something I'd care to try again.

My Mom almost drove us off the highway over a moth I can say with certainty that in your scenario, we would have been dead.

 

[Ryujin]

Oh, I'm sure it looked hysterical...
On the other hand, driving down the highway at sixty miles an hour while trying to steer with your knees and simultaneously engaging in an MMA fight with a panicked thirty-lb. bird in an enclosed space is not something I'd care to try again.
(At least with the first time I got into a fight with a turkey (a flock of them, actually) I had a broomstick and enough room to swing it.)

I have no idea what the officially published CR of a turkey is, but I'm sure it's been vastly underrated.

Dire Turkey: Lord Tomnus the Gobbler - Dragonlance Nexus

The Dire Turkey and the Beast Lord of the Turkeys. Read More

dragonlancenexus.com

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

For all the usual types? 100%

Well, for most D&D races, IMO. The ones that don't have immediately recognizable names for people not familiar with D&D could just be simplified into their core identities (Genasi could be "Half-Genie", Harengon could be "Rabbitfolk", Tiefling could be "Devilspawn", and so on).

 

[Mad_Jack]

My Mom almost drove us off the highway over a moth I can say with certainty that in your scenario, we would have been dead.

Unfortunately, I've had more than a couple opportunities in my life to demonstrate that I'm not the type who panics in dangerous situations. On the upside, though, I do have a pretty cool scar collection and some hella funny war stories...

 

[Malmuria]

So, wotc needs a change in direction because they haven’t made enough forgotten realms books. Even though it’s the default setting and the setting for almost every adventure. Even though it’s the most exhaustively detailed fantasy setting ever, probably. At least, I find it exhausting

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

So, wotc needs a change in direction because they haven’t made enough forgotten realms books. Even though it’s the default setting and the setting for almost every adventure. Even though it’s the most exhaustively detailed fantasy setting ever, probably. At least, I find it exhausting

I think Wizards of the Coast haven't made enough official Eberron books in 5e. Clearly, Elon Musk needs to buy WotC and make them publish more Eberron books!

 

[Cadence]

Anyway, iirc, one of the goal is to not turn this into obviously paralleling other threads, because the Mods have implied/said that pretty strongly in the past.

Analogies and a bit of veiling seem to work. Literally dropping in something that would fit in the other thread and going back and forth feels like it might not.