D&D General Which D&D Words and Things are Post 1608?

[Haplo781]

Undead - 1897
Studded leather armor - c. 1977

IT'S BRIGANDINE GARYA

 

[Cadence]

The D10 is the only one that isn't a Pythagorean solid, and thus deriving from pure maths. The D10 is a contrivance based around our decimal counting system, and the faces are not regular polygons.

Why don't the Catalan solids ever get any love? In addition do a d12, they can make a d24, d30, d48, d60, and d120. As duals of the Archimedian solids they feel like they're mathematicalish enough. (Those self-dual Platonic solids stealing all the glory).

As far as efficiency, if you only get one die, the 24 sided deltoidal icositetrahedron would let you get d2, d3, d4, d6, d8, d12, and d24 all in one. (I'm not sure what the rest of the stuff on these are beyond that).

I wonder how big (and heavy) a d120 needs to be to be readable if you want all of d2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12, 15, 20, 24, 30, 40, 60, and 120 on it and be sturdy enough to roll.

 

[Azzy]

Why, might I ask? I've always found Infravision and Ultravision both easy to explain and great differentiators between different types of night-sight.

They are very modern in conception and not very fantasy or mythic.

 

[Cadence]

They are very modern in conception and not very fantasy or mythic.

I'm kind of curious about the Venn diagram of those who want Infra/Ultra-vision and those who want Psionics with telepathy, telekinesis, pyrokinesis, etc...

 

[Faolyn]

Why, might I ask? I've always found Infravision and Ultravision both easy to explain and great differentiators between different types of night-sight.

Ultraviolet light isn't night-vision. It's specifically a wavelength of light that is outside the human eye's ability to see.

So if your race has ultravision, congrats, you can see the stripes on human skin and the colors on a seemingly white flower. It won't actually help them in the dark, though.

 

[Tonguez]

Rapiers were invented in 1600s so should not be ubiquitous

 

[Tonguez]

The whole English language.

The closest thing to a Common tongue was Latin. English was parochial, with lots of regional variations. You might credit Shakespeare for inventing "standard" English. I assume that is why the 1608 date (Renaissance rather than medieval) was picked out of the air.

Thats very Eurocentric and Koine Greek might want to object, Alexanders Empire was quite iinfluential.

 

[Lanefan]

Which, by the time the PCs get them, it's already been established that everyone speaks Common, so it's not worth the spell slot.

Has it?

Not in everyone's game or setting. I mean, in mine it's not even a requirement that PCs speak Common, never mind the general population.

 

[Lanefan]

They are very modern in conception and not very fantasy or mythic.

The explanation behind them is modern, sure, but the concept of some species being able to see by starlight and others being able to see by heat radiation doesn't have to be.

 

[Lanefan]

Ultraviolet light isn't night-vision. It's specifically a wavelength of light that is outside the human eye's ability to see.

So if your race has ultravision, congrats, you can see the stripes on human skin and the colors on a seemingly white flower. It won't actually help them in the dark, though.

It will outdoors, as it allows vision by starlight. (reduced but not eliminated if the sky is cloudy)

Doesn't help indoors unless someone casts Starshine, a 1e Druid spell (I'm not even sure if it's still a thing in 5e) that generates indoor starlight over an area.