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

[Cadence]

Doing some genealogy... and this is a heck of a set of numbers from one of them on my wife's side. That's a #%!@ big family.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Be fruitful and multiply, indeed.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

Doing some genealogy... and this is a heck of a set of numbers from one of them on my wife's side. That's a #%!@ big family.

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My mother is the 8th of 13 children. She has 9 sisters and 3 brothers. I have about 40 living cousins.

 

[Mad_Jack]

My mother is the 8th of 13 children. She has 9 sisters and 3 brothers. I have about 40 living cousins.

My dad's family wasn't quite that bad - he's the youngest of nine...
(Although I have heard it said that there were actually seventeen children altogether, I can't actually confirm that or any details of why there were only six living kids when they came to America...)

 

[Cadence]

My dad's family wasn't quite that bad - he's the youngest of nine...
(Although I have heard it said that there were actually seventeen children altogether, I can't actually confirm that or any details of why there were only six living kids when they came to America...)

The most children for a close relation is that my Grandma was the youngest of 12.

The biggest set of children I've seen is for one of my wife's 4G Grandfathers. If I counted right, he had 27 children, 19 of which lived to adulthood. It feels cheating that the 2nd and 3rd wife were simultaneous (a very early Mormon, looks like her G Grandparents in that line had left the church or weren't raised in it). He died at age 67 and so might not beat the above one for number of descendants during his lifetime, but I don't have it set up to count.

 

[Davies]

The spambot is getting a bit scarily smart in its name choices.

 

[billd91]

Did a wave of stupidity just pass through the boards?

 

[RealAlHazred]

Did a wave of stupidity just pass through the boards?

I mean... How would you tell?

 

[CleverNickName]

Every time someone writes their "hot take" about Dark Sun not actually being problematic, and slavery/muls/halflings aren't really bad if you think about it, and the old legacy books are actually fine the way they are, and etc., my interest in ever playing a Dark Sun campaign diminishes a little bit more. I hate that.

 

[Voadam]

You had me at "ride in on a dinosaur."

I went with Wood Elf instead of Halfling, but kept Barbarian for the class and Outlander background. I asked my DM if I could have a dinosaur as a mount instead of a horse, and she said I could have an Axe Beak if I could justify it with my backstory. I accepted the compromise, and reskinned the "axe beak" monster to be a real-world prehistoric flightless bird.

And so a new faction appeared in the game world: The Ae'rochben, or "Bird-Riders." They are a remote tribe of wood elves that dwell in the misty jungles of southern Valenar. Much of their culture has developed around large feathered dinosaurs called phorusrhacos, which they have domesticated for use as war mounts, draft animals, and food sources.

Great minds.

A couple years ago I played a 5e outlander background Half-Orc Barbarian whose orc tribe I said regularly rode axe beaks and I worked hard to make the axe beak mount happen for my character.