Unpopular opinions go here

[Lanefan]

Are there some advantages the default D&D world has for encouraging linguistic commonality and stability?

• several very long lived races
• teleportation and flighy
• more consistently interactive deities
• that silver dragon who is really a stickler about grammar and pronunciation and wanders the world in polymorphed form

Among the upper classes, merchants, and adventurers? Sure, no problem. But even there, nothing forces them to learn a common language, and some might actively choose not to for various reasons.

And none of those listed things/beings are likely to ever interact with anyone in the hundreds of small farming villages and hamlets of Pomfrey, who speak a completely different language than do the many villagers in Alotania, a different realm 250 miles away. (faux-English and faux-Spanish in my setting)

Stop at a village inn in Pomfrey and try to get by in Common - good luck with that.

 

[overgeeked]

Have you read Glen Cook's Passage at Arms, followed by the Star Fisher's Trilogy, and the various short stories for that universe?

I've bounced off Glen Cook every time I've tried to read his stuff.

 

[Cadence]

I've bounced off Glen Cook every time I've tried to read his stuff.

I can certainly understand everyone having things they bounce off of.

 

[Guest 7042500]

I hate D&D 5th edition, and I hate Roll 20.

 

[darjr]

I hate Roll 20.

I'm not sure this is an unpoplular statement?

 

[darjr]

I've bounced off Glen Cook every time I've tried to read his stuff.

Well.

this.

this is unpopular with me!

 

[Cadence]

Well.

this.

this is unpopular with me!

Better?
(Bottom right should all have one short story each by him, some collected elsewhere).

 

[darjr]

The Tower of Fear. Such a great book. I've used bits of it so many times. I read The Dragon Never Sleeps and the Black Company Omnibus till they fell appart.

 

[darjr]

@Cadence

I owe Glen Cook. One point in my life i was such an angry kid. Fighting and getting in trouble. Then I found the Black Company and well I just kinda didn't have time any more to get in trouble. Then the love of my life fell in love with the Black Company books. She likes some of Glens works more than I do. And the Black Company Campaign setting helped bring me back to this hobby.

 

[Cadence]

The Tower of Fear. Such a great book. I've used bits of it so many times. I read The Dragon Never Sleeps and the Black Company Omnibus till they fell appart.

I love Tower of Fear. And the history part at the end is very cool.

My faves of his (in no particular order) are that and:

• First six Garrett Files
• Passage at Arms, Shadowline, and the Starfishers universe short stories
• The Dread Empire short stories (including the pirate ones)
• The stand alone Devil's Tooth short story

I really wish he had been able to finish the Dread Empire series the way he wanted, instead of having the manuscript stolen and needing to recreate it as one book instead of three.