Recent content by Argent Favrelauch

Instant Fortress As to surviving being inside the worm with tghe expanding Daern's instant Fortress...When you activate it, it expands around you. So he was inside the Fortress as it expanded, and thus in no danger...even if the worm somehow survived.

Part of the problem is that rapiers are a post gunpowder devlopment, after armor started to go out of style since it couldn't reliably protect you from bullets. Not that it couldn't stop bullets...it just didn't do so reliably..and even when it did you got hurt. So you wouldn't see the two...

A huge number of modern people have never left the town in which they were born. As one of the few people I know who has moved around extensively (Navy Brat) ...most of the people I know, even my friends, have never lived anywhere but where they live now. That *is* changing, but most people (in...

meritocracy Stratified social structures are actually an artifact of a more advanced civilization. During the Dark Ages, and many other periods (ie any time there was a frontier, or any more loosely governed territories) one could rise as high as one's abilities allowed. Where do you think...

As a player, I tend to agree with Destil. For any character I have that is supposed to be good in a particular field, I take multiple skills for it. As he stated, the writing itself is a Craft, making money off of it is a Profession, and there is Knowledge involved as well. For those who mention...