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To the best of my knowledge, Tolkien never actually wrote Brandobras' story. It's simply a myth that is briefly mentioned in LotR. We...

I feel like whilst Bullroarer Took might not able to beat the Mountain in an wrestling contest, he probably could hit someone as hard...

Over the past few years I've dumped "Alignment" in the metaphysical game mechanics sense. My default has become that there are three...

I think some of this comes down to RPGs doing a lot of abstraction for ease of play. Some people interpret those abstractions as...

I agree that it could be more explicit, but if you know FR lore (which the MM is based on, since it references Gruumsh) it's pretty...

Cool! I wasn't suggesting that 10% as a rule of thumb. It was just meant as an example of how the vast majority of orcs could completely...

I assure you that I do understand what you are saying, and I agree with you that a better write-up would be better. I wasn't trying to...

I kind of come at the problem in the opposite direction. It's probably reasonable to assume that 75% of goblins are vicious cannibals...

The books could probably afford to be more clear about that 10% thing though.

I can see what you mean. However, like I said, I read those as descriptive, not prescriptive. Maybe that's a typical orc, or even just...

I think that has more to do with orcs typically being portrayed in campaigns as "shoot first, ask questions later" types than anything...

I put quotes around it to try and indicate that wasn't the term I was looking for, just the closest I could come up with at the moment...

Yes. In my game for example, elves are "usually" chaotic good. This doesn't mean that all elves are chaotic good only that they are by...

I tend to approach species description as descriptive, rather than prescriptive. The typical wood elf might love forests, but there's...

Next year, 2026, Monte Cook Games will be releasing a new edition of its in-house Cypher System rules system. Originally launched over...