Recent content by Fifinjir

Not really, there are “The Dreamer and the Archons” for the transcendent entities outside the world, but I don’t actually have distinct identities for them.

I do’t and probably won’t. I doubt I’d ever make a good parent. But I’ll at least try to be a good uncle when that time comes.

So Neutrality is necessary to make sure Good stays Good. Good not being that anymore doesn’t change the True Neutral person’s core argument.

Gods can also do a whole lot of meddling without anyone noticing.

There are “Heavenly” and “Earthly” realms. For the earthly realms, they’re more like layers of one place than separate places. For instance, and godling might have their castle on another layer at this mountain, but it’s still on this mountain. This leads to the rather unsettling reality that...

“Congratulations”.

To put how the “Archons” work in my setting more seriously, they work on a level of reality where they don’t so much do things as cause things to happen. This is the main difference between them and the beings that could become warlock patrons. A high tier fey might be extremely powerful, but...

Well, if the gods in my campaigns looked at this threat they’d say “yeah? We’ll see how good a job you do making sure one plus one still equals two tomorrow!” You don’t want then to actually give you that job. They can more or less be likened to overworked code debuggers, they’re good for...

Currently playing the Unity version of Daggerfall. Modded for more enemies, more flair for villages and cities, random encounters in towns a wilderness (using a form of fast travel where you fast forward to the location rather than teleport there), expanded use for the language skills which...

Funnily enough, Ultima V and VI already have pretty great fan remakes…that probably work worse on modern computers than the GOG versions of the original games. So I guess what I want are re-remakes of Ultima V Lazarus Ultima VI Project with an Ultima IV version to go with them.

Species: aasomar, tiefling, genasii, and some shadow and fay planetouched. This shows us a world where the physical and supernatural realities have no “wall” between them, everyone is affected by the Planes. Classes: Warlock Paladin barbarian monk/mystic (not necessarily a face-puncher, but...

I know this snippet of the post wasn’t necessarily the main point, but it was a good jumping off point. What causes me to become disinterested in the lore is the feeling of “okay, but what’s the point”. When it gets so bogged down in the minutiae that it loses the through-line. For example, if...

Well, yes, I’d be able to counter it I think. The guideline I thought of earlier would be part of that managing if I implement it.

I can only speak for myself, but my stake is that other species that are functionally treated as humans have a tendency to edge into becoming like analogies or allegories for real life ethnicities, which I find kind of questionable. A thought I had recently is that if a character comes from an...

When I’m in the player seat, I have to admit a lot of my interest in lore is driven by the question “will I regularly be fighting something more interesting than random wolves and bandits”. It’s one of the main reason I can’t get into low fantasy, but the same feeling can worm its way into more...