Recent content by LazarusKane

And that's the reason why nobody knows a guy called Shakespeare anymore and the people stopped hundred years ago playing his plays or making movie version of his plays or enact interpretations in other medias - or using motivs from his plays in their work

It's totally based on a animal, the drumroll harvestman. If if we would follow your logic then a dog is only a furry human, a cat is also a furry human - but with a high dextery modifier - and a spider is a human with eight arms.

Inhale Exhale Inhale Sure it can happen at the hands of player characters. The Dungeon Master (better: The Storyteller) builds the story with the players and if he decides that the players managed it then a Darklords could be removed - for example by killing or redeeming him. IMHO it should be...

That's a very simplistic view. Let's say I build a species called Harvesters (and yeah, i'm lazy - credit goes to Humon Comics): During mating season the male of this species build a "nest" and waits for a female to judge it. If they like it they lay an egg which the male then proceeds to place...

You're wrong: So we know Darklords can die and/or removed.

Allmost all people in fiction don't exist and authors invent them, perspectives and all - and all fictional characters are reductive. (Good) Writers may be thoroughly investigating topics they don't know but ultimatively it's all made up. A male writer could for example interview one hundred...

I think nowadays it's a scale, not a binary choice, but yeah, it would be interesting to know.

I should surrender. Your (experience with your) players are so far away from any players I encountered, I can't (and I hope I never will) comprehend it. But... you tell me for your players all (humanoid) opponents are the same. And now species should be "interesting and different" for you and...

I must disagree: Try to change a band of human bandits in an adventure with a band of (mad) derros or a band of drow [And since drow as described in 1e trough 5e (2014) are a controversial topic: You can absolutely reject them, but if you (would) use them as written] - that's a huge difference...

Why should players not care? I would use (for example) Kenkus because they are underused - not all cultists/bandits/kidnappers are humans. And I try to give the species I use a "special knack" so that the player realize the difference. I don't know if any of these adventures use Kenkus as...

Althought I have to agree with most of the review I would only give the book a D, maybe a D+ at most. Why? None of the protagonists seem like real persons to me, they were very one-dimensional, more like (bad) actors trying (and failing) to act in a movie with a moderately well written basic script.

Or counter it with believing in the best of people: They want to participate in the discussion, they try to be respectful (and fail sometimes, being snarky), they want to react and argue strictly rational (and react "hotheaded" because it touches something that is important to them), etc.. And...

Yes, sir - that's a average half-orc ;) And if it's not, it's simply one picture -the argument doesn't depend on this picture. (And it didn't depend on me chosing "goliath" instead of orc or minotaur in another post). Someone could post 100 pictures of orcs from D&D books and 100 pictures of...

Edit: I misunderstood @Scribe completely - thanks to @Chaltab for pointing it out to me

OK - for the sake of the argument: Why shouldn´t / couldn't my goliath with max strength be stronger as your gnome with max strength? And: How do we know the "statistical averages" of a species? Well - "Oh, lets look at the picture of a group of Orcs - Gee, most of them seem to be stronger than...