Recent content by Voadam

I disagree. :) They are fairly easy characteristics to portray if you want to. Int can be ignorance, or not understanding or full of mischaracterizations. Wisdom can be rash or oblivious or foolish. Low charisma can be quiet or awkward or boorish. Plenty of options that are fairly easy to...

Two different ends of a spectrum, one the character sheet defines mechanics and the player decides all other roleplaying decisions, the second is the sheet is what a player should try to roleplay to, mental and social attributes and skills, alignment, default class descriptions and background...

Player's Secrets of Ilien (2e) 2e Undead Creature: ? Vile Undead, Unpleasant Fiend, Loathsome Creature: ? Undead Creature of Great Power: ? Undead Creature of Great Power, Lesser Form of Undead Awnsheghlien: ? Most Powerful Shadow World Creature: ? The Lich, Horrible Creature, Most Powerful...

That is pretty wild, the journal puts him actively as a "shadow player for malevolence" and the epic level handbook says "just as often he has worked the side of infernal forces." The 3.0 Living Greyhawk Gazetteer is similar but milder on the characterization of his bad stuff as merely "darker...

For reference here is the 1e PH and DMG descriptions of True Neutral True Neutral: The “true” neutral looks upon all other alignments as facets of the system of things. Thus, each aspect — evil and good, chaos and law — of things must be retained in balance to maintain the status quo; for...

In the 2e City of Greyhawk boxed set it gets kind of close to a TN for Mordenkainen and the Circle of Eight with a pragmatic reason of worrying about most anyone, including good individuals and kingdoms, getting too much power. The majority of the members of the Circle of Eight are of pure...

Also for Modenkainen, what sources spell out his acting for the balance? The 1e boxed set only says he is a well-known personage from the Wild Coast and that he is an archmage who can often be found with various quasi-deities like Heward, Keoghtom, and Murlynd. The 1e Rogues Gallery pegs him...

The cosmic balance of good against evil is a big thing in Dragonlance. Good started to ultimately triumph in the world with wars against evil that ended up turning into a war of genocide against evil and then neutral by the king-priest and then going after the gods, which triggered the...

My first thought on seeing the cover was "Oh, that is fairly Boris Vallejo . . . ish."

Player's Secrets of Halskapa (2e) 2e Living Dead: ? Barrow Wight: The next day a party of druids made an expedition to the barrow hill, Rjanik among them, and confirmed that the barrow had indeed been disturbed. Upon venturing inside, they were startled to discover that the body of one of the...

They are fairly close and 5e made some syncretisms to include aspects of the 4e World Axis such as the Feywild and Shadowfell but you still have to make some decisions one way or the other. Are the Astral Domains the ones in 4e or are they the outer planar ring of the Great Wheel or are they...

I take Mordenkainen's meddling neutrality ethos as he primarily does not put [Evil] versus [Good] as his motivator, he is a big active meddler but not for those cosmic forces. In Greyhawk he lives in the city state of Greyhawk and sees lots of things in the world that should be checked to...

There are a couple more D&D cosmologies. 3e Rokugan planar cosmology is detailed in Fortunes and Winds and I think BECMI has a different one as well. The big other one is the World Axis though from 4e.

Player's Secrets of Endier (2e) 2e Undead, Restless Dead: ? Skeleton: ? Wight: ?

Mostly I go with a Hyborian/Eberron view where there are plenty of in world views from different cultures and religions but it is mostly a mystery. From in play adventuring PCs have gone to Concordant Opposition/The Outlands, Acheron, The Feywild/First World, Hel, and some Werewolf the...