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If you're following this thread, I'm going to be altering things as I go, changing out origins and seeing if I can get something I actually like. So, if notifications are not your thing, please feel free to unwatch if you're watching (it's not like I know). Of course, if you want to help, please...

There are already the Dragonmarks, so making knacks that are somewhat similar to them should be possible. The main thing is that to be the figures of tall tales they'd need to do some really extraordinary things. This isn't impossible, especially for spellcasters, but there could be a mechanism...

Ick. I mostly remember the puns; it's been a long time since I've read one, so I likely missed this the first time around (and this really isn't giving me a motive to do a second). nods I was already thinking that a lot of the Fearsome Critters would make for some really unique monsters in the...

Oh dear.

I previously posted a rather odd idea for a setting that was created by the Fey Courts and Dragon Courts. This was inspired by some of the Jack tales mixed with some Tall Tales (here in the US they involve such figures as Johnny Appleseed, Paul Bunyan, and Pecos Bill). These sorts of tales also...

The TLDR is the title. The rest is how it came to be :p

Some world building that came into my head. Thoughts and suggestions would be appreciated. As a forewarning, these sections are long and went into my head in a sort of "Tall Tale" fashion that I don't write well.

There are also places like Járnviðr (Iron-Wood) and ironwood in D&D, so whether by nature or by processing something similar could happen. Of course, the processing causing another elf-dwarf issue is interesting.

Stranger things have happened; one need only look at the Drow to see how a species can change when their environment does. They could even make their homes aboard giant turtles like the zaratan or something like the aspidochelone.

I really was not thinking along the lines of Conan the Barbarian or the more ridiculous 'horned helmed' types that didn't exist outside operas. Generally, I was thinking along the lines of RL Scandinavian cultures (which I know are multiple), but more generically since the Dwarves of D&D don't...

It's always "look what nifty items we came up with for killing people with" and never "look what nifty items we came up for farming with". Like, people may want to argue about the Medievalesque look if magical industry takes off, but there's actually fewer reasons to change the appearance of...

I would agree that it's unlikely Dwarves would want to be too reliant on other species for staples. They've almost certainly got potatoes if those exist. Barbeque could definitely be a thing. I'm sure at least some Dwarves would be wood carvers, especially of more durable types of wood. I'd...

There could be and should be, which is why I think there are and this sort of conversation is interesting! :)

Yeah, the new rules make it very easy to have them be anything, but tradition places them so much with the mountains and underground that I'm not sure folks could decouple it, which is why I'm asking folks here about it. Thanks! I thought that if any species ought to be into industry, it should...

Because my brain is a peculiar place, the following has been going on in it: Though Dwarves are most often associated with hills and mountains, I don't see why they couldn't be sailors and farmers. If anyone would likely be similar to them, the Dwarves make the most sense. Of course, what this...

That is a rather bold argument to make, considering some folks prefer characters who are subtle and swashbucklers never are.

I hadn't thought of those at the time, but you're right they'd be what folks are familiar with now. I'm not sure how vast the difference is. To me, it's a person fighting with a single sword and performing acrobatics. The possible differences in either additional weapons or style issues (such...

Ugh. Now it should. What is it with links not wanting to copy?

Well, Poul Anderson's character is not technically the original, considering Charlemagne's Twelve Peers, but I get what you mean. I think, however, that most people would associate the Swashbuckler with the Musketeers, the Scarlet Pimpernel, and Zorro.

I had copied that link earlier, but I thought I had the correct link in storage. Not sure what happened. Anyway it's fixed.