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The problem here is Medusa wasn't the only gorgon. She had two sisters who could also turn people to stone. Nothing prevents her parents from having other gorgons, or even the three gorgons giving birth to other gorgons. I mean, Medusa had two offspring posthumously (a winged horse and a...

...and other golems created elsewhere in folklore. The Sefer Yetzira dates back to the 10th century and has purported directions to create a golem. Some texts refer to Adam existing as a golem prior to being given a soul. So Medusa is a specific, unique being who was given her name by her...

If Medusa was born of greek gods, then her blood turning into a winged horse is due to her parents divinely weird genetics. Cetus and Phorcys spat out everything; beautiful nymphs, gorgons, the Graeae and a bunch of sea monsters. And sometimes when you chopped up one of their kids, a couple of...

White wolf is mechanically a derivative of Shadowrun. Pretty sure it was Tom Dowd who designed the dice pool system for WW after working on SR1.

Medusa was not the only gorgon nor was Medusa universally given as being cursed, that shows up much later. She is more often said to be born to the same divine parents as the immortal gorgons, Stheno and Euryale, but born mortal. Much like some sometimes in a group of dryad sisters there will...

It's the definition of the word. Like "all mares are females" or "all bulls are male". The superset of "dryad" is "goddess" which rolls up to "divinity". Nymphs are minor female nature divinities, usually bound to a place or type of feature. Dryads are a subset of nymphs tied to trees...

IMC elves are the fey equivalent of tieflings; they were humans who mated with true fey and became a stable lineage.

I am always angered by "Medusas." That is like "Draculas". Medusa was a gorgon, Dracula is a vampire. Euryale was another gorgon. Her father the God of Sea Hazards, her Mother was the Goddess of Sea Monsters. She was raised under the sea.

I need a "the GM refuses to kill players" option. The last character I had that should have died was in a Cybergen game. The younger kids were fleeing some baddies and I decided to sacrifice my character by having the biker slingshot my tinman character at a fuel truck, road flare in...

Horrors....have the word "Horror" in them. Heck, a Wormskull was the intro story for one edition, and it was a near-TPK in that. It could have been a poorly planned encounter, but yeah, a GM who literally says "my NPCs can't die lame deaths" is straight up a problem. And honestly, kicking a...

I will always argue the opposite because I have gamed with too many people who have nearly nonexistent social awareness. I always want them to be able to play the Face just as well as the total klutz can play a monk. I treat social skills like the Battlemaster. PCs can make Insight tests to...

Not sure runes are much different from x^3 -9x^2 +26x -24[0->13] To most people

I voted (6-8) because it took us 28x 6-hr sessions to get from 8th to 14th. The lower levels should happen faster but 3 hour sessions are brief. Getting people into game-mode takes some time and with shorter sessions that is a larger percentage of the table-time lost to "what happened last...

Artificer and runes seem like they go well. Seems like a clear path from giantish-runes to Artificer Runes Knight -> Artificer (Armorer) -> Artificer (other) -> ?Runic Caster? So what would be the "pure caster" variant?

Has anybody here used MapTools? Or any other laptop-hostable VTT? Out group has in-person games, but we have a TV in a box as our battlemap. The problem is the current GM is constantly fighting IT. I'm thinking something run locally will behave better.

Exploration is a good low level arc. It provides that sense of growth as you go from "a muddy hillside could kill us all" to "anybody want a bear skin cloak?" I tend to keep the "points of interest" approach, at least if they make their navigation checks, but one point of interest is always...

You have the basic "quenched in the blood of a slave" but let's go more fantastic Forged in dragon breath/hands of a fire elemental/etc Cold forged by a giant/titan (bonus if frost giant) Eldritch-forged (Force damage) Engraved by a pixie/sprite/tiny fey Silk fabric woven by trained spiders...

I've done a lot of versions. God's that were so incredibly powerful they were prohibited from directly influencing mortal realms because their very presence would destroy it, with the gods of destruction constrained by the other gods vowing retribution. Gods that were bonded to demiplanes that...

A conditionally cursed Robe of Blending (3 speeds). It was sized for a Small creature. Anyone who activated it would gain the stealth bonus but if they were larger than Small it would deal damage as it sliced them down to size. It would only attune to Medium (4d6 damage) and Large (4d10...

Earthdawn. It's heavily invested in it's lore but I have used it to run a game set in 500AD with Romans, Norse, Huns, Egyptians and Persians.