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The man getting to choose his bride (and her having nothing to say about it) is not that uncommon in human history. I don't know why it would be interpreted as a creepy sexual subtext. It's not a culture I'd like to live in, but I found it entirely plausible and non-creepy that in this culture...

I played in a World's Largest Dungeon campaign once where the DM stopped tracking XP and just had us level up every X sessions (forget how many). I had mixed feelings about it. It did take some of the fiddly record-keeping out of the picture, but it gave me a little bit of a sense that what we...

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It's possible the girl dyed her hair out of rebellion. She wouldn't be the first teen to want to look different than her parents.

Spoilers for the book (but probably not for the show, unless they bring the mriswyth back): I seem to recall that he actually became "addicted" to the cloak and was slowly becoming a mriswyth. That was how they made new mriswyth in the book, not by abducting people and sticking them in big...

I thought the same thing. It would have been smart for them to try get Kara to Nicci, since Mord Sith always beats Wizard in this game. If they weren't planning to do that then they shouldn't have even reminded us that Mord Sith can control magic used against them. As far as the sword not...

She doesn't always wear white. She's worn other non-white outfits before. She usually wears white when she's doing something in her official capacity as a confessor (or as the Mother Confessor), but other times she can wear other things.

Yes, but they're not like drow anywhere else, and it would be pretty simple to replace them with any ol' savages with just a little reflavoring. Mostly Xendrik is giant-heavy. It was once the home of the giants who had elves as slaves.

I second (or third) Secrets of Xendrik. It's chock full of ideas and seeds. Just about everything in the book has two or three explanations, so you can take your pick or use them as inspiration for something different.

This would probably also help go easier on the database itself.

I was thinking that while they knew it was coming they didn't get much notice. Basically enough time to set up a shelter and spread the word to the surrounding areas to come running. And there's also the risk that those in charge might take the opportunity to save only those books that they...

I explained it a bit more in detail upthread, but the cataclysm I'm imagining is what you're envisioning except there are magically protected "safe zones" where a few survivors managed to congregate. After the cataclysm these safe zones are all that's left of the world (as far as the survivors...

I'm imagining most books and records would have been lost in the cataclysm. They may still exist, but the PCs have to adventure to find them. I'm hoping part of the fun of this campaign will be in discovering lost history of the world and finding out that things might not be the way most...

I'd say that at the time of the lifespan change you'd scale the amount of time left to an individual. So if an elf was middle-aged when the cataclysm happened they'd start to age like a middle-aged human, meaning they would have about 40-50 years left to them, even if they were already 500...

I'm leaning towards the idea that the races had different lifespans at one point, but all of the individuals left in the known areas of the world (including the PCs) have been limited to human-like lifespans. Perhaps I should explain a little more about the campaign world I'm envisioning...

Yes, they were. And they were a lot cooler in the books, if I recall. They were one of the few things I remembered after all these years, aside from the bits that felt like they were stolen from WoT.

I respect this, but I find that in actual play not many players do anything with an extended lifespan. They decide how old they want their character to be in human years and just scale that to match their racial lifespan. In this respect I feel like giving all races the same lifespan isn't...

Would it ruin the game for you if all races had lifespans similar to humans (80-100 years)? I'm thinking up a campaign set in a world where a cataclysmic event happened in the not so distant past. I want the event to have happened long enough ago that details of the world before the event are...

If you're talking about the Sword of Truth books being similar to Wheel of Time, it wasn't the grand plots that were similar, it was all the little details (or a whole bunch of little details). I've read plenty of fantasy novels to understand how similar they all are, but one of the things I...

I realized that as I was watching this show, and I also realized that if WoT got to the screen I'd like it to be done better than Legend of the Seeker. But when I realized what this show was about my first reaction was, "Oh my god, they made one of the fantasy novel series I read in high school...