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Elves; Elven write-ups very commonly mention low birthrates and declining populations (particularly in the face of much faster-breeding races) as being very real problems. And yet, the traditional elven god of archery, Solonor Thelandira, is male. The only god of swordsmanship, or in any way...

Quite some time ago, I toyed with making the D&D iconics for M&M. The builds started here, with Jozan, The Atomic Think Tank • View topic - Set's Sideways Supers (Wild Cards; Swarm character) and went on to include Regdar, Naull, Kerwyn, etc. as well as racial 'containers' for standard D&D...

Seems like a nice workable system. My own tweak was to allow anyone able to make an iterative attack to instead make a Mighty Blow as a full attack action. For each iterative attack lost, the single attack gets bonus damage equal to the base damage of the attack. Example: Tyra the 11th...

Around season 5 of Buffy, there was another perfect Mary Sue, only, unlike Jonathan in season 4, she wasn't played up as a joke. A former boyfriend, Riley Finn, shows up in town, and his new wife, Sam Finn, is a textbook case. Her backstory is that she was some sort of volunteer nurse in a...

Each setting seems to have a half-dozen or dieties that I really like, but there are some common themes. Dieties of space, the stars, etc. appeal to me, whether it is Ptah 'Opener of the Ways,' or Celestian from Greyhawk or Desna from Golarion. Female dieties with a strong (or even harsh!)...

Mathematically, it seems brilliant. 1) D&D 3E appeals to the 1% of the people currently playing it, and apparently does not appeal to the 99% who do not play D&D. 2) If we make D&D 4E very different, so much so that the 1% who liked it don't like it, then, logically, the 99% who *weren't*...

I have a ton of ideas that I would love to play, but, upon slamming into the rules and setting, invariably find out that I 'can't do that' or that 'it doesn't fit,' and that I'd enjoy the game more if I wasn't banging my head against a wall trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. And so...

There's a difference between something becoming so dated as to be inaccessible and something being no longer profitable (or just not as profitable as another property) due to niche appeal. The mythos developed by Robert E Howard and H.P. Lovecraft back in the early years of the last century...

Supposedly, there's a new class, but I haven't heard which one (and I remember the Warlock being floated as a possible back before it launched, so it could be that instead). I was also peeved that I couldn't play a Druid when it launched. It's also more than possible that the 'new class' won't...

In the lore for the Shadowbane online game, Dwarves are a static race, fashioned from stone by their creator-god at the dawn of time to tend the earth's forges. They are never born, and they never die. All appear male, but none of them have any gender in any meaningful sense. This was a very...

It could also be a cultural divide creeping up. The nomads had always met at the two rivers site to establish winter camps / trading moots, and over the centuries, more and more of the nomads elders and infirm ended up 'tending the camp' during the wandering months. The culture has changed...

One of the creepier 'Nessie' theories is that worms native to the lake gather together in great clumps to mate, and end up flopping onto shore and writhing around in a nasty mass. Such a 'wormswarm,' composed of (hopefully smaller versions of!) the critter in the top post would be...

Every setting has dull parts and awesome parts. I do agree that the Dragonlance setting was too strictly limited to the stories already told, and created the *perception* that everything cool had already been done. Same with Middle-Earth, or other licensed settings (including Star Wars)...

I voted diverse powers. I'd rather have a Bag of Tricks, Decanter of Endless Water or Rod of Lordly Might than a belt that gives me +2 strength, or, worse, a belt that gives me +4 to strength for one round as a swift action three times / day. What kind of mad genius came up with the idea of...

War Troll Barbarian / Frenzied Berserker / Hulking Hurler? (or a Human Polymorph Any Objected into one)

And the generic flavorless '+1 sword' shed light like a torch and had a chance to be sentient and other powers. Yeah, straw men meant to ridicule the OP aside, some of the old-school items like the Rod of Lordly Might and the Decanter of Endless Water did seem to be a bit more interesting than...

Palpatine - neutral evil. Luke - chaotic good. Leia - lawful good. Vader - lawful evil. Han - chaotic neutral at the start -> chaotic good at the end. Kirk - chaotic good. Spock - lawful good. Scotty - neutral good. McCoy - lawful good (which is why he argues with Spock so much)...

I wouldn't mind seeing an interesting plot hook / adventure seed involving giant eagles.

Shambling Mound - 1) Make it a literal Man-Thing/Swamp Thing riff. A man was murdered and his body buried in the swamp. The Shambling Mound rose from that section of swamp, with some strange residue of the man's spirit (like the 'echo' that remains and can be contacted via Speak with Dead...

Oni - the villagers of Town X used to hold rituals every spring to keep the Oni's away, and part of the ritual was leaving offerings out for good spirits to protect them. There was a local Oni, something of a loner among it's kind, who would come at night and take the offerings, and return to...