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Insect really does seen like the best fit (see: Berserk, Lost Children Arc) unless you want to go abstract. You could make fairies something akin to the lure of an angler fish, a visible luminescence that draws the unwary toward a predator that perhaps lies just out of phase with the prime...

I think that the topic of how gritty your want to run your game is well within the purview of session 0. Especially if we're talking the very first session 0 with an unfamiliar group.

Given the number of players I've encountered both in person and online who have the "everything will be fine in the end" mentality, the level of grittiness that dismemberment and disfigurement imply does indeed strike me as something that's worth mentioning. Some people are too attached to...

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Let's make it really simple. Read my post. Respond to the content of my post in full, not just stopping where you think is convenient for you. Or don't. I'm cool either way.

It's pretty clear that you aren't going to actual engage with the content of my post. Enjoy your high horse, I guess. I'm willing to debate, but I won't repeat myself.

I said more than that. Reply to the content of my post, not the assumptions you decided to draw from part of it.

If I put anything in writing, I'm saying what I write, and I'll be as clear as I was in the post you quoted when you mischaracterized me, something one would think you'd be more careful about given the subject.

I literally did not say that. Don't put words in my mouth.

Big disagree. Generalizations are a highly useful tool when working with fictional cultures. You don't always have the time, inclination or page count (if publishing) to do a fully fleshed out writeup for every culture in your setting, and having a kind of behavioral short hand is a good way...

Yeah, I'm on board with this kind of view of the necromancer. I would say that I'd like to make such a necromancer get, for lack of a better word, weirder at higher levels rather than just have the base concept scale. Like a low level necromancer might be doing the standard grave digging...

Both are good. I'd probably read the sequel to Worm first because the sequel (kind of) to Pact is still in the writing, and reading one of his works always has me ready to read the next. If you do, make sure to read Glow Worm before reading Ward. It's kind of a prologue to the story. But...

Nearly 11,000 pages, and I'm nearly finished with my 7th reading of it.

That's a separate issue, and unfortunately it's one that runs headlong into the whole prescriptive vs. descriptive language argument. People have been using "objective" in situations that can't be objective for so long it's in that same area of "literally" being used to describe the figurative...

It really wasn't worth saying. If people are doing that to you, it's bad when they do it too. Like I said, it's all opinions here. The way they worded it doesn't make it less of an opinion, and there's no reason to reword it to suit your personal tastes. Just address the actual meat of the...

Yeah, this is the part I don't get. There's nothing interesting about DR. It's basically 3E again with all of the little numbers that you only take into account when you fill out a formula on your character sheet. It's the same simulationist argument for armor we've seen since the TSR days...

Definitely want a statblock for the noble aardvark then.

Yeah, this is why I never got into Pathfinder. By the time it came out, I was so over mid to high level 3E that the last thing I was looking for was another version of that. Of course when I found a group that was running 4E, I swiftly found that wasn't for me either. I started looking at...

I voted Mysterio because you gotta love a villain so petty that he makes plans to screw over the hero even after he got killed.

While they aren't the focus of the story, I'd recommend reading Pact for a story with some rather nasty fey. A couple of warnings ahead of time: it's a long read at nearly 950,000 words (somewhere between 3000 and 3500 pages), and it's also a bit of a doom spiral. If you're looking for a...