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Hmmm. Is it possible that her stuff went down a long time ago, and she was kept in a glass casket for years in Jinnistan? Because that would be beyond perfect. >;) (Abdul's backstory includes running across such a woman in Jinnistan.) So it might be that people have forgotten her not because...

There was an ecology article in the Dragon back in the day (and one of my favorites) where this was basically true. Except instead of being stranded, they deliberately came to this dimension because theirs is dying. The author put a lot of work into imagining what the illithid homeworld must...

Much like pemerton , my dislike of Planescape has multiple reasons - some petty, some serious. The cant grates on my nerves. Part of this is just personal taste, and therefore petty. But there's something more... And that's the something more. The setting takes something which (to my own...

Really? I make no claim to expertise in this area, but my understanding was that it had at least as much to do with neo-Platonism. (Of course, there certainly were prominent Jewish neo-Platonists, so I suppose some overlap may have occurred.) Daemons or daimons as lesser divinities dwelling...

Amusingly, at least to me, the idea of Merlin being the son of a fiend was a mistaken reading of the original material. :) His father was a 'daemon', which in the usage of the early medieval era meant a fey-like being that lived in the upper air. (While some thought they were angels, it was...

That is the big downside to modularity that's been worrying me... nobody will use all the modules, so if the DMG presents a number of modules, everybody will regard some of them as dead space.

He's also a witness against R'Akibum.

No arguing that it was nicely fortuitous! Nevertheless, I have met those people, though not in a while. I don't think they're outliers, though. I think there's a selection effect that can make them seem like outliers to experienced gamers. My own experience in gaming I think is not unusual...

There probably would be rumors, yes. The people from the ferry will be wagging their tongues, as well as the people who saw the sorcerer's duel. Hey, that guy Gobryas was also looking for Namvar al-Qadi, maybe we'll see him again? Namvar's family will be present, will they? Including...

In reading the last few pages of this thread as it has evolved, it strikes me that the 'problem' is that everyone is (partly) right. :) Default lore can be a big help to new GM's. To a newbie, the prospect of creating a whole world from scratch can be very daunting and a barrier to entry. The...

Oooh. A guy like Tariq might even have run across the fabled treasure of the Malik Hakiziman at some point - the treasure that drove Yazid mad. If so, maybe Metef *had* to wipe Tariq's memory to keep him from the same fate. Whatta twist, yes? The emerald talisman works too. :) And is...

No 'almost' about it, it definitely is. Back to the topic... I don't know why the core rules have to make *any* default assumptions about cosmology, other than the bare existence of transitive planes (for the sake of certain traditional spells). It's almost like saying, "Your campaign's home...

Yes. Yes, it does... Well, she's not a princess, but Jamul's daughter Fatima is facing a marriage quite possibly worse than death. Of course, Jamul feels just about as trapped by Kara Iskendar as she must. Hmm. Well, yes, there's the Forgotten Boys - and Zayid al-Hafiz, the idealistic...

I mostly agree with you - I just treat the more common humanoid races (orcs, goblins, etc) as NPC races who can be relatively common in some areas. Monsters, on the other hand, should be special. And scary! I tend to beef up undead in particular for just that reason - I quite approve of the...

How does the character even know that graphite and diamond are both carbon? That wasn't discovered in the real world until the late 18th century. Reinventing 18th century chemistry in a D&D setting is going to take some pretty darn high Nature checks (or perhaps checks with Alchemist tools)...

I was actually ready back in 2005. :) A week or two more won't hurt me...

Purely? No. Our intentions are a mass of things that are never pure. But "good for its own sake" is definitely in there among possible intentions. I'm all for demons being nonredeemable. But I really don't think even they pursue evil for its own sake. In a way, if they did, that would...

True. Like I said, the analogy between disease and evil wasn't perfect. Though the fact of entropy, decay, and death does raise other interesting questions that I can't go into here. What a materialist would do with that, I don't know - though he could know the good without being able to...

I didn't say it was the absence of good, I said it was a privation of good = a subtle but important difference. Evil is the lack of a perfection that ought to exist. It has no positive character. An evil man pursues good things in the wrong way or to the wrong degree. Nobody pursues evil for...

Very well put! Quite right. I remember how shocked I was when reading the Gord the Rogue books (hey, I was young - and no, I can't recommend them now) and the protagonists were promoting 'Balance' between solars and demons. The sheer insanity of it took me aback. Sigh. Like I said, the...