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I have a goblin, urban duid, NPC from Sharn in an Eberron game I'm running. He's a really fun character and I'm hoping the PCs will get along with him long enough that I can develop him further. I ruled that he was the founder of his order though. He broke away from the Gatekeepers after...

Hmm...after skimming over the 3.5 ranger section I see your points. Sorry, I just remembered the charisma modifiers (thast don't exist anymore) coupled with the bonuses to attack and damage...its hard to draw other conclusions from that. But, yes. I think I will remind or suggest to my...

I was given the basic set without the dice, so my first dice set was from the expert set...I never coloured them in with the crayon cause I thought that was stupid and I've always been able to read them fine. I have all save the d4 and d10. They were multi coloured, d4 purple, d6 dark blue, d8...

I'm more interested in why rangers are raging bigots--why all the hate? I mean, I think I can reason similar fighting styles to location and tradition, but species enemies...come on. One is enough and it should be one of many options, not forced on every ranger.

mythusmage : Sorry about my babbling last night--I hadn't slept in over 24hrs...things were really beginning to look the same. I'll get back to you...hopefully a lot more intelligibly...later today, when I have more time.

I don't think he was interested in the particular facets of this discusion. He was more interested in amusing parallels. If we were to break-down the boundries of our rather 'binded' or 'cyclical' arguments and focus more on the pure abstraction of an individuals recognition of other 'things'...

"The "the past was better and the future can only get worse" trope is not exclusive to fantasy. Nor is the "the future can only be better than today" trope exclusive to science fiction. You could write a fantasy in which the future means better things, and you could write a science fiction tale...

LOL I assure you...it was in jest. Sophists in the sense that they were simply teachers...if very biased and elite. And arch-conservative in the sense that the simplest form of modern entertainment would set their moral radar on fire. I mean, Plato felt that leaning to read was going to...

edit: Wayside: Hey, no problem. I think we all wish we had a type of intellectual shorthand that projected our understanding (as opposed to our thoughts) more quickly and accurately than written or verbal communication. And yes, that is the major malfunction of genre theory--and why I feel...

No prob, 'night.

Oh, so you are with Joshua...and crowd. I thought you were developing another theory based on the the exclusionary factor of magic compared to the availability of technology. Sorry, my mistake.

What about all the phantasy novels that revolve around ritual and sacrifice to determine magic...is the knowledge part of the exclusion? It seems you are back to the tech-magic argument.

"I also find it odd that Celebrim would mention Ed Said, though, and then continue to rely on reified ideas about symbolism, allegory, theme for his argument." Yeah, that made me wince. I get the feeling he was just doing a little bit of 'name dropping'--everybody does it from time to time...

Well, just call me a Sophist then...I'll take money for knowledge any day of the week! :) p.s. Could we please leave Plato's (philisophical) offspring out of this...if we get into those old arguments I think my head will explode. Besides they were ALL such arch-conservatives that thinking...

I sense a storm-a-brewin'. :)

Edit: to Joshua--I'm a slow typer. I believe those are working definitions...not literary definitions. Which is a quibble...but relative I feel. There is quite a difference. And I'm quite sure that those authors...and most definitly the librarians assoiciated with the library of congress...

Quote: Originally Posted by Wild Gazebo The labour involved with deconstructing text can be quit entertaining...and even quite persuasive, but the accumulation of textual examination create a body of understanding that can be applied, I feel, a bit more reliably. Similar to how a poll or...

I'm missing something. How, exactly do you interpret text without reading it? Cause it would save me A LOT of time! :lol: edit: Ok, I think I know where you are going. You are takling about universal acceptance of textual material...like imagery...and um...well, just imagery and...

I think you have fallen for the same trap that academics fall for: The belief that you can divine the intention of the author. You might even say 'quixotic'--what a fun word. :) All anyone can go by is what is written--for if you have ever heard artists speak about their own works before you...

Whoa. Celebrim. OK, I think there is some definite misunderstanding. "The moral message has to be carried in the form of an abstract idea which has been embodied in some fashion in order to be easier discuss and describe through narrative" "To meet my definition of a fantasy, the book...