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Sometimes I see themes of demonic taint in an area or a far realms aberration incursion as affecting wildlife that can be a used as a metaphor for pollution affecting an area's ecosystem to its detriment.

I enjoyed those a lot as a teen when they came out and they show a development in Salvatore's writing over the original Icewind Dale books, but my friends and I at the time regularly ridiculed the double down maneuver Drizzt develops as we were doing LARP sparring. From my decades old memory...

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Weapon smuggling, then get drafted.

Player's Secrets of Tuornen (2e) 2e Lanelle, Ghost: ? Dalton Flaertes, Duke of Tuornen, Ghost: Lately, however, a popular bards' tune has begun making the rounds again, and it is sung even within the court of Tuornen. The song claims that Dalton was never slain, but that he met the ghost of his...

Player's Secrets of Tuarhievel (2e) 2e Undead: ? Banshee, Wandering Vengeful Spirit of a Slain Elf, Roaming Banshee: ? The Lich: ? Roaming Shadow: ? Wraith, Wandering Vengeful Spirit of a Slain Human, Roaming Wraith: ?

Player's Secrets of Talinie (2e) 2e Ghost of a Dead Priest: ?

For the maintain the balance sort of True Neutral you have to frame your scope. Is it if outsiders of one type are taking over the world (classic demon invasion, Eberron style Far Realm aberration invasion, etc.) you actively oppose that? Or is it a world level thing like Mordenkainen where he...

Player's Secrets of Roesone (2e) 2e Undead: ? Ghoul: ? Ghost: In 475 MR, Roesone had been pushed out of Caercas by a mighty Dieman army, but the canny old baron turned and stood his ground here, catching the Diems by surprise. Low barrows mark the resting place of the 2,000 soldiers slain in the...

In most editions of D&D the attributes are composite so there is a lot of ways to by the book RAW portray the same high or low score. A high wisdom could mean perceptive but foolish or the inverse. In a bunch editions where appearance is part of charisma Cyrano can be low average or high...

Player's Secrets of Medoere (2e) 2e Undead: ? Ghost, Specter: ? Specter: ?

I disagree. :) They are fairly easy characteristics to portray if you want to. Int can be ignorance, or not understanding or full of mischaracterizations. Wisdom can be rash or oblivious or foolish. Low charisma can be quiet or awkward or boorish. Plenty of options that are fairly easy to...

Two different ends of a spectrum, one the character sheet defines mechanics and the player decides all other roleplaying decisions, the second is the sheet is what a player should try to roleplay to, mental and social attributes and skills, alignment, default class descriptions and background...

Player's Secrets of Ilien (2e) 2e Undead Creature: ? Vile Undead, Unpleasant Fiend, Loathsome Creature: ? Undead Creature of Great Power: ? Undead Creature of Great Power, Lesser Form of Undead Awnsheghlien: ? Most Powerful Shadow World Creature: ? The Lich, Horrible Creature, Most Powerful...

That is pretty wild, the journal puts him actively as a "shadow player for malevolence" and the epic level handbook says "just as often he has worked the side of infernal forces." The 3.0 Living Greyhawk Gazetteer is similar but milder on the characterization of his bad stuff as merely "darker...

For reference here is the 1e PH and DMG descriptions of True Neutral True Neutral: The “true” neutral looks upon all other alignments as facets of the system of things. Thus, each aspect — evil and good, chaos and law — of things must be retained in balance to maintain the status quo; for...

In the 2e City of Greyhawk boxed set it gets kind of close to a TN for Mordenkainen and the Circle of Eight with a pragmatic reason of worrying about most anyone, including good individuals and kingdoms, getting too much power. The majority of the members of the Circle of Eight are of pure...

Also for Modenkainen, what sources spell out his acting for the balance? The 1e boxed set only says he is a well-known personage from the Wild Coast and that he is an archmage who can often be found with various quasi-deities like Heward, Keoghtom, and Murlynd. The 1e Rogues Gallery pegs him...

The cosmic balance of good against evil is a big thing in Dragonlance. Good started to ultimately triumph in the world with wars against evil that ended up turning into a war of genocide against evil and then neutral by the king-priest and then going after the gods, which triggered the...

My first thought on seeing the cover was "Oh, that is fairly Boris Vallejo . . . ish."