Menu
News
All News
Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
Pathfinder
Starfinder
Warhammer
2d20 System
Year Zero Engine
Industry News
Reviews
Dragon Reflections
White Dwarf Reflections
Columns
Weekly Digests
Weekly News Digest
Freebies, Sales & Bundles
RPG Print News
RPG Crowdfunding News
Game Content
ENterplanetary DimENsions
Mythological Figures
Opinion
Worlds of Design
Peregrine's Nest
RPG Evolution
Other Columns
From the Freelancing Frontline
Monster ENcyclopedia
WotC/TSR Alumni Look Back
4 Hours w/RSD (Ryan Dancey)
The Road to 3E (Jonathan Tweet)
Greenwood's Realms (Ed Greenwood)
Drawmij's TSR (Jim Ward)
Community
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions, OSR, & D&D Variants
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Resources
Wiki
Pages
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Downloads
Latest reviews
Search resources
EN Publishing
Store
EN5ider
Adventures in ZEITGEIST
Awfully Cheerful Engine
What's OLD is NEW
Judge Dredd & The Worlds Of 2000AD
War of the Burning Sky
Level Up: Advanced 5E
Events & Releases
Upcoming Events
Private Events
Featured Events
Socials!
EN Publishing
Twitter
BlueSky
Facebook
Instagram
EN World
BlueSky
YouTube
Facebook
Twitter
Twitch
Podcast
Features
Top 5 RPGs Compiled Charts 2004-Present
Adventure Game Industry Market Research Summary (RPGs) V1.0
Ryan Dancey: Acquiring TSR
Q&A With Gary Gygax
D&D Rules FAQs
TSR, WotC, & Paizo: A Comparative History
D&D Pronunciation Guide
Million Dollar TTRPG Kickstarters
Tabletop RPG Podcast Hall of Fame
Eric Noah's Unofficial D&D 3rd Edition News
D&D in the Mainstream
D&D & RPG History
About Morrus
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions, OSR, & D&D Variants
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.
Community
Hosted Forums
Creature Catalog Forums
General Monster Talk
5E: Converting Monsters from White Dwarf Magazine for Fifth Edition
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 8884243" data-attributes="member: 57383"><p>Incidentally (a) Enworld's spellcheck refuses to recognize the UK spelling of ploughed but is happy with the alternative of plowed. Might use that just to save headaches.</p><p></p><p>Also, I'm not 100% sure that Spartolos is the proper singular of Spartoi. All the sources I could find online that used it appear to be derived from a Pathfinder Monster of that name, said <strong><a href="https://www.d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/monster-listings/undead/spartolos" target="_blank">Spartolos</a></strong> (plural Spartoi) being an undead warrior that sprouts from magic <em><a href="https://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic-items/wondrous-items/wondrous-items/r-z/spartoi-seeds" target="_blank">spartoi seeds</a></em> that resemble teeth, obviously inspired by the myth.</p><p></p><p>Should I decide that the provenance of Spartolos is uncertain and will use the more US-approved plowed spelling, I'd change the quoted paragraph to:</p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"> These <em>dragon teeth</em> imitate ancient myth, which says the first dragon warriors were born by planting the teeth of a slain legendary dragon in plowed earth. Called Spartoi (literally "the Sown"), these warriors sprouted from these strange seeds armed for battle, growing to adulthood in moments. Some myths say the handful of Spartoi who survived their initial battlefield went on to found lineages of true dragon warriors. The legendary Spartoi and their dragon warrior descendants are living creatures, rumored to have incredibly long lifespans like a true dragon. True dragon warriors are fantastically rare creatures, and how they reproduce is unknown (or even if they <em>can</em> reproduce). The tales say dragon warriors, or at least the original Spartoi, would marry into human tribes, but the resulting offspring were humanoid, not dragon warriors. A few modern sages claim dragon warriors can mate with dragons or reptilian humanoids as well as each other to produce newborn dragon warriors or eggs, but that is pure speculation.</p><p></p><p>I'm leaning towards keeping Spartolos and just changing ploughed to plowed though.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cleon, post: 8884243, member: 57383"] Incidentally (a) Enworld's spellcheck refuses to recognize the UK spelling of ploughed but is happy with the alternative of plowed. Might use that just to save headaches. Also, I'm not 100% sure that Spartolos is the proper singular of Spartoi. All the sources I could find online that used it appear to be derived from a Pathfinder Monster of that name, said [b][URL='https://www.d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/monster-listings/undead/spartolos']Spartolos[/URL][/B] (plural Spartoi) being an undead warrior that sprouts from magic [i][URL='https://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic-items/wondrous-items/wondrous-items/r-z/spartoi-seeds']spartoi seeds[/URL][/i] that resemble teeth, obviously inspired by the myth. Should I decide that the provenance of Spartolos is uncertain and will use the more US-approved plowed spelling, I'd change the quoted paragraph to: [INDENT] These [I]dragon teeth[/I] imitate ancient myth, which says the first dragon warriors were born by planting the teeth of a slain legendary dragon in plowed earth. Called Spartoi (literally "the Sown"), these warriors sprouted from these strange seeds armed for battle, growing to adulthood in moments. Some myths say the handful of Spartoi who survived their initial battlefield went on to found lineages of true dragon warriors. The legendary Spartoi and their dragon warrior descendants are living creatures, rumored to have incredibly long lifespans like a true dragon. True dragon warriors are fantastically rare creatures, and how they reproduce is unknown (or even if they [i]can[/i] reproduce). The tales say dragon warriors, or at least the original Spartoi, would marry into human tribes, but the resulting offspring were humanoid, not dragon warriors. A few modern sages claim dragon warriors can mate with dragons or reptilian humanoids as well as each other to produce newborn dragon warriors or eggs, but that is pure speculation.[/INDENT] I'm leaning towards keeping Spartolos and just changing ploughed to plowed though. [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Community
Hosted Forums
Creature Catalog Forums
General Monster Talk
5E: Converting Monsters from White Dwarf Magazine for Fifth Edition
Top
