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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Neonchameleon" data-source="post: 8265941" data-attributes="member: 87792">Off the top of my head:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Orcs and goblins are green. Orcs are generally the hereditary enemy, as like and as opposed to where the PCs come from as those border raiders from the other side of the border - or have a Hatfield/McCoy style rivalry going on with humans.  No one knows who started it, everyone knows orcs and humans can interbreed, and a lot of diplomatic effort is spent by older and slower breeding races (especially elves and dwarves) to make sure that the orcs and the humans feud rather than team up to turn on them.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Alignment is a suggestion. Put whatever ideals you follow in that part of your character sheet. Possible exceptions for certain outsiders.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">I don't use the default Greyhawk or Realms Great Wheel approaches to pantheons.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The pantheons are 4e style embattled and uneasy allies against what is Out There and even the evil deities (with rare exceptions) are ones you want inside the tent pissing out not outside pissing in. It's more order vs chaos than good vs evil (and who knows which side Erathis is on on good vs evil?)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The pantheons are Eberron-style might not exist.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">What even is a god anyway? Any sufficiently powerful spellcaster can empower a Warlock as a minion with a simple Wish spell (that won't prevent them casting Wish again but imposes the other exhaustion disadvantages). To start to empower clerics requires three simultaneous wish spells of which one must come from the patron and one from one of their warlocks.</li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Spell components are a type of spell focus and different groups of wizards might use different ones for the same spell</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">I don't use both the Underdark and the Shadowfell. They have similar thematic resonances and most underdark creatures fit in the Shadowfell with Shadar-Ki meaning exactly the same thing as drow.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Drow are elves, end of story.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">If there's no Underdark or Shadowfell then the drow are a network of secret societies within the elves who believe they have the right to do what they like with the "lesser races". It takes a member of one of these societies or an entire "peaceful" trading ship about an hour to "drop the mask" and assume drow guise, allowing plausible deniability. Most elves don't know about this and either think or claim to think the drow are an entirely separate group.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The drow were on the losing side of an Elven Civil War. Of course the good guys won and the bad guys lost. (I haven't yet done this to make them Confederate-analogs). </li> </ul></li> </ul></blockquote>

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