D&D 5E Companion thread to 5E Survivor: Species

[CleverNickName]

"Ugh, I hate Middle Earth. Why does every game of D&D have Hobbits and Orcs in it?"
"I have no idea, mate. I guess it's just really popular."
"I wish I could drop an asteroid on the Shire."
"You can, actually."
"I can what?"
"Drop an asteroid on the Shire. Sounds like a pretty cool idea for a campaign setting. Post-apocalyptic Middle Earth, shattered islands surround a flooded impact crater. Hobbits and dwarves and elves gone, or changed forever..."
"That's...brilliant, actually."

 

[Gradine]

It's the name of the world in the Wheel of Time series.

That's terrible and everyone involved should be ashamed of themselves. I say that as a kinda sorta fan of WoT.

In other news, the boneyard is growing substantially. 31 bodies line its lands (but not its Randlands, jesus christ)

Spoiler: The Boneyard

1. Fairy (#31)
2. Custom Lineage (#35)
3. Human (#51)
4. Elf, Dark (#63)
5. Verdan (#84)
6. Kender (#98)
7. Loxodon (#100)
8. Warforged (#112)
9. Centaur (#121)
10. Yuan-ti (#124)
11. Plasmoid (#136)
12. Tiefling, Bloodline of Zariel (#146)
13. Human, Variant (#147)
14. Vedalken (#151)
15. Hadozee (#158)
16. Dragonborn (#169)
17. Elf, Shadar-Kai (#188)
18. Elf, Sea (#199)
19. Halfling, Stout (#210)
20. Human, Mark of Sentinel (#211)
21. Autognome (#216)
22. Kenku (#217)
23. Shifter (#219)
24. Simic Hybrid (#237)
25. Human, Mark of Finding (#239)
26. Dhampir (#262)
27. Dragonborn, Metallic (#269)
28. Triton (#290)
29. Elf, Pallid (#295)
30. Tiefling, Bloodline of Mammon (#299)
31. Halfling, Ghostwise (#308)

 

[Vaalingrade]

D&D very clearly and legally does not contain hobbits.

 

[Vaalingrade]

That's terrible and everyone involved should be ashamed of themselves. I say that as a kinda sorta fan of WoT.

It's also not its actual in-universe name. It's a fan name Jordan took a liking to and used as a means for referring to the otherwise nameless Earth-as-part-of-an-eternal-cycle that is the WoT world in supplemental material.

 

[CleverNickName]

D&D very clearly and legally does not contain hobbits.

That's what I tell my players too, but I don't think they care. They're too busy rolling up another barefoot "halfling" gardener named Biffle Brandytook or whatever.

 

[Vaalingrade]

That's what I tell my players too, but I don't think they care. They're too busy rolling up another "halfling" gardener named Biffle Brandytook or whatever.

Inform the Tolkien Estate immediately.

 

[CleverNickName]

Inform the Tolkien Estate immediately.

There are worse things than Tolkien, I guess. All joking aside: if I had to play a D&D game based on a fantasy novel (and wasn't allowed to choose Shannara) I'd happily choose a Lord of the Rings-themed D&D game. Because what are the alternatives? Another edgy "I'm Not Afraid To Kill The Heroes^TM Game of Thrones clone? One more "Adventures of Broody Special-Man" Witcher clone? The same sexy teen vampire soap opera?

 

[FitzTheRuke]

A lot of good species in that dead list. A lot of dreck left on the board.

 

[Tonguez]

There are worse things than Tolkien, I guess. All joking aside: if I had to play a D&D game based on a fantasy novel (and wasn't allowed to choose Shannara) I'd happily choose a Lord of the Rings-themed D&D game. Because what are the alternatives? Another edgy "I'm Not Afraid To Kill The Heroes^TM Game of Thrones clone? One more "Adventures of Broody Special-Man" Witcher clone? The same sexy teen vampire soap opera?

Pendragon?
Discworld?
Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone?
Eternia/Etheria

 

[Vaalingrade]

There are worse things than Tolkien, I guess. All joking aside: if I had to play a D&D game based on a fantasy novel (and wasn't allowed to choose Shannara) I'd happily choose a Lord of the Rings-themed D&D game. Because what are the alternatives? Another edgy "I'm Not Afraid To Kill The Heroes^TM Game of Thrones clone? One more "Adventures of Broody Special-Man" Witcher clone? The same sexy teen vampire soap opera?

~Looks at Brandon Sanderson's entire catalog; the entire emergent genre of Noblebright~

No idea, mang.