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

[Vaalingrade]

Sadly, Changelings have forever been ruined for me by an awful experience I had with a DM introducing me to Eberron for the first time.

Every NPC was potentially a gotcha moment of it really being the villain of the campaign. It got old.

Later, it was my unfortunate anecdotal experience that virtually every player of a changling I was in a game with tended toward playing some sort of pervy weirdo trying to manipulate NPCs into compromising romantic situations.

That and a few other things have lead to changlings being among the races I feel negatively toward.

So in an alternate universe you'd have the same issue with rogues.

Sorry to hear you had a bad experience. For us, we've often had the 'what is my real me play, mixed with smooth cons.

 

[Vaalingrade]

Thats exactly what I thought too - I was expecting halflings in a smokey bordello sharing dreams and wideeyed wonder, so disappointing to find druids instead

Of powerful mesmers and illusionists.

Like a short version of the classy kind of vampire.

 

[Mind of tempest]

Of powerful mesmers and illusionists.

Like a short version of the classy kind of vampire.

there are no classy kinds of vampires only one's fun to fight, dead or just unpleasant to deal with.

 

[Vaalingrade]

there are no classy kinds of vampires only one's fun to fight, dead or just unpleasant to deal with.

You my friend haven't partied with the right vampires.

 

[Mind of tempest]

You my friend haven't partied with the right vampires.

elaborate? not that I party was never allowed and then every either stopped having them or never told me about them?

 

[Vaalingrade]

elaborate? not that I party was never allowed and then every either stopped having them or never told me about them?

The sexy mesmerizing charismatic types. Like what Twilight thought they were doing but failed at.

 

[CreamCloud0]

Created by someone who clearly didn't understand the connotations of 'Lotus Den'.

i mean if they're named after the lotusden greenwood where they live you probably ought to be looking at the forest itself for the connotational accuracy.

who even made them and what are they from?

they're from the explorer's guide to wildemount but beyond that i don't know what you're asking for? does someone have to 'make' a subspecies?

 

[Tonguez]

i mean if they're named after the lotusden greenwood where they live you probably ought to be looking at the forest itself for the connotational accuracy.

Well, the same point remains - why name the forest Lotusden if theyre not going to invoke the established pop culture meaning of Lotusden.
Is the forest full of Soporific lotus plants? How does that affect the environment?

they're from the explorer's guide to wildemount but beyond that i don't know what you're asking for? does someone have to 'make' a subspecies?

Yes? You do realise subspecies in an rpg setting are the creative product of someones imagination? So in this case an author from EGtW made them up[/QUOTE]

 

[Mind of tempest]

The sexy mesmerizing charismatic types. Like what Twilight thought they were doing but failed at.

the only time anything is any of those qualities is when I am drunk, depressed or desperate.

 

[CreamCloud0]

Well, the same point remains - why name the forest Lotusden if theyre not going to invoke the established pop culture meaning of Lotusden.
Is the forest full of Soporific lotus plants? How does that affect the environment?

dunno, i'm just going off a wiki, if it has the lore on it i haven't found it

Yes? You do realise subspecies in an rpg setting are the creative product of someones imagination? So in this case an author from EGtW made them up

i was considering the question in the doyelist sense, in the same way that someone 'made' the warforged someone might've 'made' the lotusden subspecies.