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<blockquote data-quote="epithet" data-source="post: 7357686" data-attributes="member: 6796566"><p>I wish they wouldn't. I find it annoying to have pages of a new 5e book devoted to re-printing, verbatim, already published material just to accommodate a stupid rule for the Adventurer's League.</p><p></p><p>I've decided in my campaign to make Shadar-Kai a discrete race of half-elves instead of the warped humans of 4e, but the new fluff for the Raven Queen doesn't work for me. I didn't ever play 4e, but the Raven Queen fluff from that edition was just too good for me to discard. I have a tragic (human) villain from an older campaign who tried to sacrifice an NPCs soul to gain the favor of Nerull, and who became trapped as his consort when that backfired. Renamed Nera and (Nerull thought) stripped of her mortal identity, she nevertheless came to claim his power, seal him in his fortress of black ice, and become the Raven Queen (goddess of death, fate, and winter.) Other than the call back to my old campaign, that's the 4e fluff for her, and it's (in my opinion) a much better story than some ancient elf wizard striving for apotheosis just because she didn't like either Corellon or Lolth.</p><p></p><p>I do like the recharacterization of Corellon, making him more like Loki. I am not crazy about the recharacterization of Lolth, I think she makes more sense as a demon who became a goddess rather than a goddess that became a demon.</p><p></p><p>All in all, I am really looking forward to Mordenkainen's Tome. Even if I only use about half the fluff, whatever I dismiss will help solidify my campaign cosmogony/theogony as I consider why I dismiss it. The crunch is, so far, looking like stuff I can and will use.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="epithet, post: 7357686, member: 6796566"] I wish they wouldn't. I find it annoying to have pages of a new 5e book devoted to re-printing, verbatim, already published material just to accommodate a stupid rule for the Adventurer's League. I've decided in my campaign to make Shadar-Kai a discrete race of half-elves instead of the warped humans of 4e, but the new fluff for the Raven Queen doesn't work for me. I didn't ever play 4e, but the Raven Queen fluff from that edition was just too good for me to discard. I have a tragic (human) villain from an older campaign who tried to sacrifice an NPCs soul to gain the favor of Nerull, and who became trapped as his consort when that backfired. Renamed Nera and (Nerull thought) stripped of her mortal identity, she nevertheless came to claim his power, seal him in his fortress of black ice, and become the Raven Queen (goddess of death, fate, and winter.) Other than the call back to my old campaign, that's the 4e fluff for her, and it's (in my opinion) a much better story than some ancient elf wizard striving for apotheosis just because she didn't like either Corellon or Lolth. I do like the recharacterization of Corellon, making him more like Loki. I am not crazy about the recharacterization of Lolth, I think she makes more sense as a demon who became a goddess rather than a goddess that became a demon. All in all, I am really looking forward to Mordenkainen's Tome. Even if I only use about half the fluff, whatever I dismiss will help solidify my campaign cosmogony/theogony as I consider why I dismiss it. The crunch is, so far, looking like stuff I can and will use. [/QUOTE]
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