Thanks.
Oh. That’s a lore change. In FR, the shield dwarves are the stereotypical Scottish-looking dwarves, while the gold dwarves are the bling-wearing African-looking dwarves.
Can you point me to where this is the case? I don't see it but want to understand where you do. Thanks!
I welcome the new depiction of characters, including the ones in the comic. I'm running an FR game where dwarves have magitech. I keep evolving my FR as I do another campaign in it. I think FR isn't a fantasy built world, just our world with magic draped over it. That fits for the 60s when Ed created it. I have made changes to my FR, and the trenchcoat and fedora would be fine. I have had to figure out, or wanted to figure out, architecture and earth equivalents. I put FR in an 1850s earth or so type place, with fewer firearms, although they do exist, and more magic. Most people have the lifestyle of a medieval peasant. Then the nobles and adventurers come in and look weird as heck to most people. It also means if you can afford thick stone walls, you want them.
I don't like elves but for different reasons. I don't like any of the races that live longer than five or six hundred years. I have adjusted in my FR as I liked. Granted, that can be used to explain why some cultures, thinking of Drow, are stuck in their ways. When the matron passed her 1500th birthday and she wants her realm to look like her youth, that probably confuses most that don't live that long. I'm thinking about drow who fight, but that's most drow in some way or another, who might want change. Typically, new generations create new things. Equally, though, this matron could be holding her people back in terms of changing fashions, tech, and other similar things, which could be interesting.
(That brings up the idea in a youtube video I saw about Skyrim that said that medieval fantasy worlds are stuck in time. Where ever they start, that's how they will be their whole timeline.)
I think I got this idea that elves are a branch of fey that left their realm to come to the mortal realm. They have been on the mortal plane for so long that they can look like anything. More than that, people don't have to worry about leaving offerings to them or saying thank you. It does mean that elves look and behave less alien and more human, though. I do love Merisel's look!
I'm burned out on comics but will probably pick up a collected trade of this. I do want to see what they do. I have enjoyed most of the DND comics over the decades and the PF ones as well.
Thanks for the discussion!
