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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Banshee16" data-source="post: 5163891" data-attributes="member: 7883">That's why the DM doesn't come out and say "you step into the tomb, and see a pile of dead gnomes in a pit".  You see these creepy, inhuman, 3' tall corpses with bone structures that seem......wrong in some way...whose proportions are "off".  As DM, you might realize they're gnomes...but the characters don't.  Maybe they find out somehow later on...but you don't have to come out and say it.  The characters would have no way to know they're looking at gnomes....they have no frame of reference, since nobody has ever seen a live gnome.Personally, the whole genocide and blasted world aspect was one of the things I liked with how the setting developed in the original game.  It really highlighted just how far the world had fallen, and how horrific were the events perpetrated by the still-living sorcerer kings.  These guys weren't simply long lived wizards.  They were psychopathic, tyrannical, genocidal madmen, who utterly ruined a living world through pursuit of their goals, refused to make amends for their actions, used dark magic to grant themselves virtual immortality, and basically erased history, and any memory of the great evil they carried out.  I mean, how vile can they get?  They were the ultimate definition of criminals who never paid for their crimes.  And they redefined the shape of their entire world, and rewrote the history books.  No death could do these villains justice for what they had done.Banshee</blockquote>

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