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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CruelSummerLord" data-source="post: 3486268" data-attributes="member: 48692">I'll address each point in turn: And you do a great job of it.  I love Dragons of Autumn, especially given that you don't cut things out just because they didn't appear in the novels.  Your idea of archetypes is also a very good one, striking balance between those who want to play as the Companions and those who don't, and also offering some new twists, like the Sage's bond with Whisper.  Good for you.  I feel the same way about pretentious, snobby music critics who think they have some god-given right to arbitrarily decide what consists of "good taste" in music, and savage anyone who dares to disagree with them.  Chances are because of the backlash against the standard dwarves and elves, now regarded as cliched and overdone: Tolkien suffers because his work was what inspired that.  I personally think that notion is ridiculous, and I won't play in a gameworld that has no dwarves or elves, but QFT.  That's the funny thing about some of the DL stats, though: the game stats don't always seem to reflect the public persona of the character.  Flint has a CON of 18, and yet he has rheumatism, old age, and dies of heart disease.  His INT is only 7, which should make him as dumb as a box of rocks, but he still seems brighter than Caramon.  Arman Kharas's WIS is only 6, which would seem to make him a pretty bad ruler if he were ever to become High King of Thorbardin, and yet he doesn't seem to make rash, stupid decisions.  Neither does King Lorac, whose WIS is only 7.  That doesn't exactly mark him out as a great statesman.  So how did he last so long as king of Silvanesti when he was such an idiot?  Trust me, you're not alone.  I was both confused and annoyed by the depiction of gnomes, wondering how the hell they managed to survive as a race if none of their inventions ever worked right.  How have they avoided blowing up Mount Nevermind, much less managed to construct a viable society, if their inventions are always failing?  1E gnome culture all the way, man.  Although, now I make gnomes master engineers, so that while dwarves are better craftsmen, no one can beat a gnome when it comes to design and execution.</blockquote>

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