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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Daztur" data-source="post: 6160008" data-attributes="member: 55680">Had a nice combination of sick baby (is fine now, thankfully) and job stuff this week so haven't had much time.<img src="http://shairana.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/The-World%E2%80%99s-Largest-Drum.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Here's an idea that's been worming into my head. I'll be trying to set up a Dwarf Fortress-inspired game set in the Shrouded Lands so I'll be doing some fleshing out of the dwarves.Drums, Drums in the DeepAdditional information about Hex 33.00Elven music can twist a man's wits and the vile giggles of gnollish bards can break even an archmage's concentration, but dwarf drummers make music that sinks deeper than either. Men who have slaved in dwarfish mines hear the echoing of drums in the their dreams even decades later and awake to see their raw and bloody hands pounding against the walls to the beat of the drum.Made of red birch and covered with elfskin (elfskin makes the best drums, see also: 39.14) dwarven drums are not easily carried but their music cannot be forgotten. It sinks deep into the soul and guides the hand, so that a thousand miners may raise and lower their picks to the tune one a single echoing drum. Humans who live in the shadows of the Grey Mountains whisper that dwarven drumming can draw a sleeping child out of their bed and into the black pits of the dwarven mines or even rouse the dreaming dead for one last dance.The greatest dwarven drum still lies deep beneath Titan's Skull. It is said that that when Hoth Achaar (26.01) fell to the orcs it guided the steps of refugees who marched all the way from there to safety without rest, food or sleep. They all collapsed dead at the end of the march, but no matter, they kept some of the greatest treasures of dwarfkind from falling into orcish hands.Hooks:-What can you tell me of elven bards?-Why does elfskin make the best drums?-Do dwarven drummers really steal human children?-Can dwarf drums make the dead dance?-Any other stories about the great drum? What is it called?-What treasure was taken out of Hoth Achaar?-Do the dwarves have any really really stupidly big drums? Why would they need a drum so large and awesome?Bards tend to get no respect in D&D (see: <a href="http://dndwithpornstars.blogspot.kr/2011/10/clarification.html" target="_blank">http://dndwithpornstars.blogspot.com/2011/10/clarification.html</a>). I love what we've done with gnollish bards so that we've gotten to the point that they're not only interesting but also kind of terrifying. I want to do the same with other bards so that players will think "oh <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />, it's a BARD!" when they hear an enemy striking up music. Gnolls can curse you, break your concentration (nasty anti-spell caster ability) and weaken NPC morale (useful against henchmen). For elves I'm thinking standard beguiling fey music but haven't thought out the details (anyone want to dive in), while the dwarves get weaponized earworms. Also, as the Dresden Files tells me, you need drumming to keep zombies moving, especially zombie dinosaurs...</blockquote>

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