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<blockquote data-quote="Charles Rampant" data-source="post: 7002655" data-attributes="member: 32659"><p>I'm quite a fan of vague origins for some races, if only to keep the DM's options open. It does lead to some weird discussions though - I had a player define Beholderkin as 'native to another plane' for the purposes of Banishment, whereas I felt that the Far Realm didn't count for that purpose, not to mention that Beholderkin are not actually explicitly <em>from</em> anywhere, and thus probably native to the Material for the purposes of Banishment. Anyway, I like that the Illithids do not have a concrete race history set in stone, yet have a variety of 'plot elements' - long lost empire, Gith, maybe time travel, hate the surface world and the sun, etc - that can be spun by the DM into any convenient-for-the-campaign 'truth'. A bit like the defence made of early Greyhawk or early Points of Light - useful elements, no inconvenient shackles for the DM.</p><p></p><p>A world with the sun slowly dying is indeed quite the tantalising idea. The opposite of Dark Sun, yet actually more appropriate for that name than Athas was! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /> You could end up with a post-apocalyptic nighttime arctic setting, with the races all fighting over volcanoes and the like. Combine that with Aberrations, Drow, and Fey all closing in from the shadows - any excuse to use the Darklings - and you could have an extremely cool idea at work. Points of Light, indeed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Charles Rampant, post: 7002655, member: 32659"] I'm quite a fan of vague origins for some races, if only to keep the DM's options open. It does lead to some weird discussions though - I had a player define Beholderkin as 'native to another plane' for the purposes of Banishment, whereas I felt that the Far Realm didn't count for that purpose, not to mention that Beholderkin are not actually explicitly [i]from[/i] anywhere, and thus probably native to the Material for the purposes of Banishment. Anyway, I like that the Illithids do not have a concrete race history set in stone, yet have a variety of 'plot elements' - long lost empire, Gith, maybe time travel, hate the surface world and the sun, etc - that can be spun by the DM into any convenient-for-the-campaign 'truth'. A bit like the defence made of early Greyhawk or early Points of Light - useful elements, no inconvenient shackles for the DM. A world with the sun slowly dying is indeed quite the tantalising idea. The opposite of Dark Sun, yet actually more appropriate for that name than Athas was! :D You could end up with a post-apocalyptic nighttime arctic setting, with the races all fighting over volcanoes and the like. Combine that with Aberrations, Drow, and Fey all closing in from the shadows - any excuse to use the Darklings - and you could have an extremely cool idea at work. Points of Light, indeed. [/QUOTE]
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