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<blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 207441" data-attributes="member: 2067">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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Lemme say, DN, that I agree with your entire post except for this:&quot;AD&amp;D used FR as it's 'default setting'&quot;Woah, someone forgot to tell me and my group, what with the SCADS of AD&amp;D stuff we got, and no one picking up *anything* FR-related in the least. <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I don't think AD&amp;D had a default setting, as far as I can tell. FR was certainly the most successful, but I don't think it was the norm or defualt by a long shot. ^_^Now that that's out of the way...About the problems that getting rid of Heat-Vision causes in the flavor (and I must admit, those are some interesting ideas for the use of heat-vision), I don't see why they can't be basically preserved without Heat-Vision.So, now drow see with Darkvision instead. Darkvision obviously can't depend upon light of any sort, and thusly depends on some other sense...some psychic impression of the surrounding areas in the eye or something of the sort. The drow have this sense, and I would believe that special effects (like the hot-clock you described) could be duplicated with vision in the &quot;dark spectrum.&quot; Same with the decorations and stuff. Any magic that could create that should be able to do the same thing with Darkvision. Though it normally is in Black and White, I could see some color added with magical effects and the like.Basically, don't let a contradiction keep cool stuff out of your game. Keep it in there, just alter the way it works. with the new ruleset.Of course, you *can* keep the old ruleset, but when you can keep the flavor without having to do that, the *why* still boggles me. ^_^</blockquote>

[QUOTE="I'm A Banana, post: 207441, member: 2067"] Oh! :) Lemme say, DN, that I agree with your entire post except for this: "AD&D used FR as it's 'default setting'" Woah, someone forgot to tell me and my group, what with the SCADS of AD&D stuff we got, and no one picking up *anything* FR-related in the least. :) I don't think AD&D had a default setting, as far as I can tell. FR was certainly the most successful, but I don't think it was the norm or defualt by a long shot. ^_^ Now that that's out of the way... About the problems that getting rid of Heat-Vision causes in the flavor (and I must admit, those are some interesting ideas for the use of heat-vision), I don't see why they can't be basically preserved without Heat-Vision. So, now drow see with Darkvision instead. Darkvision obviously can't depend upon light of any sort, and thusly depends on some other sense...some psychic impression of the surrounding areas in the eye or something of the sort. The drow have this sense, and I would believe that special effects (like the hot-clock you described) could be duplicated with vision in the "dark spectrum." Same with the decorations and stuff. Any magic that could create that should be able to do the same thing with Darkvision. Though it normally is in Black and White, I could see some color added with magical effects and the like. Basically, don't let a contradiction keep cool stuff out of your game. Keep it in there, just alter the way it works. with the new ruleset. Of course, you *can* keep the old ruleset, but when you can keep the flavor without having to do that, the *why* still boggles me. ^_^ [/QUOTE]

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