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<blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 213283" data-attributes="member: 463">Glamdring appears to be a chap at that stage in life (typically age 21-22 or so) when he feels the need to assert a status ( in this case a graduate student who expects to become an English teacher and expects possibly foolishly) to be published by WoTC) that puts him above the common rabble of undergraduate students and highschool pupils - reminds me of me, age 22, when I'd been on the Internet about 6 months, circa January 1995, and claiming to be an Internet veteran!. <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=":)" />&nbsp; For Glamdring, ENWorld is perhaps a silly place to do this, given that many of us are professionals in our late '20s and up with actual jobs, careers, wage packets, wives &amp; families etc, often moderately well-read, who know that FR authors are hack authors and mostly terrible writers, and find the idea of giving such respect to their works amazing and/or infuriating. <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=":)" />That said, I actually tend to agree re infravision/dark vision - in my own 3e game I treat low-light vision as mundane 'cat's eye' vision, but darkvision as heat-vision, infravision - ie it detects emanated heat or cold.&nbsp; For most races it's black &amp; white, but drow have advanced infravision - they see in colour.&nbsp; Haven't encountered any problems with this yet.&nbsp; I also plan to retain the idea that drow equipment is destroyed when exposed to sunlight.&nbsp; Why not?&nbsp; I like the idea and it keeps the magic item gradient low, appropriate for my fairly low-magic setting.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="S'mon, post: 213283, member: 463"] Glamdring appears to be a chap at that stage in life (typically age 21-22 or so) when he feels the need to assert a status ( in this case a graduate student who expects to become an English teacher and expects possibly foolishly) to be published by WoTC) that puts him above the common rabble of undergraduate students and highschool pupils - reminds me of me, age 22, when I'd been on the Internet about 6 months, circa January 1995, and claiming to be an Internet veteran!. :) For Glamdring, ENWorld is perhaps a silly place to do this, given that many of us are professionals in our late '20s and up with actual jobs, careers, wage packets, wives & families etc, often moderately well-read, who know that FR authors are hack authors and mostly terrible writers, and find the idea of giving such respect to their works amazing and/or infuriating. :) That said, I actually tend to agree re infravision/dark vision - in my own 3e game I treat low-light vision as mundane 'cat's eye' vision, but darkvision as heat-vision, infravision - ie it detects emanated heat or cold. For most races it's black & white, but drow have advanced infravision - they see in colour. Haven't encountered any problems with this yet. I also plan to retain the idea that drow equipment is destroyed when exposed to sunlight. Why not? I like the idea and it keeps the magic item gradient low, appropriate for my fairly low-magic setting. [/QUOTE]

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