D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24

[Belen]

I have no idea what that is

Krogan, Mass Effect. One of best video games series of all time.

I never saw them as Turtles though.

Both examples are sci-fi though rather than fantasy.

 

[Minigiant]

Proving my point. Gap/saddle/micro generations don't generally get slotted into their own grouping even when they are very different from the one they are adding noise to.

They are also tiny when it comes to marketing and purchasing power.

 

[The-Magic-Sword]

Before we switched to Pathfinder I had a tortle light cleric i wanted to play, i had this idea about tortles meditating in open sky temples on the backs of massive dragon turtles, contemplating the sun as they bask in it, and what it means to them as cold blood creatures.

The tortle would have symbols of sun gods or whatever else setting appropriate painted on its shell and they would glow when they cast powerful spells.

Will that do as a good faith reason to play a tortle, to have the discussion from the perspective of having a player want it?

 

[Minigiant]

Krogan, Mass Effect. One of best video games series of all time.

I never saw them as Turtles though.

Both examples are sci-fi though rather than fantasy.

Turtle people who specialize with crossbows and abjuration magic who have a culture of warlike aggression, which keeps them in low populations due to a magical plague created by wizards, which causes a very low birth rate.


That's a good random encounter for a DM. Very high AC, high saving throw, slow moving crossbowturtles hired by the villain to kill the party.

 

[AlViking]

Before we switched to Pathfinder I had a tortle light cleric i wanted to play, i had this idea about tortles meditating in open sky temples on the backs of massive dragon turtles, contemplating the sun as they bask in it, and what it means to them as cold blood creatures.

The tortle would have symbols of sun gods or whatever else setting appropriate painted on its shell and they would glow when they cast powerful spells.

Will that do as a good faith reason to play a tortle, to have the discussion from the perspective of having a player want it?

Why do they have to be a tortle? Why not just someone that believes in animism and identifies with turtles? When they came of age they have a ritual to identify their spirit animal and they had a vision of turtles on the back of a massive dragon turtle contemplating the sun as they bask in it? Seems to me you get the same backstory and feel.

 

[GobHag]

Why do they have to be a tortle? Why not just someone that believes in animism and identifies with turtles? When they came of age they have a ritual to identify their spirit animal and they had a vision of turtles on the back of a massive dragon turtle contemplating the sun as they bask in it? Seems to me you get the same backstory and feel.

Because they want to look like an anthro turtle too.

 

[AlViking]

Because they want to look like an anthro turtle too.

So they wear a giant turtle shell and hat. Because any other answer goes back to the same old same old. It's not really about compromise, it's that the player gets to decide and the DM just has to accept it.

 

[Scribe]

Will that do as a good faith reason to play a tortle, to have the discussion from the perspective of having a player want it?

I mean its a fine enough reason to want it, but if my world doesnt have a population of sun worshipping dragon turtle riding turtle priests, its still not in my world.

 

[AlViking]

Okay ... no tortles in my world but there are people that follow an animistic religion and identify turtles as their spirit guide. They have all the mannerisms, beliefs, culture and lore of tortles. Not only that, they've been granted the ability to wear holy turtle armor even if their class doesn't qualify. I give you ... Tortle Man!

That to me is compromise. If it's still not good enough then people don't want compromise, just admit you want to be the ones deciding what species are allowed.

 

[GobHag]

So they wear a giant turtle shell and hat. Because any other answer goes back to the same old same old. It's not really about compromise, it's that the player gets to decide and the DM just has to accept it.

Yes, and that's good