Why Mearls is awesome

[SpiderMonkey]

From the "Classic Adventures, 4th Edition Style":

About the Author

Mike Mearls is the dark hope of chaotic evil: young, handsome, well endowed in abilities and aptitudes, thoroughly wicked, depraved, and capricious. Whomever harms Mearls had better not brag of it in the presence of one who will inform the Demoness Lolth! Evil to the core, Mearls is cunning, and if the situation appears in doubt, he will use bribery and honeyed words to sway the balance in his favor. He is not at all adverse to gaining new recruits of any sort, and will gladly accept adventurers into the ranks, but he will test and try them continually. Those who arouse suspicion will be quietly murdered in their sleep; those with too much promise will be likewise dealt with, for Mearls wants no potential usurpers or threats to his domination.

 

[small pumpkin man]

I was also amused by this.

 

[WhatGravitas]

I start to think that he's the reason why 4E still has "chaotic evil" as alignment.

Cheers, LT.

 

[catenwolde]

Poser. I'm assuming everyone is in the know about this, but here's the text from "T1-4 Temple of Elemental Evil" pg. 26.

Lareth the Beautiful is the dark hope of
chaotic evil—young, handsome, well
endowed in abilities and aptitudes, thor-
oughly wicked, depraved, and capricious.
Whomever harms Lareth had best not brag
of it in the presence of one who will inform
the Demoness Lolth!
Lareth has been sent to this area to rebuild
a force of men and humanoid fighters to
gather loot and restore the Temple of Ele-
mental Evil to its former glory. He is but one
of many so charged, of course, but is looked
upon with special favor and expectation. He
and his minions have been careful to raid far
from this area, never nearer than three or
four leagues, travelling on foot or riding in
wagons of the traders from Hommlet. None
of the victims are ever left alive to tell the
tale, and mysterious disappearances are all
that can be remarked upon. No trace of
men, mounts, goods, wagons or draft ani-
mals is ever found.
Evil to the core, Lareth is cunning. If a situa-
tion appears in doubt, he uses bribery and
honeyed words to sway the balance to his
favor. He is not adverse to gaining new
recruits of all sorts, and will gladly accept
adventurers into the ranks (though he will test
and try them continually). Those who arouse
suspicion will be quietly murdered in their
sleep. Those with too much promise will be
likewise dealt with, for Lareth wants no poten-
tial usurpers or threats to his domination.

 

[Obryn]

I believe he's had that for a while. I also believe that's pretty much Lareth's text from TOEE.

[Darn people getting their post before mine is done!]

-O

 

[Henry]

If I remember correctly, Andy Collins has the Encyclopedia Brittanica entry for Panda Bears as his sig...

 

[Wolfspider]

Poser. I'm assuming everyone is in the know about this, but here's the text from "T1-4 Temple of Elemental Evil" pg. 26.

I think that was the whole point.

 

[mmadsen]

Poser. I'm assuming everyone is in the know about this, but here's the text from "T1-4 Temple of Elemental Evil" pg. 26.

Kids these days...

It's from T1 Village of Hommlet.

 

[Wednesday Boy]

If I remember correctly, Andy Collins has the Encyclopedia Brittanica entry for Panda Bears as his sig...

And someone has what I think is the catoblepas entry from one of the Monstrous Manuals. It made me chuckle.

 

[TerraDave]

He's had it for a while.

But I guess it shows he must know something about classic adventures.