2305 A Cure For Bored
on September 24, 2012
Chapter: Mountain Quest
Characters: Big Bollo, Hoz, Hunchback Gus, Kurassa Elemental Wizard from the City of Haran, Morgana, Rehan the Rogue
Location: The Wilson Arms Tavern
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you shouldn’t tempt the DM…
To keep someone from speaking those troubling phrases, I’ve got just the spell. Silence would work, but it silences *everybody* within its range of effect, so I’ve come up with an alternative solution that works on a single-subject basis. I call it Silence 1 & it’s not even restricted to the magic-casting classes because anyone can use it.
It does require a material component though, a ball gag. Take note that a subject might get multiple resistance rolls, but a large number of "casters" & a few extra "suplimentary spell components" can overcome the resistance…
Our DM high school did something similar, except that in the real world we were required to hold an object, be it his iPod Nano, a book or something else.
I forget how it translated in-game.
Hey, I just realized something: No Dragonborn.
…I mean the RACE, not the Skyrim thing!
You’re right! Not a deliberate snub on my part this time, but simply unfamiliarity. See I grew up on Basic D&D, AD&D and AD&D 2e. The Dragonborn were introduced in D&D 3.5 in 2006. Which is also the same year YAFGC started.
I rejected D&D 3e mostly because I knew how to play the game and had a huge library of resources for it and I didn’t want to have to learn a whole new game and buy my entire library over again. So I didn’t keep up with the minutia of the ‘new D&D’ much and YAFGC is based on my experiences.
The Dragonborn became a playable race in 4e in 2007, but I was unaware (and hugely disinterested at the time.)
I have since acknowledged some of the new D&D stuff in the "Coup d’Drow" storyline where one of the slaves up for auction alongside Queen Elzear’bith was a Tiefling.
I may yet deal with Dragonborn, we’ll see. I’m starting to learn and run some 5e properly now so, if they strike me as interesting or funny enough…
I wouldn’t exactly call tiefling "new D&D stuff". Planescape has been around for a while.
So it was. But I was never a huge fan of Planescape. I’ve played in a campaign recently and it was good, but it is …. how can I put it? Worldbreaking? When your characters exist in a single world, they have their goals, their troubles, their families, etc. But when they become aware that their world is just one of a series of much bigger worlds, and then get involved with a really HUGE multi-plane threatening event… then their home world becomes like a little insignificant town. At least that’s what happened to my own characters. I stayed away from a lot of the published worlds: Ravenloft, Planescape, Spelljammer… especially the ones the pushed the game beyond the regular pseudo medieval setting. I even stayed away from the regular ones like Forgotten Realms back then because I was far more interested in writing up my own worlds and situations. So I never got to meet the ‘Tieflings’ until 3rd ed people started talking about them.
I have, of course, learned to love Forgotten Realms via Al Qadim which became my favorite setting.
In 5e there is a lot of races, but there is a reason for some to be classified as an "exotic race". Dragonborn, Aasimar, Tiefling, Triton, Kenku all uncommon races, and even among the common ones there are rare subspecies, like goblins are a frequent race, but you wouldn't be able to run into a bugbear everywhere. Same for the Duergar (the dwarven equivalent of a drow).
Wait, why does it say Kurassa is tagged here? I thought he was dead, or trapped in mirrorland or something…
Uh oh?
It's his hand in panel 3