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…
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.