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« Reply #405 on: February 21, 2015, 05:44:14 pm »
True seeing, full stop. Unless you seriously need to screw with peoples' heads.
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« Reply #406 on: February 21, 2015, 05:53:24 pm »
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« Reply #407 on: February 21, 2015, 06:27:52 pm »
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They're grey knights, actually.
So it becomes exponentially more delicious.
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« Reply #408 on: February 21, 2015, 09:35:42 pm »
Anyone here remember what I believe is D&D 3.5 Forgotten Realms?

Well, I just ran across this on Reddit. I'm sure someone can get some chuckles.

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« Reply #409 on: February 21, 2015, 09:46:31 pm »
No, that is definitely not Forgotten Realms. Kender is Dragonlande only, and thank the gods for that.
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« Reply #410 on: February 21, 2015, 09:51:11 pm »
Who thought that was a good idea? [insert witty comment about why the writers hired the heretic who came up with that]
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« Reply #411 on: February 21, 2015, 09:57:43 pm »
Iirc Dragonlance was some groups own DnD campaign to begin with, that they then wrote books about and it somehow ended up a published setting. I also think draconians/dragonborn were Dragonlance exclusive until 4th edition added them by force
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« Reply #412 on: February 21, 2015, 09:59:57 pm »
Quote from: scriver on February 21, 2015, 09:46:31 pm
No, that is definitely not Forgotten Realms. Kender is Dragonlande only, and thank the gods for that.
It's actually Dragonlance (though I will contend that maybe it's named slightly differently where you're from). And I've never understood why anyone likes Dragonlance. All I've heard is that the books were apparently good or something.

I've never really understood the love for Forgotten Realms, though it seems tolerable to me. It just seems rather bland and generic.
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« Reply #413 on: February 21, 2015, 10:23:53 pm »
It was just a typo. Hence why the two other times I mentioned it I spelled it Dragonlance.
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« Reply #414 on: February 21, 2015, 10:55:01 pm »
Oh, yeah, I see. I saw I was ninja'd and didn't really pay attention to what was said.
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« Reply #415 on: February 21, 2015, 11:01:01 pm »
Quote from: scriver on February 21, 2015, 09:57:43 pm
Iirc Dragonlance was some groups own DnD campaign to begin with, that they then wrote books about and it somehow ended up a published setting.

So was Greyhawk. And they were both from campaigns that high ups in TSR were playing so it makes sense that they wound up published.
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« Reply #416 on: February 21, 2015, 11:06:34 pm »
Quote from: Kadzar on February 21, 2015, 09:59:57 pm
Quote from: scriver on February 21, 2015, 09:46:31 pm
No, that is definitely not Forgotten Realms. Kender is Dragonlande only, and thank the gods for that.
It's actually Dragonlance (though I will contend that maybe it's named slightly differently where you're from). And I've never understood why anyone likes Dragonlance. All I've heard is that the books were apparently good or something.

I've never really understood the love for Forgotten Realms, though it seems tolerable to me. It just seems rather bland and generic.


Dragonlance is a pretty cool setting. The pantheon and the kender and the draconians and their takes on gnomes and on wizards seem interesting to me at any rate.


I agree about Forgotten Realms though, it seems generic and trite.
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« Reply #417 on: February 21, 2015, 11:18:15 pm »
This is why I write all of my own settings. Even though they make me responsible for any boringness, there's nothing in them I think is stupid, and it's easier and more fun to write stories in a world you came up with.

Plus I was a whiz at ocean currents and wind directions and that kind of thing back in Earth Science, so my (hand-drawn) world maps are generally somewhat geographically accurate.
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« Reply #418 on: February 22, 2015, 12:25:01 am »
Quote from: Bohandas on February 21, 2015, 11:06:34 pm
I agree about Forgotten Realms though, it seems generic and trite.

Except for Netheril. But that's just part of the setting's backstory, not something extant in the time period the setting is officially set at. and thus is largely glossed over.
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« Reply #419 on: February 22, 2015, 12:43:41 am »
Dragonlance has some interesting ideas in it. The magic being influenced by the moons, different types of dwarves and draconians.

I think my favourite book is "Flint the King" which focuses on the lowest dwarven society rung, the gully dwarves. It's a silly book with the gully dwarves being cheerful but nearly incapable of following any orders at all. The message of "bravery in the unlikeliest of places".

Dragonlance did strike me as being more light hearted than Forgotten Realms. Or maybe more "knights in shining armour".
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