Recent content by Hriston

An alternative to seeing half-elves as stuck between two peoples and as outsiders to both is to see them as members of a lineage that shares both elvish and human ancestry, like the House of Elros. As Aragorn says in LotR, Book 5, Chapter 8 (p 863 of my copy): 'Would that Elrond were here, for...

As the Rankin/Bass Hobbit shows, half-elves can grow beards!

Where I think my play reports might lack some detail is in combat. Here's an excerpt from a report of a D&D 5E game in which I tried to include as much detail as I felt was warranted: I think the main point of omission in this report is what's happening fictionally on a hit or a miss which I do...

Multiclass capitalist/employer, lol But seriously, I think Paladin (Knight)/Rogue (Detective) would be fitting.

Right, and, while I don't have any data on this besides my own experience, I think that's probably true for a lot of people who play RPGs. What I find odd about this thread is the contention that the participants in a session can receive this "stuff" (i.e. the events happening around the...

I thought the same thing, especially when the situation the GM is describing, the setting backstory, and the actions the players decide their characters take in the post being responded to, are all fiction. No, but they might make videos of your sessions more entertaining than Andy Warhol's...

I would consider playing in an RPG session the equivalent of watching a movie or reading a book. It's how I "consume" the story generated by the process of gameplay, and I find it more entertaining to receive the story that way than to read or to hear a recounting of the transcript of play after...

Elevator pitch: The game takes place on a map of Earth in a legendary past roughly 80 kya. Due to the ongoing glacial period, sea levels are considerably lower than now, and the effects on elevation of isostatic uplift/depression are reversed in the relevant places. About 700,000 years before...

Who's "we"?

I missed their book of Norse mythology and only found out about it much later (I still haven't read it and learned about Norse mythology from another source.), but their Greek mythology book had a huge influence on me. The art, although not of a style I particularly enjoy, was very interesting...

You didn't answer the question.

A number of people have expressed enthusiasm for the group check, so, not to yuck on anyone's yum, but what is the consequence of the first PC's failure? It seems a strong enough consequence would curtail the piling-on effect.

Sounds like my ex 😂 Personally, as far as biological species is concerned, I prefer elves to be a culture of Homo sapiens with a different spiritual fate from humanity which, although they arise in the Material, gravitates towards the Ethereal. This is the concept of Paracelsian nymphs/undines...

How do I define heartbreaker?

The scratch and sniff card would have been rank, but Divine as Shelob may well have been worth it!