Recent content by Hriston

Creatures of the Ethereal Plane are what's commonly referred to as "spirits" (i.e. disembodied spirits, because they lack materiality), whether they be fey spirits, elemental spirits, or undead spirits. D&D doesn't have a single creature type for these. As for a fifth type of elemental, in my...

That's what the dotted line is for, to show that generations are being skipped over. Also, there's the statement that Aragorn is "ultimately descended" from Elros. Apparently, for Tolkien, there was no minimum percentage of elven ancestry needed for someone to be considered Half-elven. The...

That's not my point. I'm not saying and don't agree that Aragorn is recognizing Elrond as human. I'm saying that Aragorn is recognizing himself as Half-elven. When he says "our race", he is talking about the race of the Half-elven of which he (Aragorn) is a member. For reference, here's a link...

You seem to have misunderstood what I was saying. I was positing that the quote shows that Aragorn regards both Elrond and himself as part of the same "race". I.e. that there is a Half-elven lineage that runs from Eärendil and Dior down through Aragorn and Arwen and their descendants. And I was...

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...

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