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Individuals like J.P. Morgan, who's fortune ballooned during the american civil war as he did things like manipulate the price of gold and selling overpriced rifles to the federal army by investing money from confederate sympathizers? Or George Pullman, whose company town was described in 1875...

I'm a 9 with Earthdawn as my favorite system. Statistically consistent, many levels of success, layered mechanics, balance between casters and melees, and a setting thoroughly integrated with the mechanics so all RAW are in-game terms. 3e is my next favorite, though if I were to run it again...

That is, IMO, the delineator between Tactical Studies Rules' fantasy wargame where players used heroes (and their hirelings/followers) to try and defeat dungeons created by referees and the emergence of the D&D role playing game where people play heroic characters that are more capable than they...

I have some automotive tools I was given the late 80s that were likely made in the late 70s. Until this summer I had a timing light of the same vintage. Electronics wise....I have a USB hub I use as a charging hub to charge game controllers. That's probably a mid-2000s era. I have data files...

The actual text is Not "on average" not "typically". "Can live to be 750." Not a lot of wiggle room there, even with the change from a stat block in 5e14 to narrative text. A change mainly so they could save page count in 5e24. None of the races use the exact same language, being moved out...

For a shared discussion of half elves in 5e RAW, elves grow old and die by about 750yro. If you want to discuss homebrew elves unique to your fantasy heartbreaker, I suggest this thread: AD&D 2E - Fey, but Old Skool

That might be for the faeries of the Feywild, but elves are flesh and bone. They aren't fey anymore. Magic circles don't hedge them, Forbiddance doesn't forbid them. They are mortals. In their own way, they are like aasimar and tieflings, retaining only part of their planar heritage.

There are some half-blood tropes online, mostly full of black humor. The grandmother-friendly one is from All for One, for their half-orc, where the "punchline" was the half-orc is from a loving (if somewhat violent) family.

Heh. Just realized fey:mortal interactions are like CRPG player:NPC interaction where the players skip all the cut scenes and dialog to get to the decision points.

Ahhh, the Sherlock Holmes alignment. Totally orderly but follows a logical sequence so far down the chain no common mortal can see it except in hindsight. Makes sense for creatures that are hundreds or thousands of years old and have "seen it all before".

I'm depressed your reaction was anything other than "well, duh". This ought to be baked into every RPG that have some people live 3-10x longer than other people. Elves are the original sparkly vampires: eternally pretty (in human terms) with a sense of time that could be totally alien. There...

SR is chock full of horror. You have world-reshaping magic that can set off tornados, volcanos, earthquakes, tidal waves "contagion/body horror" monsters like vampires, ghouls, wendigo "possession" monsters like Invae (insect spirits that gestate inside people and consume their souls) and...

Go reread what I wrote. The elven parents were 175yro (human equivalent to 25yro). Most elves may live in the elven lands, but not all. Otherwise there are no half-elves. If Hank's elven parent lives in the human lands to be with their human-lover, there's no reason an elven sibling might not...

Seriously? 5e half elves live 180 years and elves live to 750. So let's take a set of half-siblings: human (Mike), half-elf(Hank) and elf (Evan) born in the year 1300AD. All the human parents are 25yro (born 1275AD) the elven parents are a roughly human equivalent (heq25) of 150yro (born...

So to follow up on the "long resting while under duress" concept, what methods are there for getting a rest despite enemies being in close proximity and/or actively trying to prevent sleep? Elves can trance for 4 hours for a high-speed rest without sleep Warlocks with Aspect of the Moon don't...