Recent content by Paul Farquhar

Wut!? Not even PC species are well balanced. They certainly ain’t balanced for NPCs. I’m pretty sure AoE breath weapons that do more than enough damage to kill several enemy troops at once even if they are save beat a unit of dwarves with an extra hp apiece and the ability to sense tremors. I...

No, keeping their numbers very low so they don’t rule the world with their breath weapon infantry is.

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle has quite a lot of that, but on the other hand they are much more entertaining than the last two movies.

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Ease is what you want. There is no mileage in making settings massively complicated. There are no real world examples of different sentient species coexisting peacefully. Humans aren't even capable of coexisting with their own species.

Is also British, if slightly less English. Tolkien and Warhammer share a deep mistrust of the powerful.

I think maybe they are more popular in England. The Shire is ever so English.

“We demand a new thing. But it must be exactly the same as the old thing.”

More importantly, how do you order pizza?

Personally, I don’t think having a crashed spaceship would be very different from most D&D settings. I would go full Metamorphosis Alpha, and make the spaceship the setting. But not let the players know until they find a mysterious hatch. “The world is hollow and I have touched the sky.”

This is very Golarion.

I think Tom Jones deliberately leans into the predatory subtext, especially as he got older. It's satire, you are supposed to question it.

I overheard a cover of someone singing something from Muppet Christmas Carol. Don't know who the band was, but I'm surprised there isn't more of this. I guess Disney ruthlessly hunts down licence violators? Heard some choral renditions of traditional carols. So far no Wham!

The "very small numbers" approach works better than removing breath weapons. But damage resistance makes for a good plot point. There are several Dragonborn in RotFM because they have cold resistance, and the climate suits them. If a character has fire resistance, they are likely to be drawn to...

A setting needs to have some sort of centerism, human or otherwise. There will always be a dominant species. If there are others, they exist in small numbers, and define themselves relative to the dominant species.