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hedgie:
--- Quote from: Gyrre on 08 Nov 2020, 04:32 ---
This is actually the second time I've encountered the phrase 'Nazi elf' in less than 24 hours. Is that just a thing?
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They're a rigidly militaristic society, routinely occupy other countries that they think are influenced by certain sorts of extra-planar beings, and have an inquisition that is committing genocide against groups that they consider "tainted" by the Shadow Rift (where they got their nickname). I never liked the drow in D&D, since they're basically just a bunch of dark-skinned sadistic murder-hobos.[1] The Shadow Elves are more dangerous because they actually have their shit together and a common purpose. Of course, there are as yet unrevealed lore reasons why their society became that way, and there actually is a method to their madness.
[1]The main distinction between their appearance and that of other elves, is that *their* connection to the Rift is that they are just somewhat desaturated. Powerful members of their society, especially magic-using classes are flat-out monochromatic
Gyrre:
--- Quote from: hedgie on 14 Nov 2020, 10:25 ---
--- Quote from: Gyrre on 08 Nov 2020, 04:32 ---
This is actually the second time I've encountered the phrase 'Nazi elf' in less than 24 hours. Is that just a thing?
--- End quote ---
They're a rigidly militaristic society, routinely occupy other countries that they think are influenced by certain sorts of extra-planar beings, and have an inquisition that is committing genocide against groups that they consider "tainted" by the Shadow Rift (where they got their nickname). I never liked the drow in D&D, since they're basically just a bunch of dark-skinned sadistic murder-hobos.[1] The Shadow Elves are more dangerous because they actually have their shit together and a common purpose. Of course, there are as yet unrevealed lore reasons why their society became that way, and there actually is a method to their madness.
[1]The main distinction between their appearance and that of other elves, is that *their* connection to the Rift is that they are just somewhat desaturated. Powerful members of their society, especially magic-using classes are flat-out monochromatic
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*stares blankly and blinks once*
I think the ones in this upcoming campaign are just strictly isolationist, xenophobic, and racist. The Elvenkind gear got bumped up a level in rarity and is thusly more costly.
At a guess, these might be more akin to Sword aworld elves (Record of the Lodoss War, Rune Soldier, etc).
hedgie:
The short version: a couple of thousands of years ago, they were a rather remote and mostly alpine group of regular elves. Then the rift happened, and their leaders made a deal with an evil goddess for the power to resist (most) of the rift's corruption, so that they could draw on it and use it to destroy the *things* that came out due to it being a tear in reality. Those in power at the time basically decided to have their people be living sacrifices to fight a great evil. Now, they are still on the same mission, but the best amongst them are much like the Operative in Serenity.
Gyrre:
Ah. Ok.
Apparently the ones in this game world are like English nobility minus the megalomania. Which has bumped up the rarity and price of the Elvenkind gear. They also take issue with and banish Half-elves[1].
Here's my characters backstory [2]: The Blackbriar are a disgraced noble family that were exiled to the Green Gloam[3] for accusations by Lord Octivian Briarbrush and his sister Sexta Bushbramble that the Lord Septimus Blackbriar sacrificed and consumed Lady Bushbramble's late husband, Nonus Bushbramble.[4]
Lord Septimus and his family maintained his innocence in the death of Lord Bushbramble, and the only thing that kept him from being executed despite the damning evidence (most notably Sexta's shriek of terror and fainting when Septimus entered the courtroom) was the well known and long-standing feud Blackbriars and the Briarbrushes. Hence his family's exile and tasking with keeping the 'demon beasts' of the Green Gloam within its boarders.
Lord and Lady Blackbriar were moved to the Green Gloam with their then 5 children, and despite the remoteness, had 5 more. I'll be playing the 7th child of the Blackbriars and the 2nd born in the Green Gloam; Cadimus Erick Blackbriar. The family's only means of incoming was selling the meats and pelts of the various beasts with the nearby town and villages. Many of whom believed the rumors about his family being cannibals, hence him presenting himself as one of the family's servants doomed to the forest with the rest of them on his few trips to town.[5]
Erick is super bitter about the whole being disgraced thing along with the grisly deaths of his two favorite siblings while the trio was hunting a giraffe-sized elk. His contract with the mysterious stranger states that his family will be reinstated to their land and title with his father's name cleared, along with his dead brother and sister being resurrected if he successfully completely clears the dungeon to the letter stipulated.
[1]Along with any elves that go against said banishment. May or may not be explaination for this world's origin of dark elves.
[2] Yes, this was built entirely around making that punny joke in an obfuscated manner. It took that game's DM a bit to clock. He sent me a pic of his middle finger along with 'lol'.
[3] A massive primeval forest with large and huge versions of beasts. 'Grand-dire' as it were, bigger than the regular dire versions but not necessarily the next size-class up. Think the really big versions of each of the animals from Princess Mononoke.
[4] The three families were minor nobles all living at different parts around a massive briar formed from briar beries, raspberries, stinging nettles, roses, and a few other thorny plants all growing together for some reason.
[5] While he loves his family dearly, he absolutely loathes his first name. So it suits him just fine to present himself as 'Erick Black', as he will be to the rest of the party.
Thrillho:
My D&D playing friends,
My household has recently got into D&D.
For Christmas, I would like to purchase each of us a number of customised dice (preferably a D6, D8 and D20). Ideally I would be able to choose the colour and material but the main thing is I would like to be able to put up to six letters onto the natural 20 side.
I've found with a brief Googling a surprisingly huge number of choices but am mostly coming up empty with anything that lets me have that many letters on the side.
Am I on the hunt for something that simply doesn't exist from any reputable retailers? If I need to just think smaller about how many letters I put on there that's a whole other thing which I am willing to settle with, but I am seeing a huge variation in price, quality of website, and location (I'd rather they be UK-based just for time and... Brexit). If I have to settle with no more than three letters, I'm pretty sure I can find someone just by sticking to Etsy.
Can anybody give me any recommendations?
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