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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
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 Posted - 15 Sep 2003 : 14:20:15
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By scrolling down to the relevant section, this month's WotC Previews has some interesting preview material on the Aleax, and a sample Half-Illithid from the new Underdark tome.
Thoughts?...
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Edited by - The Sage on 15 Sep 2003 14:21:29
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Arivia
Great Reader
Canada
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Posted - 15 Sep 2003 : 14:59:25
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| The aleax reminds me of the revenant or the curst. The half-beholder/illithid is very good...I'm going to like that one. Overall, they both look very good. I hope the Book of Exalted Deeds is a bit more usable and less of a headache than the Book of Vile Darkness, however. |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
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Arivia
Great Reader
Canada
2965 Posts |
Posted - 16 Sep 2003 : 08:51:17
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| It wasn't the content, the book itself was fine. It was the fact that a player of mine picked it up before I did, so I've been deflecting requests for a very vile campaign since it came out. Then, when someone else guest DMs, they always inevitably turn to the BoVD. I've simply started skipping those sessions. Oh, well... |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
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Posted - 16 Sep 2003 : 09:10:06
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That's understandable. Although I went in the opposite direction. When BoVD was released, I made sure to purchase a copy and read it through entirely, so that if any of my players did get a hold of it, and wanted to use the material inside, I was better prepared to counter it, or reject it straight out.
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Arivia
Great Reader
Canada
2965 Posts |
Posted - 16 Sep 2003 : 09:21:11
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| I was planning to do the same. It was simple timing that doomed my efforts. |
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The Cardinal
Senior Scribe
Canada
647 Posts |
Posted - 19 Sep 2003 : 07:19:39
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By Mephistopheles Mumbling mouth!
To hold that tome in my hands... Drat it all! Note to self Move away from spine of the world... Tomes of knoweledge are so hard to find and the caravan prices are simply murder...
Just out of curiousity, why do avoid the book of Vile Darkness campaigns if I may ask? It couldn't be much worse than regular campaigns.. |
It has to be Certain, the Gods Hate Me. For whatever irrevokable Fate, I have been made the walking Joke. Either that, or Beshaba is overlyfond Of Me.
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Arivia
Great Reader
Canada
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Posted - 19 Sep 2003 : 14:18:28
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| Oh, it would have been fine...with a group of experienced, mature players. With the group in question, the game quickly degenerated into "sack this village, rape, torture, and sacrifice the villagers, then sell their body parts for money." I refer to the group in question as my "nightmare party", as there are so many things that have gone wrong...that I recently had to leave the group just from general disgust. Examples include having the longest-running campaign record set at ten sessions, having a continually rotating group of characters...very odd ones at that, and having them occasionally turn into homicidal maniacs."It's a dwarven patrol.""I kill it!" And they get mad when people send assassins and adventuring teams after them. |
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William of Waterdeep
Senior Scribe
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Posted - 29 Sep 2003 : 04:52:11
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WoW,I couldn't imagine that group.That is a nightmare.why did you let
Cardinal Deimos play anyway? (Joking Cardinal.)
I'm not nor ever have been the DM but I think we would part ways if talking didn't do it.
I like the idea of the Half-Illithid,Beholder and Mindflayer.Wouldn't
want to see the courtship that brought this to pass though.
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Courage isn't the lack of fear but rather believing in and doing what you know is right even though fear is present.
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Arivia
Great Reader
Canada
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Posted - 29 Sep 2003 : 04:56:12
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| There isn't any courtship in the mind flayer life cycle. Mind flayer young exist as larvae in the pool surrounding the elder brain. To create a half-illithid, a mind flayer simply has to introduce a larva to the brain of a unorthodox creature. Good thing you can't imagine that group, I don't think anyone wants to. |
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William of Waterdeep
Senior Scribe
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Posted - 29 Sep 2003 : 05:50:54
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Yup,your right on both counts.
I've seen arguments but never that kind of behavior!!! |
Courage isn't the lack of fear but rather believing in and doing what you know is right even though fear is present.
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Cyric
Senior Scribe
Norway
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Posted - 19 Oct 2003 : 20:59:10
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| by the way the Book of Vile Darkness is a very good book and all Illithids should die a i just dint like them, they are creppy |
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The Cardinal
Senior Scribe
Canada
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Posted - 19 Oct 2003 : 21:31:53
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Cyric afraid of a few brainsuckers? For shame!
Personally I would love to play an illithid. Although I have yet to read of one that has gone insane. Plus they are too distant from emotion ( and as much as I try to be I am controlled by emotion).
The Illithid, a perfect race, even more so than the Drow. Yes, perfect in everyway... They should take over the surface world...
As for the book of vile Darkness... don't remind me... even during my last exursion the Book was the only one that was bloody out!!! It's really beginning to pike me off.... ( did I use the term correctly Wil?) |
It has to be Certain, the Gods Hate Me. For whatever irrevokable Fate, I have been made the walking Joke. Either that, or Beshaba is overlyfond Of Me.
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William of Waterdeep
Senior Scribe
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Posted - 20 Oct 2003 : 02:09:55
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Originally posted by Cardinal Deimos
Cyric afraid of a few brainsuckers? For shame!
Personally I would love to play an illithid. Although I have yet to read of one that has gone insane. Plus they are too distant from emotion ( and as much as I try to be I am controlled by emotion).
The Illithid, a perfect race, even more so than the Drow. Yes, perfect in everyway... They should take over the surface world...
As for the book of vile Darkness... don't remind me... even during my last exursion the Book was the only one that was bloody out!!! It's really beginning to pike me off.... ( did I use the term correctly Wil?)
Hmmm,I am no expert by any means but I believe that would be correct.
Piked off is mad so I don't see why not. |
Courage isn't the lack of fear but rather believing in and doing what you know is right even though fear is present.
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Book of Exalted Deeds and Underdark Previews
