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Author Topic: Beautiful Nymphs, Happy Faeries, and Noble Unicorns!  (Read 1285 times)

Opaopajr

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Re: Beautiful Nymphs, Happy Faeries, and Noble Unicorns!
« Reply #15 on: May 16, 2022, 07:27:05 PM »
I slap on Erasure's "Always" song, bust out the plush stuffed animals and beanie babies as miniatures, and then we have a playful pillow fight or beach ball volley. Chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry milk is served after.  ;D

 :( But afterwards my games end and the comedown crash is harsh.

(Actually, I rarely use nymphs because that tends to kill my AD&D parties.  :-* :o)
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Re: Beautiful Nymphs, Happy Faeries, and Noble Unicorns!
« Reply #16 on: May 24, 2022, 04:25:45 PM »
Absolutely.  Having first read LOTR at a tender & impressionable age, the portrayal of Rivendell continues to influence my presentation of elves in my own campaign world.  Elves are fairly secretive & aloof, but they are, for the most part good, and ready allies of the other good races, which include halflings, dwarves, and gnomes.  There isn't massive animosity between dwarves & elves either.  They've had disagreements, but in the end, the major elven & dwarven kingdoms have always supported each other against goblinoids, gnolls, giants, drow, etc., which are the (gasp) evil races.  Yeah, no good drow in my campaign setting and they are not available as a PC race.

My overall setting is high fantasy with a fair amount of grimdark sprinkled in.  So lots of major wars, infernal invasion, dark cults, etc.  Big bads come & go, but there's definitely a good vs. evil theme and the PCs are on the good side by default.  Plenty of gray areas in real life; my fantasy world can bit a bit more black & white.

Greetings!

Good stuff, Persimmon!

Yeah, to hell with "Good Drow".

I'm also a big fan of Tolkien. Excellent books!

Indeed, having everything be an uber-morally grey mush can get tiresome. It can become mind-numbing when everything is corrupt, every person is a selfish, corrupt scum, and everything is always wrapped up like an onion in layers and layers of stupid "nuance".

There is definitely a solid place for black & white morality, and strong, straightforward motivations.

It isn't always popular or celebrated in our current age, though there are still some people motivated by simple good morality, and no nonsense, righteous convictions.

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