Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2014 6:11 pm
Are you going to finish this?
(emphasis added)This half-breed occurs only when a gnome commits a crime so heinous the gods themselves take notice, banishing him to the depths of the subterranean world and afflicting him with madness. Why such stricken gnomes seek out or are accepted by troglodyte clans is unknown (...)
Fucking any fae they hit it off with? Sounds cool, I'm down.Bastards and Bloodlines wrote:Many gnomes live in forests inhabited by fey creatures. Such gnomes are less apt to construct mechanical apparatuses or mine for gems and precious metals, instead spending their days-
Oh. Well, ok, go on, book.-engaged in fine woodworking, brewing and baking.
Er...do you volunteer to be in the running to be chosen, and can you change your mind?Prak wrote:Apparently, these half-gnome pixies named like a "Barely Legal" porn star or stripper arise from these forest-dwelling gnomes' yearly ritual of choosing a "Maiden of the Fields" to "spend an entire day and night" with a "Father of the Hunt," chosen by the fae. Usually, one Maiden will do multiple years' rituals, but "a few are blessed with a child after their first time, never to take up the Maiden's mantle"
Oh, as soon as I saw the heading, I had a little cringe there.Prak wrote:Wendigo
The half-ogre even pre-dates the AD&D Fiend Folio: Gary Gygax had a write-up for half-ogres (human + ogre) in Dragon #29.FrankTrollman wrote:Half Ogres are totally a thing in the Dungeons & Dragons universe. They are called Ogrillons, and the other half is Orc.
Um.Pixie-storm giant half-breeds would not be impossible . . . . (For those who doubt the last claim, consider a lecherous male pixie equipped with several growth potions and a love philtre. And, when all is said and done, AD&D is fantasy.)
I mean... I would like to think that an ostensibly "Good" culture would take consent into account. However, tradition and "It's such an honor!" would... also interact. I would imagine that the gnome is probably allowed relationshios outside of the ritual? Because it's hard for me to see a culture with a yearly sex ritual also being super, like, coercively monogamous?Thaluikhain wrote:Huh, the last post was 2 days before I joined.
Er...do you volunteer to be in the running to be chosen, and can you change your mind?Prak wrote:Apparently, these half-gnome pixies named like a "Barely Legal" porn star or stripper arise from these forest-dwelling gnomes' yearly ritual of choosing a "Maiden of the Fields" to "spend an entire day and night" with a "Father of the Hunt," chosen by the fae. Usually, one Maiden will do multiple years' rituals, but "a few are blessed with a child after their first time, never to take up the Maiden's mantle"
Also, are gnomes allowed to have relationships outside of this, and what happens to their kids?
Cause that could go from someone's weird sexual fantasy to, yeah, nope, territory pretty easily.
Yep. As soon as I got to it in the book, I was like "welp, time to put the fun back on the shelf."Oh, as soon as I saw the heading, I had a little cringe there.Prak wrote:Wendigo
Honestly, the fact that Gygax said it required a pixie with a penis and some growth potions means this is not nearly as kinky as it could be.hogarth wrote:The half-ogre even pre-dates the AD&D Fiend Folio: Gary Gygax had a write-up for half-ogres (human + ogre) in Dragon #29.FrankTrollman wrote:Half Ogres are totally a thing in the Dungeons & Dragons universe. They are called Ogrillons, and the other half is Orc.
From the same article:Um.Pixie-storm giant half-breeds would not be impossible . . . . (For those who doubt the last claim, consider a lecherous male pixie equipped with several growth potions and a love philtre. And, when all is said and done, AD&D is fantasy.)
A fairly normal looking humanoid with even HALF of a Pixie's SLAs and a giant's stats sounds like it would be great fun, if you didn't get fucked into the ground by level adjustment. Your home life would probably be like a bad sitcom.Prak wrote:Also I now kind of want to play, like, a human or an elf, whose parents were a pixie and a frost giant.
Don't forget the Cosby-style Spanish Fly.Prak wrote:Honestly, the fact that Gygax said it required a pixie with a penis and some growth potions means this is not nearly as kinky as it could be.
I will repeat.Bastards and Bloodlines wrote:Ogre mages show little sign of kinship with ogres. They are more intelligent, resilient, agile, alert, and cunning than their simpler cousins, as well as having stronger personalities and innate magic abilities. Through ogre mages do not often form communities, they have an advanced civilization based on conquest, acquisition, and rulership. (ed- whaaaaa.......?) Scholars postulate that while ogres are somehow akin to orcs an humans, ogre mages are actually distant relatives of elves and dwarves. Though no dwarf/ogre mage crossbreeds are known to exist, the ability of ogre mages and elves to interbreed is well established.
Why does this need to be a thing? It seems an oddly specific thing to be "typical".Prak wrote:They typically come about when
D&D Elves have so much lore built up that yeah that sounds weird, but if we take a step back then "prettier than you supernatural humanoid" and "more muscly than you supernatural humanoid" are both things that show up in Asian yokai lore and novels as husband n' wife.Prak wrote:I mean, I suppose, tho it does still leave the question of them being related to elves.
....unless you're running a game where "elf" means "yokai," I guess?
Honestly, like I said, I don't hate a lot of the ideas in this book, I just think the execution, from fluff to mechanics, is dumb. The Wyrd are just... well, weird, and I don't think they really fit D&D's standard elf and ogre mage lore, but that's not to say it couldn't work. Hell, off the top of my head, what if Ogre Mages are the result of ogres gaining knowledge in a particular ancient and cyclopean magical tradition. And then Wyrd's are what happen when the famously nosy and magical elven people find out about that tradition and study it themselves?RelentlessImp wrote:Wyrd are my favorite part of this book. It's just such a fucking cool idea, weird fantasy sex and inherent eugenics aside, and I'd kill to play one in a game. Sthein are also a neat idea that I'd love to play at least once.
Ask the book author. Except don't, because the book author is the kind of person who can't fathom an orc and a human being a consenting romantic couple, let alone an orc and a hag. Hell, even sticking to the idea of these being literal crossbreeds, birthed from actual intermingling, my personal take on orc gender*, works quite well, because a magically powerful woman being incredibly forward and saying "you, pants off, now" would be the sexiest thing imaginable to most orcs, and.... that's so basic-level kink, that it's basically "French Vanilla," instead of just "Vanilla."Thaluikhain wrote:Why does this need to be a thing? It seems an oddly specific thing to be "typical".Prak wrote:They typically come about when
Now, sure, maybe it happens that way, but I daresay you can think up a zillion ways a hag and and orc could get together, and that's without having to browse weird websites for inspiration.
Oh, sure. I didn't mean to sound dismissive of a concept like "in this world, elf is basically a synonym for 'yokai,'" and, indeed, Prior to popular fantasy media rewriting the meanings of a lot of supernatural being terms, 'elf' was one of those words that generically meant "supernatural humanoid."OgreBattle wrote:D&D Elves have so much lore built up that yeah that sounds weird, but if we take a step back then "prettier than you supernatural humanoid" and "more muscly than you supernatural humanoid" are both things that show up in Asian yokai lore and novels as husband n' wife.Prak wrote:I mean, I suppose, tho it does still leave the question of them being related to elves.
....unless you're running a game where "elf" means "yokai," I guess?
Not sharing your ideas on orc gender, but the same still applies in my thinking. A fierce and terrible monster represents a paragon of orc virtues.Prak wrote:Hell, even sticking to the idea of these being literal crossbreeds, birthed from actual intermingling, my personal take on orc gender*, works quite well, because a magically powerful woman being incredibly forward and saying "you, pants off, now" would be the sexiest thing imaginable to most orcs, and.... that's so basic-level kink, that it's basically "French Vanilla," instead of just "Vanilla."
*Orcs are a one-gender race, and that gender is "orc." To be orc-gender is to fight to live and live to fight. An orc does not give nor receive, an orc takes.
sighBastards and Bloodlines wrote:Challenge Rating: Increase by 25%
Wouldn't you want to swap the head for a Beholder for your hybrid, and the Mind Flayer's thing is having an octopus head anyway?Prak wrote:Though I would have made the sample a half-beholder mind flayer, just because I think that image would be amazing.