"Frank the Wanderer" <master_wanderer@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
> * Gnomes - I would actually like to see them presented as a viable
> player character race with credibility. It was eventually managed with
> kender, so I don't see it as impossible for gnomes.
I've never cared much for gnomes in DL or anywhere else for that matter.
It's just a personal preference I suppose. The only "short" DnD race I
have
ever enjoyed playing was a kender, and honestly, he was a Tas clone. Then
again, I can't really think of any kender I've ever read about or seen
played in a game that wasn't a Tas clone...
On a related
> point, I would like to see a better development of the concept of
> "fantasy technology", as that lack is part of the problem.
Yeah, if done right it could be interesting. It might be a challenge to do
fantasy technology and still keep the DL "feel" though. I think in a
fantasy
setting even the technology should have some magical elements to it.
> * The Knights of Takhisis, circa Chaos War - Tracy and other authors
> did a decent job of setting the Knights up, but I believe there is
> still a fair amount of fle****ng out still possible. There's a few too
> many unanswered questions for my tastes regarding organization and
> such, and the Knights have always been one of the most fun adversaries
> for me to use in my own games.
I can't make up my mind about the KoT. On the one hand I am an old
schooler
who really believes that there shouldn't be any "anti-paladins" but then
again they can be fairly interesting when done right. So far I have stayed
away from them in my own campaigns. I also feel that they are overpowered
as
they are now.
> * The Chaos War - We do have a lot of snapshots of the war, and maybe
> that's enough; but the amateur military historian in me would love to
> see it all seamed together.
Meh, in my own campaign the Chaos War never happened of course.
> * Taladas has a world of untapped potential that is exciting to
> consider (especially approaching Aurim in the same fa****on that Chris
> Pierson finally developed Istar).
I like Taladas, I really do. Definately the best of the DL boxed sets, but
am I the only one who would rather they didn't have another fiery mountain
strike that continent? I think it would have been better to come up with
some other unique geographical oddity.
> There are others, certainly, but those are probably my most significant
> setting elements of choice (or, at least, the ones that I have actually
> worked in the past on pulling together ideas and written bits for).
I've always wanted to do something with the Irda and their evil cousins
the
Nzunta, but I haven't come up with anything I like yet. I also think the
Irda need a little re-imagining to make a good player character race.
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