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I need a new icon, I haven't even logged into WoW since like October, and before that, since like July. Poor Sevrea. She will be missed. I kind of feel bad about it since when I left the game I'd say I'd be hanging around "on the bench" so to speak, to fill in spots when needed and such, but I never really ended up doing much hanging around.
Maybe I should use a pic of the Chimera D&D mini I got a couple weeks ago. hmm. I'll be DMing for our group in two or three months, when our current DM wraps up his game. It's been a long time, and I have no idea how good I'll be at it. It's a space-fantasy setting--weird for D&D--but pretty standard in most other respects. A couple days ago I sent out a mail detailing a couple minor house rules and asking the players if they were interested in any other house rules--no responses yet. I guess I'll assume, until I hear otherwise, that they want to play by the books.
One of the guys wants to play a Drow. I'm not sure how I feel about Drow. I don't want to bar him from playing it by any means--it is essentially a core race now, after all--but I haven't figured out at all how to work the Drow into my setting. I dislike how, as printed, they are basically almost entirely defined by their stance toward Lolth. The normal ones worship her, the "redeemed" ones hate her. What would Drow society be like in the absence of Lolth? What would Drow society be like in space, rather than on a planet which has a nice little Underdark? Are they still, as a race, "evil"? It's tempting to say that they've lost their "evil" connotation, but the further I stray from standard D&D, the more I worry about the players feel like they're "not really playing D&D" anymore. And, maybe the guy specifically wants to play a 'good' member of a 'mostly evil' society, so rendering the society good would ruin his premise. I'll have to talk to him about it.
Maybe I should use a pic of the Chimera D&D mini I got a couple weeks ago. hmm. I'll be DMing for our group in two or three months, when our current DM wraps up his game. It's been a long time, and I have no idea how good I'll be at it. It's a space-fantasy setting--weird for D&D--but pretty standard in most other respects. A couple days ago I sent out a mail detailing a couple minor house rules and asking the players if they were interested in any other house rules--no responses yet. I guess I'll assume, until I hear otherwise, that they want to play by the books.
One of the guys wants to play a Drow. I'm not sure how I feel about Drow. I don't want to bar him from playing it by any means--it is essentially a core race now, after all--but I haven't figured out at all how to work the Drow into my setting. I dislike how, as printed, they are basically almost entirely defined by their stance toward Lolth. The normal ones worship her, the "redeemed" ones hate her. What would Drow society be like in the absence of Lolth? What would Drow society be like in space, rather than on a planet which has a nice little Underdark? Are they still, as a race, "evil"? It's tempting to say that they've lost their "evil" connotation, but the further I stray from standard D&D, the more I worry about the players feel like they're "not really playing D&D" anymore. And, maybe the guy specifically wants to play a 'good' member of a 'mostly evil' society, so rendering the society good would ruin his premise. I'll have to talk to him about it.