tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7219169252198225629.post2600751351808579981..comments2024-03-26T11:13:28.399-07:00Comments on Magician's Manse: Less Tolkien more Howard, Vance, Lovecraft, Burroughs (Part 2)Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05494391031541363595noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7219169252198225629.post-30687611277513379032011-11-28T14:57:22.762-08:002011-11-28T14:57:22.762-08:00Of course, that's a possibility. I would go ah...Of course, that's a possibility. I would go ahead and just use some FF creatures, make some pygmies, devlish daoughters of Shub-Niggurath are good.<br /><br />Overall though, I don't want to confuse players be take traditional creatures and making them something they aren't. I'd rather just make new monsters.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05494391031541363595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7219169252198225629.post-25118990029371373692011-11-28T14:53:18.852-08:002011-11-28T14:53:18.852-08:00Sounds delicious! But you can use Orcs, Goblins, e...Sounds delicious! But you can use Orcs, Goblins, etc. as well. It's only a question of definition. Orcs could be some prehumanic, primitiv cavedwellers like the Morlocks from "The Time-Machine", Goblins could be used as strange, non-humanoide Pygmy (or some undead one like in "The Mummy Returns"). Dryads mustn't be the love tree spirits. They could be some devlish daughters of Shub-Niggurath or like the tree-people from D. Wandrei's "The Tree-Men of M'bwa". There are many options to use "classical" tolkien/greek/norse creatures in a different and strange way.<br /><br />And mix some Clark A. Smith in your Howard-Lovecraft-Vance-Burroughs-Mixture. It can't be wrong. ;)Loganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16936874766468598377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7219169252198225629.post-69280061588345810402011-11-28T14:27:13.131-08:002011-11-28T14:27:13.131-08:00Well, it's also because I just don't have ...Well, it's also because I just don't have to time to go through each source thoroughly right now, the whole term paper/finals thing and all.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05494391031541363595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7219169252198225629.post-1033331061261416462011-11-28T14:05:06.617-08:002011-11-28T14:05:06.617-08:00I was going to comment on your last post that it r...I was going to comment on your last post that it really sounded more like OD&D than AD&D, but it seems you beat me to it.<br /><br />Recently, I was also thinking of a human-only sword & sorcery version of Dark Sun. That ticks a lot of the boxes you set out here, too.<br /><br />Oh, and I wouldn't be bored by a blog analysis of those sources.Necropraxishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12716340801054739658noreply@blogger.com