tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871409676946408069.post1549808784937259981..comments2023-10-14T03:58:59.333-06:00Comments on The Tao of D&D: WarriorAlexis Smolenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10539170107563075967noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871409676946408069.post-83947914606380383062013-09-15T19:27:42.795-06:002013-09-15T19:27:42.795-06:00Quincy, have a look at a post I did on wild magic ...Quincy, have a look at a post I did on wild magic some years ago:<br /><br />http://tao-dnd.blogspot.ca/2010/10/wild-magic.htmlAlexis Smolenskhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10539170107563075967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871409676946408069.post-85245266395017762772013-09-15T15:40:19.074-06:002013-09-15T15:40:19.074-06:00I imagine the earliest manifestations of human mag...I imagine the earliest manifestations of human magic being wild and uncontrolled. A cro-magnon with mystic potential would seem no different than his fellows...until he got really, really angry. The only question is how magic-users achieved such social equilibrium. You'd think such a distinct class would either rise to the top and dominate, or sink to the bottom under persecution. Instead, they somehow managed to find a middle-ground.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11930967848835421797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871409676946408069.post-33469859884684612642013-09-12T15:43:43.189-06:002013-09-12T15:43:43.189-06:00You don't teach a 3 year old how to balance a ...You don't teach a 3 year old how to balance a checkbook, and the Bible is just one book.<br /><br />Although, that could put an interesting spin on the Library of Alexandria. A collectioon of all information and wisdom assembled by divine decree, destroyed by the forces seeking to keep humankind in a primitive state. Depending where you are in gnostic thought that could be any number of supernatural sides to that.BaronOpalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11201728348801013383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871409676946408069.post-517524415344295562013-09-12T14:36:36.570-06:002013-09-12T14:36:36.570-06:00BaronOpal: That sounds like a lie of omission to m...BaronOpal: That sounds like a lie of omission to me... Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07649420272387984400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871409676946408069.post-72576752012189616212013-09-11T21:37:25.972-06:002013-09-11T21:37:25.972-06:00I figured that a deity that was eternal could wait...I figured that a deity that was eternal could wait the 13 billion or so years for natural law and evolution to develop a suitable life form. The game world may not even be the first universe It made. Aboleths are wierd, they could come from elsewhere.<br /><br />And, a creator God wouldn't necessarily lie. Some parents avoid talking about certain subjects until the child knows to ask the right questions. Then, the clarifications let the child grow.<br /><br />It depends how you want to run your gods.BaronOpalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11201728348801013383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871409676946408069.post-24238437866102216352013-09-11T17:17:37.881-06:002013-09-11T17:17:37.881-06:00Hmm, I was presuming that any god with a creation ...Hmm, I was presuming that any god with a creation myth would straight-up lie in response to any questions that hinted that the myth might not be accurate in every particular, and that Contact Other Planes would be practically as unreliable. Also, Democritus' atoms were infintesimal, if I recall correctly; a "No" answer is strictly correct, as the theory nowhere mentions subatomic particles. <br /><br />That being said, I think druid just squeezed out my usual pick of wizard, if you ever have an opening in the online game. Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07649420272387984400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871409676946408069.post-4971716842099929532013-09-11T15:09:01.013-06:002013-09-11T15:09:01.013-06:00Democritus in the 5th century BCE proposed that ma...Democritus in the 5th century BCE proposed that matter was made up of tiny particles that could not be divided into smaller pieces. He called these particles atomos, meaning indivisible.<br /><br />Augury, 2nd level cleric spell. "Is this true?"<br /><br />Repeated result of the answer "Yes" changes all of science over the next thousand years, convinces understanding that living things work according to processes that can be predicted. A monk/druid named Mendaleyev identifies genetics in the 9th century and the druidic heirarchy decides this is information that MUST be kept from the common man.Alexis Smolenskhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10539170107563075967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871409676946408069.post-5636061919029854632013-09-11T14:44:25.306-06:002013-09-11T14:44:25.306-06:00I don't have a PHB in front of me, so I'm ...I don't have a PHB in front of me, so I'm a bit at a loss; certainly Wish or Limited Wish would suffice, I suppose... but I'd imagine any clerical spell, or Contact Other Planes, would generally get you the party line of the entity in question, instead of the truth. In real history, I'd tag microscopy as the trigger for modern biological studies, and per Wikipedia that really gets hopping in the 1600s... have lenses and precision manufacturing hit that point in your world? Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07649420272387984400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871409676946408069.post-72584022824625373572013-09-10T15:54:48.381-06:002013-09-10T15:54:48.381-06:00I concur with your selections for tech = class.
R...I concur with your selections for tech = class.<br /><br />Regarding evolution, if you give it some hard, honest thought, there are spells that give access to knowledge that Wallace and Darwin couldn't exploit.Alexis Smolenskhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10539170107563075967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871409676946408069.post-83661840994417394702013-09-10T15:11:07.278-06:002013-09-10T15:11:07.278-06:00I'd say the Thief would come with Currency, th...I'd say the Thief would come with Currency, the monk with Theology, Paladin with Divine Right, wizard with either Writing or Alphabet. <br /><br />I'm a little curious how you expect a 17th century PC to spontaneously discover evolution and common descent; that's uncomfortably close to "my character gets an idea! He pays alchemists to see if mixtures of saltpeter, charcoal, and sulfur are flammable!"Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07649420272387984400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871409676946408069.post-77863418507799244572013-09-10T13:38:48.394-06:002013-09-10T13:38:48.394-06:00Fair idea, but the early mysticism would have to ...Fair idea, but the early mysticism would have to be word of mouth, as it far precedes the discovery of writing, alphabet and literature - certainly all highly important elements of the magic user class; your point, however, that not all the magic in the game would be invented at the same time is the crucial insight.Alexis Smolenskhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10539170107563075967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871409676946408069.post-69367676403236869082013-09-10T13:23:47.508-06:002013-09-10T13:23:47.508-06:00I have just discovered your Civilisation posts thr...I have just discovered your Civilisation posts through this one and I am now reading them all with great interest.<br /><br />There's several things here - I am thinking of a system for gamebooks where 'hit points' are also viewed as energy in a combat. If the player gets into a fight and has their endurance (as I will call it) reduced to 0, then they immediately get most of it back at the end of the fight, minus a small amount from the bruises etc that they got. It will take a day or two to recover those lost points. The winner gets their endurance restored to what it was before the fight as they just have to take a few minutes to overcome it. If they are in an armed fight and their endurance is reduced to 0, then they are wounded and their endurance goes down for a much longer time and can only be recoved through special care. If this is a fight to the death, then the wounded party fights on with their endurance as what it started as minus the loss from the wound, so it will take a while to kill someone completely. I envisage this in a mainly non lethal world where most arguments between people are settled with scuffles, there are duels to first blood over serious matters and fights to the death are quite rare (based on a MMORPG called Battlemaster).<br /><br />So then, with the idea of which tech advancement spawned which class and where magic fits in - to me, the obvious choice for wizard would be the discovery of mysticism - this will be a time where divination and illusion and enchantment (in order to convince those in power of the wizard's powers) are written down for future wizards to learn and then they could build upon that knowledge to get more spells as time goes on until the discovery of mathematics (formulae for spells), astronomy (better divination), and philosophy (a kind of agnostic/atheistic search for answers) spawns the wizard class. Keep the posts coming!Stuart Lloydhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15100216520313336932noreply@blogger.com