tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-392427526916288536.post3493838337888791222..comments2024-03-25T00:18:14.319-07:00Comments on Against The Wicked City: Monsters from Central Asian Mythology 13: The PeriJoseph Manolahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05387275537008858939noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-392427526916288536.post-36003437333020872812018-01-27T04:48:16.008-08:002018-01-27T04:48:16.008-08:00Thanks - glad you've found it useful! I like t...Thanks - glad you've found it useful! I like the way you've made 'I smell really nice' the signature ability of your PC-race Peri. D&D should do more with smell and taste.<br /><br />I don't think there's any reason why PCs and NPCs have to be statted up in equal detail. (OD&D didn't give attribute scores to monsters...) Back when I ran D&D 3.5, the PCs would have full character sheets with skills and feats and so on, whereas the monsters would just have scribbled statlines like 'AC 15, AB +3, 3 HD, damage 1d10, rogue-type skills +8'. I doubt most players really care whether the goblin they just stabbed had exactly the right number of skill points, after all!Joseph Manolahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05387275537008858939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-392427526916288536.post-65855108433579793522018-01-26T15:53:59.611-08:002018-01-26T15:53:59.611-08:00Hi, I've been reading your blog for almost a m...Hi, I've been reading your blog for almost a month non-stop. It is amazing and it has oppened entire vistas of culture that I wasn't aware of. The funny thing is that I've heard about peri, from another blog and even stated it as a race for Pathfinder (here: http://lonelygm.blogspot.com.br/2012/07/bestiarum-vocabulum-peri-new-race.html). I still run Pathfinder because my players love it's many options but - behind the screen - I'm actually running a crude OSR-like game. I believe Pathfinder is great - for PCs - bot GMs need to ignore lots of it. I really like your approach to Paizo's Adventure Paths. Actually, I wish my table accepted OSR... so far I only got a few DCC sessions and they already wanted to go back to "heavy-mechanic" systems. Thank you!Tzimiscedraculhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16762161243138880483noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-392427526916288536.post-41743280669095155712017-01-11T14:18:10.399-08:002017-01-11T14:18:10.399-08:00Sure, no problem - that's what it's there ...Sure, no problem - that's what it's there for! <br /><br />You can find all the campaign setting posts under the 'collected information' tab at the top of the page. If it's only the Central Asian stuff that you're after, clicking 'Central Asia' under 'labels' will get you all the relevant posts without having to suffer through my detours into clockpunk, romance fiction, adventure design, and whatnot...Joseph Manolahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05387275537008858939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-392427526916288536.post-13615864130848348992017-01-11T14:13:22.714-08:002017-01-11T14:13:22.714-08:00Hey, I just found this blog randomly as I was sear...Hey, I just found this blog randomly as I was searching for inspiration for my next D&D campaign. I wanted to build a world after I discovered the sheer variance of the mongol empire during their heyday. It looks like you have a ton of interesting stuff here and I hope you don't mind if I steal some of it. Maybe a lot.ben turnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08515047730144410576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-392427526916288536.post-45145394141188494162017-01-03T04:36:40.752-08:002017-01-03T04:36:40.752-08:00It might, and I can see it leading to some interes...It might, and I can see it leading to some interesting scenes in play. I think that it might work better in a novel than in an RPG, though. RPGs are terribly meta-textual at the best of times - I'd be wary of giving PCs even *more* reason to treat an NPC as though they were just a static icon with a revolving exclamation mark over their head!Joseph Manolahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05387275537008858939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-392427526916288536.post-70733665782625321402017-01-02T16:03:43.308-08:002017-01-02T16:03:43.308-08:00Fun factoid: the subtitle of Iolanthe is "the...Fun factoid: the subtitle of Iolanthe is "the Peer and the Peri".<br /><br />I think "Super-pretty love interest, damsel in distress, quest-giver, and/or magic item dispenser" might possible be more interesting if it's a supernatural being who knows that that is all it can ever be, rather than a human. Being cursed to be a supporting character in someone else's story, and to have no choice but to play out that role, knowing that you don't, might make for quite a nice tragedy, and "protagonise this peri" might make an interestingly paradoxical quest.<br />Jacobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11292062128781092862noreply@blogger.com