Comments on: Races with Flavor: The Draead http://www.encounteraday.com/2008/01/30/races-with-flavor-the-draead/ A new RPG encounter, every Monday through Friday! Tue, 06 Dec 2011 07:02:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 <div class=wavatar><img class='wavatar' src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=b01fa92934df24841c8fca3f03901498.jpg&s=80&d=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.encounteraday.com%2Fwp-content%2Fcache%2Fwavatars%2Fb01fa92934df24841.png' width='80' height='80' alt='Wavatar' /></div>By: Tommi http://www.encounteraday.com/2008/01/30/races-with-flavor-the-draead/comment-page-1/#comment-109
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Tommi Thu, 31 Jan 2008 17:27:02 +0000 http://www.encounteraday.com/2008/01/30/races-with-flavor-the-draead/#comment-109 That's a suitably creepy (and obvious, duh) idea that I may just have to steal it someday. Personally I don't see dark and foreboding as being mutually exclusive with being playable. Most player characters in most games I am involved in are a bit on the dark side. <em>Tommi's last blog post..<a href='http://thanuir.wordpress.com/2008/01/28/prep-for-burning-vikings-plus-spoilers/' rel="nofollow">Prep for Burning vikings, plus spoilers</a></em> That’s a suitably creepy (and obvious, duh) idea that I may just have to steal it someday.

Personally I don’t see dark and foreboding as being mutually exclusive with being playable. Most player characters in most games I am involved in are a bit on the dark side.

Tommi’s last blog post..Prep for Burning vikings, plus spoilers

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Asmor Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:27:25 +0000 http://www.encounteraday.com/2008/01/30/races-with-flavor-the-draead/#comment-107 I guess it depends on your goal for them. I actually intend for the dryads to be a playable race in my 4th edition campaign, so I didn't really want to make them dark or foreboding. I never did mention anything about how they reproduce, though, and the fact that all the dryads appear female could lead to the idea that they need to mate with males of other species. Heck, maybe that's how all the different kinds of trees are made. Birch trees come from elf daddies, oaks from dwarves... I guess it depends on your goal for them. I actually intend for the dryads to be a playable race in my 4th edition campaign, so I didn’t really want to make them dark or foreboding.

I never did mention anything about how they reproduce, though, and the fact that all the dryads appear female could lead to the idea that they need to mate with males of other species.

Heck, maybe that’s how all the different kinds of trees are made. Birch trees come from elf daddies, oaks from dwarves…

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Tommi Wed, 30 Jan 2008 06:00:41 +0000 http://www.encounteraday.com/2008/01/30/races-with-flavor-the-draead/#comment-106 More compelling with a darker twist. Maybe the draead want people to enter their grove, for whatever reason (as fertisilers would be easy and obvious; as a source of information less dark). The dryad shapes are useful, to say the least, for this. <em>Tommi's last blog post..<a href='http://thanuir.wordpress.com/2008/01/28/prep-for-burning-vikings-plus-spoilers/' rel="nofollow">Prep for Burning vikings, plus spoilers</a></em> More compelling with a darker twist. Maybe the draead want people to enter their grove, for whatever reason (as fertisilers would be easy and obvious; as a source of information less dark). The dryad shapes are useful, to say the least, for this.

Tommi’s last blog post..Prep for Burning vikings, plus spoilers

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